In Fall 2009 we are opening a Study Gallery that will take the BGC another step closer to its goal of fusing the object-aptitude of the curator and the context-centeredness of the professor.
Our focus is reframing the research seminar. Since the nineteenth century in Germany, the professor's research seminar has had as its goal the journal article. This has been true even in areas where materiality made two-dimensional representation less enriching a mode of communication. Now, faculty teaching a research seminar will be able to output their project to an exhibition with the key objects physically present amidst a rich and designed didactic space. The classical article, as well as student projects, can then be reimagined and published in-house as a cross between the catalogue and the collection of essays.
Fall 2009 exhibition: "Dress Code: Attire and Architecture in Island Southeast Asia."
Another use of the study gallery will be for student-generated exhibitions, whether the products of theses, or virtual exhibitions produced in our state-of-the-art Media Lab (also opening, Fall 2009).
