04762 - Outfitting and Museography

Course contents

The acquisition of major historical and contemporary experiences in the assembly and the Museum Studies is preliminary and preparatory to the formulation of a coherent understanding, whose validity will be checked progettualmente giving 'meaning' to the objects, their relations with each other and to space.

The term 'exhibition', as well as with the definition specification for the Museography, will identify some specific areas of design architect. It is, in fact, very large areas that involve multiple disciplines: some linked to history as the preservation or archeology, other communication such as graphics or semiotics, to other more technological fields such as lighting or industrial design, even to other commercial areas such as marketing or product category.

The course aims to explore this field in the sense of considering the project scope of relationship between objects/subjects, surpassing the rigid classification of 'products' to be presented either the conventional distinction between container and content. The objects/subjects that make up the complexity of an exhibition space are brought into relation with each other, as well as with the context, through the 'path' as the means of narrative, evocative, allusive and through graphic communication as its necessary 'punctuation'. The exhibition is a journey 'ceremonial' in all respects, which gives exposure increases the 'theater' and 'spectacular' and at the same time, builds a logical-sequential through the elements of its composition: the pace, pause, the analogy, the dissonance, the pattern and its variation. The graphics is another key issue, not only for the educational function of ordering equipment to understanding acts educational exposure, but also because now more than ever, it is the task of transmitting the system identity of the event/exhibition space.

Readings/Bibliography

Basic texts

Arrigo Rudi. Architettura, restauro e allestimento, a cura di V. Pastor, S. Los e U. Tubini, Marsilio, Venezia 2011

S. Ranellucci, Allestimento museale in edifici monumentali, Edizioni Kappa, Roma 2005

F. Minissi, Il museo degli anni '80, Edizioni Kappa, Roma 1983

A. Huber,Il museo italiano. La trasformazione di spazi storici in spazi espositivi. Attualità dell'esperienza museografica degli anni '50, Edizioni Lybra Immagine, Milano 2005

Mostrare. L'allestimento in Italia dagli anni Venti agli anni Ottanta, a cura di S. Polano, Lybra Immagine, Milano, 1988

A. Lugli, Museologia, Editoriale Jaca Book, Milano 1992

V. Vercelloni, Museo e comunicazione culturale, Editoriale Jaca Book, Milano 1994

Architettura degli interni, a cura di Adriano Cornoldi, IL POLIGRAFO, Padova 2005

Gli interni nel progetto sull'esistente, a cura di Adriano Cornoldi, IL POLIGRAFO, Padova 2007

Detailed texts

Antonio Piva, Il museo: la coscienza lucida dell'ambiguità, Edizioni Lybra Immagine, Milano 2004

AA. VV., 73 MUSEI, Edizioni Lybra Immagine, Milano 2007

L. Basso Peressut, Il Museo Moderno Architettura e Museologia da Perret a Kahn, Edizioni Lybra Immagine, Milano 2005

I fantasmi e le cose. La messa in scena della storia nella comunicazione museale, a cura di M. C. Ruggieri Tricoli, Edizioni Lybra Immagine, Milano 2000

Complementary texts

A. Malraux, Il museo dei musei, Leonardo Milano 1994

R. Bodei, La vita delle cose, Laterza, Bari 2009

U. Eco, La vertigine della lista, Bompiani, Milano 2009

J. Hillman, L'anima dei luoghi, Rizzoli, Milano 2004

Storia della bellezza, a cura di U. Eco, Bompiani, Milano 2004

Storia della bruttezza, a cura di U. Eco, Bompiani, Milano 2007

Teaching methods

The teaching of the course follows a path bibliography divided into the basic texts, detailed text and additional texts, a series of ex cathedra lessons and experience design. In the lessons we will analyze the fundamental issues of discipline and performed comparative analysis of case studies in reference to the theme of the exercise design. In particular, the lessons will be set in a seminar, in order to encourage staff and dialectical critical contribution of the students will be simultaneously monitored the status of the project process: for these reasons, and for a more effective performance of the design experience, the frequency the course is recommended.

Assessment methods

Students will be asked to perform a design experience, simulating the reorganization of the Archaeological Museum of Cesena and his production in order to advance in the first instance, a reflection on the subject-specific and programmatic themes of the assembly and Museography.

The project will build on the construction of a narrative and complex relationships that exist among the elements, involving them in the equipment is also graphic and visual communication. The project will be led by the means of architectural drawing taking into account the graphical techniques most appropriate to the theme. The graphical and analytical materials necessary for the preparation of the project will be provided during the course.

It will be organized according to students enrolled in at least one visit to a museum or an exhibition of primary importance.

The judgment of the examination will be determined not only by the quality of the exercise presented by the knowledge of the topics covered during class and referring to the bibliography.

Teaching tools

A premise of each unique reflection on the themes of the assembly and Museography are asked a few preliminary remarks on the genesis and the birth of the 'museum':

• signs of historical, cultural and anthropological;

• evolution and transformation of the characteristics and spatial environment 'museum' in relation to the changes that have affected the ideological character, over time, the institution-museum;

• description of the gradual shift from function 'only - the original - a feature' multiple '- the present - and how this transformation has affected over time, the typological structure, spatial and architectural museum.

It also investigated how the museum to exhibition their own 'closed' and the museum to exhibition 'open', as well as the specific themes of the museums themselves:

• archaeological museums;

• art museums;

• science museums;

• etc..

These features provide the primary information for the creation of a meta-model and functional design of the museum.

We analyze and illustrate their instrumentally issues of planning, organization and arrangement of space and system access/paths in the context of new construction or reorganization of existing museums and reuse for the new destination, the complexity of the services the museum - as a 'body' architecture - provides or should provide to users, the flexible use of space as an indispensable factor of museum design. Analysis is also presented, the criteria and sorting techniques, and exposure, highlighting the way in which the constituent elements of the display, combined with their mutual 'given' and their relationships with the environment, help determine the museum space.

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