Innovation Showcases (Asynchronous Session)
Heirdom Capital : Unlocking Art and Culture Potential View Digital Media
Innovation Showcase Tommaso Giambelli
Heirdom Capital (HC) leverages UN sustainability practices, giving birth to a new generation of sustainable art funds; redesigning the art and culture financial market. In this paper we examine the present constraints associated with the art and culture market, identifying its problems and limitations. In light of this analysis, we then propose a framework able to address the market deficiencies and introduce a number of surprising advantages in a variety of fields. In fact, the Art Market is a B64$ market, its inefficiencies are widely recognized by the literature and are negatively affecting the Art Market structure per-se, Investment strategies, and Sustainability Industries. We dissect how, in specific, the most important art players are all suffering from these dynamics. On a financial note, we go through the appealing attributes of both art as an investment as well as (ESG) responsible investing; for the solution we design spans between those categories. We discuss a number of attempts that have been made to address these issues and highlight how the results have been characterized by shortcomings. The HC complex coordination approach aligns the core incentive structure between: art professionals, investors and sustainability-oriented institutions. This, in order to generate liquidity, regulations, and transparency in a market that, if healthy, could generate indiscriminate jobs, helping achieve the 8th, 9th, and 11th of the Sustainable Development Goals while yielding profits to every player involved.
The Multisensory Museum: Process and Outcome of a Co-design Method Involving Architects and People with Disability Experience View Digital Media
Innovation Showcase Peter Willem Vermeersch, Ann Heylighen
The Multisensory Museum is a project at the interface of design research and architectural practice. It is grounded in research on how the knowledge people with disability experience possess has potential to enrich (museum) architecture. In an attempt to socially innovate architectural practice, we developed a codesign method that engages people with disability experience and architects together in a creative endeavor. We involved three groups of people (with a vision, auditory, and mobility impairment) to design a multisensory museum gallery that engages visitors' whole bodily perception. Analysis of the final design explores the potential of architecture to express issues of inclusion in museums. The gallery is conceived with one overall multisensory aesthetic forming three spaces: the corridor brings visitors in a state of corporeal awareness through its close and soft aesthetics, the foyer links the gallery to the museum's vertical circulation, the art exhibit fosters a dialogue with the work on display and with fellow visitors through comfortable aesthetics. The project went through several stages: the actual co-design process, an exhibition on the co-design process, a subsequent design phase refining the concept into one overall aesthetic gesture, the implementation of the design, and a symposium/opening of the gallery to the public. The project demonstrates how an inclusive design approach in architecture can lead to a stimulating space for all to enjoy, and how disability experience can enrich museum architecture beyond accessibility and give expression to aspects of inclusion through a multisensory environment that makes everyone more aware of their body.
‘Lenses’ of the Country Doctor - A Chemical and Historical Collaboration for Rural Museums : Utilizing Mass Spectrometry for an In-depth Look at Nineteenth-century American Homeopathy View Digital Media
Innovation Showcase Elizabeth La Fave
Mainstream allopathy was supported by burgeoning scientific discovery, specifically Louis Pasteur’s Germ Theory. Once highly revered in public perspective, these remedies reached intense public scrutiny at the beginning of the 20th century. Modern chemical approaches used in conjunction with historical exhibits serve to enhance the variety of perspectives within the museum sphere. Here, these approaches were used to identify and quantify ingredients for three types of homeopathic remedies popular around the turn of the 20th century. Knowledge of these remedies’ ingredients can offer insights into the impact of politicization in the medical landscape during the this era. Liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) was used to show that physician-administered Boericke&Tafel (B&T) and commercially-available Humphreys’ remedies were both primarily sugar based, but the former contained unique ingredients while the latter contained only apigenin. Munyon’s home remedies were shown to be papaya-based, with unique ingredients for specific ailments. ICP-MS analysis was also performed to show that B&T elemental-based samples were contaminated with lead. Our results address questions of validity and effectiveness that once confounded government officials to penalize the homeopaths despite positive patient testimonies. Were these governmental actions scientifically or politically motivated? Our Munyon’s analysis specifically refutes a century-old study that was used as evidence to dispute patient testimonies in a legal review. In effect, our scientific analysis can be used to assess contributions of alternative medicines to the influx of illness during this period, while also forming a lasting collaboration between the museum-sphere and STEM-based techniques.
Inclusive Lighting in Museums: Creating Spaces Which Encourage Lingering and Support Space Navigation View Digital Media
Innovation Showcase Paula Longato
In the last decades, museum lighting has become tailored to enhance exhibits and architecture. Lighting technology has developed so well, we can predict damage potential caused on exhibits by both natural and electric lighting. These are important aspects to consider, as art objects should have a long life, telling generations different stories in decades to come. Many times, though, visitors are rarely considered in the lighting scheme, thereby being visitors the main reason to create beautiful, attractive and informative spaces. Lighting design for museum spaces needs to consider people interacting with both space and art piece. A well-thought exhibition concept should take into consideration the movement of people inside spaces, the observation of the exhibits and how the interaction between space and art is done. Lighting can help increase the experience, making the exhibition not only more attractive but also more inclusive. To evenly light a museum or exhibition space can create hindrance for people with visual impairment. Navigation in such space will not be as easy as navigation in a space where e.g. contrast levels are carefully considered. Another aspect is to use the infrastructure provided by lighting to integrate into interactive navigation devices and specially curated digital information. In this talk, we’d like to raise awareness to a well-balanced lighting scheme and the importance of creating spaces richer in contrast as well as the use of newest lighting technology for space navigation, transforming museums into more democratic and inclusive spaces for people.
Multisensory Access and Audience Engagement View Digital Media
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Kathleen Sitter, Alison Grittner, Heath Birkholz, Mihaela Slabe, Kimberly Van Patten
Mulitsensory storytelling involves audience engagement beyond the visual genre; a delicate balance of telling stories through weaving together smellscapes, soundscapes, and sense of touch. This study describes the creative process of developing a sensory installation focused on stories of home during the pandemic. A group of disabled scholars came together virtually to (re)imagine their experiences through a collaborative multisensory story. Through describing the process, the paper provides an overview of how centering disability provides critical opportunities for audience engagement and simultaneously requires thoughtful reflection on the role of access in representation.
