Emotion and the Contemporary Museum: Development of a Geographically-Informed Approach to Visitor Evaluation - Softcover

Boyd, Candice P.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9811388857 ISBN 13: 9789811388859

Publisher: Palgrave Pivot, 2020

Synopsis

This book outlines a geographically-informed method of evaluating the emotional impact of museum exhibits. The authors have personally developed the method they describe over several years of working with the Museo Laboratorio della Mente in Rome and the Melbourne Museum in Australia. Informed by non-representational theories in cultural geography, this book offers solutions to museum staff for how they might evaluate aspects of visitor experience, such as emotions and embodied experience, which can be very difficult to assess using conventional approaches.

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About the Author

Candice P. Boyd is an artist-geographer and Research Fellow in the School of Geography, University of Melbourne. Her interests are in therapeutic spaces, experiences of rurality, and contemporary museums. She is author of Non-Representational Geographies of Therapeutic Art Making and co-editor of Non-Representational Theory and the Creative Arts, both with Palgrave Macmillan.

Rachel Hughes is Senior Research Fellow in the School of Geography at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Her interests are public memory and museums in Cambodia, critical geopolitics, and geographies of international criminal justice. She is co-editor of Observant States with I.B. Tauris.

Edition details

• Publisher: Palgrave Pivot
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9811388857
• ISBN 13: 9789811388859
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 104