34. Experiencing gallery architecture

Experiencing Gallery Architecture is concerned with the way people engage with museum and gallery spaces. How do visitors experience and navigate space? How is sound art, live art, performance, participatory and digital art accommmodated? How are the interiors of galleries and their learning areas being designed? What kind of community consultation has been effective in relation…

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Experiencing Gallery Architecture is concerned with the way people engage with museum and gallery spaces. How do visitors experience and navigate space? How is sound art, live art, performance, participatory and digital art accommmodated? How are the interiors of galleries and their learning areas being designed? What kind of community consultation has been effective in relation to new or renewed architecture?

The contributors to this issue have responded to these questions and more, with reference to practices and challenges faced in different contexts.

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Editor’s introduction view comments on Editor’s introduction

Karen Raney
Editor of Engage Journal (2000–2014)
Lisa Jacques

Learning Officer, Contemporary Art at Leicester City Council
Image : Stealth Day. Diversions 2013. New Walk Museum and Art Gallery.

Mr Duchamp said we could play here view comments on Mr Duchamp said we could play here

Lisa Jacques
Learning Officer, Contemporary Art at Leicester City Council
Hugo Worthy

Exhibitions Officer, Contemporary Art at Leicester City Council
Cristina Federica Colombo

Temporary Research Fellow, Politecnico di Milano, Department of Architecture and Urban Studies
Image : Michelangelo Pistoletto, Love Difference, Piazza del Plebiscito, Naples 2007. Photo by: Cristina F. Colombo.

Interiors for art exhibiting spaces or exhibited spaces? view comments on Interiors for art exhibiting spaces or exhibited spaces?

Cristina Federica Colombo
Temporary Research Fellow, Politecnico di Milano, Department of Architecture and Urban Studies
Julia Bryan

Senior Education Manager, Museum of Liverpool
Image : Children playing in the Little Liverpool Gallery’s water interactive: Liverpuddles. Photo: Mark McNulty

Big, shiny, transport and animals consultation for a museum to inspire view comments on Big, shiny, transport and animals consultation for a museum to inspire

Julia Bryan
Senior Education Manager, Museum of Liverpool
Ros Croker

Participation Project Manager, National Maritime Museum & Young Roots Project Coordinator, Centre of the Cell, Queen Mary University London
Image : School children measuring their personal sightlines, ICA workshop run by Ros Croker, 2013

You produce space view comments on You produce space

Ros Croker
Participation Project Manager, National Maritime Museum & Young Roots Project Coordinator, Centre of the Cell, Queen Mary University London
Andrew McNiven

Artist/Lecturer: Senior Research Fellow in Visual Cultures, Zeppelin Universität, Friedrichshafen.
Image : dealised Portrait of a Courtesan as Flora, (Lucrezia Borgia), Bartolomeo Veneto (c. 1520-25), Städel Museum. Laser print, 13 x 10 cms, 2011. Photo: Andrew McNiven.

The eyes see what the ears hear: dissonance between looking at and listening to objects and spaces view comments on The eyes see what the ears hear: dissonance between looking at and listening to objects and spaces

Andrew McNiven
Artist/Lecturer: Senior Research Fellow in Visual Cultures, Zeppelin Universität, Friedrichshafen.
Kenn Taylor

Creative Producer and Writer
Image : Spiral stair, Wellcome Collection development project. Photo: Wilkinson Eyre Architects.

A design for learning view comments on A design for learning

Kenn Taylor
Creative Producer and Writer
Image : St Mary’s pupil documenting the surrounding buildings. Photo: Kettle’s Yard.

SpaceMakers at Kettle’s Yard view comments on SpaceMakers at Kettle’s Yard

Rosie O’Donovan
Learning and Engagement Officer, Kettle’s Yard
Henrike Plegge

Educator, researcher and lecturer
From cellar to centre Gallery education rooms in the German context view comments on From cellar to centre Gallery education rooms in the German context

Henrike Plegge
Educator, researcher and lecturer
Marianne Mulvey

Curator, writer, educator

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