Philip Hughes

Storytelling Exhibitions (eBook, ePUB)

Identity, Truth and Wonder

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Storytelling Exhibitions describes the role and practice of modern 'spatial storytellers' and looks at the potential of exhibitions to shape our understanding of the world. It explains how curators, designers, artists and scientists combine to tell powerful stories through exhibition design.

Exhibition designer and educator Philip Hughes shows how contemporary tools and technologies - digital reconstruction, 3D scanning and digital archives - interweave with traditional forms of informing, displaying and promoting to create powerful narrative spaces.

Whether telling stories of politics, trends, society, war, science or history, Storytelling Exhibitions provides inspiration and guidance on designing installations which change the way we think.

Examples included from:

Te Papa, Wellington, New Zealand
National Museum of African American History and Culture, Washington, USA
Weltmuseum Wien, Austria
Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History, US
Lascaux: Centre International de l'Art Pariétal in Montignac, France
Stapferhaus, Lenzburg, Switizerland
Micropia, Amsterdam, Netherlands
...and many more

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. August 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350105942
• Artikelnr.: 62277403

Autorenporträt

Philip Hughes is an exhibition designer. Since graduating from the Royal College of Art in London, he has designed exhibitions for museums around the world, most recently for Ralph Appelbaum Associates. He has also taught design at a number of universities in the UK, where he lives and works.

Inhaltsangabe

1 - Story Dynamic area of practice Breaking with convention Why story?
Developing the story Expressing the 'Big Idea' Who is it for? Can tech
provide 'super powers' for the future exhibition? A fundamental part of
exhibitions 2 - Authorship Who can make an exhibition? Is the world of
exhibitions changing? Empowering 'activist' exhibitions Curation and
co-curation Museums working with their communities Contested histories 3 -
Exhibits The 'ingredients' of exhibitions Contemporary collecting and the
'activist' exhibition Using exhibition assets The 'stuff' of future
exhibitions 4 - Identity Museums of identity A new narrative An opportunity
The complex legacies of world museums Repatriation A new chapter for the
storytelling exhibition 5 - Wonder The feeling of 'awe' Fun 6 - Truth A
raging dispute Reconstructing events Superpowers Using new techniques to
represent people, the possibilities of new technologies Exploring fake news
The future of the real 7 - Virtual Going online Making a virtual exhibition
from scratch How artists reach their audiences Translating the viral
success of a video into tangible benefits The impact of Covid-19 An online
exhibition Virtual tours A 'live' platform How museums can use new
platforms Standout online exhibitions An 'elastic' approach 8 - Future A
future story The increased use of digital collections in museums
Communication of wonder Museums and truth Balancing physical and online
experience Sustainability Exhibition makers of tomorrow Notes Bibliography
Acknowledgements Credits Index