museological language

The Museum as a tool for social
change
The Total Museology
and
the Intelectual Joy
MUSEUM
A Museum is a space primirally devoted to
provide stimuli (intelectual joy) in favor of
three things: scientific knowledge,
scientific opinion and scientific progress.
This is done with a particular museological
language.
MUSEOLOGICAL LANGUAGE
1) Objects
2) Phenomena
3) Metaphore
WORDS
4) Object-Object
5) Object-Phenomenon.
6) Object-Metaphor,
7) Metaphor-Phenomenon,
8) Metaphor-Metaphor and
9) Phenomenon-Phenomenon
.......
GRAMMAR
UNDERSTANDING: similarities between differences
OBSERVAR: differences between similarities
OBJECT
OBJECT vs OBJECT
HIPERCUBIC SHOWCASE OF
SUDDEN CONPREHENSION
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PHENOMENON
METAPHOR
• O cerrado, uma janela para o planeta
• Brasilia
4 Museo del Tiempo,
Montevideo, Uruguay
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1 MA = 40 m
CONTROVERSY IN MUSEUMS ?
Homo sapiens en América since 27.000?
PINTURA:
¿Cómo representar un volumen de
3D en una superficie de 2D?
Altamira hace 13.500
a
Mesopotamia hace 5000 a
Cometa Halley en 1301 (?) >
Giotto (1266 -1337)
Giotto (1266 -1337)
Giotto (1266 -1337)
Filippo Brunelleschi
(1377-1448):
El redescubrimiento de la perspectiva
Perspectiva geométricamente correcta: Masaccio (1401-1428)
Perspectiva atmosférica
Mantegna (1431-1506)
o
Andrea Pozzo (1680) Falsa cúpula de la Iglesia de San Ignacio
Diego de Velázquez (1599-1660), Las Meninas (1656)
Salvador Dalí (1904-1988), Corpus Hypercubicus (1951)
Ergonomy:
UTILITY
1.800.000 ys
Symmetry:
AESTHETICS
500.000 ys
Changing the world
through its
representation:
MAGIC
30.000 ys
Abstraction:
ART & SCIENCE
13.000 ys
ARCHIMEDEION
Museo de Arquímedes en Siracusa