DESIGN PIECES OF FURNITURE AS PART OF THE EXHIBITION SYSTEM FOR THE MUSÉE SUBAQUATIC IN MARSEILLE
(Practical activities, Project laboratory, Intensive Schools, Frontal teaching, Workshop, Trips and excursions)
- Language: ENGLISH
- Campus: SPAZIO ESTERNO AL POLIMI
- Enrollment: 20-12-2023to hour 14:00 on
22-12-2023 - Subject area: Tools
- Teacher in charge
- TROCCHIANESI RAFFAELLA
- Credits
- 3
- Hours to attend
- 32
- Prerequisites
Concept generation and development in interior and product design (preferably on exhibit design field). Knowledge about materials and their applications.
- Max. number of students
- 15
- Selection Criteria
- Portfolio and curriculum
- Topics:
- EXPERIENCE DESIGN, eco-tourism, exhibition design, underwater art museums
- Tag
- Interior design, Product design, Materials, Heritage and landscape
Description of the initiative
For this transdisciplinary immersion, you will participate in the reflection of how the Subaquatique Museum of Marseille can attract some new visitors to make them discover the park of the 10 sculptures existing (3 more will be under production during the next months). One main idea is to set around the art works pieces of furniture of the exhibit system in order to improve the visit and support visitor in enjoying artworks and to allow divers to take the time of admiring, shooting, discovering and sharing emotions with friends and family. www.musee-subaquatique.com. To support you in your process of developing working ideas for these future products: you will be accompanied by professionals representing the functions necessarily involved in this type of project and you will collaborate with students from different backgrounds. You work in a start-up, along side with various talents (engineers, marketers, designers…) whose mission is first to understand the global environment of the subaquatique museum (History, location, process of selecting the sculptors collaborating to the project, technical process of making, partnerships, the visitors target, constraints of the undersea environment, economic model etc….). Then you will have to design models of pieces of furniture of the exhibit system able to support visitors in enjoying artworks that could be set round the sculptures, taking care about their aesthetic appearance, their comfort and ergonomic, their resistance to time and material being compatible with the protection of undersea environment, their technical feasibility, way of transport, way of submerging and taking off if necessary.
Duration
Calendar
Monday 15 January | UNDERWATER: ART
MORNING
9:00 - Launch of Créacthon by the tutors in Nancy Campus
9:30 a.m. - 11 a.m. - Lecture by Antony Lacanaud – founder of the Aquatique Museum in Marseille - Presentation of the research theme "Design pieces of furniture as part of the exhibition system for the Musée subaquatic in Marseille"
11-1 p.m. – Launch of the workshops Short progress report for all with your tutor
AFTERNOON 2 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
1 - Research exhibitions that have integrated experience design, art, and nature.2 - Research other under-the-sea museums or art installations offering a unique approach to visiting and attracting audiences.
Workshop modalities for all the days
Work in groups of 4 students (2 from Milan, 2 from Paris); 8 groups.
Deliverables are PDF/PPT/Keynote presentations, if not express any other formats.
Tuesday 16 January | UNDERWATER: A NEW PROXEMICS
MORNING9 a.m. to 12 a.m
outputs presentations
Lecture Raffaella Trocchianesi and Rossella Locatelli 'Cultural design approach on scenarios, methods, tools, and case studies about furniture in museums and temporary exhibitions'
AFTERNOON 2 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
Pursuit of benchmarks by investigating the critical topic of the day
1. Identify 2/3 projects of furniture design for exhibit systems.
2. Explore the innovative aspects of the selected projects and their connections with proxemics and ergonomics.
Outputs presentations
Wednesday 17 January \ UNDERWATER: MATERIALS
MORNING 10 a.m. to 12 a.m. Visit two museums in Nancy, investigating two possible topics: Art Nouveau (1900 inspiration by nature) – or Musée des Beaux-Arts 18th century + Museum Aquarium
AFTERNOON 2 p.m. – 6.30 p.m. Research #1 Pursuit of benchmarks by investigating the critical topic of the day
1. Identify and analyse 2/3 product design and/or architecture underwater projects; identify the specific materials and/or techniques for each
2. Look at companies producing water-resistant materials, structures, and constructive systems.
Research #2 Starting from the data collected, investigate how materials in the sea change and transform in time. Among the materials analysed, select the most interesting and try to represent its transformation evocatively, e.g. a short video, a set of Midjourney images.
Outputs presentations
Thursday 18 January | UNDERWATER: VISIONS AND CREATIVITY
MORNING 9 a.m. to 12 a.m According to the inputs and data collected in the first 3 days, propose your first outputs of the furniture for a new underwater museum.Which kind of furniture would you design? Define: its relationship with art, sea and visitors; its material; its transformation in time.
Could it be part of a system of exhibit elements?
Outputs presentations and tutors reviews
AFTERNOON 2 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. Work in groups and finalization of the projects
Friday 19 January Step
FINAL PRESENTATIONS in the presence of Antony Lacanaud connected from Marseille.
Note
Given that the activity starts on January the 15th in the morning, we suggest to come in Nancy on Sunday the 14th.