Engaging Spaces: Exhibition Design Explored

<div><div><p>A good exhibition tells a multidimensional, interactive story within a cultural environment that involves all sorts of modern media. Such resources can create a chemical reaction, while also supporting a balanced construction of interconnected components.</p><p><i>Engaging Spaces</i>&#160;features Kossmann.dejong, an Amsterdam firm specializing in exhibition design. The book offers a visual explanation of the company's work, making projects fully comprehensible through photographs, plans, and sketches. Decisions are clarified. And one chapter provides clear instructions on how to create exhibition designs.</p><p>Highlighted by essays written by specialists,&#160;<i>Engaging Spaces</i>&#160;covers all aspects of exhibition design and is sure to be of interest to students, professionals, and other inquiring minds.</p></div></div>

<div>Kossmann.dejong: Amsterdam-based studio Kossmann.dejong focuses on exhibition architecture. Set up in 1998 by Herman Kossmann (1958) and Mark de Jong (1960) the firm now comprises a staff of fourteen. Spatial and graphic designers specialize in designing multidisciplinary exhibitions and interiors; per project the team is enriched by specialists from other disciplines, such as light design, sound design, interaction design, and film.<br><br>Susanne Mulder: Suzanne Mulder is an art and architecture historian, conservator with the NAi (Dutch Architecture institute), and freelance exhibition curator in Amsterdam. Between 2006 and 2008 she did research on the subject of the potential of exhibitions as spacious and communicative medium on an intellectual, informative, emotional and sensory level throughout history. The project was called Narrative Environments.<br><br>Frank den Oudsten: Frank den Oudsten (1949) is an audio visual designer and scenographical design professor. Until 1 September 2009 he taught at the Zurich University of Applied Science. As a visiting lecturer on the subject of narrative environments he is connected to several other European universities.</div>