TY - BOOK
T1 - Mobile museology
T2 - An exploration of fashionable museums, mobilisation, and trans-museal mediation
AU - Baggesen, Rikke Haller
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - Drawing together perspectives from museology, digital culture studies and fashion theory, this thesis
considers changes in and challenges for current
-
day museums as related to ‘mobile museology’. This
concept is developed for and elucidated in the thesis to describe
an orientation towards the fashionable,
the ephemeral, and towards an (ideal) state of change and changeability. This orientation is characterised
with the triplet concepts of mobile, mobility, and mobilisation, as related to mobile media and movability;
to ‘trans
-
museal’ mediation; and to the mobilisation of collections, audiences and institutional mindsets.
The research project’s transdisciplinary and exploratory approach takes inspiration from critical design,
minding Latour’s (2004a) call for rethink
ing critical approaches in the humanities. Through a creative
process, focused on designs for framing fashion in everyday contexts and involving prospective users and
professionals from Designmuseum Danmark, the project reflects on and seeks to articulate
matters of
concern in digital heritage and museum practice.
With this elaborated departure of theorisation and methodological considerations, the dissertation
compiles a selection of blog posts from the research project blog with three research articles:
‘Museum
metamorphosis à la mode’, proposing a fashion perspective on ongoing museum developments;
‘Augmenting the agora: media and civic engagement in museums’, questioning the idea of social media
holding a vital potential for the democratic development o
f the museum; and finally '
Heteroscopia:
a
musealising gaze at the everyday’, tracing a current interest in musealising the everyday by transcending
the museum space.
AB - Drawing together perspectives from museology, digital culture studies and fashion theory, this thesis
considers changes in and challenges for current
-
day museums as related to ‘mobile museology’. This
concept is developed for and elucidated in the thesis to describe
an orientation towards the fashionable,
the ephemeral, and towards an (ideal) state of change and changeability. This orientation is characterised
with the triplet concepts of mobile, mobility, and mobilisation, as related to mobile media and movability;
to ‘trans
-
museal’ mediation; and to the mobilisation of collections, audiences and institutional mindsets.
The research project’s transdisciplinary and exploratory approach takes inspiration from critical design,
minding Latour’s (2004a) call for rethink
ing critical approaches in the humanities. Through a creative
process, focused on designs for framing fashion in everyday contexts and involving prospective users and
professionals from Designmuseum Danmark, the project reflects on and seeks to articulate
matters of
concern in digital heritage and museum practice.
With this elaborated departure of theorisation and methodological considerations, the dissertation
compiles a selection of blog posts from the research project blog with three research articles:
‘Museum
metamorphosis à la mode’, proposing a fashion perspective on ongoing museum developments;
‘Augmenting the agora: media and civic engagement in museums’, questioning the idea of social media
holding a vital potential for the democratic development o
f the museum; and finally '
Heteroscopia:
a
musealising gaze at the everyday’, tracing a current interest in musealising the everyday by transcending
the museum space.
M3 - Ph.D. thesis
BT - Mobile museology
PB - Det Humanistiske Fakultet, Københavns Universitet
ER -