Description
Museum of Values (MfW)
In its projects, the MfW translates sociocultural research into immersive, participatory, and site-specific spaces of experience for civic education.
The MfW’s interdisciplinary team is composed of social scientists, educational scholars, experts of media technology, and artists, and examines social, political, historical, and regional-local contexts for its projects. The subsequent results are translated into value-based and project-specific social innovations, in which citizens learn about pressing issues through immersion, reflect on them by interaction, and experience them further via their own participation.
To implements its projects, the MfW works with conceptual spaces such as exhibitions, parcours, or workshops, and uses practices like co-curation, storytelling, or embodied cognition. Thematically, the MfW focuses on three core areas: Society & Democracy, Humanism & Technology, and Sustainability & Wellbeing.
Since 2017, the MfW team has been collaborating with established museums, educational facilities, public institutions, civic organizations, and committed companies. Our non-profit organization has not received any permanent institutional funding. To date, all projects are implemented through individual funding and are hence designed through a case-based approach and for concrete purposes.
Explicitly, the MfW is exploring three areas:
1. Society & Democracy
2. Humanism & Technology
3. Sustainability & Wellbeing
Vision and Methods:
Values are the scial cohesive of today’s societies, as they enable interhuman understanding and collaboration on all conceivable levels. As its special expertise, the Museum of Values has hence concentrated on using value-based concepts to create spaces of experience that are co-creative, narrative, and low-threshold in nature. In our parcours, exhibitions, dinner-formats, and journeys citizens become empowered actors and creators independent of their previous knowledge or experience.
Our innovative educational approaches stand out against classic formats such as presentations, museum visits, or panel discussions. Attributes like gender, age, income, or origin fade into the background. Instead, participants are focusing on wishes, problems, experiences, and future needs of a whole society from their very own point of view. Our methods are based on research from disciplines such as psychology, pedagogy, cognitive science, and cultural analysis, and we apply the means of extended immersion pedagogy, embodied cognition, and citizen storytelling.
