Engaging Spaces: Exhibition Design Explored - Softcover

Kossmann Dejong

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9077174400 ISBN 13: 9789077174401

Publisher: Frame Publishers BV, 2010

Synopsis

<div><div><p>A good exhibition tells a multidimensional, interactive story within a cultural environment that involves all sorts of modern media. Such resources can create a chemical reaction, while also supporting a balanced construction of interconnected components.</p><p><i>Engaging Spaces</i>&#160;features Kossmann.dejong, an Amsterdam firm specializing in exhibition design. The book offers a visual explanation of the company's work, making projects fully comprehensible through photographs, plans, and sketches. Decisions are clarified. And one chapter provides clear instructions on how to create exhibition designs.</p><p>Highlighted by essays written by specialists,&#160;<i>Engaging Spaces</i>&#160;covers all aspects of exhibition design and is sure to be of interest to students, professionals, and other inquiring minds.</p></div></div>

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About the Authors

<div>Kossmann.dejong: Amsterdam-based studio Kossmann.dejong focuses on exhibition architecture. Set up in 1998 by Herman Kossmann (1958) and Mark de Jong (1960) the firm now comprises a staff of fourteen. Spatial and graphic designers specialize in designing multidisciplinary exhibitions and interiors; per project the team is enriched by specialists from other disciplines, such as light design, sound design, interaction design, and film.<br><br>Susanne Mulder: Suzanne Mulder is an art and architecture historian, conservator with the NAi (Dutch Architecture institute), and freelance exhibition curator in Amsterdam. Between 2006 and 2008 she did research on the subject of the potential of exhibitions as spacious and communicative medium on an intellectual, informative, emotional and sensory level throughout history. The project was called Narrative Environments.<br><br>Frank den Oudsten: Frank den Oudsten (1949) is an audio visual designer and scenographical design professor. Until 1 September 2009 he taught at the Zurich University of Applied Science. As a visiting lecturer on the subject of narrative environments he is connected to several other European universities.</div>

Kossmann.dejong: Amsterdam-based studio Kossmann.dejong focuses on exhibition architecture. Set up in 1998 by Herman Kossmann (1958) and Mark de Jong (1960) the firm now comprises a staff of fourteen. Spatial and graphic designers specialize in designing multidisciplinary exhibitions and interiors; per project the team is enriched by specialists from other disciplines, such as light design, sound design, interaction design, and film.

Susanne Mulder: Suzanne Mulder is an art and architecture historian, conservator with the NAi (Dutch Architecture institute), and freelance exhibition curator in Amsterdam. Between 2006 and 2008 she did research on the subject of the potential of exhibitions as spacious and communicative medium on an intellectual, informative, emotional and sensory level throughout history. The project was called Narrative Environments.

Frank den Oudsten: Frank den Oudsten (1949) is an audio visual designer and scenographical design professor. Until 1 September 2009 he taught at the Zurich University of Applied Science. As a visiting lecturer on the subject of narrative environments he is connected to several other European universities.

From the Back Cover

Creating a good exhibition is about telling a multi-dimensional and interactive story with a balanced and broad array of media. That is the task of the exhibition designer. The challenge is to translate often complex and scientific information into a narrative environment that appeals to a wide audience. When executed effectively, engaging spaces can educate, excite and entertain, providing the visitors with an experience to remember.

Highlighted in this book are 30 narrative spaces orchestrated by renowned Dutch exhibition architecture office Kossmann.dejong. Featured environments range from permanent presentations in museums and visitor centres to temporary exhibitions, among them the Urbanian Pavilion at the World Expo 2010 in Shanghai. Full-page photos accompanied by written explanations offer insight into how these narrative spaces are composed. Sketches, plans and sections make the designs fully comprehensible. A separate chapter explains a dozen key concepts - interaction, abstraction, media mix, routing and more - that inform most narrative environments.

Most environments featured in this book are temporary by nature, yet the components that went into their making remain valid today. That makes Engaging Spaces a valuable and timeless sourcebook for everyone interested in the field of exhibition design.

Edition details

• Publisher: Frame Publishers BV
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9077174400
• ISBN 13: 9789077174401
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 400