Designing Disgust: Why do we feel the need to judge?

“从本质上讲，服装是感性的。我们在舞会上穿的裙子，我们在婚礼上穿的西装。衣服对我们有意义。然而，这种情绪并不总是积极的。这是件坏事吗？我们暗地里喜欢被厌恶吗？我们今天觉得完全可以接受的衣服和物品会在短短几年内让别人反感吗？历史会告诉我们，情况很可能是这样的——这个项目将允许我们设计一个展览，帮助我们更深入地理解为什么会是这样，并以我们选择的方式亲身体验。例如，Worthing博物馆有一件我们称之为“猴子斗篷”的作品，这是一位女士用猴子做的斗篷。在它的时代，这是一件奢侈的作品，产生了自己的快乐和骄傲——随着这件作品的发展，它已经过渡到产生厌恶。加入这件作品的旅程，通过体验，“猴角的演变”；开始质疑我们今天认为可以接受的事情。2060年的学生们会不会带着同样的感觉来看待我们的塑料鞋呢？该项目旨在以“厌恶”为主题，因为它与Worthing博物馆和艺术画廊目前的藏品有关，并发现游客希望如何体验这些藏品。通过这种方式，参观者成为他们想要参观的展览设计过程的一部分，而不是由博物馆专业人员或技术角度来引导。作为一个部门，文化遗产传统上非常擅长提供专家意见，从一件作品应该如何展示到游客需要知道什么。然而，对博物馆藏品的解读总是多种多样的。厌恶要求参观者自己探索这一点，并共同策划展览，以及他们想要的体验。使博物馆民主化，使参观者从博物馆内传统的专制约束中解脱出来。这个咨询过程将为观众提供讨论和帮助设计最终展览设计的机会，然后进入下一阶段的研究和开发。这种前所未有的投入将意味着游客参与并投资于项目，有助于分享所有权，并从当前和潜在的未来观众中获得支持。”

"Clothing is, by its nature, emotive. The dress we wore to the prom, the suit we wore on our wedding day. Clothes have meaning to us. That emotion, however, is not always positive. Is that a bad thing? Do we secretly love to be disgusted? Will the clothes and items we find perfectly acceptable today disgust others in a few short years?History would teach us this is likely to be the case - this project will allow us to design an exhibition that will help us to go deeper - to understand why that is the case, and experience it for ourselves, in the way we choose to.For example, Worthing Museum has a piece we shall call the ""Monkey Cape"", a cape worn by a lady, made from a monkey. In its time this was a luxury piece generating joy and pride in its own - as the piece has evolved it has transitioned to generating Disgust. Join that piece on its journey, and through the experience, the ""Evolution of the Monkey Cape""; begin to question the things we find acceptable today. Will the class of 2060 view our plastic shoes with the same feelings the cape evokes in us?The project aims to take Disgust, as it relates to Worthing Museum and Art Gallery's current collection, and discover how a visitor would like to experience this collection. In this way the visitor becomes part of the process for designing the exhibition that they would like to visit, rather than being led by museum professionals or a technological perspective.As a sector, Cultural Heritage is traditionally very strong on providing an expert opinion, on everything from how a piece should be displayed - through to what the visitor needs to know. However, there are always multiple interpretations of museum objects. Disgust asks the visitor to explore this for themselves - and co-curate the exhibition, and the experiences they would like to have. Democratising the museum and freeing the visitor from the traditional authoritarian constraints within museums.This consultative process will offer audiences the chance to discuss and help to design the final exhibition design - which will then proceed to the next stage of research and development. This unprecedented input will mean that visitors are engaged and invested in the project, helping to share ownership and generate buy-in from current and potential future audiences."