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Beta test @ SMK
Today I participated in a beta test of a new mobile concept for museums developed by, amongst others, Statens Museum for Kunst in collaboration with Oncotype. This was a follow up from a paper...
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Yihaa! Notes from iConference13, TX
This week, I’m in Fort Worth, Texas, for iConference13, a conference on library and information science. One of my missions has been to get a clearer idea of what this whole LIS (as it’s known in the...
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Backlog logbook
Over the last few weeks, I have attended a handful of interesting events which deserve summing up for future reference, and because they presented insights worth sharing. Also they serve as a lesson in...
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New York diary, day two – the BGC
As of yesterday, and for the next six weeks, I am in New York as a short term visiting research fellow to Bard Graduate Center (or BGC). And as much as I am already smitten by the city (what I’ve seen...
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New York diary, day three – fashion moments
(Psst… you can add pizzazz to this post with a fashion mix playlist from SHOWstudio. Go on.) Not even in New York are the streets swarming with Anna dello Russos or Daphne Guinesses. Not as much as a...
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Fashion history exhibited
In my first week at the BGC, I was hoarding a huge pile of articles from online resources such as the journal Fashion Theory (which had a couple of special issues on fashion curating back in 2008) and...
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Thinking about museums
This post will be a really quick run through of some of all the great inspiration I’ve had for thinking about museums in many different ways over the last week. While a lot of them deserve further...
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Obsessing about shoes
Thursday I attended a public lecture by Valerie Steele at 92Y in relation the current exhibition Shoe Obsession at the Museum at FIT. As mentioned in an earlier post, I found the exhibit itself to be...
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Sleep No More + Recalling 1993
I’ve just come back from experiencing ‘Sleep no more’; an immersive dance/ theatre rendition of Macbeth. But there’s no way I can really explain what the hell it was, hence the immersive. You simple...
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Wrapping up
Now in the final week of my research visit, I am starting to wrap up, mentally and practically. Even if six weeks is a short time, it feels like I’ve been here a good deal longer, as the experience has...
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Workshop II
Workshop with Designmuseum Danmark This Tuesday, the day had finally arrived for my final workshop, with participants from Designmuseum Danmark. The workshop was designed to complete my three stage...
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Nordes13 Doctoral Consortium + conference
At last, its time for the Nordes13 conference, starting yesterday with a very stimulating doctoral consortium. I have been looking forward to this opportunity to meet with peers and learn from seniors...
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Post holiday museum notes
David Bowie Is One of the highlights of the holiday was to be ‘David Bowie Is’ at the V&A; a much hyped sound and vision extravaganza showcasing the style and influence/influences of one of music’s...
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Work shop III
Last week, I ran the final workshop with paticipants from Designmuseum Danmark, thus completing my empirical research. Once again, I used my ’concept dominos’ to illustrate the themes in the...
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CoDesign, critique and conundrums
As of last week and until the end of the year, I have moved quarters and am now a visiting researcher at the CoDesign research cluster at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Schools of...
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Nodem 2013
Post-it comment left on my concept cards during poster session. This week, I attended the 10th Nodem conference, this year held in Stockholm. And although I must admit that I was a little puzzled by a...
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Leaving/learnings from CoDesign
Six weeks research visit at the CoDesign cluster is coming to an end, and I’m wrapping up and taking leave of the rather wonderful Holmen HQ. Fortunately, it’s not really goodbye, as I have joined the...
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Teaching museology
This week, I’ll start teaching a master level course in museum mediation and museology. And although I’m also looking forward to being able to focus fully on writing my dissertation, I’m actually...
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#ITweetMuseums
I sort of do, at least, and now I’ve even got a badge to prove it, sent by analogue mail all the way from NY, thanks to @MarkBSchlemmer, who started the #ITweetMuseums initiative. (BTW, this post will...
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Catch up notes
A ramble of inspirations and illustrated notes, some of them pretty old (but need to get them out of my system and pinned down in blog form) Museums are the new rock’n’roll Dress, autumn/winter...
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