The designer’s role in museums that act as agents of change

The Designer’s Role in Museums that Act as Agents of Change casts a critical eye over trends to engage audiences, beyond the museum walls, in collaborative co-curation. The chapter goes onto to examine recent parallel developments in co-design and explores the contribution of the designer to the success of outward-facing co-curation initiatives. It makes a case for designers to be acknowledged and deployed as creative strategists, social mediators, user-centered enablers, inventive storytellers and experts in engaging audiences, specifically in association with museums which act as agents of change in their socio-geographic context.