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New Horizons for Asian Museums and Museology
This book presents up-to-date information about museums and museology in present-day Asia, focusing on Japan, Mongolia, Myanmar, and Thailand. Asian countries today have developed or are developing their own museology and museums, which are not simple copies of European or North American models. This book provides readers with carefully chosen examples of museum activities—for example, exhibition and sharing information, database construction, access to and conservation of museum collections, relationships between museums and local communities, and international cooperation in the field of cultural heritage.
Museum of the future
متحف المستقبل هو معلم ثقافي وتقني يهدف إلى استكشاف مستقبل الابتكار والتكنولوجيا والتصميم ويعتبر منصة لعرض الأفكار والمشاريع التي تساهم في تشكيل المستقبل. يعرض المتحف أحدث الابتكارات في مجالات الذكاء الاصطناعي، الروبوتات والتقنيات المستدامة. يعكس المتحف رؤية مستقبلية تسعى إلى أن تكون رائدة في مجالات التكنولوجيا والابتكار.
Museum Digitisations and Emerging Curatorial Agencies Online : Vikings in the Digital Age
This book explores the multiple forms of curatorial agencies that develop when museum collection digitisations, narratives and new research findings circulate online. Focusing on Viking Age objects, it tracks the effects of antagonistic debates on discussion forums and the consequences of search engines, personalisation, and machine learning on American-based online platforms. Furthermore, it considers eco-systemic processes comprising computation, rare-earth minerals, electrical currents and data centres and cables as novel forms of curatorial actions.
Metric Handbook : Planning and Design Data
A major handbook of planning and design data for architects and architecture students. Covering basic design data for all the major building types, it is the ideal starting point for any project. For each building type, the book gives the basic design requirements and all the principal dimensional data, and succinct guidance on how to use the information and what regulations the designer needs to be aware of.
Measuring the Value of Culture : Methods and Examples in Cultural Economics
Acknowledgement of the value of culture and cultural goods is increasing world-wide. So too is interest in finding methods to quantify this value so that governments and private sponsors can make efficient funding decisions. "Measuring the Value of Culture" documents methods that can be used to put a price on the arts and cultural goods, including theatre, heritage, cultural events (like arts festivals), museums, archaeological sites and libraries. The methods discussed include economic impact studies, which use market data, as well as non-market valuation techniques, like willingness to pay studies, and the newer choice experiments. In addition, advances in more qualitative valuation methods are considered.
Intelligent Virtual Agents ; 8th International Conference, IVA 2008, Tokyo, Japan, September 1-3, 2008. Proceedings
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Intelligent Virtual Agents, IVA 2008, held in Tokyo, Japan, in September 2008.The 18 revised full papers and 28 revised short papers presented together 42 poster papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 99 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on motion and empathy; narrative and augmented reality; conversation and negotiation; nonverbal behavior; models of culture and personality; markup and representation languages; architectures for robotic agents; cognitive architectures; agents for healthcare and training; and agents in games, museums and virtual worlds.
Information Storage : A Multidisciplinary Perspective
Examines some of the underlying processes behind different forms of information management, including how we store information in our brains, the impact of new technologies such as computers and robots on our efficiency in storing information, and how information is stored in families and in society.
From Assessing to Conserving Biodiversity : Conceptual and Practical Challenges
This book despite increasing communication, accelerating policy and management responses, and notwithstanding improving ecosystem assessment and endangered species knowledge, conserving biodiversity continues to be more a concern than an accomplished task. Why is it so? The overexploitation of natural resources by our species is a frequently recognised factor, while the short-term economic interests of governments and stakeholders typically clash with the burdens that implementing conservation actions imply. But this is not the whole story. This book develops a different perspective on the problem by exploring the conceptual challenges and practical defiance posed by conserving biodiversity, namely: on the one hand, the difficulties in defining what biodiversity is and characterizing that “thing” to which the word ‘biodiversity’ refers to; on the other hand, the reasons why assessing biodiversity and putting in place effective conservation actions is arduous.
Exhibition Design : An Introduction ; 2nd ed.
Offers a thorough grounding in the principles of designing for exhibitions. It describesthe skills needed to become an exhibition designer, including: Developing a brief and working with clients Design principles for graphics, circulation, lighting, and accessibility Presenting ideas to clients The practicalities of productionVisual material includes photographs of completed exhibitions by world-renowned designers, concept drawings, computer renderings, charts, and tables of informationall for a wide range of exhibitions around the world, permanent and temporary, including museums and galleries, visitor centers, brand experiences, festivals, and trade fairs. The book will inform and inspire, as well as equip students and new exhibition designers with a valuable guide to the profession
Dissonant Heritages and Memories in Contemporary Europe
This book discusses political, economic, social, and humanitarian challenges that influence both how people deal with their past and how they build their identities in contemporary Europe. Ongoing debates on migration, on local, national, inter- and transnational levels, prove that it is a divisive issue with regards to understanding European integration and identity. At the same time, the European Union increasingly invests in projects related to European heritage, museums, and cultural memory networks, while having to take dissonant heritages into account. These processes in their combination offer an interesting dynamic and form the complex puzzle that poses challenging questions for anyone involved in academic research, heritage practices, and policy debates. With this puzzle at its core, this book explicitly focuses on slippery and transforming notions of Europe and critically discusses ongoing and transforming power structures of heritage and memory in today’s Europe.
Digital libraries : Implementing strategies and sharing experiences ; 8th International Conference on Asian digital libraries, ICADL 2005, Bangkok, Thailand, December 12-15, 2005, Proceedings
Constitutes the proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries, ICADL 2005. This book is organized in topical sections on concepts and models for digital library systems, case studies in digital libraries, digital archives and museums, multimedia digital libraries, digital libraries for community building, and more
Maritime Archaeology : Australian Approaches
Subject areas discussed in this book include shipwrecks and abandoned vessels, The application of National and State legislation and management regimes to these underwater cultural heritage sites is also highlighted, together with the important role of avocational divers and training programs in raising the profile of underwater and maritime heritage sites.The book includes a comprehensive bibliography of work conducted both in Australia and by Australian maritime archaeologists in the Asia-Pacific region. This book will be of interest to students and practitioners of maritime and historical archaeology and cultural heritage managers throughout the world .
Kid land
الفكرة التي تقوم عليها مدينة الطفل هي تعزيز العمل الجماعي لدى الأطفال ومحاولة دمجهم في بيئة تحفز على الابتكار والخيال والتطبيق العملي للدراسات النظرية ، خروجاً من الأساليب التقليدية في الإلقاء والتعليم واستخدام الحواس الخمس في عملية التعلييهدف هذا البحث إلى دارسة مشروع تخرج (مدينة الطفل) وفق جميع جوانبه العلمية، الثقافية، الاجتماعية والمعمارية .وصولاً إلى نتيجة نهائية تحقق بذلك مشروعاً متكاملاً للطفل ، ويخلق له بيئة مريحة و أمنة تحفزه على الإبداع وتوسع آفاقه و مداركه ، و تتجسد الأهمية الكبرى للمشروع أيضاً بالهدف الذي تسعى إليه فكرة المشروع وهي تعليم الطفل وتثقيفه عن طريق اللعب و ممارسة الأنشطة التفاعلية التي تعزز من العملية التعليمية بشكل ممتع و فعال كما توضح الدراسة أنواع الفعاليات و الأقسام الترفيهية والثقافية والتعليمية التي يحتويها فضاء المشروع من متحف الطفل ، كيدزانيا ، المكتبة والمدرج، إلى القاعات والورش والأنشطة الخدمية والتفاعلية الأخرى
Communicating Science in Social Contexts : New models, new practices
Science communication, as a multidisciplinary field, has developed remarkably in recent years. It is now a distinct and exceedingly dynamic science that melds theoretical approaches with practical experience. Formerly well-established theoretical models now seem out of step with the social reality of the sciences, and the previously clear-cut delineations and interacting domains between cultural fields have blurred. Communicating Science in Social Contexts examines that shift, which itself depicts a profound recomposition of knowledge fields, activities and dissemination practices, and the value accorded to science and technology.
Barcelona : urban architecture and community since 2010
Highlights some of the most exciting structures built in Barcelona since 2010, bringing readers on a guided tour of surprising residential buildings, intriguing museums and extraordinary community spaces. The projects, including many additions to existing buildings, are documented with photos, floor plans and texts. Supplementary interviews introduce readers to key players in Barcelona’s architectural scene, while essays shed light on little-known aspects of the city’s urban development and transport planning.
A Companion to islamic art and architecture ; 2 Vol. Set : Blackwell companions to art history
Bridges the gap between monograph and survey text by providing a new level of access and interpretation to Islamic art. The more than 50 newly commissioned essays revisit canonical topics, and include original approaches and scholarship on neglected aspects of the field. showcases more than 50 specially commissioned essays and an introduction that survey Islamic art and architecture in all its traditional grandeurEssays are organized according to a new chronological-geographical paradigm that remaps the unprecedented expansion of the field and reflects the nuances of major artistic and political developments during the 1400-year span. Represents recent developments in the field, and encourages future horizons by commissioning innovative essays that provide fresh perspectives on canonical subjects, such as early Islamic art, sacred spaces, palaces, urbanism, ornament, arts of the book, and the portable arts while introducing others that have been previously neglected, including unexplored geographies and periods, transregional connectivities, talismans and magic, consumption and networks of portability, museums and collecting,
