Head, heart, and hands: building a new global museum from the bottom up - Digikult 2018
Channel: Kulturutveckling VGR
Date: 25/05/2018

The Museum for the United Nations — UN Live is a new global institution being designed to dramatically increase the number of people engaged in tackling the world’s biggest challenges. In this talk, the museum’s co-founder, Michael Peter Edson, will explain the museum’s vision and goals, and the design philosophy with which it will attempt to catalyze global engagement — and civic action — online, in a physical museum building, and in local communities around the world.

Michael Edson is a strategist and thought leader at the forefront of digital transformation in the cultural sector. Michael Edson is the Co-founder, Associate Director, and Head of Content for the Museum for the United Nations – UN Live, a new institution currently being envisioned for Copenhagen, Denmark and locations throughout the world. Michael was formerly the Director of Web and New Media Strategy for the Smithsonian Institution, the world’s largest museum and research complex, based in Washington, DC.

Filmed by David Eric Nilsson (Graph Wizz Films)