TY - JOUR
T1 - Digital exhibition design
T2 - boundary crossing, Intermediary Design Deliverables and processes of consent
AU - Vavoula, Giasemi
AU - Mason, Marco
N1 - Funding Information:
The research leading to these results has received funding from the People Programme (Marie Curie Actions) of the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme FP7/2007?2013/ under REA grant agreement n? PIOF-GA-2011-302799. The article reflects only the authors' views and the Union is not liable for any use that may be made of the information contained therein. The funding source had no involvement in study design; the collection, analysis and interpretation of data; the writing of the report; or the decision to submit the article for publication. Giasemi Vavoula wishes to acknowledge support provided through a period of one semester's academic study leave granted by the School of Museum Studies, University of Leicester, UK. Marco Mason would like to thank Professor John Durant, Outgoing Host Supervisor of the Marie Curie Fellowship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
PY - 2017/5/27
Y1 - 2017/5/27
N2 - We present an exploratory case study of the nature and role of Intermediary Design Deliverables (IDDs) in digital exhibition design. Specifically, how they mediate boundary crossing across museum-designer teams; and facilitate the evolution of a shared exhibition-idea by mediating future and embodying past processes of consent. We bring together literatures on intermediary objects, boundary objects and design representations to conceptualise IDDs as representations of an evolving shared exhibition-idea and, thereby, as progressive objectifications of the digital exhibition. Through the case study, we demonstrate how deliverables capture progress in the exploration of the design space by embodying the consents that propel the exploration. The role of the museum team in these processes of consent (and thus in the production of the deliverable) is emphasised, suggesting a shift of focus for museum teams from appraising digital products to contributing to the digital exhibition design process.
AB - We present an exploratory case study of the nature and role of Intermediary Design Deliverables (IDDs) in digital exhibition design. Specifically, how they mediate boundary crossing across museum-designer teams; and facilitate the evolution of a shared exhibition-idea by mediating future and embodying past processes of consent. We bring together literatures on intermediary objects, boundary objects and design representations to conceptualise IDDs as representations of an evolving shared exhibition-idea and, thereby, as progressive objectifications of the digital exhibition. Through the case study, we demonstrate how deliverables capture progress in the exploration of the design space by embodying the consents that propel the exploration. The role of the museum team in these processes of consent (and thus in the production of the deliverable) is emphasised, suggesting a shift of focus for museum teams from appraising digital products to contributing to the digital exhibition design process.
KW - boundary crossing
KW - collaborative design
KW - Digital exhibition design
KW - Commons exhibition
KW - Intermediary Design Deliverables
KW - processes of consent
KW - Emerging Issues
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U2 - 10.1080/09647775.2017.1282323
DO - 10.1080/09647775.2017.1282323
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85010991412
SN - 0964-7775
VL - 32
SP - 251
EP - 271
JO - Museum Management and Curatorship
JF - Museum Management and Curatorship
IS - 3
ER -