http://www.exhibitfiles.org/blog/2009/06/02/exhibition-frictions/ A community blog for exhibit designers and developers Fri, 09 Dec 2011 15:50:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://www.exhibitfiles.org/blog/2009/06/02/exhibition-frictions/comment-page-1/#comment-63890 Michael Mason Mon, 06 Jul 2009 18:28:26 +0000 http://www.exhibitfiles.org/blog/?p=135#comment-63890 Hi, We constantly struggle with the needs of visitors and the intellectual ambitions of our institution. How much should an exhibition reflect the interests, concerns, and questions of our visitors and how much should it reflect the biggest issues in the academic field most closely allied to it? I have 17 years of case studies. If you are looking for contributors, I would love to participate. Michael Hi,
We constantly struggle with the needs of visitors and the intellectual ambitions of our institution. How much should an exhibition reflect the interests, concerns, and questions of our visitors and how much should it reflect the biggest issues in the academic field most closely allied to it? I have 17 years of case studies. If you are looking for contributors, I would love to participate.
Michael

]]> http://www.exhibitfiles.org/blog/2009/06/02/exhibition-frictions/comment-page-1/#comment-63773 Kathleen McLean Sun, 14 Jun 2009 17:44:47 +0000 http://www.exhibitfiles.org/blog/?p=135#comment-63773 That sure sounds familiar. That sure sounds familiar.

]]> http://www.exhibitfiles.org/blog/2009/06/02/exhibition-frictions/comment-page-1/#comment-63730 Barbara Passero Sat, 06 Jun 2009 03:22:47 +0000 http://www.exhibitfiles.org/blog/?p=135#comment-63730 Scheduling and timing are the issues that should come up very often in the planning stages for the displays/exhibits that I've worked on. In my experience, only the project leader takes the deadlines seriously, who runs around crazy as a loon. The others saunter over to the coffee machine then take off to the bakery or go to lunch for six hours while I worry. For the most important exhibit I coordinated, everything went wrong that could, and everything came down to a few days to hang the exhibit, get the lighting right, etc. The exhibit was incredible...everyone loved it, and we were disappointed that the gallery had another exhibit schedule after ours. So we only had three months for this exhibit to be up, then all the pieces went back to their dusty closets and boxes. Scheduling and timing are the issues that should come up very often in the planning stages for the displays/exhibits that I’ve worked on. In my experience, only the project leader takes the deadlines seriously, who runs around crazy as a loon. The others saunter over to the coffee machine then take off to the bakery or go to lunch for six hours while I worry. For the most important exhibit I coordinated, everything went wrong that could, and everything came down to a few days to hang the exhibit, get the lighting right, etc. The exhibit was incredible…everyone loved it, and we were disappointed that the gallery had another exhibit schedule after ours. So we only had three months for this exhibit to be up, then all the pieces went back to their dusty closets and boxes.

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