ABSTRACT
This chapter explores informal learning spaces of museums and galleries, and how speculative objects can help produce new and different futures for supporting and evaluating engagement with cultural heritage. The Artcasting project in 2015–6 took place at a time of significant debate about how digital technologies should intersect with heritage spaces and visitors, and concerns about the practices of evaluation that might measure engagement. The production and use of a speculative object, the Artcasting app, and the methods of analysis that accompanied it, unsettled assumptions and showed how evaluation of engagement might have different and unexpected futures in museums and galleries.
