Exhibition design and lighting: notes on the genesis of the debate between conservation, public emotion, and care
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: In 1969, a group of museum professionals from the United States decided to found the International Association of Lighting Designer (IALD), marking both the emergence of a new profession and the rising importance given to the topic of light inside exhibition spaces. If the complex relationship between the preventive conservation of exhibited artworks and the visual comfort of the public is at the origin of the first considerations of light as an essential tool for museums, today’s light designers’ projects shed new light on the topic by offering new horizons - such as the importance of environmental care- and by improving the design, technologies, and knowledge behind the art of illuminating museums. As such, this article tries to retrace the evolution of the reflection toward museum illumination by highlighting its constant relationship with our different perspectives of “care”.
Author: Giorgi, Federico Maria
Institution: Politecnico di Milano
Language: English
Subfield: Conservation
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W6921330382
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