Dear Colleagues,
Different sources continue to come to mind on aspects of exhibition design.
The note from Lily Diaz reminds me of Lily's own doctoral dissertation.
It addresses many issues of exhibition design.
The note below appears on the UIAH web site. A wonderful project.
Best regards,
Ken Friedman
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http://www2.uiah.fi/julkaisut/kirjat/a37.html
ART, FACT and ARTIFACT PRODUCTION
Design Research and Multidisciplinary Collaboration
Lily Díaz-Kommonen
This dissertation analyzes how knowledge is produced by the different
actors working together at the intersection where arts, humanities,
and the new media meet. We are presented with two complementing
voices: one building theory of how art, facts and artifacts are
produced, and the other reporting the process that contributed to
those insights the collaborative design effort of creating the Raisio
Digital Archive, which gathers representations of archaeological
finds and assorted material culture of Southwestern Finland, from the
periods of the late Iron Age to the early Middle Ages.
"The work has a design activity as its empirical root. The author
uses activity theory to weave together history and theories of
design, art, and anthropology. The text illustrates the kind of
interdisciplinary work that computer aided communications
increasingly enables. It is a demonstration of what artists,
archaeologists, and designers can teach each other while excelling in
their own disciplines."
Klaus Krippendorff, Gregory Bateson Professor of Communication, University
of Pennsylvania.
"The study presents design as an activity that is best conceived of
as intersecting with art and the substance domain of the system to be
designed (in this case, archaeology)."
Yrjö Engeström
Professor of Communication, University of California, San Diego;
Director of the Center for Activity Theory and Developmental Work
Research, University of Helsinki, Finland.
Lily Díaz-Kommonen is a Senior Researcher at the Media Lab UIAH. She
has a B.A. in anthropology from Brandeis University and a M.F.A. in
Computer Arts from the School of Visual Arts in New York.
2002
271 pages, paperback, B&W illustration.
ISBN 951-558-107-9
University of Art and Design Helsinki
26,00 euros
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