Designing for Playful Engagement in Museums: Immersion, Emotion, Narrative, and Gameplay

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Ed Rodley (The Experience Alchemists (TEA).)

Designing for Playful Engagement in Museums

Immersion, Emotion, Narrative, and Gameplay

Ed Rodley (The Experience Alchemists (TEA).)

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Routledge
13 June 2025

The Arts: General & Reference; Industrial: Commercial Art & Design; Museums & museology; Cultural studies; Service industries

Series: Routledge Guides to Practice in Museums, Galleries and Heritage

Designing for Playful Engagement in Museums is filled with creative fodder for practitioners who wish to make more memorable and engaging experiences that promote a sense of presence, effectively evoke emotions, tell stories that transport them, and harness visitors’ innate playfulness.

Providing readers with a framework for understanding playful engagement, Rodley details four concepts that, when used effectively, can create a new generation of compelling visitor experiences. This book combines research and examples from the cultural and for-profit sectors with new insights from current research in psychology, neuroscience, and human-computer interaction to explore why these concepts are valuable to designers. Reflections from leading practitioners from around the globe and across the experience design spectrum provide unique insights into the current state of practice. This is augmented by examples from the author’s 30-plus years of experience developing visitor experiences in a variety of science, art, and history museums.

Designing for Playful Engagement in Museums provides practitioners with a concrete way of thinking about engagement that centers on visitors. This book will be of particular interest to professionals in museums, libraries, and archives, but will also be essential reading for academics and students engaged in the study of museums, heritage, digital humanities, and experience design.

By: Ed Rodley (The Experience Alchemists (TEA).)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 310g
ISBN: 9781032638676
ISBN 10: 1032638672
Series: Routledge Guides to Practice in Museums, Galleries and Heritage
Pages: 148
Publication Date: 13 June 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Dedication; Foreword by Sebastian Chan; Preface; Chapter 1 The Magic of the Visitor Experience; Chapter 2 Sensory Immersion: The Sense of “Being There”; Chapter 3 Emotion Evocation: The Importance of Feeling; Chapter 4 Narrative Transportation: Storytelling in a Digital Age; Chapter 5 Gameful Participation: Encouraging Playfulness; Chapter 6 Putting Together the Pieces of Playful Engagement; Index.

Ed Rodley is an award-winning experience designer and a Co-Founder and Principal at The Experience Alchemists (TEA), an experience design firm serving the cultural sector and beyond. Before starting TEA, Ed was Associate Director of Integrated Media at Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) in Salem, Massachusetts, USA.