About
17 and 18 March 2016 Europeana Space’s hackathon initiatives will arrive to Venice, organizing an exciting event where you all are invited to join in and challenge yourselves! The Venice hackathon will focus on building new solutions to improve the museum experience, enhancing contents, engaging audience and improving to the educational experience.
During the two-day event, hackathonees will team up and work with contents provided by E-SPACE partners directly and through the Technical Space to reinvent the potential of pre-existing open data resources. They will develop new ideas for reusing digitized cultural heritage to enhance end users’ experience, whether physical or virtual. The solutions developed within the E-SPACE Museums pilot – the Toolbox and Blinkster- will also be presented and evaluated.
Participants will discuss with museum experts about audience’s and museum’s needs, from the marketing and educational perspectives, learning valuable information on how these institutions operate. Hacking the Museum Experience will be a 48-hour marathon of brainstorming, Q&A, pitches and networking where participants’ and experts’ know-how will be mixed to explore and develop innovative solutions for the museums and its educational implications.
Who are we looking for?
Designers, coders, museum experts and lovers, cultural managers, artists, creatives, IT and marketing experts: we are seeking for enthusiasts who want to accept the challenge and bring innovation to museum environment.
What are we looking for?
Disruptive solutions to enhance the museums’ visitors experience, engage audience and boost the educational experience.
The jury will look at several aspects of each concept:
- Relevance and value to the cultural Heritage sector. Does the proposition offer a new application or perspective on the use of the digitalized cultural heritage content? Does the proposition use, re-use, or facilitate the use or re-use of digitalized cultural heritage material? It is important to remember that these projects are not only confined to the museum space. Participants are free to choose their own field for exploration.
- Business potential & job creation objective. Does the proposition hold a strong position against current and likely competitors? What is the composition and size of target market(s) for this proposition?
- Likelihood of success. How likely is the proposition to be adopted by users? Does the team have the skills and capacity to successfully accomplish and launch a new business concept?
- Innovation & quality & uniqueness. How innovative, new, or original is the idea? (New technology, original approach, potential uptake by target users) What is the quality of the concept? (Form, function, aim)
Pre-existing teams and individuals are both welcome to join the hackathon and meet new creative minds to team up with and develop innovative solutions for the museum sector.
Visit the event website for the full programme
For further information contact: museums@europeana-space.eu