We are happy to announce that Marco Magni, founder and chief architect, and Maria Cristina Rizzello, architect and partner at Guicciardini & Magni Architetti (Florence), will be two of the keynote speakers at the ICOM-DESIGN’s international symposium at the National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design. They will talk about Designing at the National Museum. Specific Installations for Global Themes on October 30 at 8.45.
The Design Collection Displays Reassessed symposium will explore collection displays as sites of knowledge exchange and active engagement. It will interrogate how design objects and interiors are displayed, discussed and interpreted, and for whom. What does curating these kinds of collection displays represent and mean today? And how might this practice look in the future? What new museological approaches are needed? We look forward to meeting in person to discuss and debate an ever-changing field – a conversation between scholars and practitioners across borders, institutions and disciplines.
Keynote speakers are Corinna Gardner, Senior Curator, Design and Digital, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Dr Sebastian Hackenschmidt, Curator of Furniture and Woodwork, MAK – Museum für angewandte Kunst, Vienna, Marco Magni, founder and chief architect, and Maria Cristina Rizzello, architect and partner, Guicciardini & Magni Architetti, Florence, and Dr Leena Svinhufvud, Lead Researcher, Architecture & Design Museum, Helsinki; all leading scholars within the field. The other speakers, all international, will contribute with talks grouped according to the following themes: Approaches to Reinstallations, Perspectives on House Museums, Sustainability and Self-Questioning, Design Mediating Design or Exploring Process and On Specificity and Subject Matter.
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Ph: Marco Magni, Guicciardini & Magni Architetti, sketch for room 21, the collection display at the National Museum. Photo: Mario Ciampi
