Den snygga utställningen. När den arkitektoniska formen segrar över innehållet (The good-looking exhibition. When architectural form prevails over content) (original) (raw)

2008, UtställningsEstetiskt Forum. Eva Persson (ed.), No 4, July

What does it mean that an exhibition is strong in form? Is it something else than rich in content? Is it possible to make an exhibition that is both strong in form and rich in content? I have been considering these questions since the seminar ‘Att gestalta det samiska’ (To design the Sámi) at the Nordic Museum in Stockholm on November 9, 2007. The reason is that lecturers at the seminar highlighted the design as valuable in the new permanent exhibition ‘Sápmi’ at the Nordic Museum. In this article, I discuss these issues, however not by reproducing the simple polarisation between the concepts of ‘strong in form’ and ‘rich in content’, but by investigating reducing and streamlining ideals when working with form and content.