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ANGELIKI TSIOTINOU

archaeologist-museologist PhD candidate at the School of Architecture, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Research Associate in a research program of applied Museology at AUTH, commissioned for the conceptual and spatial design of Kozani’s Library Museum.   Diploma Thesis title: Book: Manuscript, Print, Electronic. Conceptual Museological Design of a Temporary  Exhibition at Kozani’s Library Museum. The dissertation’s […]

archaeologist-museologist

PhD candidate at the School of Architecture, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Research Associate in a research program of applied Museology at AUTH, commissioned for the conceptual and spatial design of Kozani’s Library Museum.

 

Diploma Thesis title: Book: Manuscript, Print, Electronic. Conceptual Museological Design of a Temporary  Exhibition at Kozani’s Library Museum.

The dissertation’s subject matter is the conceptual museological design of a temporary exhibition at Kozani’s Library Museum entitled Book: Manuscript, Print, Electronic, aiming at composing a brief overview and interpretation of Book History in its sociocultural context. The choice of the present subject matter was complied with the objectives of the exhibition’s main stakeholder, that is Koventarios Municipal Library of Kozani, one of the most significant historical libraries of northern Greece, whose presence dates back to the 17th cent.

The dissertation’s main part was incorporated in the museological study commissioned for the design of Kozani’s Library Museum, in which I participated during my internship. Hence, the thesis had to acquire structure and content of an attainable implementation.

The methodology followed, concerns the stages of the Museological Planning and Design, which are implemented at the conceptual basis of Material Culture theory that contemporary, pluralistic Μuseology deals with, such as Α. Appadurai’s anthropological theory of the social life of things. According to this theory, objects acquire meaning through their “relationship” and dialectic interaction with the subjects.

The overall dissertation structure includes the analytical presentation of the exhibition’s museological narration and its necessary supportive, interpretative material per exhibition section. In this part of the study, the reader can detect the factual information about the History of the Book from manuscript in print until its digital form, distributed, nevertheless, in light of the museological’s perspective.

But what kind of History is Book History?

The book as a museum object, in each of its three historically identified forms, is interpreted in relation to the ideological systems at which it participated, in relation to the social role and use acquired, and, last but not least, in relation to the human and technical resources used for its manufacture. Each of the above frameworks seeks and attributes meaning to the museum object, transforming it into a multi-dimensional object, that can “recounter” different or even contradictory stories.

The History of the Book is a story in-between stories of social, political and cultural nature that is formed by the continuous interaction between the book, as a means of communication, and the individual.