Il museo relazionale. Riflessioni ed esperienze europee

I contributi raccolti nel volume affrontano più aspetti della vita del museo, tutti però coinvolti dalle dimensioni della relazione: le filosofie e le tecniche di comunicazione culturale, i concetti di un appropriato marketing museale, le strategie di costruzione e di veicolazione dell'immagine, le logiche organizzative, i modelli educativi, l'utilizzo delle nuove tecnologie.- Indice #5- Una nuova edizione del Museo relazionale #9- Introduzione Perché il museo relazionale ?, Simona Bodo e Marco Demarie #11- Prefazione alla nuova edizione, Simona Bodo #25- Nuovi valori, nuove voci, nuove narrative: l’evoluzione dei modelli comunicativi nei musei d’arte, Eilean Hooper-Greenhill #29- Ripensare il museo d’arte come risorsa educativa: marketing e curatela rivisitati in risposta a pubblici complessi, Eric Moody #69- Costruzione e veicolazione dell’immagine nei musei d’arte: verso nuovi concetti di marketing museale, Fiona McLean #89- Leggibilità e accesso: le tecnologie dell’informazione e della comunicazione al servizio del museo d’arte, Anne Fahy #109- Politiche del patrimonio e marketing museale in Germania. Prospettive dall’esperienza di Colonia, Andreas Johann Wiesand #129- Musei d’arte e politiche di sviluppo del turismo urbano nel caso francese, Jean Michel Tobelem #167- Per un’ “immagine sostenibile”. Modelli organizzativi, professionalità, efficacia comunicativa nel caso dei musei di Glasgow, Julian Spalding #195- I musei e la lotta alla disuguaglianza sociale: ruoli, responsabilità, resistenze, Richard Sandell #21

Museums and the ‘new museology’ : theory, practice and organisational change

The widening of roles and expectations within cultural policy discourses has been a challenge to museum workers throughout Great Britain. There has been an expectation that museums are changing from an ‘old’ to a ‘new museology’ that has shaped museum functions and roles. This paper outlines the limitations of this perceived transition as museum services confront multiple exogenous and endogenous expectations, opportunities, pressures and threats. Findings from 23 publically funded museum services across England, Scotland and Wales are presented to explore the roles of professional and hierarchical differentiation, and how there were organisational and managerial limitations to the practical application of the ‘new museology’. The ambiguity surrounding policy, roles and practice also highlighted that museum workers were key agents in interpreting, using and understanding wide-ranging policy expectations. The practical implementation of the ‘new museology’ is linked to the values held by museum workers themselves and how they relate it to their activities at the ground level

Artificial cell research as a field that connects chemical, biological and philosophical questions

This review article discusses the interdisciplinary nature and implications of artificial cell research. It starts from two historical theories: Gánti's chemoton model and the autopoiesis theory by Maturana and Varela. They both explain the transition from chemical molecules to biological cells. These models exemplify two different ways in which disciplines of chemistry, biology and philosophy can profit from each other. In the chemoton model, conclusions from one disciplinary approach are relevant for the other disciplines. In contrast, the autopoiesis model itself (rather than its conclusions) is transferred from one discipline to the other. The article closes by underpinning the relevance of artificial cell research for philosophy with reference to the on-going philosophical debates on emergence, biological functions and biocentrism

Playing Games with Tito:Designing Hybrid Museum Experiences for Critical Play

This article brings together two distinct, but related perspectives on playful museum experiences: Critical play and hybrid design. The article explores the challenges involved in combining these two perspectives, through the design of two hybrid museum experiences that aimed to facilitate critical play with/in the collections of the Museum of Yugoslavia and the highly contested heritage they represent. Based on reflections from the design process as well as feedback from test users, we describe a series of challenges: Challenging the norms of visitor behaviour, challenging the role of the artefact, and challenging the curatorial authority. In conclusion, we outline some possible design strategies to address these challenges