is responsible for presenting a wish list of objects to the large group and theMuseum on February 1, 2010. At this time, the leader should have a general senseof how the narrative of the objects will address the questions. There should besome writing done, not labels, but some sense of a narrative developing. What doeach of these objects mean? What are the main points? Short narrative chunks(notes) would be especially helpful. This is the meeting when we will need to letCreative Services at Johnson and Wales know what we want to do, how manypanels we want to have, and generally what the specs are for the exhibition. The relationship between the research assistant and the curatorial leader shouldbe defined in each group. However, the general idea is that the assistant is notresponsible for the curatorial area, but rather for specific research projects andtasks that the leader will develop or that the curatorial group will plan anddevelop together. These may be archival / historical research tasks or tasksrelating to research with objects in the Museum.
Implementation Phase
After the meeting on February 1
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, we will make the transition to theimplementation phase of the exhibition.
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Initially (DATE TBD), the curatorial groups should submit the object labels(including gang labels if appropriate), and content for main panels andsubsections to the project leaders, Sara, Elena, and Janet.
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Then, the folks who were curatorial leaders will switch to being curatorialcoordinators of one of the bit questions in the exhibition. In other words,since the exhibition is organized by questions, not modes of transportation,the important piece of work at this stage is reshuffling all of the content thatthe teams created around modes of transportation
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the questions. Thisshouldn't be a problem since the curators were working on answering thosequestions the whole time, but it will take some organization of the existingchunks of writing and objects.
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Finally, once the exhibition is basically complete on paper, the projectleaders will go over it for a final time with Richard Gutman and check forcoherence, a unified voice, and consistentcy on topics, finalizing thematerial for production and presentation.
Documentation / Transparency + Communication
Since a great deal of research will take place while we're all out of town, it iscrucial for us to use the blog to communicate with eachother and with the largegroup. We want to make sure that the curatorial groups are communicating, thatthe curatorial groups are sharing information with the exhibition group as a whole,and that the exhibition group and the programming group are on the same page. To this end, all researchers should:
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Learn how and where to post research updates: ERIN??
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Regularly post working notes and ideas, especially after visits to the
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