Barbara Dobrzyńska: Preludes in the city noise - Social design in public spaces

2013. 11. 20. 16.30 MOME Auditorium

What affects the specific of the city? Can we say that the history has the most important influence to urban identity? In this aspect, do we support placing the commemorative monuments in common spaces? Designers working in public areas know that they can't ignore the historical background. We could follow or deny but always we are engaged in dialogue. Therefore public spaces become natural environment for social design. Creating interactions, giving the information, involving and inclusing – that makes the public design successful. At this point the story of Chopin's benches in Warsaw and the Chopin's year 2010 begins.

Barbara Dobrzyńska - polish graphic and product designer specializing in design for public spaces. Graduated from the Faculty of Industrial Design at Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw in 2004. For the last 8 years closely associated with one of the most important design studio from Warsaw called Towarzystwo Projektowe (TePe). Main realized projects with TePe: Interior Design of National Forum of Music in Wroclaw (2007-2009), Chopin's Bench in Warsaw (2009), Revitalization of Main Railway Station in Warsaw (2009-2011), Information System for Main Railway Station in Warsaw (2009-2011), Interior Design of National Forum of Music in Wroclaw (2007-2009), Interior Design of Embassy of Polish Republic in Skopje (2012), Information System for Children Hospital in Warsaw (2012), Interior Design of Polish Institute in Tel Aviv (2013). Recently opened her own practice.

The pdf the presentation of the lecture.

Links:

http://tepe.pl/index.php?page=projekty&id=19&lang=pl

http://chopin.um.warszawa.pl/

http://www.warsawtour.pl/en/tourist-attractions/top-10-3930.html

http://chopin.um.warszawa.pl/en/page/chopin-s-warsaw-2010-summary

The lecture is made possible by the Visegrad University Studies Grant, in the framework of the "Museum of the Future in the Visegrad Countries" course at MOME.

Mobile Technology and the Museum

2013. 10. 16. at 16.30 on MOME, room A104

 

The talk will discuss the different ways of using mobile technologies in museums and other GLAM (Gallery-Library-Archaive-Museum) institutions. First a typology of different kinds of mobile solutions, according to the context of their use, will be outlined. Then by examples the speakers will analyze how GLAM institutions can benefit from the new technologies in a sustainable and innovative way, broadening access and promoting openness - which are at the core of their social role.

The presentation will explore the role mobile technologies can play in the museum sector, taking into consideration all the changes that the digital revolution has brought not only to the cultural institutions but more generally to the way we live, communicate, interact with others and with our heritage.

Speakers: Dorota Kawecka and Aleksandra Janus from Jagiellonian University Krakow

Examples:

Lublin 2.0

Lutoslawsky app 

Malopolski Virtuális Múzeum

Varso 44 SmartPhone

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The lecture is made possible by the Visegrad University Studies Grant, in the framework of the "Museum of the Future inthe Visegrad Countries" course at MOME.