Museum API
Collaboration with Parsons Paris
The Museum API course offers students from Parsons Paris the opportunity to study alongside the team at reciproque for an entire semester.
API stands for Application Programming Interface—a standardized protocol that enables a digital service to connect to a data source or allows two digital services to exchange information. APIs are the essential glue of the modern web. But they also represent an approach to designing data, media, and information views that do not depend on how those assets are stored or maintained. This flexibility allows for the creation of all kinds of presentation and control interfaces, which can be combined to generate new meaning.
In many ways, this approach reflects how reciproque designs digital interfaces for access to culture—an approach we are eager to share with Parsons students. Since 2021, we have collaborated with the Museum API course, led by Stéphanie Nadalo, to help emerging designers think in terms of “Museum APIs” and experiment with project-based work in a studio setting.
