Digital Archive of Temporary Exhibitions. Enhancing the Design Culture

This contribution deals with methods for documenting, archiving, visualizing and enhancing the culture of the exhibition design process by conceptualising a digital archive that experiments with new structures and narratives for an online experience of these documentary assets capturing the ephemeralness of exhibit design. The “Digital archive of the temporary cultural exhibitions” collects an heterogeneous and complex set of documentation as sketches, maquettes, technical drawings, pictures, videos, interviews and so on. One can explore it through three different paths: the historical masters (where the user can find exhibitions made by the most famous designers in the past), different exhibitions for same place (where the user can do a comparison among different exhibitions in the same place) and contemporary experiences (where the designer explains the narrative of the whole exhibition process).