Creating a Children’s Board for Designing Child-Led Museum Experiences
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A collaboration between Cultural Inquiry and Creaviva at the Zentrum Paul Klee in Bern, Switzerland, established a Children’s Board that positions children as legitimate decision-makers in museum design. A key outcome of this initiative was the creation of a “museum within the museum,” a child-designed space known as the Creaviva Club. Supported by museum educators, children made substantive design decisions about the space’s form, function, and placement, demonstrating how participatory design can meaningfully redistribute agency and reimagine children’s roles in cultural institutions.
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