Schedule
PhD Colloquium
Friday, 25 April

Schedule
PhD Colloquium
Friday, 25 April 
9:15 – 9:45           Registration
9:45 – 10:00         Welcome
10:00 – 12:00       APPROACHING

• From Tutankhamun to the First Emperor: A Narratological Analysis of Exhibition Design at the British Museum, David Francis (University College London)

• Think – Feel – Do: Designing for Visitor Experiences, Toni Roberts (RMIT Melbourne)

• When the Designer Designs their Own Exhibition: Thoughts about the Scenography of the Retrospective Exhibition of Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec, “Momentané”, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, 26 April – 1 September 2013., Brigitte Auziol (Université de Nîmes/Université d’Avignon et des Pays du Vaucluse)

• The Exhibition as Experience, Donna Loveday (Design Museum, London)

12:00 – 13:30         Lunch
13:30 – 15:30         STAGING

• Between Bodies: Designing for Material Proximity in Medical Exhibitions, Ane Pilegaard Sørensen (Medical Museion, Copenhagen)

• Shop the Museum: Designing Exhibitions about Consumer Culture, Mario Schulze (University of Zurich)

• Exhibiting the Norwegian Roma: Discussing the Visitor as Scenographic Material, Annelise Bothner-By (Oslo National Academy of the Arts)

• Polish Exhibition Design: Reframing the Past and Designing the Future on the 30th Anniversary of the Polish People’s Republic, Kasia Jezowska (London)

15:30 – 16:00         Coffee
16:00 – 17:30         PERFORMING

• Between Exhibiting Design and Designing Exhibitions: Notes from the Field of Graphic Design, Maddalena Dalla Mura (Free University of Bolzano)

• The Exhibition as Speculative Design: Gillian Russell in conversation with Onkar Kular, Gillian Russell & Onkar Kular (Royal College of Art, London)

Call for Papers: Designing for Exhibitions

Exhibition design is a rich and varied field of practice and can be approached from a range of different perspectives including those of designers, institutions and audiences. Topics of discussion might range from questions of how design shapes the way content is represented and experienced in galleries, to investigations of individual design disciplines that are involved in the process of exhibition making such as architecture, interior design, scenography, exhibition graphics, digital media, lighting or sound design. 

This one-day colloquium, held in association with “Chaos at the Museum,” seeks to create a platform for the discussion of current PhD research in the area of exhibition design, and to initiate a dialogue on questions such as:

What is exhibition design, as practice and as outcome?
How and why is exhibition design changing?
Who are the designers, producers, makers, authors of an exhibition?
What is the role of design in museum and exhibition making?
What is the role of the designer?
How are these roles evolving with changing interpretation and display strategies?
What is the relationship between design and content, between design and object?
What is the relationship between the designer and the curator, the institution, the visitor?
How does exhibition design impact on the stories that are told and on the visitors’ experiences of these stories?


We invite PhD students and early career researchers, whose research addresses the topic of designing for exhibitions and museums, to submit proposals for short papers. We are aiming to create a day of presentations, conversations and exchange shaped by the interests and themes emerging from the submissions.

Key Dates
November 2013: Call for Papers
December 16, 2013: Abstracts due for submission
February 3, 2014: Notification of acceptance and information on the schedule for the day.

Abstracts
Abstracts should be no more than 250 words in length. Submissions should also include the title, author name, contact details and a short biography. The document should be emailed as word-file to: 
Jona Piehl at [email protected] by Monday, December 16, 2013.