'We create an experience'

摘要

What has been your design approach with recent exhibitions? We really enjoy taking a theatrical approach. Having a background in theatre, I enjoy how exhibition design sits between the two disciplines of architecture and theatre design. We create an experience for people to move through, where design is used to communicate ideas and enable people to connect emotionally with objects, art and ideas. I find it interesting when a material or texture can mean more than one thing, when visitors can make their own associations. We try to ask questions, rather than answer them all. For the 2016-17 V&A show You Say You Want A Revolution? (currently on a world tour in Melbourne) we created a journey, where visitors wear headphones in which music is triggered as they move around the spaces looking at different objects. We wanted to create a feeling of another time, but also an abstracted version of it, full of objects, moving graphic surfaces, and information. The exhibition is paced to have moments of more intense theatre, followed by brighter and lighter periods to look at the objects and for interpretation.