This paper aims to contribute to provide an strategic roadmap to the current PostCrisis situation that is challenging museums. The author suggests that PostCrisis Museums should do a transition to become Social Innovation Community-driven Centres. While design museums have responsibilities for the collection and exhibition objects that mark design’s historical trajectories, this task is, arguably, becoming more complex and challenging. The last 20 years has seen the proliferation of design museums through Europe and beyond. At the same time, the practices, social meanings, political significances and economic roles of design have changed radically. In turn, this implies a new range of opportunities for how design museums might function. Design museums are varied in their scale, location, audience, funding and, thus, curatorial aims. It is thus unwise to be prescriptive about them. However, this event provides a forum to develop the debate on what design museums can do. The event is shaped by three aims: • to develop a contextualised discussion as to current developments in and around design culture (social, political, economic, geographical, technological and professional) that impact on design museums; • to discuss resultant intellectual and practical questions available to contemporary design curatorship; • to identify possible future scenarios for design in museums. The event is planned to encourage debate and exploration. Invited practitioners and researchers in the field will give brief position statements at strategic points, as the discussion unfolds. As a prompt, some, but not all, key issues are summarized in the diagram below.

1. Design
Museum
as
Social
Innova2on
Community-­‐driven
Centre

2. New
Roles
for
Design
Museums:
PostCrisis
Museums
as
>
Social
Innova2on
Community-­‐driven
Centres
<
Igor
Calzada,
Ph.D.
PostDoctoral
Research
Fellow
at
the
University
of
Oxford
(UK).
Future
of
Ci?es
FoC
Programme,
COMPAS
&
InSIS.
&
Ikerbasque,
Basque
Founda?on
for
Science.
hLp://www.about.me/icalzada
hLp://www.igorcalzada.com
Contemporary
Design
Culture
and
the
Design
Museum:
Challenges
and
Opportuni2es
Roundtable
Discussion
Event
organized
by
University
of
Southern
Denmark
(DK),
CDCM
(DK)
&
University
of
Brighton
(UK)
Trapholt
Museum,
Kolding,
Denmark
Thursday
23
January,
2014,
1330h-­‐1415h

3. The
New
Roles
for
Design
#Museums?
A
museum
is
not
a
refuge.
It
is
a
place
to
encounter
the
world
in
a
state
of
heightened
a7en8on.
(By
@kieranlong)
But,
how
to
do
it?

4. DESIGN
MUSEUM
in
the
21st
Century
design
*fragmented
and
de-­‐centred
profession
*expanded
field
of
design
(research,
prac?ce,
technologies)
21c.
design
museum
*new
curatorial
exper?se/roles
*physical
and
intellectual
challenges
*audiences
and
loca?ons
By
@guyjulier

5. 1
>
#CONTEXT
>
#POSTCRISIS
>
WELFARE
STATE
“Crisis
of
funding,
Crisis
of
audiences,
Crisis
of
meaning,
Crisis
of
poli?cal
legi?ma?on,
Crisis
of
avant-­‐garde
art,
Crisis
of
architecture,
&
Crisis
of
market”
(Guasch
2008:
10-­‐12)

6. @Moma
by
©
Solis

7. 2
>
#TERRITORY
>
Macro
level
>
5-­‐System
Framework
www.cityregions.org
By
@icalzada

8. CONCLUSION
If
the
new
role
of
the
Design
Museum
is:
A
place
to
encounter
the
world
in
a
state
of
heightened
aLen?on
Can
we
suggest
this
as
well?
A
Social
Innova2on
Community-­‐Driven
Centre
by
@grantdraws

9. By
@museo
oteiza
Tak
Thank
you
very
much
Eskerrik
asko
Igor
Calzada,
Ph.D.
igor.calzada@compas.ox.ac.uk
hLp://about.me/icalzada
hLp://www.igorcalzada.com
hLp://www.cityregions.org
@icalzada