DISCOVERING ARCHAEOLOGY” Exhibition proposal By Camilla Zucchi Content developer-archaeologist. Email: vyolet83@yahoo.it INTRODUCTION Further to challenging my previous experience as an archaeologist, researcher and content developer the development of this Major Project has enabled me to research and understand better the diversity of approaches for the content development for narrative environments and museum exhibitions in particolar. By focusing on the process of content development, I intend to outline a methodology that will help me define a new approach to it, both as a core to my major project and as a possible new career path. This will be based on the research material developed in my previous BA archaeological thesis analysed from a particular audience’s point of view and developed in view to become a “Travelling exhibition” who’s context will change with the different countries it could travel to. As a practical outcome I will test and record my approach to content and develop an exhibition proposal from it, based on a methodology inspired by narrative theories encountered during the MACPFNE. Because of time and other limiting factors, the main proposal will remain theoretical and will range in scale between an event, a focused experience or a fuller proposal for an exhibition within a theoretical location such as existing museums.
Bowls analysed in my BA thesis, “Iconography and Iconology of Isis the nurisher on Middle Eastern bowls and razors”, as content for my proposal. I have chosen, one of the bowls, the Cy5 from Salamina as an example of “material culture” and would like to imagine a possible exhibition-installation that would show the archaeological process applied to it. The topics of analysis will be, the geographical and historical context of discovery, the use and material function and the narrative on the bowl (iconologyiconography). Methodology I would like to apply the narrative theories and Narrative Environments experience gained during this year on the course as a possible methodology of analysis and display. By understanding the three elements of the story of the Bowl, I would like to show how these could be narrated in three different ways. Each topic will be shown in a different way as part of the installation.
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BOWL CY5 FROM SALAMINA
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