Design Collection Displays Reassessed SYMPOSIUM REGISTRATION OPEN

Welcome to ICOM-DESIGN’s international symposium at the National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo!

REGISTRATION IS OPEN: Design Collection Displays Reassessed Symposium

The DESIGN COLLECTION DISPLAYS REASSESSED symposium will explore collection displays as sites of knowledge exchange and active engagement. It will interrogate how design objects and interiors are displayed, discussed and interpreted, and for whom. What does curating these kinds of collection displays represent and mean today? And how might this practice look in the future? What new museological approaches are needed? We look forward to meeting in person to discuss and debate an ever-changing field – a conversation between scholars and practitioners across borders, institutions and disciplines.

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS are Corinna Gardner, Senior Curator, Design and Digital, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Dr Sebastian Hackenschmidt, Curator of Furniture and Woodwork, MAK – Museum für angewandte Kunst, Vienna, Marco Magni, founder and chief architect, and Maria Cristina Rizzello, architect and partner, Guicciardini & Magni Architetti, Florence, and Dr Leena Svinhufvud, Lead Researcher, Architecture & Design Museum, Helsinki; all leading scholars within the field. The other speakers, all international, will contribute with talks grouped according to the following themes: Approaches to Reinstallations, Perspectives on House Museums, Sustainability and Self-Questioning, Design Mediating Design or Exploring Process and On Specificity and Subject Matter.

SYMPOSIUM REGISTRATION IS OPEN:

The registration fee ticket is 2000 NOK and includes:

-Three full days with four keynote lectures, fifteen talks and guided tours

-Lunch, coffee and refreshments for all three days and two drinks receptions

-Entry to the National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design.

THE SYMPOSIUM SCHEDULE is available on the symposium website.

SYMPOSIUM DINNER 30 October (numbers limited): The Symposium Dinner ticket is 700 NOK and includes three courses and drinks.

POST-SYMPOSIUM 31 October to 1 November (numbers limited): The post-symposium ticket is 1000 NOK and will include guided tours of museums, including house museums, studio visits and other venues, all in the Oslo area, and will also include lunches. Further info will be announced on the symposium website in early September. Informal POST-SYMPOSIUM farewell DINNER: 400 NOK per ticket.

ACCOMMODATION: A limited number of single rooms have been reserved at the Oslo Guldsmeden Hotel, Parkveien 78, 10 mins walk from the National Museum, at 1515 NOK per night, including a buffet breakfast. These rooms are held until 20 SEPTEMBER and are available on a first come first served basis. Please email the hotel: oslo@guldsmedenhotels.com, reference: ‘Nasjonalmuseet-ICOM-DESIGN’, phone: +47 940 13 091.

THIS SYMPOSIUM IS ORGANISED BY the National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design in collaboration with the International Council of Museums, ICOM, and the international committee ICOM–DESIGN (formerly ICOM-ICDAD), International Committee for Decorative Arts and Design.

ICOM membership is NOT a requirement to attend this symposium.

Welcome to the National Museum in October!

SYMPOSIUM ENQUIRIES: Please email Symposium Convener and ICOM-DESIGN Board Member, Senior Curator, Dr Denise Hagströmer: denise.hagstroemer@nasjonalmuseet.no