Nina Simon

  • What I do, where I work

  • I’m an independent person working on exhibits and museum experiences that relate to visitor participation (as co-creators or highly enabled users) and gaming. I maintain Museum 2.0, a blog about ways that museums can integrate social networks, user-focused design, and etc. into our institutions. I work with museums on experimental exhibit processes and new ways of thinking about content sharing and technology.

Positions

  • scary radar earth science electrical engineering thingy at NASA

  • Curator at The Tech Museum of Innovation

  • Experience Development Specialist at International Spy Museum

  • all-around deck hand at Acton Science Discovery Museum

  • educational stuff at Boston Museum of Science

Website(s)

  • More about me

  • I’m interested in projects that are racy, challenging, and dynamic. There’s a constant struggle in my head between the benefits of highly designed, immersive, narrative experiences and those of user-focused, open-ended ones. My 5-year dream is to start a small museum/bar that can serve as an experimental launching pad for participatory exhibits and for museum folks to play with innovation and see how possible it can be in their own institutions.

    I also live in the mountains off the grid and love building treehouses.

Recent publications & presentations

  • "Is Museum a Four Letter Word?."   Museum

    January 2008

  • "Discourse in the Blogosphere: What Museums Can Learn from Web 2.0."   Museums and Social Issues

    Fall 2007

Case Studies

The Tech Virtual Test Zone

The Tech Virtual Test Zone

by Nina Simon

Published June 26 2008

Reflexive Architecture (in Second Life)

Reflexive Architecture (in Secon...

by Nina Simon

Published February 16 2008

Reviews

Rotten Luck: The Decaying Dice of Ricky Jay

Rotten Luck: The Decaying Dice o...

by Nina Simon

Published April 26 2007