ABSTRACT
This chapter will argue that the incorporation of an experimental – one might also say critical – production of architecture within and through exhibitions is paramount if not vital for the future relevance not only of exhibition making and the exhibitionary complex, but for the future of architecture as an intellectual, artistic and social discipline itself. These exhibitions are coined here as Productive Exhibitions and the chapter will first explain how these exhibitions have to be defined and what impact they could have on the future of exhibition making and the praxis of architecture. 1 This chapter will further argue that in order to find ways in which such an experimental production can actually take place within and through exhibitions, one should look at some of the earliest formal expressions, spatial arrangements and socio-economic operations of the ‘museum’, and the exhibitions that they contained.
