Three days of engaged discussion
and collective experimentation

On​ ​Air:​ ​We​ ​Hack​ ​the​ ​Museums

Learn how HABEMUS, a public radio program about museums, engaged local bands to compose music based on the 95 Theses of Guillermo Solana (artistic director of the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza) to attract greater interest from artists and non-museum visitors about museums.

How do we (Re) create a Contemporary Art Center?

Cultural centers are often times collective intellectual enterprises informed by staff and communities through traditional processes. This case study explores how we can reflect on institutional memory to inspire greater risk–taking and innovation to create them anew.

Art Detectives at Pérez Art Museum Miami

Art Detectives is an innovative arts-based learning experience, that brings together South Florida law enforcement and youth from under-served communities, sparking creative thinking and cross-community dialogue around one of our country’s most divisive issues: police interactions with young people of color.

Pedagogies of Contingency

Gain insight on a model that can be used to identify new urgencies in the field of pedagogy in art museums that also challenges traditional thinking on museum practice.

Recognition and Cultural Preservation in the Colombian Conflict

Over the past two decades, the Embera Katío people of the Alto Sinú have been impacted by the presence of armed militia, resulting in countless forced displacements and the accelerated disruption of ancestral customs, traditions and knowledge. This case study examines the question: What is your responsibility to the displaced cultures in your community?

Museums and Social Educators

For the part thirteen years the Pinacoteca de Sao Paulo has offered a course for social educators who work with people in situations of social vulnerability. Explore the program’s profound impact on participants and their practices that has been revealed through evaluation.

ABC Papalote Educational Program

Explore ABC Papalote, an educational program that seeks to inspire teachers to rethink their educational practice and advance new ways of teaching and learning in the classroom through the use of different museum tools and resources.

Tell Me, How Do You Envision Your Science Center?

Explore how Colciencias engages its community in the creation and development of Science Centers in Colombia to best address community needs and concerns informed by its "Guide for the Formulation of Projects," a resource that helps shape conversations about science with the community.

Empathy and Dissent in Border Cantos

“Border Cantos” is an exhibition that tells compelling stories of the Mexican-Americans borderlands, and the people who pass through them. Can a museum in America's conservative heartland in Bentonville, Arkansas, effectively invite people into this difficult conversation? Find out how the exhibition team and a group of Latino/Hispanic activist/advisors elicited responses from the community about this exhibition.

  14:30 - 18:00Aud. Planetario 2

Inside - Outside: Museums and Public Space

How and why are museums extending their experience beyond their physical walls? Gain insight on projects and strategies that museums have developed to step beyond their walls and into public spaces to include other communities, streets, public squares and beyond. Learn how this experience has transformed organizational practice and inspired new ways to engage audiences, re-envision the museum’s physical space and create alternative spaces and new responsibilities for museums as public spaces.

 14:30 - 18:00Aud. Explora 1

Small is the New Skill

Museums with small budgets, staff, and collections can make a profound impact, emphasizing depth over scale. Explore examples of small museums whose influence has grown through specialization in knowledge, customized experience, and the innovative use of limited resources. This session will be applicable to museums of all sizes that are exploring ways to design customized, personal audience experiences.

 14:30 - 18:00Teatro Explora

The City of Medellin’s Tale

Since the 1990’s, Medellin has advanced participative cultural politics to rethink itself as a vibrant, thriving cultural metropolis. Collaboration between the public sector, academia, private sector and communities has served as a model not just for other cities in Colombia but for other countries as well. The dynamic of the city in times of crisis and violence offers great insight on resilience. Learn from practitioners the achievements and difficulties in this evolving process.

 14:30 - 18:00Aud. Explora 2

The Future of Memory

How do we best document, preserve and interpret memories of painful political histories and events? Can we connect memory with the future to live in the present with hope? Learn from museums that have given voice to the unspeakable and created a framework to build social cohesion and greater awareness of human rights in the aftermath of tragedy and adversity.

 14:30 - 18:00Biblioteca Planetario

Looking inside: The Organizational Dimension of the Museum

If you want to initiate change, innovate and improve your team building skills, this workshop will show you how to start, as well as provide an understanding of the multiple dimensions of change and the evidence that confirms transformation is happening.

 14:30 - 18:00Taller Central Exploratorio

Hack the Maker Space

The proliferation of “maker” spaces, have created many community-based workspaces for people to gather to create, invent, learn and problem solve. Understand how the principles that inform these highly collaborative environments might also be applied to identifying inventive solutions to community problems and issues. 

 14:30 - 18:00Laboratorio de Ideación Exploratorio

Can Civic Design and Art Initiate Reconciliation and Peace?

What roles can a museum play to develop alternatives in a world in crisis? How do we design a site of memory where fragility becomes the potential? How do we provide perspectives and context for wounded places and work effectively with sensitive aspects of a site? Gain greater insight on context- and community-based design and how it might be applied to sites of memory, museums and public places.

 14:30 - 18:00Sala Experimental 2 Exploratorio

Nothing but the Truth: Effectively Communicating the Role of Museums

Luis Marcelo Mendes (MAC, Panamá)

Strategic brand management in museums goes beyond a logo, typography, or set of visual codes. What is the “ethos” of your institution? This discussion will focus on the concept of radical differentiation in messages to most effectively communicate the role of your museum.

 14:30 - 18:00 Sala Infantil

Rapid Prototyping for Exhibitions

This workshop provides creative tools for designing and renovating museum exhibitions that deepen the visitor experience and that also save time and money.