Panel 4: Collaboration in design
Sandra Kriebel (Technische Universität Berlin, Germany)
‘Gesamtwirkung’: Wilhelm von Bode’s design for the exhibition of Old Master paintings (1883) as a model for future museum practice
In January 1883, later museum director Wilhelm Bode and an assisting committee of 15 art historians, collectors and state officials arranged an exhibition of Old Master paintings in celebration of the 25th wedding anniversary of Crown Prince Frederick of Prussia and Victoria, Princess Royal. more…

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Sara Woodbury (William and Mary College, USA)
Exhibition work: labor networks in the Federal Community Art Center Project
The Federal Community Art Center Project represented one of the most ambitious arts-related initiatives of the New Deal, a series of reforms intended to alleviate the economic hardships of the Great Depression in the United States. more…
Kate Rhodes (RMIT Design Hub Gallery/Monash University, Australia)
Exhibition architecture as curatorial argument
In exhibitions of architecture and design, exhibition design is perhaps inevitably foregrounded. Indeed, in large-scale exhibitions and large institutions such exhibition design may be more appropriately called exhibition architecture. more…
Marina Khémis (National School of Architecture of Versailles, ENS Paris-Saclay/ENSCI-Les Ateliers – Studio Adrien Gardère)
Exhibition design and architecture, inside co-creative processes: The Autun Museum in Burgundy and the Swedish Pavilion at EXPO 2020 Dubai
Today’s design process of museums and exhibitions involves a great diversity of actors and specialists forming a unique network of collaborators focusing on the visitors’ experience. more…
David Francis (University College London, UK), Luo Pan (Chinese National Museum of Ethnology, China) and Lisheng Zhang (University College London, UK, and PKU Beijing, UK)
Craft and creativity: (re)making exhibition design in China’s museum boom
Using the Chinese National Museum of Ethnology as a case study, our paper explores how the design language of the Creative Economy has proven to be an important source of inspiration for Chinese exhibitions in the first decade after China’s museum boom. more…
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