scholarly journals Wonderful Worth & Worthy Wonder: The revival of a forgotten concept to strike a balance in technological exhibition design

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Charlotte Langridge
Keyword(s):  
Narrative Analysis ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Exhibition Design ◽  
Pulitzer Prize ◽  
Relevant Today ◽  
Physical Context ◽  
Political Forces ◽  
Museum Exhibitions ◽  
Current Shift ◽  
Role Demands

<p>As museums develop their roles as social and political forces, the role of the exhibition designer has evolved and become more complex. The new role demands increased consideration as new technologies impact the demand for recreational learning experiences (Lake-Hammond & White, 2015). Nearly thirty years ago Pulitzer Prize-winning author Stephen Greenblatt introduced the terms ‘resonance and wonder’ to describe the viewer’s experience and connection to the exhibits. Greenblatt asserted both ‘resonance and wonder’ as essential to an exhibition experience but stressed the need for a balance between the two (1991). The significance of Greenblatt’s perspective has become more prominent with the current shift in museum exhibitions that engage technological forms of representation. This study asserts that Greenblatt’s argument continues to be relevant today, as museum professionals arbitrate the balances and imbalances posed between resonance, now interpreted as worth, and wonder. The terms were first defined through thematic analysis to identify consistent elements that produce the concepts and further applied to the narrative analysis on perspectives of technological integration in museums. Using the broader contemporary definitions of ‘wonder and worth’ this research then applied what was learned from the literature to a physical context by analysing use of wonder and worth in two current exhibitions; Te Papa’s 2015 “Gallipoli: Scale of Our War” and Cooper-Hewitt Design Museum’s 2014 interactive pen design. In doing so the main finding suggested that the balance of wonder and worth can be achieved through encouraging a human connection and empathy which can be extended with the use of new technologies that are appropriate for the intent of the exhibit. These findings were delivered in the form of a manifesto to facilitate the exhibition design process, encourage consideration for the balance between wonder and worth and lessen the stigma around technological representation in museums.</p>

scholarly journals Wonderful Worth & Worthy Wonder: The revival of a forgotten concept to strike a balance in technological exhibition design

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Charlotte Langridge
Keyword(s):  
Narrative Analysis ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Exhibition Design ◽  
Pulitzer Prize ◽  
Relevant Today ◽  
Physical Context ◽  
Political Forces ◽  
Museum Exhibitions ◽  
Current Shift ◽  
Role Demands

<p>As museums develop their roles as social and political forces, the role of the exhibition designer has evolved and become more complex. The new role demands increased consideration as new technologies impact the demand for recreational learning experiences (Lake-Hammond & White, 2015). Nearly thirty years ago Pulitzer Prize-winning author Stephen Greenblatt introduced the terms ‘resonance and wonder’ to describe the viewer’s experience and connection to the exhibits. Greenblatt asserted both ‘resonance and wonder’ as essential to an exhibition experience but stressed the need for a balance between the two (1991). The significance of Greenblatt’s perspective has become more prominent with the current shift in museum exhibitions that engage technological forms of representation. This study asserts that Greenblatt’s argument continues to be relevant today, as museum professionals arbitrate the balances and imbalances posed between resonance, now interpreted as worth, and wonder. The terms were first defined through thematic analysis to identify consistent elements that produce the concepts and further applied to the narrative analysis on perspectives of technological integration in museums. Using the broader contemporary definitions of ‘wonder and worth’ this research then applied what was learned from the literature to a physical context by analysing use of wonder and worth in two current exhibitions; Te Papa’s 2015 “Gallipoli: Scale of Our War” and Cooper-Hewitt Design Museum’s 2014 interactive pen design. In doing so the main finding suggested that the balance of wonder and worth can be achieved through encouraging a human connection and empathy which can be extended with the use of new technologies that are appropriate for the intent of the exhibit. These findings were delivered in the form of a manifesto to facilitate the exhibition design process, encourage consideration for the balance between wonder and worth and lessen the stigma around technological representation in museums.</p>

scholarly journals ENERGY RESOURCE-SAVING PLANT FOR EXTRACTION OF BIOLOGICALLY ACTIVE SUBSTANCES

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Abdullina ◽  
K. Valeev ◽  
R. Safin
Keyword(s):  
New Technologies ◽  
Energy Resource ◽  
Biologically Active Substances ◽  
Biologically Active ◽  
Wood Waste ◽  
Raw Material ◽  
Birch Bark ◽  
Resource Saving ◽  
Relevant Today ◽  
Active Substances

As know, all wood material is recycled only half, and the rest of it remains unused. In practice, wood waste is most often plowed or burned, at a time when such wood is a valuable natural raw material that can compensate for the needs of a number of sectors of the economy. In this regard, the problem of recycling waste from the woodworking industry is very relevant today. Wood waste contains a large amount of substances capable of exhibiting biological activity. In particular, such biologically active substances include betulin, which is found in birch bark, which, due to its many advantages, has found wide application in medical, perfumery, cosmetic, food and other industries. For the rational use of wood and wood materials, it is necessary to develop new technologies and equipment for processing wood into products that are in demand for mankind. The paper provides an overview of the processing of birch bark. The relevance and prospects of birch species as a raw material for the chemical industry have been established. An installation for obtaining biologically active substances from wood waste is presented.

scholarly journals Globalization: the New Challenges to the Sciences

2020 ◽  
pp. 511-528
Author(s):  
Oleg N. Yanitsky ◽  
Keyword(s):  
New Technologies ◽  
Active Agent ◽  
Living Environment ◽  
Biological Challenge ◽  
Political Crises ◽  
Leading Role ◽  
Business Politics ◽  
Political Forces ◽  
Hybrid War ◽  
Political Economic

Our world including Russia as well as all sciences have recently encountered with unprecedented critical situation. Actually, it’s already a hybrid war against humanity, and a technologically-constructed world is incapable to meet a couple of the above challenges. The interactions of the political, economic, social, climatic and biological processes are clearly showed that a mono-disciplinary method of global studies has been insufficient. The globalization should be investigated as an interdisciplinary phenomenon which is developing in the space– time parameters. Accordingly, humanity isn’t an object of their complex impact but as the active agent of their prevention. And this agent is a union of various sciences, political forces and civil organizations. If nowadays a biological challenge came to the forefront but tomorrow it may be replaced by the geopolitical or climatic issues. But up to now humanity rejects to recognize the natural forces are the same factor of global transformations as a business, politics, sciences and new technologies. It’s one more reason to see the current situation as the critical one. We have to understand that we aren’t in an economic or political crises but it’s a do crucial state of humanity and its living environment. Therefore, recently, our main goal not a sustainable development but the mobilization of all resources at hands in order to save humanity combines with critical comprehension of current global geopolitics and scientific and technological achievements. I’m deeply convinced that Russian sociology is able to play a leading role in that work.

scholarly journals The Shaping of Knowledge: Communication of meaning through museum exhibition design

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (10) ◽  
pp. 178-186
Author(s):  
Shamsidar Ahmad ◽  
Mohamed Yusoff Abbas ◽  
Mohd. Zafrullah Mohd. Taib ◽  
Mawar Masri
Keyword(s):  
Service Management ◽  
Publishing House ◽  
Exhibition Design ◽  
Primary Objective ◽  
Visitor Studies ◽  
Visitor Behavior ◽  
Museum Exhibitions ◽  
International Publishing ◽  
Communication Of Meaning

The primary objective of museum management in shaping of knowledge can be achieved by a communication of meaning through quality displays of the permanent collection or temporary exhibitions, the specimens of a continent or the interactive apparatus of science. This paper looks at research derived primarily from the museum scholars and experts with academics working in the field of visitor studies towards developing exhibits that facilitated visitor learning. These findings are recast the approach in order to offer an integrated framework for visitor behavior has implications for service management of the service encounter at the museum in Malaysia. Keywords: Museum exhibitions design; communication of meaning; shaping of knowledge; quality of life. eISSN 2514-751X © 2018. The Authors. Published for AMER ABRA cE-Bs by e-International Publishing House, Ltd., UK. This is an open-access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Peer–review under responsibility of AMER (Association of Malaysian Environment-Behaviour Researchers), ABRA (Association of Behavioural Researchers on Asians) and cE-Bs (Centre for Environment-Behaviour Studies), Faculty of Architecture, Planning & Surveying, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia. DOI: https://doi.org/10.21834/aje-bs.v3i10.325  

scholarly journals Centennial reflections on Steinbeck's reputation in Slovenia

2002 ◽  
Vol 35 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 45-55
Author(s):  
Danica Čerče
Keyword(s):  
American Literature ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Significant Contribution ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
The United States ◽  
Pulitzer Prize ◽  
Grapes Of Wrath ◽  
Relevant Today ◽  
New Information ◽  
Sense Of Justice

Since the late 1920s and his first novel, Cup of Gold (1929), there has been little consensus about John Steinbeck's work, and he has often been praised or dismissed for the wrong reasons. In the wake of the novels with the sweeping reach and social consciousness of In Dubious Battle (1936), Of Mice and Men (1937), and The Grapes of Wrath (1939), and despite the prodigious and startlingly diverse output of his career, Steinbeck was generally regarded as one of America's foremost engaged artists. However, the truth is that be was as much a postmodernist and a modernist, as a traditional proletarian writer. And though be made a significant contribution to the perception of the problems of his time by writing with empathy, clarity and a strong sense of justice about the downtrodden, the exploited, and the defenseless, which contributed to his immense public success, Steinbeck's novels lose none of their richness and power when removed from their historical context. With the human dilemmas on many levels of personal, philosophical, and socio-economic existence, and their deep humanistic, philosophical and ecological message, conveyed through numerous Biblical, Arthurian, and literary allusions, his works are as relevant today as they were when they were written.Appropriate enough, and given that this year marks the centennial of John Steinbeck's birth, celebrated with a year-long series of events taking place throughout the United States and paying tribute to the winner of the 0. Henry Short Story Prize, the Pulitzer Prize, and the Nobel Prize for Literature by examining his legacy in American literature, film, theatre and journalism, and providing new information about the enduring value of his writing, this paper aims to capture the writer's reputation in Slovenia. The plan is to briefly analyse the most illustrative examples of Steinbeck criticism accompanying Slovene publications of his works; then to loosen the hold of deeply entrenched positions of Slovene reviewers, and to highlight the importance of considering Steinbeck's texts from new, insightful and politically unbiased perspectives of contemporary critical engagement. And last but not least, this discussion might hopefully induce Slovene publishers to new printings and translations of Steinbeck's works.

scholarly journals Opponentindlæg: Outi Turpeinen - Recombining ideas from art and cultural history museums in theory and practice

1970 ◽  
pp. 95
Author(s):  
Eija-Maija Kotilainen
Keyword(s):  
Cultural History ◽  
Exhibition Design ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
History Museum ◽  
Main Research ◽  
History Museums ◽  
Museum Object ◽  
Museum Exhibitions ◽  
The University ◽  
The Relationship

Outi Turpeinen M.A. defended her doctoral dissertation, entitled “A Meaningful Museum Object. Critical visuality in cultural history museum exhibitions”, in public at the University of Arts and Design in Helsinki, Finland in November 2005. Her thesis examines the relationship between a cultural history museum exhibition and the objects on display. Specifically, it aims at shedding light on the formation of the meaning behind the exhibition. The main research questions are: How are meanings constructed for cultural history museums’ exhibition design? How are meanings represented as visual signs by the exhibition design? How does the relationship between exhibition design and museum objects, especially their visuality, affect interpretation? 

The Story of Why I Am Here: Or, A Woman Connects Oppressions

2017 ◽  
Vol 68 (8) ◽  
pp. 58
Author(s):  
Alice Walker
Keyword(s):  
Alice Walker ◽  
Recent Book ◽  
Pulitzer Prize ◽  
Monthly Review ◽  
Relevant Today ◽  
The World

Alice Walker is a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, poet, and activist. Her most recent book is The World Will Follow Joy (New Press, 2013). This article was originally a speech delivered at a Peace for Cuba Rally on February 1, 1992, and first published in MR in June 1994. Walker's words remain as relevant today as when they were first spoken.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website.

scholarly journals Philosophy of Transformation of Evidence in the Development of New Technologies: International Aspect

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 112-118
Author(s):  
Daria Alekseevna Sedova
Keyword(s):  
New Technologies ◽  
National Level ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Criminal Court ◽  
Anglo Saxon ◽  
Criminal Proceedings ◽  
Process Change ◽  
Legal Traditions ◽  
Relevant Today ◽  
Modern Technologies

Modern society is developing actively. It undergoes different changes, including in the process of technological and technical progress, which dictates the necessity of taking into account modern realities in the implementation of rights. Nevertheless, the law is currently quite conservative in its development in terms of the speed of its adaptation to new conditions or the demands of society. If we review, for example, the criminal process, then proof, as one of its institutions, is at the core, that is, the part that is stable and theoretically worked out sufficiently fully. That is why it is difficult to make changes in evidence as an institution of criminal proceedings. This article is directly related to the analysis of the prospects for the transformation of evidence in terms of digitalization on the example of the International Criminal Court (hereinafter - the ICC), which embodied the best practices of the countries of both Anglo-Saxon and Continental legal traditions in its model of criminal justice. In order to make a fair verdict, the ICC uses evidence that was gathered during the investigation. But what if “evidence” was discovered in a digital form? Does the ICC consider such “evidence” to be admissible and relevant? Today there are many new digital entities. These include blockchains, virtual money, cryptocurrencies, tokens, and so on. The specificity of new digital entities is that they have no material expression and are absolutely virtual in nature. That is why the need for doctrinal ref lection arises - will the proof process change in this case? After all, some modern digital entities today are used not only for legal purposes, which in turn leads to the need to find ways of fixing illegal actions using modern technologies. Analysis of the problems on the example of the ICC will allow to formulate the prospects for the transformation of evidence at the national level.

scholarly journals STRATEGIC ENTREPRENEURSHIP: EXPLORATION, EXPLOITATION, AND AMBIDEXTERITY PRACTICES IN CRAFT BREWERIES FROM UBERLÂNDIA, MG

2022 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
JULIANE SILVESTRE ◽  
ALEX F. BORGES ◽  
VERÔNICA A. F. PAULA
Keyword(s):  
Narrative Analysis ◽  
Business Models ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
New Products ◽  
New Production ◽  
Strategic Entrepreneurship ◽  
Radical Innovations ◽  
New Business ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Exploration Exploitation

ABSTRACT Purpose: This paper aims to understand the configuration of strategic entrepreneurship practices of exploration, exploitation, and ambidexterity in craft breweries from Uberlândia, MG. Originality/value: Strategic entrepreneurship enables the comprehension of entrepreneurial phenomena from an organizational perspective. Furthermore, this research is conducted in an emergent industry in Brazil, with few studies in the field of management that consider the idiosyncrasies of craft breweries. Design/methodology/approach: We conducted a qualitative multicase study with three craft breweries from Uberlândia, MG. Twelve interviews were performed, and the set of empirical data collected were analyzed through narrative analysis technique. Findings: We identified several strategic entrepreneurship practices in the craft breweing sector. First, exploration practices were found in some radical innovations, such as the pioneering nature in the production of craft beers in Uberlândia, the creation of new products, and in the setting of new business models. Second, exploitation practices were also identified in incremental innovations that enabled business development. Hence, ambidexterity relied on the balance of exploration and exploitation practices, as innovative endeavors enabled the creation and development of new products and access to new markets. Thus, strategic entrepreneurship practices reflect the initiatives of entrepreneurial agents that seek to promote organizational innovations in terms of quality improvements, new production and marketing strategies, and the adoption of new technologies. Therefore, strategic entrepreneurship reflects and contributes to innovation possibilities, strategic renewals, and the competitiveness of craft breweries, revealing the analytical power of this theoretical approach for the study of entrepreneurial phenomena.

Artists Design Exhibitions: Introduction

October ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 150 ◽  
pp. 3-8
Author(s):  
Claire Grace ◽  
Kevin Lotery
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Exhibition Design ◽  
Multivalent Function ◽  
Site Specific ◽  
The Public ◽  
Cultural Currency ◽  
Formal Strategy ◽  
Per Se ◽  
The Public Sphere

In the first half of the twentieth century, exhibition design served a central and multivalent function: As spaces of the public sphere, exhibitions offered sites for aesthetic experimentation, for the confrontation with new technologies, and for the dissemination of propaganda materials. Rather than elaborating a medium per se, artists who turned to exhibition design sought tactical, site-specific—even project-specific—interventions in the pressing questions of their present, and they did so by positioning their work within the terms, materials, and technologies then active. One need only consider the approaches articulated in such diverse texts as El Lissitzky's 1926 manifesto-like “Exhibition Rooms” or Herbert Bayer's 1937 treatise “Fundamentals of Exhibition Design” to appreciate the privileged role and cultural currency of this formal strategy through the middle of the century.

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