Exhibition Design and Museum Practice - Demo

The exhibition design is a creative process that consists in moving from the idea of an exhibition to its display and communication.
As a multidisciplinary and collective activity, it brings together those responsible for determining the content of an exhibition – museum management, curators, exhibition curators  - and those involved its practical realization – scenographers or exhibition designers.
The ECAL and the HEAD Geneva offer trainings in different branches involved in exhibition design: visual communication, interior architecture and industrial and product design.
Since September 2006, they are combining their efforts to carry out applied research in exhibition design following two complementary lines of research:

• Experimentation: by setting up research workshops with the aim of testing concrete and innovative solutions to questions raised within contemporary exhibition design. Three workshops took place.
• The state of the art: by gathering and diffusing original knowledge, theoretical and practical, on the contributions of design in contemporary museum practice. Interviews with ten professionals (museum directors, curators, exhibition designers)
  

The results of the project will be available on the website since January 2009.

Leading House ECAL – Lausanne
Reasearch Team Julien Ayer / Luc Bergeron / Jean-François Blanc (project leader) / Audrey Devantay / Lionel Tardy / Nicole Udry
Partners Haute école d’art et de design de Genève (Head-Ge) > Jacques-Xavier Aymon / Mathilde Brenner / Lysianne Léchot Hirt / Carlo Parmigiani / Magali Junet
Financing Funded by the HES-SO (University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland)
Calender September 2006 to December 2008
Website www.design-museographie.ch
Photography ECAL / HEAD



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