The Transformative Power of Exhibition and Experience Design
Edited by Tricia Austin and Timothy J. McNeil
In Press – release date forthcoming
This fully illustrated book explores how exhibition designers rise to the global challenges that threaten our existence. Over twenty short chapters describe how experiential designers are at the forefront of communicating uncomfortable or alarming content, and engaging audiences’ bodies, minds and emotions through multi-sensory and multi-modal design.
The turbulence of current times has brought real world challenges into sharp focus and has raised questions about how design can address and even mitigate against growing systemic social and environmental perils. Exhibition and experience designers specialise in communicating difficult or complex content in ways that engage people’s imaginations, stir their feelings and provoke critical thinking. Some of the key points the book will address:
- First book to explore how exhibition and experience designers rise to global challenges.
- Crucial challenges: social polarisation, racial injustice, the pros and cons of new digital technologies and the climate emergency.
- How designers across the world are creative in communicating uncomfortable material in an engaging way.
- Ways that collaborative exhibition-making teams can encompass remarkable complexity.
- An international set of professional contributors.
- Enabling practitioners to speak critically about their work and be acknowledged for their processes.
