Museums and design education : looking to learn, learning to see

230 Pages·2010·4.18 MB·English

by  Beth Cook

Museums and Design Education
Looking to Learn, Learning to See

Edited by
Beth Cook, Rebecca Reynolds
and Catherine Speight
MuseuMs and design education
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Museums and design education
Looking to Learn, Learning to see
Edited by
Beth cook
ReBecca ReynoLds
catheRine speight
Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning through Design
(CETLD), University of Brighton and the
Victoria & Albert Museum, UK
© Beth cook, Rebecca Reynolds and catherine speight 2010
all rights reserved. no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval
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Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988, to be identified as the editors of this work.
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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
Museums and design education : looking to learn, learning
to see.
1. Museums--educational aspects--great Britain.
2. education, higher--great Britain. 3. institutional
cooperation--great Britain. 4. design--study and teaching
(higher)--great Britain.
i. cook, Beth. ii. Reynolds, Rebecca. iii. speight,
catherine.
069.1'5-dc22
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
cook, Beth.
Museums and design education : looking to learn, learning to see / by Beth cook, Rebecca

Reynolds and catherine speight
p. cm.
includes bibliographical references and index.
isBn 978-0-7546-7713-0 (hbk) -- isBn 978-0-7546-9431-1 (ebook)
1. Museums--educational aspects. 2. design--study and teaching
(higher) i. Reynolds, Rebecca. ii. speight, catherine. iii. title.
aM7.c66 2009
069'.15--dc22
2009038242
isBn 9780754677130 (hbk)
isBn 9780754694311 (ebk.I)
contents
List of Illustrations vii
List of Tables ix
Notes on Editors and Contributors xi
Preface by Morna Hinton xvii
Acknowledgements xxvii
1 Museums and higher education: a context for collaboration 1
Kate Arnold-Forster and Catherine Speight
2 Museums and higher education: a new specialist service? 11
Catherine Speight
3 Bridging perspectives – approaches to Learning in Museums
and universities 29
Beth Cook and Catherine Speight
4 creative differences: deconstructing the conceptual Learning
spaces of higher education and Museums 43
Jos Boys
5 Learning paths: Museum-Based Learning Materials for
design students 61
Rebecca Reynolds
6 student use of a university Museum 77
Rhianedd Smith
7 the design student experience in the Museum 91
Beth Cook
8 design Learning in an australian Museum: a partnership
project Between the powerhouse Museum and the university
of technology, sydney 105
Geoffrey Caban and Carol Scott
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9 Museums and Material knowledge: the V&a as source in
Fashion and textile design Research 113
Torunn Kjølberg
10 a conversation across disciplines 125
Rebecca Reynolds
11 how can technology support design students’ Learning
in Museums? 137
Rebecca Reynolds
12 ‘see What i’m saying’: a case study in Visual Research,
digital Media and Language 153
Patrick Letschka and Jill Seddon
13 the Virtual Museum 165
Mark Carnall and Beth Cook
14 Learning in second Life 177
Karina Rodriguez-Echavarria and Lars Wieneke
afterword 189
Anne Boddington, Beth Cook, Rebecca Reynolds
and Catherine Speight
Index 195
List of illustrations
2.1 kolb’s experiential learning cycle (© pearson education inc.) 20
2.2 Learning about design in the museum (© cetLd 2007) 22
4.1 generic learning outcomes, MLa (© MLa 2004 www.
inspiringlearningforall.gov.uk) 51
5.1 Motivations and learning objectives for design students visiting
museums (© cetLd 2007) 63
5.2 the conversational framework for supporting the informal learning
process (© WLe centre 2007) 65
7.1 Label text from the British galleries, V&a (© V&a/Victoria
& albert Museum, London) 97
9.1 iron Bench (albert paley 1994 © paley studio archive;
V&a Museum number M.11–1999) 120
9.2 student’s detail sketch of albert paley Bench (anonymous)
(© kjolberg 2008) 121
10.1 Personification of t he Church (Original: sculptor unknown, about
1230–50. originally in strasbourg cathedral, now in the Musée de
l’Œuvre notre-dame, strasbourg, France. cast: august gerber about
1908. Museum number 1908–2.© V&a images/Victoria and albert
Museum, London) 126
10.2 Personification of the Synagogue (Original: sculptor unknown,
about 1230–50. originally in strasbourg cathedral, now in the Musée
de l’Œuvre notre-dame, strasbourg, France. cast: august gerber about
1908. Museum number 1908–1. © V&a images/Victoria and albert
Museum, London) 126
10.3 Brunswick Lion (original: sculptor unknown, about 1166.
cast: georg howalett 1872–3. Museum number 1873–383.
© V&a images/Victoria and albert Museum, London) 129
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10.4 tomb of st sebaldus (original: peter Fischer the elder and his
workshop, 1519. church of st sebaldus, nuremburg, germany. cast:
Jacob Rotermundt about 1869. Museum number 1869–14. © V&a
images/Victoria and albert Museum, London) 131
10.5 Detail of tomb of St Sebaldus, showing figure of Peter Fischer
the elder (© cetLd 2009) 132
11.1 diagram of the museum as a distributed network
(© nancy proctor 2008) 143
12.1 ‘see What i’m saying’ webpage on Brighton university
Community website (© university of Brighton 2008) 154
12.2 ‘see What i’m saying’ project plan (© university of Brighton 2008) 155
12.3 ‘Making’, 2006 (© university of Brighton 2008) 156
12.4 ‘covert’, V&a, 2007 (© university of Brighton 2008) 158
12.5 ‘Behind the scenes’, newhaven Fort, 2007 (© university of
Brighton 2008) 160
12.6 ‘Behind the scenes’, preston Manor, 2007 (© university of
Brighton 2008) 161
14.1 solent Life Reception (© Linden Research, inc. second Life is a
trademark of Linden Research, inc. certain materials have been
reproduced with the permission of Linden Research, inc.) 182

14.2 open Life island (© Linden Research, inc. second Life is a
trademark of Linden Research, inc. certain materials have been
reproduced with the permission of Linden Research, inc.) 182
14.3 tsunami demonstration, national oceanographic and atmospheric
administration (© Linden Research, inc. second Life is a trademark
of Linden Research, inc. certain materials have been reproduced
with the permission of Linden Research, inc.) 183
List of tables
2.1 Baseline methods and sample size 18
4.1 adapted from Robertson and Bond in Ronald Barnett 2005: 85–86 48
4.2 Learning outcomes and assessment criteria for Ma Module Issues
and Debates in Inclusive Arts Practice, university of Brighton 08–09 52
8.1 Methods used in study 107