1st Edition

Museums and Design Practices

By Marco Mason, Vince Dziekan Copyright 2026
162 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

162 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Museums and Design Practices explores the increasingly critical role that design is playing in museums by focusing on how human-centred design approaches are being embraced and incorporated into their work practices. This book advances “design-as-practice” as a way to acknowledge the technosocial dimension of the working culture of cultural organisations. It reveals how designing is a... Read more

SECTION I

Museums and design practices

 

1            Design-as-practice and museums

Marco Mason & Vince Dziekan

2            Human-centred design practices in the digital museum

Marco Mason & Vince Dziekan

3            Challenges for the digitally mature museum

              Marco Mason & Vince Dziekan

 

SECTION II

Reflective museum design practices

 

4            Curating complexity

Daniel Martin

5            A design-led approach to delivering digital transformation and strategy

Lindsey Green And Alyson Webb

6            Human-centred values and organisational culture

Micah Parzen

7            Designerly learning at the V&A Museum

Helen Charman

8            Questions for museum-compatible design

Florence Okoye

 

SECTION III

Emerging design practices in the digital museum and beyond

 

9          Inconclusion | An iterative approach to digitally mature museum practices

Vince Dziekan & Marco Mason

 

Biography

Marco Mason is an associate professor in the School of Design at Northumbria University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK, and a researcher specialising in design research for digital cultural heritage.

Vince Dziekan is a senior academic and practitioner-researcher at Monash Art Design and Architecture (MADA), Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, and an Honorary Research Fellowship with the Institute for Digital Culture, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK.