Institutional Presentation Statement

Keywords: Digital platform, swarm curation, co-creation, participation, community, swarm intelligence, diversity, future museum, democratic museum, Extended Reality (XR).

With the digital platform nextmuseum.io by NRW-Forum Düsseldorf and Museum Ulm (both in Germany), a swarm of curators, artists, art enthusiasts, museum employees, experts and techies, shapes the future museum. They experiment on swarm curation and digital developments in the field of XR with the aim of creating further approaches and a more democratic museum. www.museumulm.deNRW-Forum     www.nrwforum.dem

• Marina Bauernfeind is the Project Manager for nextmuseum.io at Museum Ulm (DE). She studied economics (B.A., MBA) in the South of Germany and Mumbai, India and is an expert on creative marketing. Her career started at the international publishing group Hubert Burda Media, followed by several years as a marketing freelancer before finally founding her own creative agency in 2014. With her switch to nextmuseum.io in 2020, she keeps pusuing her ideas for a digital future. https://www.linkedin.com/in/marina-bauernfeind-a68639164/?originalSubdomain=de
• Alina Fuchte is the Project Manager of nextmuseum.io at NRW-Forum Düsseldorf (DE). She studied Art History and Cultural and Social Anthropology in Münster and Amsterdam (B.A.), and Cultural Analysis and Cultural Education in Dortmund (M.A.). During her studies she worked as a freelance mediator at various institutions. She completed a traineeship in the Department of Cultural Education at Kunstpalast Düsseldorf before joining NRW-Forum in 2020. https://www.linkedin.com/in/alinafuchte/?originalSubdomain=de