This presentation reports upon the findings of a one-day workshop hosted by CRASSH (University of Leicester) 28 November 2013, chaired by Dr Ross Parry and Alex Moseley from the University of Leicester. 12 experts in experience, museum, mobile and digital design were set the task of identifying how the gallery environment and the proximity of museum collections to the visitor affect the design of in-gallery mobile media applications. Framing its conclusions with the concept of the 'Postdigital Museum', the group concluded that: Designing with mobile proximate to thecollection means: - scale becomes meaningful - opportunities for embodied experience emerge - touch is possible - physical collaboration and interaction between visitors becomes possible When designing with mobile, being in-gallery means: - more control over staging and framing - acknowledging the visitor’s commitment  to a visit event. More generally, mobile design in the postdigital museum means: - creative blends and augmentations of digital and physical; - and a different physical relationship with (and new metaphors for) mobile devices

1. BEYOND THE
digital
guide
.
cultural objects
gallery spaces &
mobile devices
Ross Parry and Alex Moseley University of Leicester

2. When designing with mobile, what are
the consequences of …
?

3. When designing with mobile, what are
the consequences of …
being in-gallery
?

4. When designing with mobile, what are
the consequences of …
being in-gallery
being proximate to collections
?

6. The postdigital museum

7. The postdigital museum
digital being naturalised within the
museum’s vision and articulation of itself
a preparedness for a post-digital
organisational structure

8. The postdigital museum
digital being naturalised within the
museum’s vision and articulation of itself
a preparedness for a post-digital
organisational structure
actively recruiting blended roles
the presence of ‘digital thinking’
digital being part of the generative
and ideation moment
blended production

9. The postdigital museum
digital being naturalised within the
museum’s vision and articulation of itself
a preparedness for a post-digital
organisational structure
actively recruiting blended roles
the presence of ‘digital thinking’
digital being part of the generative
and ideation moment
blended production
strategising for a multiplatform future
no need for digital to be strategised separately

10. The postdigital museum
digital being naturalised within the
museum’s vision and articulation of itself
a preparedness for a post-digital
organisational structure
actively recruiting blended roles
the presence of ‘digital thinking’
digital being part of the generative
and ideation moment
blended production
strategising for a multiplatform future
no need for digital to be strategised separately
Ross Parry, 'The End of the Beginning: Normativity in the Postdigital
Museum', Museum Worlds, vol. 1 (2013), 24-39.

12. visitor
modes

13. visitor
modes
gallery
contexts

14. visitor
modes
gallery
contexts
device
functions

15. visitor
modes
play
study
find
follow
contemplate
…
gallery
contexts
device
functions

16. visitor
modes
gallery
contexts
play
study
find
follow
contemplate
…
subject
collection
display
sensory
…
device
functions

17. visitor
modes
gallery
contexts
device
functions
play
study
find
follow
contemplate
…
subject
collection
display
sensory
…
database
map
guide
narrator
Interpreter
recorder
communicator
viewer
controller
…

18. visitor
modes
gallery
contexts
device
functions
play
study
find
follow
contemplate
…
subject
collection
display
sensory
…
database
map
guide
narrator
Interpreter
recorder
communicator
viewer
controller
…

19. visitor
modes
gallery
contexts
device
functions
play
study
find
follow
contemplate
…
subject
collection
display
sensory
…
database
map
guide
narrator
Interpreter
recorder
communicator
viewer
controller
…

30. When designing with mobile, being
in-gallery means …

31. When designing with mobile, being
in-gallery means …
- more control over staging and framing

32. When designing with mobile, being
in-gallery means …
- more control over staging and framing
- acknowledging the visitor’s commitment
to a visit event

34. Designing with mobile proximate to the
collection means …

35. Designing with mobile proximate to the
collection means …
- scale becomes meaningful

36. Designing with mobile proximate to the
collection means …
- scale becomes meaningful
- opportunities for embodied experience emerge

37. Designing with mobile proximate to the
collection means …
- scale becomes meaningful
- opportunities for embodied experience emerge
- touch is possible

38. Designing with mobile proximate to the
collection means …
- scale becomes meaningful
- opportunities for embodied experience emerge
- touch is possible
- physical collaboration and interaction between
visitors becomes possible

40. Mobile design in the postdigital museum
means …

41. Mobile design in the postdigital museum
means …
- creative blends and augmentations
of digital and physical

42. Mobile design in the postdigital museum
means …
- creative blends and augmentations
of digital and physical
- a different physical relationship
with (and new metaphors for)
mobile devices

44. BEYOND THE
digital
guide
.
cultural objects
gallery spaces &
mobile devices
Ross Parry School of Museum Studies University of Leicester