“Open Atelier is an interdisciplinary
and cross-sectoral network”
About
Open Atelier is an interdisciplinary and cross-sectoral network of four European House Museums, one creative performance organisation and two universities, with an overall goal of enhancing the capacity of museum professionals in relation to audience engagement.
The aim of the three-year project is to create new ways to actively engage audiences in the way cultural heritage is explored, interpreted, mediated, presented, and used to examine contemporary issues, also taking into account digital possibilities as well as lessons learned during Covid-19.
Drawing on the concept of the Atelier, the artist’s private workroom, Open Atelier will innovate the use, understanding and engagement with that space, by opening up its doors to the audience, and it will transform it into an “experience lab” – an interactive, co-creative, dynamic and participatory space, where cultural heritage is the point of departure for new interactions and experiences between the audience and the museum and its professionals.
Through a workshop-based approach built on interdisciplinary collaboration and co-creative processes, Open Atelier intends to design, develop, implement, test and evaluate a set of Experiences, that will be facilitated and realized by the four museums involved and that will allow for the outline of nine Formats, which will consist of innovative, operative blueprints for new audience-centered participatory museum experiences.
The results ensuing from the facilitation of the Open Atelier Experiences as well as of a Digital Youth Competition will be presented to the public at large and disseminated within several creative organisations and contexts, with the aim to enhance their impact and future exploitation in fostering cultural institutions’ work with audience engagement.
Open Atelier is being co-funded and developed in the framework of the European Commission’s Creative Europe Programme, from October 2022 to September 2025.