<
https://theconversation.com/touch-reveals-what-eyes-cant-see-so-museums-should-embrace-interactivity-257325>
"Walk into most art galleries with children, and you’ll hear the familiar
refrain “look but don’t touch”. This instruction reveals something troubling
about how cultural institutions understand learning. Museums have become
temples to visual consumption, where knowledge is received through eyes rather
than constructed through bodies.
This fundamentally misunderstands how humans learn – and what we deny young
people when we privilege looking over all other forms of engagement.
At my exhibition
The Whole is Greater Than the Sum of Her Parts, I have
watched visitors consistently spend significantly longer with touchable
elements compared to visual-only displays. Visitors engaging tactilely ask
fundamentally different questions, too, moving from “what is this?” to “how was
this made?” and “what if I tried…?”
So what happens when we design cultural spaces honouring the full range of
human learning capacities?"
Share and enjoy,
*** Xanni ***
--
mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
