Creating Exhibitions: Collaboration in the Planning, Development, and Design of Innovative Experiences
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2013
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eng
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9781118306345
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Abstract
"A rich and detailed description of the team approach to creating museum exhibitions. Janet Kamien and Polly McKenna-Cress were pioneers in developing this successful approach, and their experience, wisdom, and humor shine through on every page. A must-read for anyone involved in museum exhibitions."
—Kathleen McLean, Principal, Independent Exhibitions
"This book is like having a personal mentor by your side during every step of the exhibition process. The authors have written a book that is concise, insightful, practical, and friendly—just what you need during a complex and often tense process."
—Elaine Heumann Gurian, Senior Consultant, The Museum Group
Exhibition design involves numerous disciplines, variable physical and intellectual content, and the goal of enabling visitors to understand and enjoy complex topics more completely. It is a necessarily collaborative and multilayered process. Creating Exhibitions is the first guide of its kind: a one-stop resource that integrates the design process with content development to deliver a comprehensive program for conceiving, designing, and installing exhibitions.
Structured around the key phases of the exhibition creation process, this team-oriented guide covers the entire project duration and offers problem-solving techniques supported by useful examples of how each solution was strategically applied.
It offers this critical information in the context of a collaborative design process, speaks to a broad range of stakeholders in any exhibition project, and encourages innovation in every aspect of planning, development, and design.
Both comprehensive and closely detailed, this one-stop manual:
Delivers in-depth coverage of current thinking and research in exhibition design along with case studies that illustrate how the process was applied
Includes exercises and experiments that provide hands-on experience with different concepts and approaches
Features contributions from leading exhibition and museum professionals from all levels, offering multiple points of view for achieving collaboration and innovation
Creating Exhibitions is an indispensable resource for professionals and students in architecture, graphic design, environmental graphic design, industrial design, digital media, lighting and theater, interior design, and landscape architecture. It is a valuable tool for anyone who wants to become not just a practitioner, but also an innovator in this fascinating and rewarding field.
Table of contents
CHAPTER 1: COLLABORATION
Collaboration Unpacked
Why Collaborate?
Why Collaborate in
Museums?
How to Collaborate
A Case Strdy: Science Gallety, Dublin
An Intrinsic Imperative --
CHAPTER 2: ADVOCACIES
AND ACTION STEPS
Advocacy Positions as a
Team Creation Strategy
Five Advocacies Needed for
Every Team
Action Steps
Dangers and Pitfalls --
CHAPTER 3: ADVOCACY
FOR THE INSTITUTION
Creating the Landscape for
Exemplary Exhibitions
Laying the Foundation
Planning Major Change
Plan Ahead, Leslie Swartz
Reflecting Institutional Identity,
Charlie Walter
Review, Critique, and Approval
Institutional Culture and Risk
Assessing Results and Learning
from Them --
CHAPTER 4: ADVOCACY FOR
THE SUBJECT MATTER
It's about Something Tool
Approach and Philosophy
Object or Idea Driven
Dangers for the Subject
Matter Expert
History through Objects,
Jessica Neuwirth
An Art Historian's Perspective,
Rachel McGarry --
CHAPTER 5: ADVOCACY FOR
VISITOR EXPERIENCES
Developing Exhibition
Content for Visitors
Getting Started: Developing the
Concepts
Strategies for Organizing
Information
Synthesizing and Presenting
Initial Concepts
Organizing the Concepts
into a Cohesive Narrative
The Story on Storyelling,
Leslie Bedford
Documentation and Presentation
Getting the Details Ironed Out:
How Does This Thing
Really Work?
Educator as Advocate, Shari
Rosenstein Werb
Strategies for Ironing Out the Details --
CHAPTER 6: ADVOCACY
FOR DESIGN
Advocating for the Physical and
Sensory Experience
Design Advocacy: Working
within the Collaboration
Primary Exhibition Design
Principles
The Launch of Design
Spatial Planning and Visitor Flow
Gestalt-Sensory Perception
Forming a Whole
The Impact of Lighting, Lauren
Helpern and Traci Klainer
Polimeni
The Medium Is the Message:
Modes of Display
Wheel of Dependent Implementarion,
Jeff Hoke
Environmental Graphic Design,
Richard Cress
Multimedia Integration,
Richard Lewis
Magic and Illusion in Exhibition,
Diane Perlov
Theater and Immersive Encironnents,
Donna Lawrence
Object Theater, Paul Martin
Accessible and Universal Design
Accessible Design, Lath Carlson
Environmentally Sound Practice
Sustainable Exhibitions,
Lath Carlson
Conclusion --
CHAPTER 7: ADVOCACY FOR
PROJECT AND TEAM
Managing the Project and Team
Creating a Schedule
Creating a Budget
Managing a Tearn --
CHAPTER 8: METHODS AND
TECHNIQUES
Getting the Most out of the Process
Process Documentation
Ways to Produce and Shape Ideas
Concept Organization and
Visual Documentation
Sketching as Team visualization,
Dottie Miles
Making Decisions and
Conducting Evaluation
Evaluation,Jeff Hayward
Pilot Testing, Dana Schloss &
Katherine Ziff
Prototyping to Test Ideas,
Erika Kiessner
Visitors' Bill of Rights, Judy Rand
Writing a Successful REP,
George Mayer --
CHAPTER 9: PROCESS AND
PHASES
How Do We Set Up Our Process?
Process Outline
Process Phases
The Postpartum: Evaluating,
Maintaining, Evolving, and
Documenting
Exhibition Closing
INDEX