| ISBN |
9781138307322 (hbk) |
| 9781138568204 (pbk) |
| 9781351370363 |
| Title |
The future of museum and gallery design : purpose, process, perception / edited by Suzanne MacLeod, Tricia Austin, Jonathan Hale and Oscar Ho Hing-Kay. |
| Publisher and/or associated date/s |
Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2018. |
| ©2018. |
| Description |
xix, 361 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 26 cm. |
| Series |
Museum meanings |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Pt. I Purpose: social responsibility, cultural specificity and museum making -- 1.An ethical future for museum and gallery design: design as a force for good in a diverse cultural sector / Suzanne MacLeod -- 2.Zen and the art of museum maintenance / Oscar Ho Hing-Kay -- 3.On the importance of `And': museums and complexity / Elaine Heumann Gurian -- 4.The designer's role in museums that act as agents of change / Tricia Austin -- 5.Cities as exhibition spaces: illuminated infrastructure in the smart city / Dave Colangelo -- 6.Representations of Chinese civilisation: exhibiting Chinese art in Republican China / Pedith Chan -- 7.The museum and multi-valences of place / Laura Hourston Hanks -- 8.A site for convergence and exchange: designing the twenty-first-century university art museum / Timothy J. McNeil. |
| Pt. II Process: collaboration, experimentation and participation -- 9.Examining process in museum exhibitions: a case for experimentation and prototyping / Kathleen McLean -- 10.Designing and programming in `baggy' space: a case study of the Oriel Wrecsam People's Market project / Jo Marsh -- 11.Collective creativity in the art museum / Mette Houlberg Rung -- 12.Placing citizens at the heart of museum development: Derby Silk Mill -- Museum of Making / Suzanne MacLeod -- 13.New approaches to universal design at The Gateway Arch National Park / Oriel Wilson -- 14.Experimental exhibition models: curating, designing and managing experiments: a case study from the Humboldt Lab Dahlem / Annette Loeseke -- 15.From the `field' to the `wilderness': translation and creation in curating socially engaged arts / Sipei Lu -- 16.Unboxing history exhibitions: experience design in museum practice / Clare Brown -- 17.Untangling exhibition narratives: towards a bridging of design research and design practice / David Francis -- 18.Beyond the museum: a comparative study of narrative structures in films and museum design / Tom Duncan. |
| Pt. III Perception: embodiment, experience and narrative -- 19.Yaji garden: art under the sky / Shiming Gao -- 20.Screening times: dioramas at the Shanghai Film Museum / Linda Johnson -- 21.Displaying and interpreting industrial pollution: a study of visitor comments on `When the South Wind Blows' / Chia-Li Chen -- 22.Spatial meaning-making: exhibition design and embodied experience / Christina Back -- 23.The fear of popcorn: drawing inspiration from Hollywood for curating suspenseful exhibitions / Ariane Karbe -- 24.The Yellow Box and its rhetoric of display: exhibiting Chinese art in a museum / Vivian Ting -- 25.From body to body: architecture, movement and meaning in the museum / Christina Back. |
| Summary |
The Future of Museum and Gallery Design explores new research and practice in museum design. Placing a specific emphasis on social responsibility, in its broadest sense, the book emphasises the need for a greater understanding of the impact of museum design in the experiences of visitors, in the manifestation of the vision and values of museums and galleries, and in the shaping of civic spaces for culture in our shared social world. The chapters included in the book propose a number of innovative approaches to museum design and museum-design research. Collectively, contributors plead for more open and creative ways of making museums, and ask that museums recognise design as a resource to be harnessed towards a form of museum-making that is culturally located and makes a significant contribution to our personal, social, environmental, and economic sustainability. Such an approach demands new ways of conceptualising museum and gallery design, new ways of acknowledging the potential of design, and new, experimental, and research-led approaches to the shaping of cultural institutions internationally. The Future of Museum and Gallery Design should be of great interest to academics and postgraduate students in the fields of museum studies, gallery studies, and heritage studies, as well as architecture and design, who are interested in understanding more about design as a resource in museums. It should also be of great interest to museum and design practitioners and museum leaders. |
| Subjects |
Museum architecture |
| Museum exhibits -- Design |
| Art museums -- Design and construction |
| Exhibitions -- Design |
| Other Authors &/or Associated Persons |
Macleod, Suzanne (editor.) |
| Austin, Tricia, 1954- (editor.) |
| Hale, Jonathan (editor.) |
| Ho, Oscar, 1956- (editor.) |
| Series |
Museum meanings |
| Call number |
2019.142 |
