Milwaukee Art Museum’s Post

FRIDAY TOOLKIT: Handing to you on a shiny, sustainable, silver platter: For my friends in the #Museum world, would you take this pledge? What are the biggest obstacles to adopting the practices and materials in this guidebook? What steps are the easiest / hardest? #regenerativedesign #materials #sustainability #Netzero #carbonfootprints #themedentertainment #exhibitdesign #WELL #LivingFuture #EveryJobisaGreenJob #design #solarpunk

Calling all #Architects: Instead of putting the whole museum in semi-darkness.... ...why not place only the most sensitive objects in ArtRatio #smartglass display cases? This allows in more natural light without jeopardising the fragile objects on display. For more :- artratio.co.uk

The Steps of the Museum Exhibit Design Process https://lnkd.in/e7Vb2vpj #museumexhibitiondesign #design #designprocess #museum #designers #london #designagency #exhibitdesign #exhibtions

“Whether you’re eight or eighty, you want your world to work for you.” This quote from the “Unlimited by Design” exhibition at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York encapsulates the spirit of universal design. The same conditions for everyone, no matter their age, rather than special solutions for the select few. But what is behind the term “universal design”? How does the approach, which is at once both #innovative and universal, address the challenges of demographic change? Read more at https://lnkd.in/g4NCaG_q

A leaf from a journey's diary - Rethinking museums We understand museums as having a determinate form and recognise them as containers with contents inside. For the historic European museum this is even more so the case. Can’t it be different and, if we can change it, how might it look? The splendidly beautiful porcelain works of Chinese artist Lei Xue would be a good analogy to explain possible or likely futures for the historic European museum. Lei Xue has created a contemporary blend of tradition and modern consumption aesthetics by combining traditional Chinese porcellain techniques with soda-can forms. As tradition is grafted onto everyday consumption objects so can our understanding of the past be shaped by contemporary values. As traditional craftsmanship and materials are shaped into objects inspired by throw-aways from every day life so can the historic European museum reinvent intself in the contemporary. Let’s not forget that museums need artists not just to present them to their publics but to help them reinvent themselves. #innovatingthepast #historicmaterials #contemporarynarratives

In my opinion this is so important, it needs the very best but also passion because that’s what drives success.

Have a read of the blog I wrote on this extraordinary piece made exclusively at George Smith!

At NorthernLight, our aim in designing contemporary exhibitions about historical topics is to connect the topic to the NOW. Traditional historical exhibitions quite often try to mimic the THEN for the visitors. That is why we recently introduced our vision for the ’The transhistorical space’. This correlates with recent developments in historical studies to link historical events with current and timeless developments, rather than binding them to their epoch only. That leads to a shift from an “As if you were there” to a “there is here” approach for our exhibition design. Several of our recent (and upcoming) projects embody this philosophy. To discover more, read our latest newsletter: https://lnkd.in/eep_sRiU #exhibitiondesign #transhistoricalspace #spacefornewthinking

“Whether you’re eight or eighty, you want your world to work for you.” This quote from the “Unlimited by Design” exhibition at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York encapsulates the spirit of universal design. The same conditions for everyone, no matter their age, rather than special solutions for the select few. But what is behind the term “universal design”? How does the approach, which is at once both innovative and universal, address the challenges of demographic change? Read More at https://lnkd.in/gk8mxavQ

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