21 Jan New Roles for Design Museums > PostCrisis Museums as the Community-driven Social Innovation Centres > University of the Southern Denmark > Kolding (Denmark)

Here is the project that I have been invited to participate in and contribute to Kolding, Denmark: Design Culture Kolding. In the context of the Design City Kolding, a Roundtable Discussion Event about “Contemporary Design Culture and the Design Museum: Challenges and Opportunities” that will take place on 23rd January in the Trapholt Museum has been organized by the University of Southern Denmark, Centre for Design, Culture and Management and the University of Brighton.

Abstract >

While design museums have responsibilities for the collection and exhibition of objects that mark design’s historical trajectories, this task is arguably becoming more complex and challenging. The last 20 years has seen the proliferation of design museums through Europe and beyond. At the same time, the practices, social meanings, political significances and economic roles of design have changed radically. In turn, this implies a new range of opportunities for how design museums might function.

Paper > This paper aims to contribute to providing a strategic roadmap to the current PostCrisis situation that is challenging to the museums. The author suggests that PostCrisis Museums should undergo a transition to become Social Innovation Community-driven Centres.

The Paper that I will give is titled:

“New Roles for Design Museums: PostCrisis Museums as Social Innovation Community-driven Centres”

The interconnected territorial train system over two Nation-States, linking Sweden with Denmark on the east coast when the #Oresund #CityRegion is located.

Here is the very productive and collaborative discussion took place: #Trapholt #Design #Museum in #Kolding, #Denmark. Nice meeting you: Guy, Liz, Kieran, Jette, Mads, Anders, Vera, Nina, Anne-Louise, …

Here the #research #outcome:

Final Conclusion > Although soon it will be published a short note >

As the outcome of the Kolding’s roundtable event that took place in the Trapholt Design Musem, its coordinator and chair, Prof Guy Julier has recently summarized in a blog reflection as follows: Read here.

Here is the roundtable design:

Contemporary Design Culture and the Design Museum: Challenges and Opportunities

Roundtable Discussion Event
Trapholt Museum, Kolding, Denmark
Thursday 23 January, 2014, 1000h-1600h

While design museums have responsibilities for the collection and exhibition objects that mark design’s historical trajectories, this task is, arguably, becoming more complex and challenging.The last 20 years has seen the proliferation of design museums through Europe and beyond. At the same time, the practices, social meanings, political significances and economic roles of design have changed radically. In turn, this implies a new range of opportunities for how design museums might function.

Design museums are varied in their scale, location, audience, funding and, thus, curatorial aims. It is thus unwise to be prescriptive about them. However, this event provides a forum to develop the debate on what design museums can do. The event is shaped by three aims:

• to develop a contextualised discussion as to current developments in and around design culture (social, political, economic, geographical, technological and professional) that impact on design museums;
• to discuss resultant intellectual and practical questions available to contemporary design curatorship;
• to identify possible future scenarios for design in museums.

The event is planned to encourage debate and exploration. Invited practitioners and researchers in the field will give brief position statements at strategic points, as the discussion unfolds.As a prompt, some, but not all, key issues are summarized in the diagram below.

Timetable

1000      Welcome and introductions

                  Chair: Guy Julier

1015      The changing panorama of contemporary design in museums

Short position statements: Kieran Long and Anne-Louise Sommer

Discussion

1115      Design museum expertise, audiences and paymasters

                  Short position statements: Liz Farrelly and Sabina Michaelis

Discussion

1200      Lunch

                  Tour of museum

1330      New roles for design museums

                  Short position statement: Igor Calzada

Discussion

1415      Scenario planning the design museum of 2022

                  Introduction: Guy Julier

1530      Reflections from behind the scenes at the museum

1600      Wrap-up

Attendees

Igor Calzada                            University of Oxford

Toke Riis Ebbesen               University of Southern Denmark

Liz Farrelly                                University of Brighton

Mads Folkmann                    University of Southern Denmark

Nina Udby Granli                 Trapholt

Karen Grøn                              University of Southern Denmark

Jørn Guldberg                        University of Southern Denmark

Jette Lykke Jensen             University of Southern Denmark

Guy Julier                                  University of Brighton/Victoria & Albert Museum

Kieran Long                             Victoria & Albert Museum

Sabina Michaelis                 University of Southern Denmark

Anders Munch                       University of Southern Denmark

Rosita Satell                           University of Southern Denmark/Trapholt

Niels Peter Skou                   University of Southern Denmark

Anne-Louise Sommer       Design Museum Denmark

Sidsel Vogdrup-Schmidt  University of Southern Denmark/Design Museum Denmark

Vera Westergaard              Trapholt

Pia Wirnfeldt                          Grimmerhus Museum for Ceramics

Tak / Thank you very much / Eskerrik asko.