Tzortzi, Kali;
Fatah gen. Schieck, Ava;
(2024)
Museum spatial structure and sensory forms of knowledge: Towards a syntactic understanding.
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Proceedings of SSS14: The 14th International Space Syntax Symposium.
Space Syntax Network: Nicosia, Cyprus.
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Abstract
Museums are increasingly engaged with embodied and sensory forms of knowledge, and seeking to provide singular experiences that must be lived at that time and space, including through the use of digital technologies. Unlike the typical museum object, digitally mediated experiences invite visitors to ‘look, listen and feel’, amplifying their physical and sensory realities. This leads to the relatively underexplored questions: how do these new forms of knowledge interact with the spatial structure of the museum? And how does this interaction affect the informational (people to exhibits) and social (people to people) dimensions of visitor experience? These questions are explored though a novel media installation implemented in a landmark museum building, with an unconventional layout. The intervention, which fuses an archaeological object with the media projection to communicate the narrative compression of the relief scene on its front, constitutes the second phase of an ongoing, threeyear funded research which takes a cross-disciplinary approach, combining architectural research, museology and interaction design. Methodologically, the research includes: a) the development and implementation of the installation, b) spatial analysis, and c) observation of spatial behaviour of visitors and d) gathering information about visitors’ subjective experience and perception through questionnaires. The study reported in this paper mainly focuses on methods b and c. The results of the analysis suggest a duality: on the one hand, they emphasize the influence of spatial and visual configuration in producing different patterns of common presence between visitors; and on the other hand, they show the functional potential of the media installation as a lived experience to reorder space and create a sense of continuity though spaces.
| Type: | Proceedings paper |
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| Title: | Museum spatial structure and sensory forms of knowledge: Towards a syntactic understanding |
| Event: | The 14th International Space Syntax Symposium (SSS14) |
| Location: | Nicosia, Cyprus |
| Dates: | 24 Jun 2024 - 27 Jun 2024 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Publisher version: | https://cyprusconferences.org/14sss/ |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | Museum layout, spatial and visual configuration, projection-based spatial AR, spatial behaviour of visitors, informational and social function |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > The Bartlett School of Architecture |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10190535 |
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