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In praise of Fostering Active Prolonged Engagement: The Art of Creating APE Exhibits. |
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This book should serve as a valuable resource for anyone interested in how and why visitors interact with exhibits the way they do. Reading the stories about the often-circuitous paths to exhibit success made me appreciate how tricky it is to create exhibit experiences that encourage active prolonged engagement. More importantly, reading the APE exhibit development “war stories” gave me added incentive to get back into the workshop to improve on my own exhibit projects!
Paul Orselli, Paul Orselli Workshop |
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The book, and the work it describes, is a testament to the power of coupling a strong research and evaluation staff like the Exploratorium’s with an equally strong staff of creative exhibit developers. This isn't just a cookbook with recipes to hand to an exhibit builder… it is also a revealing look at a project designed to break away from a 36-year pattern of success to explore new kinds of educational goals. Tales told in the voices of six different exhibit developers reveal both the conceptual and practical struggles involved in creating successful exhibits of any kind, capped by the special challenges of providing visitors with active prolonged engagement. The glue that holds this work together is the set of challenges the Exploratorium team set for themselves, and the research and evaluation component that was critical at each step to measure whether those challenges were being met. This book reveals an incredible commitment… to learning new things about exhibit development and visitor learning in museums—and to sharing all of that with the field.
Larry Bell, Museum of Science, Boston |
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Thoughtful work on an interesting and important topic, the findings from this undertaking are a valuable contribution to the field.
Deborah Perry, Selinda Research Associates, Inc. |
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Fostering Active Prolonged Engagement gives us compelling candor in an intimate narrative of shared thoughtfulness and experimentation… A lasting value of this project is the example it provides of exhibit development as thoughtful experimentation progressing through continually changing assumptions, inferences, and tentative conclusions that become the open impetus for further investigation; in other words, exhibit development as APE.
Paul Tatter, Explora |
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