Exhibit

The book “exhibit” is part of the publishing serie which has for several yars kept record of research and didactic work of GIDE – Group for international design educarion – developed every year on specific topics member schools. This volume introduces a new editorial and graphic concept promoted and carried out by the Laboratory of visual culture and by the interior design and visual communication bachelor course og the university of applied science and arts of souther switzerlan (supsi lugano) in collaboration with dhoc – interio design for hospitable city research group at politecnico of milano, schools of design, indaco department. The book collects internation contribution of experts, lecturesrs, professors and researchers and the results of a mobile experimental studio in interior design, product design and interior architecture. The studeio get materialized once a year in one of the partner countries to set a common exhibition of students projects and design workshop on the next year subject. The international eorkshop “workshow” that took place in lugano in 2010 was starting point for the work on the shared theme “exhibit”. As a customary, the hosting schools launched the topic with the perspective to diffuse skills and know how in museography and exhibition design, field of research and didactic experience at the school. The “lectures” by Michele amadò and pietro vitali in the first part “essays”, established the theoretical foundations which are provided to the other schools to workshops and didactic praticals in the academic year 2010/2011. In the section “approaches” the wide panorama of the topic “exhibit” is presented with the regardings and interpretation in the various countries and schools. Approaches, context, method and instruments, output, future scenarios, research cue and theoretical contribution interweave in the 7-countries work description. Exhibit is hence explored and expressed. Show as occupation: occupying place, occupying time, occupying imagination is part of Dundee work on echibit. Leeds students where asked to answer the question: should every city look the same, with a homogenous proliferation of chain stores, and diminishing indipendent local family business? The interiors described the Concalo Tavares tale “misters” is one of the subject explored by Ljubljana; how an urban public space could represent the citizen is the starting point for the work performed by Lugano. Interactive Exhibits and the study for a Kinder Natur Museum was done by Magdeburg whereas Mechelen explored on “design for show” in the many possible readings. Milano involved both students from Products and Interior Design working on exhibition as a way to add value to urban public spaces (indoor and outdoor). The 42 more significant outcomes of projects developed during fall semester 2010/2011 by each partecipant school are collected in the third part of the book “projects”. The output gives evidence of the added value given opportunity to share and compare smong 7 different European countries experiences, cultures, mixture of approaches to design and distinct aspects of the discipline.