Exhibition Design Strategies

Cecilia Riosvelasco de Peña

 Farm in the Zoo
Lincoln Park Zoo, Chicago - 1989
Bedno/ Bedno Inc.

What:
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The exhibit explains what farming
is and helps the visitors to relate to
farming and farm animals
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Intention of the designers was to
distill complex processes like
agribusiness, farm management
and livestock breading

So What:
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This exhibit explains complex
concepts through graphics without
using a lot of text
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It also has an interactive
information comparison in which
the visitors can compare some of
the information (like animal
heights) in reference to their own
body
Farm in the Zoo
Lincoln Park Zoo, Chicago - 1989
Bedno/ Bedno Inc.
 Manufacturing Emotions
Cooper-Hewitt, New York, NY - February 15–September 28, 2008

Campana Brothers

What:
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In this exhibit the designers played the role of
curators for the Nancy and Edwin Marks Gallery
exhibition series; their selection criteria: “I like
that”
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The exhibition was composed by two- and three-
dimensional works conceived and executed
using an impressive array of scales, materials,
textures, and structures
•
The pieces had no obvious relation among them,
but they detected functions and processes in
them that established a connection with their
own creations

So What:
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For this exhibit, the process used by the
designers to select the pieces reflected their
own creative process
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The pieces by themselves didn’t have a strong
relationship among them but when combined it
reflected the notion of interweaving: not only
interlacing threads, but also when colors, forms,
and textures combine to create a new
composition that stimulated emotions
 Manufacturing Emotions
Cooper-Hewitt, New York, NY - February 15–September 28, 2008

Campana Brothers
 Design Revolution
Road Show – Spring 2010
Emily Pilloton and Matthew Miller

What:
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This road show will travel through
the U.S. to display 40 product that
where design with the philosophy of
triple bottom line: People, Planet,
Profit, focusing mostly in solving
social problems

So What:
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This exhibit is trying to represent a
design philosophy, it is not only
about the products but also about
what the products represent and
the design process that occur
behind that product.
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The exhibit will be at UT on
February 12.
Design Revolution
Road Show – Spring 2010
Emily Pilloton and Matthew Miller
 Design for a Living World
Cooper-Hewitt, New York, NY - May 14, 2009–January 4, 2010

Yves Behar/Costa Rica; Stephen Burks/Australia; Hella Jongerius/Mexico; Maya Lin/

Maine; Christien Meindertsma/Idaho; Isaac Mizrahi/Alaska; Abbott Miller/Bolivia; Ted

Muehling/Micronesia; Kate Spade/Bolivia; and Ezri Tarazi/China.

What:
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In this exhibition ten designers were
commissioned to develop new uses for
sustainably grown and harvested materials in
order to tell a unique story about the life-cycle of
materials and the power of conservation and
design
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The main goal was to increase awareness where
the materials come from and that there’s an
ethic about material usage, the designer takes
an ethical professional position

So What:
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In order to communicate the process in which
each designer “found” their product, they made
a video telling the whole story: since they travel
to the specific site, how they found and
experiment with the material, and how they got
to the final product
•
At the exhibition were the final products,
supported by information about the location,
photos of the material (or something that
represented the process) and the video.
 Design for a Living World
Cooper-Hewitt, New York, NY - May 14, 2009–January 4, 2010

Yves Behar/Costa Rica; Stephen Burks/Australia; Hella Jongerius/Mexico;

Maya Lin/Maine; Christien Meindertsma/Idaho; Isaac Mizrahi/Alaska; Abbott
Miller/Bolivia; Ted Muehling/Micronesia; Kate Spade/Bolivia; and Ezri Tarazi/
China.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jV-
iGLy6yKU&feature=channel