From Conference to Conference... to Conferencia! - Part 3 (Final)

Back to "Garnet and Gold" territory, I got involved in the virtual component of the 2nd International Conference "Museums in Education: From Action to Reflection" organized by the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza in Madrid, Spain. I've been participating at this conference with a video presentation called "Mixing It Up: Building an Educational Identity for an Art Exhibition" which you can watch above. I intended for this presentation to be an introduction to my dissertation research work and it is basically a summary of the introductory part of my dissertation in which I aim to get to a better understanding of the supported interpretation model (formerly called guided interaction - see this article for more information!), and the way it was implemented at the Mixing It Up art exhibition. As part of the virtual component to this conference, I intended to stimulate discussion about supported interpretation, and I have been really pleased with the interesting conversations and reflections that the video has sparked. Even though all presentations were oriented to an audience of museum professionals and educators, the Thyssen-Bornemisza museum has made them all available online through YouTube, which makes them accessible to a broader range of audiences, even after the conference is finished. So far, it has been fantastic. I've been able to watch a variety of presentations online and interact with the authors as well as in the four conference forums under the themes of Formats, Research, Inside/Outside, and Connections. I'm looking forward to meeting more museum professionals and learning more about what they are doing at their institutions. Thanks, Thyssen-Bornemisza!