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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Design Museum"”.
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Great Expectations: Researching Usability of Online Museum Collections
This evaluative study examined what museum visitors expect to find when they access a museum's online collection, how they are using online collections, and how successful their searches are. Increased reliance on the Internet in today's culture means the museum website is quickly becoming the face …
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Museum, design, organisation: an exploration of spatialities and a project in modelling museum design activity
… shift' - to reframe the Praxis of Science as 'Design' using the museum as a microcosmic context in which the complexity of the condition of modernity/ postmodernity was amply reflected. This over-ambitious scheme narrowed at first to one of exploring the interdisciplinary problem of the …
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Residencies with Resonance: A case for pragmatism in design-led concept development
… unites the relevant philosophical foundations of design and pragmatism in order to co-design a new model of provision for design residencies in the museum. To achieve this, it considers the transformations in design that have been the focus of much academic debate in recent years. In an attempt to …
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Museums in Collaboration: A Study of the Joint Relationships between Native Communities and Small Museums
… exhibitions built by Native communities and museums often seek to reposition Native peoples as the authors and experts of their own cultures. This capstone project, done for the Museum Studies Graduate Program at the University of San Francisco, explores what measures it would take for a …
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Brewing History: How Local Option and Prohibition Altered the Texas Brewing Industry
<p>The prohibition movement began decades before the Civil War but did not gain considerable support in Texas until the late nineteenth century. While local option elections and calls for statewide prohibition in Texas failed, national prohibition efforts culminated in the instatement of the …
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Designing for Dream Spaces: Exploring digitally enhanced space for children’s engagement with museum objects
… engagement of children within family groups with museum objects on display, i.e. where physical contact is prohibited. The main focus is on the influence of digital enhancement on visitors’ engagement with artefacts and not on the digital elements themselves. This study has taken the mixed methods …