How well does the entrance to your museum welcome visitors? Can ideas from retail, gaming or performance help? And what role does media (and digital media) play within successful threshold spaces?
The AHRC 'Transforming Thresholds' Research Network has been investigating how best to make use of entrance spaces in museums to better support visitors.
In our FREE Festival (on 28-29 April, at the University of Leicester), we will mark the end of the project by bringing together fresh perspectives on entrance spaces to museums and other public buildings.
Contributors will include:
Elaine Heumann Gurian
Katherine Skellon (Event Communications)
Angus Deuchars (Arup Acoustics)
David Burden (Daden)
Mark Howells (Forth Digital)
Kim Schroder (Roskilde University)
Suzanne MacLeod (University of Leicester)
And workshops led by:
Tracy Harwood (Retail Lab, De Montfort University)
Angelina Russo (Canberra University)
Erik Kristiansen (Roskilde University)
The event is FREE, but we have limited spaces available so please book a place using our Eventbrite page:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/transforming-thresholds-festival-tickets-10330395491
Please also note that there are also a number of travel bursaries available to help make the event affordable and accessible.
For more information about the activities and resources from the Transforming Thresholds Network, please see our project blog http://transformingthresholds.weebly.com/
or email Dr Ruth Page ([log in to unmask]).
Many thanks,
Ross
Dr Ross Parry
Academic Director (College of Arts, Humanities and Law)
Senior Lecturer (School of Museum Studies),
University of Leicester,
Museum Studies Building, 19 University Road, Leicester, LE1 7RF, UK
t: 0116 252 3963 e: [log in to unmask]
w: http://www.le.ac.uk/ms/contactus/rossparry.html
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