Inhabiting exhibition spaces
New perspectives for cultural heritage on display
Abstract
The exhibition design overwrites the space through an experiential environment that shapes the context in which it is located. This process allows visitors to reread the components of the space through their bodily movement. In cultural spaces, the medial attitude of the display triggers proxemic and perceptive transformations, linking bodily experience to the explication of the polyphony of the stories. Projects designed through a dialectical adaptation with the space and reactivated by the unpredictability of the gestures of visitors invited to reflect on the capacity of the exhibition design to prompt communicative and narrative mechanisms beyond the instrument and the time.
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