Design Strategies and the Representation of the Commonwealth: from Institute to Museum

这个项目为学生提供了一个机会，进行研究，在国家设计景观的重大发展不可或缺，因为设计博物馆计划从目前的沙德泰晤士位置移动到英联邦研究所建设，肯辛顿在2014年。该项目的目的是探索英联邦研究所的展示策略，并调查设计师如何通过建筑空间本身和详细的展示方法来解释英联邦的新政治形态。它将继续询问设计博物馆如何最好地居住在具有这种遗产的建筑物中，以及这种遗产如何在未来告知展示政策。这项调查的一个关键资产是所有与代表英联邦每个成员国的展示有关的图纸的生存，这些图纸构成了英联邦研究所内部的核心：这些现在构成了布莱顿大学詹姆斯加德纳档案馆的一部分。虽然陈列品本身已被销毁，但布莱顿的档案资源提供了一个关键政治时刻陈列策略的独特记录。因此，这个学生奖学金将带来一个机会，挖掘一个未开发的资源，并探讨其历史意义，设计博物馆的策展团队特别有兴趣与一位学生合作研究设计收藏品的展示，技术和政策;他们对学生在博物馆工作期间与他们一起进行这项研究的前景感到兴奋。2014年，布莱顿大学设计档案馆将在设计博物馆的新家举办一个档案材料展览，学生将在该项目的研究和策展元素中发挥关键作用。此外，设计博物馆和布莱顿大学设计档案馆有共同的兴趣和关注点。目前正在制定一项合作计划，这一奖学金将成为这种关系和两个伙伴之间长期对话的重要组成部分。事实上，布莱顿充满活力的研究文化以及在相关领域（例如去殖民化、记忆、博物馆学、遗产研究和设计史）工作的学生和工作人员的存在，为开展这项研究提供了一个支持性和刺激性的环境。该大学与V&A和亨利摩尔研究所有着长期的合作关系，并在博物馆领域将学术专业知识与策展专业知识相结合方面有着良好的记录。对学生来说，接触两个不同机构的研究文化是一个有吸引力和宝贵的机会。对英联邦研究所的联合研究显示，独特的记录位于布莱顿大学设计档案馆，以及设计博物馆本身的历史和背景，其目的是，作为该项目的一部分进行的研究将为设计博物馆搬迁到2014年，英联邦研究所。

This project presents an opportunity for a student to undertake research integral to a major development in the national design landscape, as the Design Museum plans its move from its current Shad Thames location to the Commonwealth Institute building, Kensington in 2014. The aim of the project is to explore the display strategies at the Commonwealth Institute and to investigate how designers interpreted the new political formation of the Commonwealth through the architectural space itself and by way of detailed display methodologies. It will go on to ask how the Design Museum might best inhabit a building with this heritage and how such a legacy might inform display policy in the future. A key asset to this investigation is the survival of all the drawings pertaining to the displays representing each member state of the Commonwealth which formed the nucleus of the Commonwealth Institute interior: these now form part of the James Gardner Archive at the University of Brighton. Though the displays themselves have been destroyed, the archival resource at Brighton offers a unique record of display strategy at a key political moment. Thus this studentship will bring about an opportunity to mine an untapped source and to explore its historical significance, and to contribute in a direct way to debate the Design Museum's future policy and the role of design in representing Britain's relationships with other countries and its former colonies particularly.The curatorial team at the Design Museum is especially interested in working with a student to research design collection display techniques and policies; they are excited by the prospect of the student undertaking this research alongside them while based at the museum. An exhibition of the archival material from Brighton is to be held at the Design Museum in its new home in 2014, and the student would play a key role in the research and curatorial elements of the project.Moreover, the Design Museum and the University of Brighton Design Archives have common interests and concerns. A plan of collaborative working is under development and this studentship would form an important part of that relationship and the longer-term dialogue between the two partners. Indeed, the energetic research culture at Brighton and the presence of students and staff working in associated areas, for example, de-colonisation, memory, museology, heritage studies, and design history, offers a supportive and stimulating environment in which to conduct this study. The university has a longstanding relationship with the V&A and the Henry Moore Institute and a good track record in uniting academic expertise with curatorial expertise in the museum sector. For students, access to the research cultures of two different institutions is an attractive and valuable opportunity.Conjoining research on the Commonwealth Institute displays, unique records of which are located within the University of Brighton Design Archives, and the history and background of the Design Museum itself, the intention is that research undertaken as part of this project will inform strategies for the inaugural collection display when the Design Museum moves to the Commonwealth Institute in 2014.