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Visual Artifacts As A Mediating Factor In Collaborative Museum Design, Jacquelyn Claire Johnson
Visual Artifacts As A Mediating Factor In Collaborative Museum Design, Jacquelyn Claire Johnson
Theses and Dissertations
The process of museum exhibit design includes a variety of activities, including collaboration on teams, consulting learning theories, following process models, brainstorming, performing evaluations, and using visuals. Although some articles mention these topics, very few provide specific details about these practices. This dissertation, which includes three articles, explores how design and visual communication occur in exhibit design. The first article examines how exhibit design teams function. The second article describes how they use visual representations to engage team members in ideation and concept development as they planned for new exhibits. This is based on the assumption that designers need to …