ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|107 pages
Purpose
chapter 1|16 pages
An ethical future for museum and gallery design
chapter 6|15 pages
Representations of Chinese civilisation
chapter 8|16 pages
A site for convergence and exchange
part II|137 pages
Process
chapter 9|11 pages
Examining process in museum exhibitions
chapter 10|15 pages
Designing and programming in ‘baggy’ space
chapter 12|15 pages
Placing citizens at the heart of museum development
chapter 14|11 pages
Experimental exhibition models
chapter 15|13 pages
From the ‘field’ to the ‘wilderness’
chapter 17|14 pages
Untangling exhibition narratives
chapter 18|15 pages
Beyond the museum
part III|97 pages
Perception