ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on two distinct but linked programmes developed for the V&A, Digital Futures and the annual Digital Design Weekend. These projects have acted as open, mobile platforms to enable sharing, collaboration and exchange, but also explore the role of the Museum in the 21st century as a site for engaging in critical conversations about technology. Creating these open spaces for thinking and making collaboratively was a powerful way for imagining and ‘engineering’ visions of a future as well as attempting to solve contemporary issues. This is where hacking comes in – hacking as in inviting people/citizens/artists/designers/technologists/industry etc. to explore the museum as a site for collective innovation and production, for experimentation, dialogue and action.
