实践指导与理论关切——《博物馆设计:故事、语调及其他》引发的思考

Theoretical Concern and Practical Tutorial: Thoughts Triggered by Museum Design: Ideas, Tones and other Considerations

当代社会,博物馆因其混杂性的社会、文化、经济、认同取向而成为一个极富潜力的场所。在这种理念下,"设计博物馆"或"博物馆设计"在某种程度上超越了物理和建筑的显性层面,其运营、内容、技术、服务、责任等隐性层面也被纳入到讨论的范畴。《博物馆设计:故事、语调及其他》一书从博物馆建筑、信息传播、展览叙事、呈现棘手记忆、社区参与以及多元文化等各方面对广义的"博物馆设计"一词进行了深入讨论,给博物馆业界和学界提供了一些灵感,可以激发关于未来博物馆发展的可能性思考。

In contemporary society,museums have become a place of great potential due to their complex features in social,cultural,economic and identity orientations.Under this context,the concepts of"design museum"or"museum design"goes beyond the explicit level of physics and architecture,while other invisible levels,including museums’operation,content,technology,service and responsibility,are integrated into ongoing discussions.The book,Museum design:Ideas,Tones and other Considerations,discusses the connotation of"museum design"in a broad sense from aspects of museum architecture,information dissemination,exhibition narration,presentation of thorny memories,community participation and multiculturalism.It also provides some inspirations for museums and provoke thinking on the possibility of the development of museums in the future.