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Crafting participation: designing ecologies, configuring experience

King’s College, London, christian.heath{at}kcl.ac.uk

Paul Luff

King’s College, London, paul.luff{at}kcl.ac.uk

Dirk Vom Lehn

King’s College, London, dirk.vom_lehn{at}kcl.ac.uk

Jon Hindmarsh

King’s College, London, jon.hindmarsh{at}kcl.ac.uk

Jason Cleverly

University of Staffordshire, jc5{at}staffs.ac.uk

There is a growing interest amongst both artists and curators in designing art works which create new forms of visual communication and enhance interaction in museums and galleries. Despite extraordinary advances in the analysis of talk and discourse, there is relatively little research concerned with conduct and collaboration with and around aesthetic objects and artefacts, and to some extent, the social and cognitive sciences have paid less attention to the ways in which conduct - both visual and vocal - is inextricably embedded within the immediate ecology, the material realities at hand. In this article, we examine how people in and through interaction with others, explore, examine and experience a mixed-media installation. Whilst primarily concerned with interaction with and around an art work, the article is concerned with the ways in which people, in interaction with each other (both those they are with and others who happen to be in the same space), reflexively constitute the sense and significance of objects and artefacts, and the ways in which those material features reflexively inform the production and intelligibility of conduct and interaction.

Key Words: design • galleries and museums • social interaction

Visual Communication, Vol. 1, No. 1, 9-33 (2002)
DOI: 10.1177/147035720200100102


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