Design and Education
School of Architecture, Design and Environment, University of
Plymouth and Plymouth City Museum and Archives: Tuesday 17th May
2011
This event, hosted by University Plymouth, and the Design
Knowledge Research Group in partnership with Plymouth City Museum
and Archives is a one-day conference to coincide with an
exhibition in Peninsula Arts Gallery. The symposium will detail
notions of heritage, place-making, museum and university
connections.
Introduction
Is the best defence to funding cuts to accelerate the drive to
think less about museums as places where things are kept, and
more about them as places where interactive learning takes place,
playing a role in a wider civic, social and economic context? Are
we now shifting into an era where we move away from designing for
people and towards designing with people, through active
co-creation, where people are active participants in the process
rather than passive test subjects or observers? And can we go
further towards the emerging practice, towards designing by
people? How can our museums and universities facilitate this?
What can be the radical, contemporary strategies that release the
historical perspectives of the architectures of the museum and
refocus them towards different connections and how can the design
of museums and the design of experiences contribute to this?
This conference will follow several of these themes and will give
current focus to the following:
- How would government funding be used to encourage museums to
seek out more self-supporting governance models, and build the
skills, leadership and confidence that will enable them to
succeed as economically sustainable parts of the cultural
economy.
- How can museums see themselves primarily as open spaces for
sharing learning where the public, rather than passively observe,
can meet, participate and converse - and where after the visit,
the conversation continues through the use of digital technology
- What scholarship and expertise levels can be embedded in some
institutions and shared better and gaps identified. How can the
sharing of access to all publicly supported databases work?
- How can museums work and collaborate with, partners who bring
the most public benefit, including commercial, social and
educational organisations.
The conference seeks diverse responses from a broad range of
disciplines. Conference will run in conjunction with an
Exhibition at the Peninsula Arts Gallery featuring the work of
twelve architects and designers and their responses to Plymouth
City Museum and Archives. The conference proceedings will be
published. Conference publication will come afterward and
selected authors will be asked for a commitment to deliver a book
chapter within 90 days of their return home from the conference.
This book will allow people to expand and improve their papers
with new insights and ideas based on the conference conversation.
The publication will be guest edited and published by Imprint
Academic.
Key speakers from a range of practice-based and academic
backgrounds include:
Glen Adamson: Victorian and Albert Museum, London
Lucy Bullivant: Architect and Curator
Peter Higgins: Architect and Designer 'Land Design'
Neil Leach: Architectural and Cultural Critic
Bill Moggeridge: Director of Cooper Hewitt, NYC
Cabinet: Connection and Collection: Architecture, Design and
Education: is hosted by the Design Knowledge Group, University of
Plymouth. The conveners are, Peter Quinn Davis, Roberto Fraquelli
Submission deadline for abstracts: December 20th 2010
Notification: February 30th 2011
Please send abstracts of no more than 300-words and a short CV
via email to Lynne Saunders, School of Architecture, Design and
Environment, University of Plymouth: L.C.Saunders@plymouth.ac.uk
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