Museum Space Knowledge
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| Admission free |
| Please book your ticket in advance online or at the box office in the foyer. |
| Dates and ticket booking for the coming month will be activated at the end of the previous month. |
| Duration: 60 min |
| 14 years and older |
| German |
| Humboldt Lab, 1st floor |
| max. 25 persons |
| Part of: Meet the Scientist |
When we visit museums, usually it is to see fascinating objects and to learn something. But the style of presentation of objects and exhibition spaces can also tell its own story. Even the architecture of the museum can be a reason to visit.
What role do the scenography of the museum space and architecture play in viewing and understanding exhibitions? What effect does the spatial and aesthetic design have on visitors and how they move through exhibitions? And what can we learn from this about the relationship between knowledge and space in museums?
These and other questions have been investigated by the interdisciplinary research project “Museum Space Knowledge” in the inaugural exhibition of the Humboldt Lab. Different spatial knowledges of visitors were surveyed and their movements observed and tracked in order to investigate the Humboldt Lab as a place and instrument of knowledge transfer.
At Meet the Scientist, architect Henrike Rabe and social scientist Sarah Etz present the results of their spatial research.
This event is part of Berlin Science Week.
SPEAKER
Sarah Etz studied Social Science and European Ethnology at Ruhr Universität Bochum and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. She researches the interface between university, museum and knowledge transfer. She works as research assistant in the research project Museum Space Knowledge (Museum Raum Wissen), funded by the Joachim Herz Foundation, and at the CRC 1265 “Re-Figuration of Spaces” in the field of science communication.
Henrike Rabe is an architect and researcher focusing on architectures of knowledge such as laboratories, museums and schools. She is currently a construction manager at BIM GmbH where she is responsible for the planning and (re)construction of cultural buildings in Berlin. Previously, she worked as a doctoral researcher for the research project ArchitecturesExperiments at the Cluster of Excellence Image Knowledge Gestaltung at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. As an architect, she worked for Kazuhiro Kojima + Kazuko Akamatsu / CAt in Tokyo and with Brisac Gonzalez in London, among others. She studied architecture at Technische Universität Berlin.
