Museographies for Art Archives

Museographies for Art Archives

¿How to exhibit documents in Art Museums?

Loitering Performative Museography

Loitering Performative Museography

Mobile devices to active phenomena

Furniture: Mobile, movable, traveling, moving. Contrary to a property or real state, a building is immovable, it does not move – it is a property. The city is built of real buildings but also of tables, chairs, bookcases, movable flower pots, which furnish the interiors of houses and buildings, as well as the exteriors of streets, squares and sidewalks of our Latin American cities, turning the streets into temporary kitchens, shops, dance halls or open-air markets. They micro-construct the city every day in the morning and de-construct it every night using elements that can move, furniture.

Artisanal Museography

Artisanal Museography

Common trades and anthropology of knowledge

Topographic Museographies

Topographic Museographies

They are museographies outside the wall that take place on tables and islands as habitable platforms and information topographies.

Museographies as habitable architectural furniture

Museographies as habitable architectural furniture

Museographies, as habitable architectural furnishings, serve as architectural exhibition platforms that, in the form of islands, occupy the center of the room. They feature the construction of a central museographic entity that can have its own dynamics and engage in various ways with the surrounding walls of the space, also helping us to break free from our dependence on the walls. This allows for the creation of a central imagery without relying on the walls.

Modular assembly museographies

Modular assembly museographies

Museographies to reuse or just use and throw away?

Museografies in Collective and Pedagagical processes

Museografies in Collective and Pedagagical processes

Museographies in collective and pedagogical processes

Museography for Contemporary Art

Museography for Contemporary Art

Museographies to exhibit Design

Museographies to exhibit Design

Museographies in Natural Environments

Museographies in Natural Environments

Museography which is the content and the work exhibit

Museography which is the content and the work exhibit

Museographies for Art Archives

Museographies for Art Archives

¿How to exhibit documents in Art Museums?

From Museography to Museology

From Museography to Museology

From making an exhibition to making a Museum, from temporary exhibitions to permantent exhibitions,.

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Flor Urbana / Dispositivo Expositivo

2020 /

Museographies in Natural Environments , Museographies for Art Archives /

Germen Estudio + Dérive Lab

Flor Urbana is made up of a modular, removable structure and uses solar, plant and mechanical devices to externalize and expose environmental factors such as air quality, ambient light or relative humidity, which are being measured by the monitoring sensors of PIP Ciudad Futuro.

It is like a tree vase vase, which surrounds the palm tree with an exoskeleton in the shape of a cuboctahedron and supports pinwheels, solar panels, water tanks and flower boxes. This device sees the palm tree as an antenna, a natural sensor and collaborates with it to make a cyborg sensor palm; an Urban Flower.

Its specific elements are:

  • Natural photosynthesis: this process of plants converts solar energy into chemical energy and produces oxygen, allowing to reduce the amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere in a natural way.
  • Energy efficiency: autonomous solar panel that powers an LED lamp to illuminate the palm tree canopy.
  • Green infrastructure: container and water filter that irrigates the vertical garden made with triangular pots of geotextile and vegetation from the region.
  • Air quality: panel with ecological photocatalytic paint, which uses light to transform airborne particles harmful to health into harmless substances; pinwheel that shows the movement and speed of the air.

Flor Urbana was created from the need to communicate some concerns of the project Prototipos de Infraestructura Pública para una Ciudad del Futuro, developed in Guadalajara, México, by dérive LAB, with the aim of assuming public buildings as spaces for mitigating the climate impact in the Metropolitan Area, through the installation and adaptation of technologies that generate information on noise, air quality, transport, energy efficiency, among others.

Web: http://pipciudadfuturo.com

Germen Estudio is an architecture and design office specialized in creating museographic experiences for a wide variety of exhibitions, ranging from modern and contemporary art exhibitions to displays of anthropology, material culture, archival documents, as well as exhibitions that explore economics processes and community narratives. Our design philosophy is based on the conception of active and versatile museographies that allow adaptation, reuse, transformation and change. Overcoming the limits of the traditional “white cube” by eliminating the bureaucracy in the use of drywall and advocating for a museography that explores other materials, constructions and exhibition systems that provide visitors with a comprehensive experience in which the exhibited work converges, the presence of the viewer, the museographic furniture and the architecture of the museum. Our goal with exhibition design is to transform the museum visit into a dynamic and memorable experience that transcends traditional conventions.

Giacomo Castagnola received his Master of Science in Art, Culture and Technology (SMACT) from the School of Architecture and Planning of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2013, and holds a degree in architecture and urbanism from Ricardo Palma University (URP) in Lima Peru. Originally from Lima, Peru, for seven years (2003-2010) he lived and worked in the Tijuana / San Diego border region where he established Germen, an architectural and design studio, to investigate the self-organized "informal" city that composes up to 40% of the urban and growing infrastructure of many Latin American cities. Currently, Castagnola works in Mexico City in architecture for exhibitions and museographies that explore new ways of displaying archives of art and material culture.

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Founder

Giacomo Castagnola

Arquitectos

Erik López
Cristóbal García

Past Collaborators

Fernando J Limón — San Diego, CA
Fernando Becerra — San Diego, CA
Carlos A. Augusto Paz — Tijuana, MX