Keynotes
Suzanne Macleod (University of Leicester, UK)
Museums and design for creative lives
Andrea Witcomb (Deakin University, Australia)
From representing the ‘other’ to representing collective selves and their engagement with ‘others’: exhibition design and the poetics of ‘voice’
Plenary
Live Roundtable, Friday 11th September (details tbc)
Confirmed Speakers:
Ashoke Chatterjee (Centre for Heritage Management, Ahmedabad University, India)
Ian Elsner (Museum Archipelago/RLMG, US)
Tehmina Goskar (Curatorial Research Centre, UK)
Panel 1: Decolonising exhibition design
Jona Piehl (HTW Berlin, Germany)
Visual reflexivity: exhibition graphic design as critical practice
Beatriz Martínez Sosa (University of Pau, France)
Designing to decolonise: strategies on the rhetorics of display
Francesca Luini (Rhode Island School of Design, US)
The aesthetics of depoliticized exhibitions
Nina Oberg Humphries (University of Canterbury, New Zealand) Lisa McDonald (Glasgow School of Art, UK) and Hamish Anderson (Canterbury Museum, New Zealand)
‘ARE PASIFIKA’: the display of Pacific collections, old and new, in Aotearoa New Zealand
Panel 2: Methodologies in exhibition design history
Kelvin Chuah (Institute of Education, UCL, UK)
The crit as methodology: re-staging the 1973 ‘Instant Malaysia’ exhibition as intervention
Roberto Gigliotti and Nina Bassoli (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy)
Mapping the landscape of architecture exhibitions
Kate Bowell (University of Edinburgh, UK)
A history in labels: the science and technology label collection of National Museums Scotland
Liya Wizevich (University of Cambridge, UK)
Researching historical changes in exhibition design at the Soviet Union’s state-planned national exhibition
Martha Fleming (Independent, UK)
Floppies, trannies, a CAD and the blues: unearthing the traces of late 20th century exhibition practice
Panel 3: Immersion (I): sense and emotion
Timothy McNeil (University of California, Davis, US)
Smoke and mirrors: the art of deception and the exhibition designer’s box of tricks
Kate Hill (University of Lincoln, UK)
‘Chilly tombs’ or ‘communion with the past’? Staging objects as dead or alive in early twentieth century museums
Izabela Derda, Zoi Popoli and Tom Feustel (Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication, the Netherlands)
From “just a collection of objects” to “only tech show off”: grasping a change and unpacking design approaches to multisensorial immersive exhibitions
Barbara Fahs Charles (Staples & Charles, US)
Total immersion: taking viewers on a journey
Viveka Kjellmer (University of Gothenburg, Sweden)
Smelling exhibitions: scented scenographics and olfactory communication in the museum
Panel 4: Collaboration in design
Sandra Kriebel (Technische Universität Berlin, Germany)
‘Gesamtwirkung’: Wilhelm Bodes’ design for the exhibition of Old Master paintings (1883) as a model for future museum practice
Sara Woodbury (College of William and Mary, US)
Exhibition work: Labor networks in the Federal Community Art Center Project
Kate Rhodes (RMIT Design Hub Gallery/Monash University, Australia)
Exhibition architecture as curatorial argument
Marina Khémis (Studio Adrien Gardère/ National School of Architecture of Versailles, France)
Exhibition design and architecture: inside co-creative processes
David Francis (University College London, UK), Luo Pan (Chinese National Museum of Ethnology, China) and Lisheng Zhang (University College London, UK, and PKU Beijing, China)
Craft and creativity: (re)making exhibition design in China’s museum boom
Panel 5: Race and exhibition design
Emily Mazzola (University of Pittsburgh, US)
Exhibition design and the politics of identity in the First Ladies Hall of the United States National Museum
Patricio del Real (Harvard University, US)
Staging Brasilidade at MoMA
Jacklyn Lacey (American Museum of Natural History, US)
Putting Joseph Towles’ Name in the Credit Line: Institutional Racism at the American Museum of Natural History
Panel 6: War, crisis and exhibition design
Laia Anguix (Northumbria University, UK)
‘A rather “fresh” smell of paint’: wartime exhibitions at the Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle
Mark Hodge (University of Exeter, UK)
Displaced collections in times of crisis: the emergency museum at Montacute House, 1939-1945
Claire Wintle (University of Brighton, UK)
Exhibition Making in Crisis: professional identity and radical design after the Second World War
Diana Jeha (Independent, Lebanon)
Nicolas Sursock Museum design
Panel 7: Reconstructing exhibition histories: materiality and interpretation
Elena Montanari (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
Museographic heritage: the Italian legacy
Anna Tulliach (University of Leicester, UK)
Exhibiting museum history within museum spaces: the case studies of the Archaeological Museum of Bologna and the Egyptian Museum in Turin
Louise Macul (University of Leicester, UK)
Political by design: the sneaky work of a colonial curator in Borneo
Laura Dudley (University of Leicester, UK)
Researching, writing and reconstructing exhibition histories as a resource for future practice: Palle Nielsen’s ‘The Model’, 1968/2013/2014
Panel 8: Immersion (II): environment and experience
Joanna Norman (V&A, UK)
Period rooms: between museum object and exhibition design
James Housefield (University of California, Davis, US)
Designed destinations: learning from the first museums of San Francisco
Gabriela Denk (Ruprecht-Karls-Universität, Germany)
Experience and atmosphere: three innovative exhibition designs by Hans Hollein
Raissa D’Uffizi (La Sapienza University of Rome, Italy)
From design product to art through exhibition: the case of Italy the New Domestic Landscape (1972)
Daria Gradusova (Swinburne University of Technology, Australia)
Immersive ≠ virtual reality: a case study of three Hokusai exhibitions
Panel 9: Exhibition makers: shifting definitions of design and designer
Stephen Greenberg (Metaphor, UK)
Sir John Soane: The First Exhibition Designer
Sandy Jones (National Art Library, V&A/University of Brighton, UK)
The curator-librarian at the museum: exhibiting graphic modernism at the V&A’s library, 1936-39
Sarah Longair (University of Lincoln, UK)
Designing the colonial museum display: pragmatism and collaboration
Kate Guy (University of Brighton/British Museum, UK)
Title tbc
Roberta Maraccio (Architectural Association, UK)
A load-bearing history: Ernesto Nathan Rogers and the urban agency of the interior in post-war Milan
Panel 10: Interviews with exhibition makers
Jon Ould (Designer, British Museum, UK), interviewed by Kate Guy (University of Brighton/British Museum, UK)
Nima Poovya Smith (Alchemy Anew, UK), interviewed by Hajra Williams (University of Brighton, UK)
Alex McCuaig (MET Studio, UK), interviewed by Chris White (Winkle-Picker/University of Wollongong, Hong Kong)
Panel 11: Orientalism and empire
Solmaz Kive (University of Oregon, US)
Decorated otherness: the making of the Oriental Courts at the South Kensington Museum
Yannick Le Pape (Musée d’Orsay, France)
“Yet undecided”: features and failures of Assyrian exposure in the age of European imperialism
Samuel Aylett (Open University, UK)
Designing imperial London at the Museum of London, 1976
Panel 12: Exhibiting conflict
Aleksa Bijelović (Curtin University, Australia/Petokraka, Serbia)
Do nothing
Áine McKenny (University of Brighton, UK)
Feeling through the Troubles: the emotions of displaying conflict
Kasia Tomsiewicz (University of Brighton/Imperial War Museum, UK)
‘All the fun of the fear’: using exhibition histories to understand the challenges of contemporary curation
Panel 13: Designing for collections
Sophie Cras (University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne, France) and Claire-Lise Debluë (University of St Andrews, UK/University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne, France)
Exhibition design and the making of economic knowledge (19th-21st Centuries)
Peter Lester (Independent, UK)
The archivist as curator
Elisa de Noronha Nascimento, CITCEM/University of Porto, Portugal)
Exhibition design for artists’ books: a short handbook
Lucie Lachenal (Independent, France)
Reconstructing the exhibitions of the Royal Manufactory of Sèvres through the archives (1814- 1850)
Panel 14: Fashioning Exhibition Design
Marlene Van-de-Casteele (National School of Decorative Arts (ENSAD)/Atelier Chardon Savard, France)
Fashioning Beaton portraits:1928-1968 exhibition
Jihane Dyer (Royal Holloway, University of London/Museum of London, UK)
Re-fashioning the London Museum: the making of Mary Quant’s London, 1973
Igor Uria Zubizarreta (Cristóbal Balenciaga Museum, Spain)
Cristóbal Balenciaga Museum, a historiography of the Balenciaga exhibitions
Panel 15: Exhibition Afterlives: design histories and future practice
Lisa Newby (Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, UK)
The Living Area at the Sainsbury Centre: looking back to look forward
Eric Langham (Barker Langham, UK) and Colin Sterling (University College London, UK)
Resonant exhibitions: when interpretation becomes artefact
Matt Isble (Crocker Art Museum, US)
Fostering institutional knowledge in exhibit design, fabrication, and installation