Livre - Reshaping museum space
069 MAC
Description
Livre
Routledge
MacLeod Suzanne
Presentation materielle : 1 vol. (XIV-241 p.)
Dimensions : 25 cm
What types of museum space do we need at the beginning of the twenty-first century? At no other point in their modern history have museums undergone such radical reshaping as in recent years. Challenges to create inclusive and accessible spaces open to appropriation and responsive to contemporary agendas have resulted in new architectural forms for museums, inside and out. Reshaping Museum Spacepulls together the views of an international group of museum professionals, architects, designers and academics highlighting the complexity, significance and malleability of museum space and provides reflections upon recent developments in museum architecture and exhibition design. The problems of navigating the often contradictory agendas and aspirations of the broad range of professionals and stakeholders involved in any new project are discussed in various chapters that concentrate on the process of architectural and spatial reshaping. Contributors review recent new build, expansion and exhibition projects questioning the types of museum space required at the beginning of the 21stcentury and highlighting a range of possibilities for creative museum design. Suzanne MacLeod is a Lecturer in the Department of Museum Studies at the University of Leicester where she is Programme Director, Art Gallery Studies. She is currently undertaking research into the architectural histories of English regional art museums and galleries.
LIST OF FIGURES, ix NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS, xi ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, xiv MACLEOD Suzanne, INTRODUCTION, p. 1 PART I. ON THE NATURE OF MUSEUM SPACE 1. MACLEOD Suzanne, Rethinking museum architecture: towards a site-specific history of production and use, p. 9 2. TOON Richard, Black box science in black box science centres, p. 26 3. PARRY Ross and SAWYER Andrew, Space and the machine: adaptive museums, pervasive technology and the new gallery environment, p. 39 4. FLEMING David, Creative space, p. 53 PART II. ARCHITECTURAL RESHAPING 5. STEVENSON Moira, From cultural institution to cultural consumer experience: Manchester Art Gallery Expansion Project, p. 65 6. PSARRA Sophia, Spatial culture, way-finding and the educational message: the impact of layout on the spatial, social and educational experiences of visitors to museums and galleries, p. 78 7. GALANGAU-QUÉRAT Fabienne, The Grande Galerie de l’Évolution: an alternative cognitive experience, p. 95 8. LEAHY Helen Rees, Producing a public for art: gallery space in the twenty-first century, p. 108 9. SKOLNICK Lee H., Towards a new museum architecture: narrative and representation, p. 118 PART III. INSIDE SPACES 10. FITZGERALD Lawrence, Building on Victorian ideas, p. 133 11. LORD Beth, Representing Enlightenment space, p. 146 12. WOOD Jon, The studio in the gallery?, p. 158 13. MARSHALL Christopher R., When worlds collide: the contemporary museum as art gallery, p. 170 14. SANDELL Richard, Constructing and communicating equality: the social agency of museum space, p. 185 PART IV. CREATIVE SPACE 15. GURIAN Elaine Heumann, Threshold fear, p. 203 16. HIGGINS Peter, From cathedral of culture to anchor attractor, p. 215 17. GREENBERG Stephen, The vital museum, p. 226 INDEX, p. 238
Actes d'un congrès tenu à l'University of Leicester, GB, en avril 2004. - Notes bibliogr. en fin de contribution. Index
