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Presentation for DASTS 2011, Center for STS-studier, Århus Universitet , 09-10-06.2011

Mediation as connection and objection Multiple, mediated modes of engagement with a museum exhibition. Presentation for DASTS 2011, Center for STS-studier, Århus Universitet , 09-10-06.2011 Conference theme : Inventing connections Session: Design Connections and Objections

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Presentation for DASTS 2011, Center for STS-studier, Århus Universitet , 09-10-06.2011

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  1. Mediation as connection and objectionMultiple, mediated modes of engagement with a museum exhibition Presentation for DASTS 2011, Center for STS-studier, ÅrhusUniversitet, 09-10-06.2011 Conferencetheme: Inventingconnections Session: Design Connections and Objections Connie Svabo, PhD, Assistant Professor Space, Place, Mobility and Urban Studies (MOSPUS) Research Unit & Centre for Experience Research (COF) Department of Environmental, Social and Spatial Change (ENSPAC) Roskilde University (RUC)

  2. Mediation • To associate; to communicatebetweentwo parties • Inspired by Serres and Latour: simultaneousestablishing of a connection and the distortionwhichtakesplace in the connection • Materials, technologies, objectsmediatespatialexperiences and modes of engagement

  3. Naturama • Museum of naturalhistory • 65.000 annual visits • 50% of visitorsare under 18 • Association of visitors and exhibition

  4. Method: ethnographicfieldwork • 14 months, severallaterre-visits • Observation • 39 days, 21 days in exhibition, the rest in offices • written notes, audiorecordings, video recordings, use of spy-wearcameraglasses • Interviews • 26 on-sitevisitor interviews + staff interviews • Focusincreasinglyonchildren and youngsters

  5. Fellow visitors Exhibition visitor exercisepamphlet visitor phonecamera visitor animalcostume

  6. Mediationas connection and objection - Portable technologieshelpvisitorsassociate to the exhibition, but/and they do this in enactments of specific versions of the exhibition and the visitor • Understanding relations betweenusers and builtspaceneeds to takeintoaccount hybrid users and the complexities of ’uselogic’ where action is heterogeneouslynegotiatedbetweenstaff, users, exhibition and othermediators

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