INFORMAL LEARNING RESEARCH SEMINAR
Elaine Heumann Gurian
Monday, 19 November 2001
4-5 p.m.
**Function Follows Form: How Mixed-Used Spaces in Museums Help Build
Community**
There are many subtle, interrelated and essentially unexamined
ingredients that allow museums to play an enhanced role in the
building of community and our collective civic life. When thinking
about museums and community, the professional response has focused on
the expansion of public programs, collections and exhibitions,
ignoring the potential for the physical spaces to be catalysts
themselves. To redress this omission, this presentation concentrates
on three elements that have been largely overlooked by our field -
space, space mix, and unexpected use - and attempts to show that if
museums paid overt attention to these, they might further enhance the
museum's role in community building.
Hosted by the
CENTER FOR INFORMAL LEARNING & SCHOOLS (CILS) at
King's College London, Department of Education & Professional Studies
Franklin Wilkins Building, Waterloo Bridge Wing (Cornwall House), Room 2/1
A map is available at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/maps/waterloo.html.
Elaine Heumann Gurian is currently a consultant/advisor to a number
of museums and visitor centres that are beginning, building or
reinventing themselves. Her clients include the National Museum of
Australia, the Jewish Museum Berlin and the Government of Puerto
Rico's proposed children's museum, PRISMA. In recent past she has
worked with the following projects: Baltimore Children's Museum, the
Canadian Museum of Civilisation, the Detroit African American Museum,
the Dubai Municipality Children's Museum and Te Papa, the Museum of
New Zealand. She has also served at the United States Holocaust
Memorial Museum and at the Smithsonian Institution.
Save the Date: The next CILS Informal Learning Research Seminar will
be Wednesday, 12 December 2001, 4-5 pm., Wayne LaBar, Vice President,
Family Experiences, Liberty Science Center, New Jersey, USA
RSVP to Kirsten Ellenbogen, [log in to unmask] or 020-7848-3090
*Please pass on or post the attached flyer.*
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