Spaces for Collections with Margaret Zyro, Exhibition Designer at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Matthew Bird, Senior Critic: Industrial Design at RISD, hosted by Karen Davidov of The Jewelry Library and moderated by Luci Jockel, artist lecturer at Towson University, and Emily Jockel, artist and architect member of AIA Brooklyn. The panel will discuss the ways in which collections are considered spatially at the personal scale, gallery scale and global scale.
This program will carry with it 1 AIA LU, thanks to AIA Brooklyn member Emily Jockel.
“A Curriculum on Collecting” is a series of 6 virtual conversations focusing on various aspects of collections, including: the birth of collections; the artful transformation of objects in the context of collections; spaces for collections; how we assign value to collections; collecting as autobiography; the immortality of collections.
Learning objectives:
- Identify the main design criteria when designing a space for a collection
- Describe the spatial needs of collections at the personal/ residential scale, gallery scale and institutional scale
- Discuss the geographical and socio-cultural considerations for displaying collections near their origin region vs. in a place removed from their origin region
- Understand the interplay between the roles of a curator and a spatial designer in displaying a collection for public view