Brainstorming is the rapid co-creation of ideas. It is used to tap into a collective body of knowledge and creativity and to foster innovation.
Brainstorming was used to generate ideas that lead to the creation of the interactive showcases at the European network of science centres and museums annual conference (ECSITE) that was organised and hosted b
y Museon, one of the meSch partner museums. This was a collaboration between a cultural heritage professional from Museon and interaction designers to design and develop a novel exhibition concept for visitor interaction as part of a temporary museum display. Realising the exhibit in a short space of time was one of the main challenges and so it was decided to have an intensive two-day co-creation session involving partners from the Sheffield Hallam University and Museon to focus on the design.
From this brainstorming session, the group arrived at the idea of augmented showcases that allowed Museon to use crowdsourcing as a way of selecting artefacts from storage for a temporary museum display. The popularity of the artefacts on display was to be measured through sensors, while part of the information that was displayed was visitor generated via Twitter.
The showcases were subsequently build by the team at the Sheffield Hallam University and exhibited during the ECSITE conference from 22nd – 24th of May 2014 at the Museon in Den Haag.
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