Search for dissertations about: "Museum Exhibitions"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 15 swedish dissertations containing the words Museum Exhibitions.

  2. 1. The Ambivalent Potentiality of Vulnerability : Museum Pedagogy in Exhibitions on Difficult Matters and its Ethical Implications

    Author : Katrine Tinning; Pedagogik; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Museum pedagogy; Exhibitions on Difficult Matters; vulnerability; History didactics; Relational Pedagogy; Dark Heritage; Difficult Knowledge; Museum Education; Museum Management; Museum Studies; Museum Ethics; Difficult Heritage; Museology;

    Abstract : The aim of this dissertation is to critically investigate and problematize how museum exhibitions on Difficult Matters, like war and sexual violence, can be designed in order to contribute to teaching-learning relations between museum and visitor, which may transform existing perceptions of self, others, and the world and evoke a deepened sense of responsibility in the viewers, i.e. READ MORE

  4. 2. Towards Living Exhibitions

    Author : Gustav Taxén; KTH; []
    Keywords : Cooperative Design; Museum Exhibitions; Technology; Learning;

    Abstract : This thesis introduces the concept of living exhibitions:continuously evolving museum exhibitions that are cooperativelydeveloped and evaluated by teams of museum professionals andvisitor representatives. The author argues that the livingexhibition design process should draw its inspiration frommultiple resources, including current research on museumlearning, interaction principles and technology. READ MORE

  5. 3. Exhibition enterprising : six cases of realisation from idea to institution

    Author : Katja Lindqvist; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Exhibitions project management; Entrepreneurhip; Museum techniques; Exhibitions; Konstutställningar; Utställningar; Museologi; Projektadministration;

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  6. 4. Rewinding Internationalism. An Exhibitionary Inquiry on the Political Imaginary

    Author : Nick Aikens; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; exhibitions; the curatorial; the political imaginary; internationalism; the 1990s;

    Abstract : ‘Rewinding Internationalism: An Exhibitionary Inquiry on the Political Imaginary’ investigates the relationship between exhibition making, processes of inquiry and the political. The project originates from, and takes place through, my own practice as a curator and aims to articulate how this relationship can be understood as mutually generative. READ MORE

  7. 5. Travelling objects : modernity and materiality in British Colonial travel literature about Africa

    Author : Nicklas Hållen; Heidi Hansson; Stefan Helgesson; Tim Youngs; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; travel literature; Africa; modernity; materiality; material objects; things; commodity form; commodity culture; postcolonialism; Homi Bhabha; museums; exhibitions; colonialism; geography; space; trade; ethnography; the book; ambivalence; subject-object relations; fetishism; John Speke; Verney Cameron; Henry Stanley; Mary Kingsley; Ewart Grogan; Constance Larymore; Mary Hall; English language; Engelska språket; Literature; litteraturvetenskap; English literature; Comparative literature; Historia;

    Abstract : This study examines the functions of objects in a selection of British colonial travel accounts about Africa. The works discussed were published between 1863 and 1908 and include travelogues by John Hanning Speke, Verney Lovett Cameron, Henry Morton Stanley, Mary Henrietta Kingsley, Ewart Scott Grogan, Mary Hall and Constance Larymore. READ MORE