Museums and Design Practices

Museums and design practices explores the increasingly critical role that design is playing in museums by focusing on how human-centred design approaches are being embraced and incorporated into their work practices.

List of contents

SECTION I Museums and design practices; 1. Design-as-practice and museums; 2. Human-centred design practices in the digital museum; 3. Challenges for the digitally mature museum; SECTION II Reflective museum design practices; 4 . Curating complexity; 5 . A design-led approach to delivering digital transformation and strategy; 6 . Human-centred values and organisational culture; 7 . Designerly learning at the V&A Museum; 8 . Questions for museum-compatible design; SECTION III Emerging design practices in the digital museum and beyond; 9. Inconclusion | An iterative approach to digitally mature museum practices

About the author

Marco Mason is an Associate Professor in the School of Design at Northumbria University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK, and a researcher specializing in Design Research for Digital Cultural Heritage.
Vince Dziekan is a senior academic and practitioner-researcher at Monash Art Design and Architecture (MADA), Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, and an Honorary Research Fellowship with the Institute for Digital Culture, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK.

Product details

• Authors: Vince Dziekan, Marco Dziekan Mason, Mason Marco
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.07.2025
• EAN: 9781032194493
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3219449-3
• No. of pages: 146
• Series: Critical Perspectives on Museums and Digital Technology
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Interior design, design; The arts: general issues, ART / Museum Studies, Organizational theory & behaviour, Industrial / commercial art & design, Non-profitmaking organizations, Organizational theory and behaviour, Museology & heritage studies, Museology and heritage studies, Public ownership / nationalization, Design, Industrial and commercial arts, illustration, The arts: general topics, Museum;Digital;Technology;Design;Practices;culture