http://www.maddamura.eu/maddamura design, museums, etc. Thu, 01 Dec 2011 12:06:43 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Recently, two articles have appeared in designobserver which – with totally different perspectives (that of a curator and that of a critic and visitor) – look through two renown New York institutions (MoMA and Cooper Hewitt), raising thoughtful reflections on the role and use of contemporary design museums. The first ... http://www.maddamura.eu/maddamura/2011/09/30/observing-ny-museums-via-designobserver/ «... designers [...] are judged more by their hits than by their misses. [...] Designing without fault is impossible,» wrote Henry Petroski in his Small Things Considered. Why There Is No Perfect Design, 2003. Many of those who are interested in design and museums, sooner or later, wonder how a show ... http://www.maddamura.eu/maddamura/2011/06/03/design-failures-and-museums/ Archiving Design Organisations: A Design Archives seminar 6 June 2011, University of Brighton Curators, scholars and students meet on June 6, 2011, to discuss the issues of “Archiving Design Organisations”. Funded by the Design History Society, the seminar is held at the University of Brighton, whose Design Archives hold the archives design ... http://www.maddamura.eu/maddamura/2011/05/15/design-archives-and-archiving-design/ «This exhibition provides a platform of enquiry that offers a clear and simple reading, for further critical studies, taking on board something which for Gavina was always a necessary condition: keeping up with his time.» With these words Elena Brigi and Daniele Vincenzi present the exhibition, of which they are curators, ... http://www.maddamura.eu/maddamura/2010/11/06/gavina-lampi-di-designexhibition-mambo-bologna/ “Social change” seems to be the key word, and key issue, for design museums. The next European Museum Network Conference promoted by the Vitra Design Museum (MUSCON 2010), taking place in London at the end of October, not only aims at enhancing and improving connections and cooperative relationships between museums ... http://www.maddamura.eu/maddamura/2010/10/03/museums-design-and-social-change/ Journalist Edan Corkill, in “The Japan Times”, offers some reflections on what a design museum in Japan could be. Writing about the exhibition Design: '60s vs. '00s, organized by D-8, the Japan Design Association Meeting, held at Mikimoto Hall in Tokyo's Ginza district, Corkill not only describes the sections of ... http://www.maddamura.eu/maddamura/2010/09/20/reflections-on-a-design-museum-for-japan/ I recently visited the V&A Museum of Childhood in London, Bethnal Green. Compared to “children museums”, where the participatory quality and the active engagements of kids is predominant, the Museum of Childhood has a more complex nature due to its history and to the history of its collections. In fact, ... http://www.maddamura.eu/maddamura/2010/06/21/va-childhood-museum-london/ In recent years, design museums, design in museums, and museum design are all topics that have attracted growing interest from scholars and professionals: on the one hand, the issues related to the musealisation of design and to design museums, on the other hand the issues raised by exhibition design and ... http://www.maddamura.eu/maddamura/2010/02/25/on-exhibition-design-design-journal/ Cases of science and technology museums that have pursued an explicit and strategic policy of collecting and exhibiting industrial arts and design are quite rare. One can mention the Národní technické muzeum (National Technical Museum) in Prague, which comprises collections of Industrial design and Consumer industry – the Museum ... http://www.maddamura.eu/maddamura/2010/02/22/artefacts-series/ © photo Canada Science and Technology Museum, Ottawa In 2009 the Canada Science and Technology Museum in Ottawa started a programme and strategy to collect and exhibit industrial design. While the programme is still under development, some points seem to be quite clear. As far as can be learned from the ... http://www.maddamura.eu/maddamura/2010/02/19/canada-science-and-technology-museum-ottawa/