This page is your window into Jüniör world! On this page, we would like to keep you updated on conferences and presentations where we share our expertise, public actions and workshops where we work together and train culture-workers and teaching activities with our students. So on all the other cool things we get to do beyond our projects. Consider it an invitation to join our journey and know more about us!
In today's increasingly digital world, accessibility has become a critical issue, ensuring that everyone can fully participate in the cultural landscape. We think, the digital realm presents a unique opportunity to enhance accessibility by breaking down barriers and creating inclusive experiences. However, we also think such requires a strategic act, including design-oriented approaches and future-thinking skills infused into the ideation of digital products and services.
With this idea in mind, we have organised a 4h hands-on workshop for the @DigitaLens training opportunity organised by Fondazione Fitzcarraldo for our dear cultural-workers. During this workshop, we have talked about the misconceptions on what it means to work with/though/for digital and how we can future think plausible, possible and preferable futures for our cultural institutions. Over 80 participants joined in this activity.
Learn more about DigitaLens and check the schedule.
Jüniör Labs, ITALY / Read more
We have been invited to design a studio based course for the first year students of Msc. of Digital and Interaction Design @ Politecnico di Milano, especially learning and gaining expertise in desiging for cultural institutions, specifically museums. During this semester-long course, students act and learn as a team of designers responsible to improve the experience of a museum through digital screen-based products. In the context of cultural heritage, they experiment with design research, experience and product ideation methods, and learn the basics in designing user interface principles and UX evaluation methods. The course requires students to face four milestones to help them effectively learn how to develop and present design processes and concepts.
This years students will work on designing screen-based prototypes of multi-touchpoint experiences designed for the Como’s Silk Museum.
Check the school website here
Jüniör Labs, ITALY / Read more
The two-year programme trains visual designers, early on their career to analyse a cultural and territorial system, and identify its communicative, and use-value potential and developing projects varying in various forms spanning design disciplines from services and experience design, to exhibition design and visual identity.
In this specific programme, we have developed two different courses:
The first course aims to equips students with the knowledge and skills to strategically plan, define and work on cultural projects. They will learn to identify needs, opportunities, and target audiences within the cultural landscape. Students are introduced to design research methodologies specifically tailored to the cultural sector. This might involve user research, trend analysis, and historical research to inform their design decisions. This theoretical foundation course provides students with a comprehensive understanding of design principles and practices in the context of cultural heritage. They will explore methods and tools for effectively communicating cultural stories and ideas.
Our second course builds on the theoretical foundation and dives into the practical applications of how to develop innovative solutions for cultural institutions and organizations. Throughout this course, students work on a real-world project commissioned by a cultural institution or organization.
Jüniör Labs, ITALY / Read more
It has been an honour to join the webinar series of NEMO - Network of European Museum organisations and share part of our research on the impact of Covid-19 and introduce some of the trends of our trend booklet “Museums in 2020+: The search for meaning.” With this webinar, our founder Ece has shared some data and insights about the current challenges of the new unpredictable world in which museums find themselves. With this webinar, Ece in addition has touched upon related design methods to rethink how to tackle especially the new kind of audience, hybrid context and so inform museums’ short-, mid- and long-term actions accordingly. The webinar, we aim to invite museums professionals, whether museum-leaders, curators or volunteers to ask fundamental questions that are not focused on defining an ideological museum of the future or the future of digital technologies per se, but rather reflect on the meaningful future for their museums.
Check the webinar on NEMO’s YouTube channel.
NEMO Webinar, ONLINE / Read more
We’re delighted to announce that, we’ll be in Budapest next week to join the MuseumDigit conference between 26-27 November 2019 organised @ the Hungarian National Museum.
We’ll be talking about what does being “inclusive” means for museums today, and give some practical tips on how to respond to the challenge of being an inclusive museum. Our talk is organised on the 27th of November, in the morning session.
It’s still not too late to join the conference, you can get a spot by registering here.
Check the full conference program here as well!
MuseumDigit Conference, BUDAPEST / Read more
We have had the pleasure to share our vision and plus some practical ideas with a short talk during the ICOM conference titled “Il Museo oggi. Le professioni del patrimonio culturale” (“The Museum of Today and Cultural heritage professions”) which held in Rome, last Saturday, on November 16th, during the Extraordinary Assembly of ICOM Italy.
The theme of the future of museum professionals had been to the subject of debate in ICOM lately, together with the new museum definition. In order to give space for a collective moment of debate and exchange of ideas between all members, some thematic groups raging from security to marketing, from preservation to communication were organised.
We have joined the “digital technologies” group, to discuss the skills needed and methods to be adopted in the decision making process related to museums’ digital strategies.
Here is the programme with the full list of the talks.
ICOM Italia, Roma / Read more
Beginning of this academic year EPFL+ECAL Lab, the design research centre of EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland reached us out to present our insights on the theme of “activating tangible cultural heritage” through diverse technologies and forms, such as virtual reality, immersive spaces and installations for their students of Masters of Advanced Studies.
We had the pleasure to spend a one full-day with the students at end of September, first giving a short-talk and then individual feedback on their works.
Resulting of the workshop, six very different project proposals, each with an original perspective came out. It’s definitely worth to check and discover the results on this link.
Our sincerest thanks to ECAL+EPFL lab for their invitation and congrats to all students for their hard work!
EPFL+ECAL Lab, Lausanne / Read more
After a year of hard work and diligent preparation, it’s time to see the works of the winners of the Italian contest DAM “Young Designers for Italian Museums”. A dedicated exhibition will be inaugurated on the 5th of July, 2019 at 11:00 am at Pinacoteca Nazionale di Siena.
We’re very happy to bring the first prize at home and looking forward to see the works of all the other winners.
Please find the dedicated link with the details about the opening event and the exhibition.
Our sincerest thanks for all the organisers: Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism, Modena Province, associations Giovani d’arte and Giovani Artisti Italiani.
DAM, Inauguration of the Exhibition, Siena / Read more
We’re so happy to announce that we’ll be in Boston for the MW19, the 23rd annual MuseWeb conference, in Boston, April 2-6, 2019. On Wednesday, April 03 between 1:30pm - 4:30pm, we are offering a hands-on workshop that will help you get things done (leaner, faster and better) in your institution!
We’ll discuss, share, co-ideate about how your museum works, from your internal organisational structure to ticketing experience, how and where to innovate, from which point to start!
So, if you want to make change happen in your institution, convince your superiors or empower your staff, you should definitely be joining us!!!
We got to notice that, there is limited space available, so please book as soon as you can!
Here is our workshop, the full conference program and link to register.
See you there!
MW2019, MuseWeb conference, BOSTON / Read more
2019 has started with plenty of great news! Here is the first one:
We bring home the first prize of an Italian contest “Young Designers for Italian Museums” organised by Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism together with Modena Province, associations Giovani d’arte and Giovani Artisti Italiani for the Pinacoteca Nazionale di Siena.
The contest was about redesigning the whole experience offer of the museum both on a physical and digital level. The results will be shared in the following months with an exhibition dedicated to the works of the winners! Here is the brief list of winners.
Our congrats to all the participants, let’s continue to make design a way of life for museums!
Contest for Pinacoteca Nazionale di Siena / Contest info / Ece Özdil on MiBACT
We had a wonderful year, full of new people, conversations and actions!
Thanks to all of you who have taken part of our first year, sharing our passion, work and progress!
Merry X-Mas, Buon Natale, Mutlu Yillar!
Jüniör will be at the “Crescere al Museo” conference at Musei Civici Reggio Emilia in the following days. Join us for the workshop on Saturday in reimagining the future of learning and labs for museums!
2 day public event/ Book to join!
SERVICE DESIGN DRINKS/ Read more
We’re currently renewing our website with a lot of new content. Our latest activities showed us your keen interest in knowing more about the ‘design’ and our vision. That’s why we have amplified our offers with four different workshops+design actions and plus dedicated a section to our methods+tools. Do take your time to read, for anything, we’re here ;)
FONDAZIONE QUERINI STAMPALIA / Read more
Our activities during the conference won’t be limited to the 7th but also the 9th of May. We have organised a full-day workshop (ROUTE 5 - BE A MUSEUM PROFESSIONAL TODAY (10AM - 5PM)) to envision the future of museum professionals together. The activity will be held at the Café le studio, Yves Saint Laurent Museum.
WE ARE MUSEUMS 2018 / Read more
We’ll be in Marrakesh for the ‘We Are Museums conference during 7-8-9 MAY. On the 7th of MAY, we are offering a 1h serious-fun workshop with hands-on activities in discovering how service design tools and design thinking can help you think beyond the conventional approaches for creating online collections.
WE ARE MUSEUMS 2018 / Read more
