This Learning Lab collection was made to complement the workshop organised by the EU Project Digital Spektrum team in Paris in January 2025. The priority of the Digital-Spektrum project, an Erasmus+ project led by Professor Antonella Poce (University of Tor Vergata, Italy) is to promote inclusion, diversity, and accessibility in all areas of education, particularly educational experiences that take place in museums. One of the main objectives of the Digital-Spektrum project is to provide museum staff with digital skills to design inclusive museum experiences with and for people with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). 

Antonia Liguori, a Professor of Participatory Storytelling at Teesside University in UK and a former Fellow at the Smithsonian Office of Educational Technology, is sharing here an adaptation of the conventional Digital Storytelling process to experiment with a variety of techniques that will support participants to incorporate personal experiences in the exploration and use of museum resources. By going through these resources you will also see how the Smithsonian Learning Lab and Digital Storytelling (DS) can be used together to access digital resources, build learning experiences, and cultivate collaboration and community over distance.

We will explore artwork from an exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC, Eye to I: Self-Portraiture as an Exploration of Identity and other digital objects from the Petit Palais in Paris, France, which compels viewers to consider the connection between the self and the artefact. 

To follow the instructions step by step, please, click on the tiles below (one at a time) and read the information next to each image (you can click on the paper click icon to find the information for each tile).

A complementary mini-course on Digital Storytelling as inclusive approach for audeince engagement in museums has been developed by the project team. If you are interested in hearing more about the Digital Spektrum project and the Digital Storytelling approach applied within this context, please, contact the project team via the project website or directly Antonia Liguori.

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