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MuseumX: Designing Experiences for Good

By: Stefanie Mabadi
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  • Dig In UX presents MuseumX, where we host conversations at the intersection of experience design and social change to be a resource for heart-centered designers who are called to create experiences that heal our world. You will hear from professionals inside and outside the museum and cultural sectors whose expertise can inform questions like, How might we design for compassion? Or, Create digital experience accessible for all? Or, how might we create teams primed to foster a sense of belonging for diverse groups? Together, we’ll tackle tough questions, explore complex topics and identify action steps to help us create experiences for the public good - experiences that help, heal, enrich and empower, and connect.
    © 2023 Stefanie Mabadi
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  • Winter Announcement

    Winter Announcement
    Dec 27 2023

    Hello Friends! 

    We are taking a little break for the winter, working up some new offerings for you, and lining up some exciting episodes!

    Our first digital offering is almost ready for you! 

    It’s the 5-Step process I’ve used when facilitating teams to design personalized ways to build more trust, encourage vulnerability and lead with compassion.

    We've created a robust, visual guide to help your teams follow those same 5 Steps.

    The guide helps you and your team identify resistances and barriers to voicing your own authentic voice, and then build actions and practices to support one another.

    Its particularly useful for teams

    • grappling with sensitive subjects 
    • recovering from sudden expansion or contraction
    • going through times of change and uncertainty 
    • or, any teams looking to explicitly build more trust

    If you're interested in receiving the FREE download of our robust visual guide '5 steps to Co-design More Trust in Meetings', here are a few ways to get access as soon as it's available:

    Follow Stef on LinkedIn, and 'ring the bell' so all my posts enter your feed.

    Follow Dig In UX on Instagram

    Request the guide by sending a message via our online form  and we'll add you to our list of recipients.

     

    Have a wonderful winter, All!
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    4 mins
  • E12: Feminist Design, Built Environment & Inclusion with Nourhan Bassam, Urban Design Innovator in Gender-responsive spaces

    E12: Feminist Design, Built Environment & Inclusion with Nourhan Bassam, Urban Design Innovator in Gender-responsive spaces
    Nov 29 2023
    When designing spaces, why is a feminist lens important? What might egalitarian social spaces look and feel like? How might museums, parks and cities be designed differently to include the needs of women, caregivers and girls? Historically,  a male-centric perspective has been dominant in the design of spaces - particularly cities - which has led to a series of decisions and standards with long-term consequences on the experiences of others, including women and girls, people with diverse gender expressions, racial and ethnic minority groups, neurodivergent groups and other under-represented people.  In this episode, we talk with Nourhan Bassam - a leader and innovator in the field of Feminist Urban Design. We discuss safety, ease of mobility, how the 'othered' groups may travel through and across spaces differently and more frequently. Impacts on indoor and outdoor museum, public and parks spaces include navigation, orientation, feeling and experiencing ease and safety.  Some of these measures have been discussed and implemented in museum and cultural spaces, but there is still much to learn from applying a feminist lens the designs of museum buildings, museum experiences, public spaces, cultural spaces, and connection experiences like transportation and arrival to your site.  Nourhan hopes by raising awareness about the barriers faced by women and the many othered groups, her work will inspire individuals, communities, and policymakers to take action and create spaces and cities that are safe, inclusive, and empowering for all. Nourhan LinkedIn Nourhan’s website   Links to resources:  Bell Hooks book, Feminism is for Everyone. Vienna applied gender mainstreaming 30 years ago Vienna, Aspern neighborhood Vienna and human-centered thinking Gendered mobility; The 15 minute city Barcelona’s super block (superilla)   Safer Parks Project: Safer Parks final report Safer Parks Project, Dr Anna Barker, Leeds University Safer Parks merges with Make Spaces for Girls   City of Milan, Sex in the City Milan Gender Atlas - identify accessibility resources Leslie Kern book, The Feminist City  Book, Cities and Gender by Helen Jarvis, Jonathan Cloke, Paula Kantor  Geo Chicas project, Las Calles de las Mujeres: Map of streets named after women in cities in Latin America and Spain, to make visible the gap that exists in the representation of female figures in cities. Safetipin - a social organization working to make public spaces safer and more inclusive for women. They collect data using mobile phone applications. Nourhan Bassam’s book, The Gendered City: How today’s cities continue to fail women - expected to be published Dec 2023.   Connect With Us Have questions or topics you’d like us to explore on the podcast? Or a Guest recommendation? Have a project in mind needing user-, visitor, or community centered research or strategy? drop us a line with your idea or inqury!
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    39 mins
  • E11, Pt 2: Close observation, empathy and compassion with Bonnie Pitman, Director of Art-Brain Innovation at UT Dallas Center for BrainHealth

    E11, Pt 2: Close observation, empathy and compassion with Bonnie Pitman, Director of Art-Brain Innovation at UT Dallas Center for BrainHealth
    Nov 10 2023

    How does close observation lead to empathy and compassion? This week, we’re honored to  hear from Bonnie Pitman, a national leader in education and the public engagement of art, who has been a thinker and a doer on the bleeding edge of arts education and engagement for 40 years. 

    After a long career in art museums, Bonnie is now working on ways to cultivate empathy and compassion through viewing art. Her Power of Observation Framework™ was developed in part to guide medical students using a process of close observation leading to a sustainable practice of empathy and compassion for their patients. In this episode, we hear multiple examples of how the Framework may be applied, as well as its uses in museum spaces. 

    Through this work, Bonnie has also created a daily practice to "Do Something New", which invites the exploration and celebration of making an ordinary day extraordinary while dealing with her own chronic illness.

     

    Links to resources discussed in the episode

     

    1990s watershed report: Excellence and Equity: Education and the Public Dimension of Museums

    Book: Igniting the Power of Art

    The Power of Observation™  - lecture

    The Power of Observation™  - framework

    UT Dallas - Center for Brain Health

    Edith O’Donnell Institute of Art History at UT Dallas

    JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association, Pharma Art—Abstract Medication in the Work of Beverly Fishman

    Sharon Salzberg, Bonnie’s teacher for loving kindness meditation 

    Nasher Museum

    Do Something New - Instagram @BonniePitman
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    33 mins
Art Social Sciences
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