Participatory Practices in a Miniature Community Museum Based on Interaction Design Approaches

Abstract

Interaction design makes designs based on human behavior and user experiences. From the perspective of social innovation and ecological sustainability, design activities can become the main drivers of social change if they are effective, long-lasting, easy to disseminate, and help accelerate social innovation. Interaction designers, with their expertise in optimizing user experience through innovative design, provide solutions to social problems such as poverty, the hollowing out of communities, and an aging population. Designers achieve these goals through conveying more accurate information in their works, and they put innovative design elements into traditional communities to help those communities improve and update themselves. One project form of these innovative efforts by interaction designers is the emergence of miniature community museums. With compact space, these miniature museums can perfectly fit the needs of antiquated communities, which usually have limited vacant spaces. Despite their small space, these museums, equipped with all the essential functions of museums in traditional forms, can become part of the more significant effort to revive community culture. Furthermore, they can encourage co-governance through participatory activities and thus help enrich community culture.