ABSTRACT
What more can museum architecture do when the world is in pieces and those pieces are put on display in public institutions? The contributing authors to Museum Configurations variously show how architecture, installation strategies, and mobile visitors transact the formal dilemmas and cultural challenges posed by traditional to avant-garde building practices.
They investigate how the present-day liberated, as well as, energetically guided, viewer navigates these familiar and unfamiliar topographies and propose innovative back-and-forth types of interplay between seer and seen for future design practice.
The postscript further addresses how the creative rethinking of the life of objects has been opened up by Object-Oriented Ontology (OOO). This philosophy treats us to more than curatorial or viewer narratives to demonstrate how objects – from historical genres to new media – also mutually self-generate their relationships. Speculative Realism aligns well with the geometrical thrust of Space Syntax and suggests a future design approach based less on viewers seeing and being seen and more on the impersonal ways in which all things dislocate and transport us into new realities by spatializing themselves.
