Creating Exhibitions Collaboration in the Planning, Development, and Design of Innovative Experiences.

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Bibliographic Details
Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: McKenna-Cress, Polly
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Newark : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2013.
Series:New York Academy of Sciences Ser.
Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Acknowledgments
  • Foreword
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1: Collaboration
  • Collaboration Unpacked
  • Why Collaborate?
  • Why Collaborate in Museums?
  • How to Collaborate
  • An Intrinsic Imperative
  • Chapter 2: Advocacies and Action Steps
  • Advocacy Positions as a Team Creation Strategy
  • Five Advocacies Needed for Every Team
  • Action Steps
  • Dangers and Pitfalls
  • Chapter 3: Advocacy for the Institution
  • Creating the Landscape for Exemplary Exhibitions
  • Laying the Foundation
  • Planning Major Change
  • Assessing Results and Learning from Them
  • Institutional Culture and Risk
  • Review, Critique, and Approval
  • Chapter 4: Advocacy for the Subject Matter
  • It's about Something Too!
  • Approach and Philosophy
  • Object or Idea Driven
  • Dangers for the Subject Matter Expert
  • Chapter 5: Advocacy for Visitor Experiences
  • Developing Exhibition Content for Visitors
  • Strategies for Organizing Information
  • Getting Started: Developing the Concepts
  • Organizing the Concepts into a Cohesive Narrative
  • Synthesizing and Presenting Initial Concepts
  • Getting the Details Ironed Out: How Does This Thing Really Work?
  • Documentation and Presentation
  • Strategies for Ironing Out the Details
  • Chapter 6: Advocacy for Design
  • Advocating for the Physical and Sensory Experience
  • Design Advocacy: Working within the Collaboration
  • Primary Exhibition Design Principles
  • Gestalt-Sensory Perception Forming a Whole
  • Spatial Planning and Visitor Flow
  • The Launch of Design
  • The Medium Is the Message: Modes of Display
  • Accessible and Universal Design
  • Environmentally Sound Practice
  • Conclusion
  • Chapter 7: Advocacy for Project and Team
  • Managing a Team
  • Managing the Project and Team
  • Creating a Schedule
  • Creating a Budget
  • Chapter 8: Methods and Techniques
  • Getting the Most out of the Process
  • Process Documentation
  • Ways to Produce and Shape Ideas
  • Concept Organization and
  • Chapter 9: Process and Phases
  • How Do We Set Up Our Process?
  • Process Outline
  • Process Phases
  • The Postpartum: Evaluating, Maintaining, Evolving, and Documenting
  • Exhibition Closing
  • Index