http://www.maddamura.eu/maddamura design, museums, etc. Mon, 21 Jun 2010 08:56:28 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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/ photo: © Design Museum Holon On January 31, 2010, the Design Museum in Holon, Israel, will be inaugurated. Actually, the building will open its doors, while another six weeks will be needed for the opening of the first exhibition. During my PhD research, on October 27, 2009, I had the opportunity to ... http://www.maddamura.eu/maddamura/2010/01/25/design_museum_holon_galit_gaon/ Some months ago, I found online and read an interesting paper by Esther Cleven, curator of the Graphic Design Museum of Breda and professor of design history at the University of Amsterdam (Universiteit van Amsterdam), Added Value and the Museum. Developing a Museum for Graphic Design in De Beyerd, Breda, ... http://www.maddamura.eu/maddamura/2010/01/20/graphic_design_museum_breda_esther_cleven/ The year 2010 begins with an important news: Bill Moggridge, a founder of the design firm IDEO, has been named director of the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution, in New York, to be effective by March 2010 – see the “New York Times” article. While it certainly marks a ... http://www.maddamura.eu/maddamura/2010/01/19/bill-moggridge-director-cooper-hewitt-museum/ In year 2000, the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York organized and presented Design Culture Now, the first edition of the triennial event which aims at providing «present critical overviews of key developments in American design» (National Design Triennial). In the first edition, more than eighty projects were selected ... http://www.maddamura.eu/maddamura/2010/01/18/the-strange-case-of-mr-schwarzcould-museums-of-design-help-changing-his-mind/ Maddalena Dalla Mura, Design in Museums: Towards an Integrative Approach. The Potential of Science and Technology Museums, in "Journal of Design History", 22/3, 2009, pp. 259-270 Abstract: To deal with design in museums today means not only to look at well-established design museums but also to integrate different resources and explore ... http://www.maddamura.eu/maddamura/2009/09/20/design-in-museums-article-journal-design-histor/ In the article Establishing the Manifesto. Art Histories in the Nineteenth-century museum by Christopher Whitehead which I already mentioned and quoted, the author also offered some recent cases where museological and curatorial projects might be read and interpreted as agents of “boundary work”. Among these, he reported about two exhibitions ... http://www.maddamura.eu/maddamura/2009/07/26/design-museum-stretches-controversies-identity/