Compiling Observations

This past Friday's class time was spent analyzing and clustering our most recent museum visits. We started with a few large stacks of post-it notes, each containing a "we saw" or "we heard" statement, and began to determine the overarching themes at play.

As we all crowded around the board and discussed our observations, the post-its began to fall into several main buckets. Our categories were loosely defined to start, but after looking through the headings and asking ourselves "so what?" for each one, we came up with more concrete titles. A few examples were Good balance of levels of engagement for different groups, Welcome to museum determines the success of your visit, Identity of museum drives programming.

We discussed with Jeremy, our professor, to make sure we were on the right track and that our titles were clear and unambiguous. We are now working on compiling a spreadsheet database to organize all of our observations, insights, and ideas for change. This will help us in synthesizing possible solution tracts in the next few weeks.