The conditions of the Cultural Hackathon
How does a Cultural Hackathon work exactly? What challenge is the focus, and what criteria are used to evaluate the prototypes? On this page, you will find answers to these questions.
How did the Cultural Hackathon at the Bern Museum Quarter unfold?
The interdisciplinary teams (consisting of 5 to 9 participants with diverse skills) looked behind the scenes of the eleven cultural and educational institutions of the Bern Museum Quarter and exchanged their ideas, perspectives, and knowledge.
In intensive processes and with a variety of approaches, the nine teams in total developed creative cultural formats in record time, answering the following questions: How can people with opposing viewpoints come together playfully? How can the superpowers of the eleven institutions of the Bern Museum Quarter contribute to this?
What was the challenge?
The overarching challenge was: "Develop creative cultural formats in an interdisciplinary team that playfully use the superpowers of the institutions of the Bern Museum Quarter, venture into new territory, and bring people into dialogue."
"Superpowers" refers to the unique strengths of the eleven participating cultural and educational institutions.
What criteria were used to evaluate the prototypes and ideas?
The criteria for evaluation were creativity, content aspects, and feasibility. A jury and the audience evaluated the developed cultural formats on Saturday, May 25, 2024, during the public presentation.
The project ideas could go in completely different directions: interventions in public spaces, ideas for new ways to access collections, the discovery of the 10 million objects in the Bern Museum Quarter, events and event formats, collaborations with people outside the cultural and educational world, as well as experimental and unexpected concepts.
The jury consisted of:
- Sally De Kunst, Managing Director, Bern Museum Quarter (until the end of June 2024)
- Katharina Weistroffer, Head of Exhibitions, Natural History Museum Bern
- Saare Yosief, Co-President, Expert Commission for Migration and Racism Issues, City of Bern
- Daniel Hellmann, Artist / Activist
- Till Grünewald, Director, Bern Generation House