Design objects and the museum [electronic resource] / edited by Liz Farrelly and Joanna Weddell.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: -- Preface: Jonathan Woodham, University of Brighton, UK -- Introduction: Liz Farrelly, University of Brighton and Design Museum, UK and Joanna Weddell, University of Brighton and Research Department, Victoria & Albert Museum, UKSection 1: The Canon and Design in the Museum -- 1. Exhibiting 'the taste of everyday things': Kenneth Clark and CEMA's wartime exhibitions of design, -- Sue Breakell, University of Brighton, UK -- 2. The ethos of the V&A Circulation Department 1947-1960, Joanna Weddell, University of Brighton and the Victoria and Albert Museum, UK -- 3. 'I would suggest that you should not think of the Design Centre as a museum; it is a live, active, moving thing': Designs of the Year 1957, Ness Wood, University of Brighton, UK -- 4. Designing for a New Nigeria: Hayes Textiles Ltd and the British manufacture of gele in the post-colonial period, Nicola Stylianou, independent scholar, UK -- 5. Towards an Uncensored History of Design: Ideal Homes and Constance Spry at London's Design Museum, Deborah Sugg Ryan, University College Falmouth, UKSection 2: Positioning Design Within and Beyond the Museum -- 6. Contemporary Designers, Cultural Diplomacy and the Museum Without Walls, Gareth Williams, Royal College of Art, UK -- 7. Gallery Envy and Contingent Autonomy: Exhibiting Design Art, Damon Taylor, University of Brighton, UK -- 8. Indian Living Cultures: Collected, Exhibited, Performed, Megha Rajguru and Nicola Ashmore, University of Brighton, UK -- 9. The Triennale Design Museum, Milan: An Evolving Curatorial Project, Virginia Lucarelli, INDACO Department, Politecnico di Milano, Italy -- 10. Integrated yet discrete: Design in Norway's new National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo, Denise Hagströmer, National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Norway -- 11. Curating Critical Design: An Embodied Criticality, Gillian Russell, Royal College of Art, UKSection 3: Interpretation and the Challenge of Design -- 12. Just what is it that makes curating design so different, so appealing? Helen Charman, Design Museum, UK -- 13. Intangibles: When Objects Become Interface, Jana Scholze, Victoria and Albert Museum, UK -- 14. Design, Politics and Museum Presentation, Marianne Lamonaca, Bard Graduate Center, USA -- 15. Design and Museum Interpretation: A Comparative Evaluation of Contemporary Tropes, Jason Cleverly, University College Falmouth, UK -- 16. You Are Here, We Are There: Tracing NID's Design Histories, Tom Wilson, University of Brighton, the Design Museum, London and the British Council, UK -- 17. Interactions in the Museum: Design Culture Salons at the Victoria and Albert Museum, Guy Julier and Leah Armstrong, University of Brighton and Victoria and Albert Museum, UK -- 18. Museums Online: Institutional Transparency and the Digital Presence, Liz Farrelly, University of Brighton and Design Museum, UKResources recommended websites for further information -- Acknowledgements -- Picture credits -- Index.

"Design Objects and the Museum brings together leading design historians, curators, educators and archivists to consider the place of contemporary design objects within museums. Contributors draw on a wide range of 20th century and contemporary examples from international museums to consider how design objects have been curated and displayed within and beyond the museum. The book continues contemporary global debates on the ways in which design museums engage and educate their public. Chapters are grouped into three thematic sections addressing The Canon and Design in the Museum; Positioning Design within and Beyond the Museum; and Interpretation and the Challenge of Design, with chapters exploring museological practice and issues, the roles people play in creating meaning, and the challenge contemporary design has in producing interpretation and learning within the museum."-- Provided by publisher.

Also issued in print.

Electronic reproduction. London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2014. Available via World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreement. s2014 dcunns