Workshop on conceptual and architectural design, 10 & 11/6/2016
MEANING AND CONCEPTUAL DESIGN For this exercise, the students use the objects of the CORNER STORE collection (owned by the IPP in Museology-Cultural Management) and try to design an exhibition according to the philosophy of the program. Their aim is to present to the public the way in which museology constructs or challenges and reconsiders […]
MEANING AND CONCEPTUAL DESIGN
For this exercise, the students use the objects of the CORNER STORE collection (owned by the IPP in Museology-Cultural Management) and try to design an exhibition according to the philosophy of the program. Their aim is to present to the public the way in which museology constructs or challenges and reconsiders meaning. Each group chooses a series of objects belonging to the collection assigned to the group. Then it either creates a single exhibition narrative with the
help of additional objects, or produces more stories using the same objects.
Τhe CORNER STORE collection belongs to the store of Orestis Papamichos in Velvendo (Kozani area). The store was in business from the 1950s to 2005. In 2006 the IPP in Museology-Cultural Management bought the collection
for the educational needs of our program. It comprises ca 5,000 objects that have been classifies in larger categories such as Items of Clothing, Railings, Agricultural Tools, Building Materials, School Materials, Glassware, Textiles, Home Appliances, Toys, Paper ware, Shoes, Haberdashery, Medicinal and Chemical Materials.
The exact dating of the objects is not possible, yet they all derive from the period between WWII and the end of the 1980s. The objects have been arranged in categories, documented, conserved and stored
by postgraduate students during their annual exercise in 2007.
