Museum Spaces and New Paradigms of Cultural Experience

!is work builds on the assumption that, in a contemporary space made of interactive aesthetics and wide creativity, technologies can make the museum experience a driver of meaningful interaction between people and social contexts. In the museum experience we analyse emotions, interaction and sense of appropriation of spaces. In the cases included in this chapter the technology introduces new behavioural codes and allows a multilevel exploration. Technology is of course changing the proxemics of museum spaces and cultural experience. In the following we de#ne four metaphors/concepts for space and experience facilitated through technology. Montage as metaphor (Borriaud 2004) interprets the contemporary non-linear approach to design. !is post-production concept as the key to reading, interpretation and action by contemporary society is also what Griswold is thinking of (2003) when he identi#es a continuous circle in the transmission of culture through media. He focuses on two phases: the production (when the media work establishes forms and meanings) and the precipitation (when the media transmits these products to the social body where they are available for new productions) (Lughi 2006).