Abstract

Designers have a significant responsibility to the increasingly diverse specialist teams that create difficult exhibitions and the complex stakeholders that they represent. She argues that difficult exhibitions present unique challenges for designers, and approaching them as multimodal, social semiotic resources that perform an ideological framework for visitors can be a valuable construct for guiding each stage of a project, from planning through to evaluation. I have developed a conceptual theoretical model that combines critical hermeneutics with social semiotics and multimodality (CHaSSMM Model) to support the interpretive processes of exhibition design. The development of the CHaSSMM Model will be discussed via the case studies of four exhibitions she has designed with PROOF: Media for Social Justice: “Picturing Moral Courage: The Rescuers” (ArtWalk, Port Macquarie, NSW), “Unearthed: Stories of Courage in the Face of Sexual Violence” (New Delhi, India), “Broken?” (New York) and “Ferguson I demonstrate that designers have much to contribute to the interpretive practice and literature within the field of difficult knowledge.

Presenters

Willhemina Wahlin
Acting Associate Head of School | Lecturer in Design, School of Information and Communication Studies, Charles Sturt University, New South Wales, Australia

Details

Presentation Type

Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

Theme

Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts

KEYWORDS

"Difficult Exhibitions", " Social Semiotics", " Multimodality"

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