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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 man...
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Routledge,
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| Publisher Address: | Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon : |
| Publication Dates: | 2018. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Museum meanings
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| 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 recognize 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 conceptualizing 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. |
| Carrier Form: | xix, 361 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781138568204 1138568201 9781138307322 1138307327 |
| Index Number: | NA6690 |
| CLC: | TU242.5 |
| Call Number: | TU242.5/F996 |
| Contents: | An ethical future for museum and gallery design : design as a force for good in a diverse cultural sector -- Zen and the art of museum maintenance -- On the importance of 'and' : museums and complexity -- The designer's role in museums that act as agents of change -- Cities as exhibition spaces : illuminated infrastructure in the smart city -- Examining process in museum exhibitions a case for experimentation and prototyping -- Collective creativity in the art museum -- New approaches to universal design at the gateway arch national park -- Unboxing history exhibitions : experience design in museum practice -- Yaji garden : art under the sky -- Displaying and interpreting industrial pollution : a study of visitor comments on 'when the south wind blows' -- The yellow box and its rhetoric of display : exhibiting Chinese art in a museum. |