Description
Book SynopsisExhibitions as Research contends that museums would be more attractive to both researchers and audiences if we consider exhibitions as knowledge-in-the-making rather than platforms for disseminating already-established insights. Analysing the theoretical underpinnings and practical challenges of such an approach, the book questions whether it is possible to exhibit knowledge that is still in the making, whilst also considering which concepts of knowledge apply to such a format. The book also considers what the role of audience might be if research is extended into the exhibition itself.
Providing concrete case studies of projects where museum professionals have approached exhibition making as a knowledge-generating process, the book considers tools of application and the challenges that might emerge from pursuing such an approach. Theoretically, the volume analyses the emergence of exhibitions as research as part of recent developments within materialit
Table of Contents
Introduction: Exhibitions as research - Peter Bjerregaard
Part I Cross-disciplinary collaboration
Chapter 1 Sketches for a methodology on exhibition research - Henrik Treimo
Chapter 2 Joining transdisciplinary forces to revive the past: Establishing a Viking Garden at the Natural History Museum, Oslo - Anneleen Kool and Axel Dalberg Poulsen
Chapter 3 Ethnography, exhibition practices and undiscipined encounters: The generative work of amulets in London - Nathalia Brichet and Frida Hastrup
Part II Sensing knowledge
Chapter 4 Exhibitions as philosophical carpentry: On object-oriented exhibitio- making - Adam Bencard
Chapter 5 Museum objects in the marketplace - Kari K. Aarrestad
Chapter 6 Exhibition-making as aesthetic enquiry - Peter Bjerregaard
Chapter 7 Object-spaces? Sensory engagements and museum experiments - Elizabeth Hallam
Part III Collaborating with audiences
Chapter 8 Exhibitions, engagement and provocation: From Future Animals to Guerilla Archaeology - Jacqui Mulville
Chapter 9 Developing and promoting research in a museum thirdspace: Breaking barriers where people walk - Ellen T. Bøe, Hege I. Hollund, Grete Lillehammer, Bente Ruud, Paula U. Sandvik
Chapter 10 Visitor dialogue and participation as knowledge generating practices in exhibition work: What can museum experts learn from it? - Guro Jørgensen
Chapter 11 How the exhibition became co-produced: Attunement and participatory ontologies for museums - Helen Graham
