Digital Objects, Institutional Devices

New technologies are dramatically reshaping the production, consumption, display, and distribution of cultural assets. With advancements in automation, digitization, and artificial intelligence, cultural and visual discourse is being redefined in real time. The circulation and dissemination of digital cultural knowledge as public knowledge have never been so accessible and open. In this context, the practices of designers and artists play a central role in creating and shaping spaces for physical, digital, and virtual participation, as well as in the production, preservation, and distribution of cultural knowledge within museums..

This course will explore the relationship between cultural knowledge and public knowledge, examining traditional knowledge institutions like museums and archives alongside contemporary technological and economic platforms. Recognizing that every act of collecting, preserving, curating, and making cultural knowledge accessible is not just a technical protocol but a performative-political act, we will ask: Can acts of collection, preservation, research, and display serve various communities or become a common asset? And could reappropriating of data repositories within museums provide a foundational model for intelligence that is not artificial but collective

Focusing on the museum as a potential site for collaborative research and creation, the course will emphasize the evolving relationship between art and design fields in the digital era. We will investigate how design and curatorial practices can challenge traditional relationships between institutions and their audiences, transforming the museum into a space where practices like preservation and display are reimagined—as active, diverse, and collaborative knowledge