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In this episode of The Business Narrative Podcast, Jose Antonio Gordillo engages in a thought-provoking conversation about entrepreneurship and cultural innovation.

19 February 2025

In the first episode ofCooperate Culture Podcast 2025, we want to start the year playfully! Together with playfulness expert Jose Antonio Gordillo Martorell, we talk about what playfulness actually is, what adults can learn from children, how we can be more playful at work, and much more.

20th February 2025, 4:30 pm - 5:00 pm WET

Keynote “Children as Leaders of Their Own Learning Process in the Online World”

During this session, we will discuss how children, as experts in play and creativity, can drive their own learning process. Facilitators, often their relatives, support them with context, prompts, tools, and gentle suggestions. The goal is to create dynamic and practical experiences that children can continue on their own and share with others at school.

7 February 2025

Keyanna Ortiz-Cedeño speaks with Jose Antonio Gordillo Martorell- tuning in from Sweden, about democratizing decision making for museums and other cultural institutions to elevate children's pespectives. Dive in and learn how re-priotitizing play, "dancing with the system" and expanding our idea of public participation to include children of all backgrounds can introduce groundbreaking new ideas into our cultural institutions and placemaking initiatives.

January 2025

"Urgent Care for Schools", edited by Barbara Smith is a very special book in which you can find fascinating stories of students exercising wonderful leadership as social justice activists, entrepreneurs, service providers, trainers, researchers, designers, and in my case museum strategists and makers (Chapter 18- Students as Museum Creators: A Future with no Museums?" And by doing it transforming their whole communities for the better.

Theater Strahl Berlin, May 21st to 23rd

The conference topic „Culture & Young People – What Could Possibly Go Wrong? Factors, Challenges and Opportunities of Cultural Participation for Youth“, it couldn't be more suggestive. I would like to "add fuel to the fire" ❤️‍🔥 🔥 (or suffocate it, depending on your perspective) with my presentation on what children are capable of doing in museums (and what adults are incapable of doing... without them).

29th January 2025

This workshop focuses on signals of emerging technologies or disruptive innovation to support the horizon scanning as part of a technology foresight project of the Directorate General of Education Youth, Sport, and Culture (DG EAC) and the Joint Research Centre (DG JRC) of the European Commission.

Cultural Inquiry proposal will be part of a Horizon-scanning process to identify tangible manifestations of novelty. The exercise involves an early discovery of developments or events not yet 'on the radar' of experts, decision-makers, or the general public. This means looking for future possibilities, at the margins of mainstream knowledge, and often beyond what we already think we know.

Welcome to our Algorithm Playground- Amusement Park!

We tend to use AI for ‘serious things’: writing an article, researching, and checking a fact. Some even use it to select candidates for a job, to give a credit or insurance policy, or to design a course at a university. These are examples of what we call AI-Adult oriented. But can we use AI to play, have fun, and create crazy things?

We think so. That's why we've created our AI Playgrounds where we'll all have fun guided by the kids, the experts in playing and AI. They will teach us how to use AI in a more fun, creative, and social way. Guided by them we will play, create play spaces, a toy, or exhibitions at home, or create together fantastic and imaginative storytelling by combining Chat GPT with books and tales. 

To this end, we have invited internationally renowned experts in IA, creativity, and education to present us with their children's wonderful projects that they have done together and that we can use as inspiration to create our creative projects using IA to create, play, and learn as a family. 

MuseumNext Ideas

24th December 2024

A conversation with Krystina Castella, Professor and researcher at the ArtCenter College of Design in California and author of the internationally renowned book “Designing for Kids”. This conversation will be part of the second edition of the book.

Would you let a child design a sustainability plan or remodeling project for an office building or university? How about a museum, or even a city? Our world is made by and for adults — but what if we let children take the reins to create spaces that reflect their worldview?

In collaboration with Loftwork and Fabcafe Kyoto

Phonetic Planet

In our course, we will introduce you to a disruptive methodology called “Children’s Board” to work with children in your museum in a completely different way, in a more children-centered and agency-oriented way. Through inspiring examples of previous Children’s Boards implemented yet or in the process of being implemented, we will be familiar with the main roadmap and tools required to start up a Children’s Board in your museum successfully.

In our course, we will play together to rediscover the joy of the experience of playing for the sake of playing, as children know to do. We will connect with our inner child, be able to show others our vulnerability through play, celebrate our failures, and wild-imagine futures where we can continue playing and telling amazing stories.

Do Children Dream of AI Sheep in Museums? (not nightmares)

Gordillo Martorell, J. A. (2024). “A Museum is … so a Museum should be … ” Exploring Children’s Museum Perceptions to Improve Professional Practice. Journal of Museum Education, 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1080/10598650.2024.2342593

Empowering Culture and Young Minds.

Dive deep into the world of culture and society with our latest article 📚 We explore how different cultures shape our understanding of the world around us, influencing everything from art to technology. Join us as we uncover stories that challenge our perspectives and broaden our horizons.

I share my Children's Board dream as a radical new way of learning in multiple directions in the museum context. Children teach us at the same time they learn from the Museum reality and transform it.

May 7, 2024 Tuesday

Impact Hub Zürich Colab

We tend to see play as a naive "children's activity". But play is much more than that. What would happen if we started to play more with ourselves and others? How would this affect our well-being, motivation, creativity, and passion? How could we do this by learning from those who are best at it, the children?

In our session, we will play together to rediscover the joy of the experience of playing for the sake of playing, as children know to do. We will connect with our inner child, be able to show others our vulnerability through play, celebrate our failures, and wild imagine futures where we can continue playing and telling amazing stories.

May 4, 2024, Saturday

2:30 PM IST | 11:00 AM CET

In cooperation with Little Leaps

Embark on an enlightening journey with us to explore the enchanting universe crafted or portrayed by children worldwide through captivating stories. Stories of healing, compassion, triumph... Stories with the potential to positively transform the world, as articulated by a wise 9-year-old guest: "You adults are a mess. You've got everything in a mess. And you won't let us fix it." This event aims to empower parents, educators, caregivers, writers, journalists, cultural professionals, creators, and policymakers to delve into the unique realm of children's storytelling, resonating deeply with Montessori philosophy.

MUSEUMS AND CHANGE

Thursday, 4/11, at 12:30 pm EDT

There is nothing more serious, urgent, and important than play. When we play we become the best version of ourselves. We are fully connected to who we are and to the present, we relate authentically to others, we are more creative and empathetic, we learn better by overcoming our fears and prejudices, and we get a lot out of just being. Unfortunately, as museum professionals, we tend to see play as a "children's activity" that we organize to attract families. But play is much more than that.

What would happen if we started to play more with our work colleagues? How would this affect our well-being, motivation, and involvement? How could we do this by learning from those who are best at it--children? Today more than ever, play is a necessity for everyone and museums must elevate it as an internal strategic priority.

Password to see the session: m?c@f22g

6th-10th May 2024

3 pm- 4:30 pm IST/10:30-12 pm CET

In Collaboration with Little Leaps

Join us for "The Elephant in Pink Socks" - a captivating storytelling workshop designed to ignite children's imagination and creativity! 📚✨

In this 5 days digital campfire adventure, each day children will explore incredible tales from around the globe of different cultures, shared by experts! 🌍📖

But that's not all! Together, we'll invent fascinating characters, dream up extraordinary settings, and craft our unique tales! 🐘🎩

With each session, our stories will grow and evolve, culminating in a grand finale where children will have the opportunity to showcase their creations.

From creating short videos to publishing podcasts, the possibilities are endless! 🎥🎙️

Don't miss out on this incredible opportunity to spark your child's creativity! Reserve your spot now! ✨🚀

Article published at 2 VOL. 2 (2024): SOLIDAIRE: PRACTISING SOLIDARITY

Luzern, 15 February 2024

In this very special Agora in cooperation with Catalyst Lab from Collavoratio Helvetica my AI Storytelling-Education fireside group/gang Gregory Turkawka and Anny Barbey plans to make a mess of it by playing, listening to your story, and threading it with other stories with which we are creating a great tapestry of stories from all over the world to start learning in another way more and better connected with our authentic inner children. We would love you to participate in our experiment called The Globe. We promise to have a good time in our Playground and above all to meet each other again and celebrate the joy of life by telling it in the form of your story.

Our true and only home is our childhood

25 January 2024

Karl der Grosse

Institute of Arts and Design Education (IADE)- University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland 1st. February 2025

We invite you to re-connect with your authentic self in order to build more authentic, deep, lasting, and joyful relationships with your (target, what a word!) audience, client, partner, friend, stakeholder, fundraiser, dream colleague, potential catalyzed, readers, students... using as role models clowns, children, and nature organisms because they are the best at it.

Community Call in cooperation with Collaboratio Helvetica

5 February 2024. 7 pm.

We have become accustomed to "going along for the ride" by not being who we are. We are what our boss wants, our partner wants, our friend wants, but we are not us. We are permanently disconnected from ourselves, making it impossible for us to connect authentically and deeply with others. We pretend that we listen to the other person, understand them, and care about what happens to them, but deep down we do not. In this webinar we offer some tools to reconnect with your true self through play and the joy of discovering things as you did the first time as a child: the first time you saw a star, the first time you tasted a lemon, the first time you touched the snow. Together we will explore those first times and try to stay in them as long as possible so that you can reconnect with others more authentically and deeply. To do this we will invite you to be vulnerable in a safe and welcoming space similar to a kindergarten for grown-ups.

Spotlight. Interview about the urgency of together work Museums and Communities.

Wissen im Wandel. Eine Neuverortung des Museums!?

27.11.2023

Zitadelle. Berlin

Mein "Display" soll mit einer scheinbar absurden Frage provozieren: Sind wir in der Lage, über unser Museum 100 Jahre voraus zu denken? Ich werde über seltsame Dinge sprechen, wie die 100 verschiedenen Schneearten, die die Sami kennen, oder das "7-Generationen"-Denken. Darüber würde ich gerne mit Ihnen bei einem guten Kaffee diskutieren.

02.11.2023, 11.00 Uhr – 18.30 Uhr . Tagung. Historisches Museum Hannover

03.11.2023, 09.00 Uhr – 15.00 Uhr. Workshop. Co-Working Space

26 Oct, 2,9, and 16 Nov 2023 6-8 pm CEST

This introductory course unravels the potential of Generative artificial intelligence (Gen-AI) in revolutionizing storytelling and learning in cultural organizations. Welcome to your AI-Museum transition.


October 23rd 2023, 9:30 a.m. – 7:00 p.m. New Museum Biel, Seevorstadt 52, 2501 Biel, Switzerland

"Clowning, Child Play & Nature. The Art of Re-Connection with your audiences and yourself”

18 Sept 2023

My presentation “Wie klingt es? Drei Wege, wie Kinder mit Klang in Museen interagieren” in the World-Caffée

The Future Laboratory for the Climate September 2023-May 2024

Collaboratio Helvetica

With these three webinars you will learn how to reshape your museum from the children's mindset, how to create powerful nature-based metaphors to create an inspiring narrative to drive your museum, how to be a network connector and build meaningful experiences with your visitants, how to see and listen to them as they really are, and how to use all this to create a mid-long term new museum identity: a care museum for the community wellbeing.

March 13th 2023

Webinar on methodologies to reshape museums to be more community centered. ICOM UK Student and Emerging Professional event.

Create a new narrative to your Museum using our Plug-And-Play Toolkits.

March 23rd 2023

Webinar about how to enhance the visitor experience at museums playfully and informally. Speakers: Dana Mitroff Silvers Lisa Baxter FRSA Jose Antonio Gordillo Martorell. Ph.D. and Joscha de Boever. Organized by MuseoSpace.

Apri-Dec. 2023

Mentoring in the 7th cohort of the Museum Education Mentorship program (EdMEM). American Alliance of Museums

March 28th 2023

The Museum Doctors, an Interview with Robert Weisberg.

Take a look (and react!) at my Medium stories.

Articles

Everything starts with a question: diversity and inclusion in a global world

Is your cultural heritage sustainable?