NuForm
2021 - 2023ART+COM Studios and Museum für Naturkunde BerlinNuForm investigated innovative technologies enabling simultaneous physical and virtual presence in museum spaces through a two-year interdisciplinary research collaboration between Museum für Naturkunde Berlin and ART+COM Studios. The project developed prototypical solutions for hybrid museum visits that intertwine digital and physical aspects rather than treating them as parallel realities. Hybrid communication and interaction concepts allow visitors to engage, communicate, and discuss exhibits whether wandering through the museum building or participating from home on their computer.Using specific case studies, the project identified individual factors and mechanisms constituting different types of museum experience, analyzing these components to develop new formats of knowledge communication that work under Covid-19 restrictions while signifying lasting innovations in cultural encounter communication. Funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).