Museums show an increasing interest in participatory activities that open their premises and processes to diverse audiences. Inspired by this turn within museums, the exhibition FOLK adopted a multi-level co-design approach to address scientific racism and its heritage in contemporary science and society. Here we focus on the processes of collaborative curation during a series of public, pre-exhibition events and use the concepts of “knowledge pieces”, “transformation” and “correspondence” to analyse how the events became curatorially consequential. We argue that the events acted as sensitising devices for the exhibition team by bringing together ethnographic and critical design methods.

博物馆对向不同观众开放其场所和流程的参与性活动越来越感兴趣。受博物馆内这一转变的启发，FOLK 展览采用了多层次的协同设计方法来解决科学种族主义及其在当代科学和社会中的遗产问题。在这里，我们关注一系列公共展前活动中的协同策展过程，并使用“知识碎片”、“转化”和“对应”的概念来分析这些事件如何成为策展上的后果。我们认为，这些事件通过将人种学和批判性设计方法结合在一起，对展览团队起到了敏感作用。