This might be the book that Jenna mentioned but I found it online, well part of the book (some pages are missing).
Monday, February 22, 2010
Book on collecting
http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=8ImNb0Gflh0C&oi=fnd&pg=PP8&dq=Anthropological+study+on+collecting&ots=3c02UAFUlG&sig=wBExL2pKaDjQcnM413-UhbAJneo#v=onepage&q=&f=true
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Agenda - Feb. 17
Agenda for Feb. 17
1. discuss individual research topics
2. discuss comments from Monday
3. develop concept map
4. draft answers to planning checklist
5. discuss team schedule
1. discuss individual research topics
2. discuss comments from Monday
3. develop concept map
4. draft answers to planning checklist
5. discuss team schedule
Monday, February 15, 2010
Some research on 'why collect souvenirs'
Most examples of personal stories (oral histories):
'youvenirs' symbolizing collecting things on trips that you experienced like ticket stubs, etc.
http://www.gadling.com/2009/02/20/do-you-collect-souvenirs-or-youvenirs/
Tips on how to choose what to collect on travels: http://www.howtodothings.com/travel/how-to-buy-souvenirs-in-your-travels
Some personal accounts: http://www.tripcrazed.com/714443175/things-you-collect-while-traveling/ and http://lavieenchina.wordpress.com/2009/07/31/favorite-travel-souvenirs-collecting-memories-from-abroad/
Center for the History of Collecting in America at the Frick Museum (might have some more resources): http://www.frick.org/center/
Saturday, February 13, 2010
Collector Culture
Here are the links I've been checking out for my "assignment" this weekend.
- http://www.collectors.org/
- http://www.msjudith.net/other/040599.htm <-- interesting article about why her grandmother was a bit of a hoarder
- http://www.nationalpsychologist.com/articles/art_v16n2_2.htm
- http://www.wordnik.com/lists/types-of-collectors <-- not all of the "types" of collectors have definitions listed. i'm going to do my best to find more.
- http://comicbooks.about.com/od/collectingcomics/a/investcomics.htm <-- this article is about comic book collecting. however, i think that the descriptions of types are pretty applicable to all collectors.
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_popular_collectibles <-- has some info on what specific types of collectors are called. example: oology is collecting eggs.
- http://www.collectors.com/ <-- authentication/appraisal service for the serious collector.
I'm going to continue doing research and will have more extensive notes to add later on. Just wanted to keep everybody posted on how my awesome Saturday night is going!
Lastly, I leave you with this previously promised little gem...
Thursday, February 11, 2010
February 11 meeting notes
Brainstorming ideas for: big idea, mission, look and feel … etc …
Human nature
- We have been collecting since hunting and gathering days
- Why do we do things? Interesting question!
- Individual cultures collect and cultures collect differently, but it is something that unites us
- Anthropology
Science
- Non-human animals collect too: like birds collect things to make nests out of
- What are the scientific aspects of collecting?
- Scientific data?
- Anything in the human genome?
- How do we know it is innate?
- Body stores sugar in time of nothing (explains diabetes in poverty)
Travel
- Traveling to collect a specific thing
- Collecting a souvenir to remember a travel experience
Intangibles
- People collect more than just objects: friends, memories, experiences, culture …
- Memory is a thing that can be collected
- Collecting knowledge; learning is collecting.
- What do you collect on the journey of life?
Misc.
- Ryerss story doesn’t need to be in there at all, we got hung up on that …
- But, we need to make sure that we can connect our concepts/ideas/themes to objects in the Ryerss collection
Site for exhibition:
- Somewhere between science and history
- Like in a natural history/natural science museum
Look and feel
- Set up like marketplace
- Like an old natural history museum with labels and pins?
- Lots of cabinets, junk drawers
Ideas:
- Collecting as a way people are connected
- Strategies to collecting
- Names for people who collect certain things …
- Ways of labeling, organizing
- Many different ways of categorizing
- Social groups are a subset of collecting
- People want to be part of a social group
- People collect connections, family …
- Status
- Need of collecting for survival
- Collectors throughout history (think Noah)
- How do you get stuff?
- hoarding vs. collecting – what’s the difference?
- Extreme collecting vs light collecting
- World’s fair
- Mementos from famous places
- Reyerss museum: collects personal items and displays them
- Furniture
- Facebook!
- Advertising: “collect all 5!”
- Collecting for basic human needs
- Your body collects without you even realizing it
- Song from A Little Mermaid!
Brainstorming subthemes
Aspects of collecting/ways to think about collecting.
- quantity
- quality
- authenticity
- by country
- by theme
- by material: what’s it made of?
- nature
- history
- biology
- anthropology
Brainstorming Target Audience
When you are taught anthropology in grade school, they don’t call it that
Middle school? High school? Elementary school?
Do we want to identify a specific age?
Connection to standards? Curriculum?
Is “family” one or two audiences?
Could be “family” or “kids” and “adults
The exhibition will have lots of stuff that grandparents would have had
Brainstorming Goals and Objectives
- Visitors will walk away with an appreciation of material culture
- Make connections with people around the world.
Common bond of collecting…
- Will think about how they collect in their own lives.
- Self-recognition/self-reflection of their own collecting behavior
- Visitors will interact with others – sharing, talking about, making connections,
Team goals and objectives: how are we working as a team to achieve our visitor goals and objectives?
February 8 meeting notes
Draft Big Ideas
1. Why do we collect?
2. Personal journeys create meanings in objects
3. Collecting is timeless
Draft Mission Statements
1. Visitors will question the meaning of collecting objects and the choices they make when collecting
2. Visitors will question how they give meaning to the objects they collect.
3. Visitors will explore how culture and temporal context give objects personal meaning.
Ideas:
1. Some are authentic, some are not: how do you know? Authenticity?
2. How do you choose what you want to collect?
3. Re-create a room: how did she displays the objects?
4. How does display matter? Lots of stuff all together vs an object on its own?
5. Travel methods: luxury vs not-luxury?
6. Collecting culture
7. What do you do with the things you collect?
8. People collect today for the same reasons they did then. But some is different
9. Similarities and differences to now
10. Archaeology
“Journey” can mean a lot of different things
Physical travel: Victorian, her story …
Purchasing of objects: market, centennial (compare to a mall?)
Travel for a purpose vs. someone who comes across it and falls in love with it
Centennial expo as a way of travel = window to the world
Like the internet today
What are museums?
We collect stuff
Museums are collections of stuff
Museums are collections of culture
Will we understand museums better?
What did she do with her objects? Museum.
What do we do with our stuff?
Basket people making baskets = art
Pot people making baskets = not art: making money off of tourists
What’s the difference? To her? To them? To us?
For the general feel of the exhibit:
What did she experience on her trip?
Feel of then vs. feel of now
Set in Victorian times, with little off-set panels for modern day stuff
Overwhelming
Bright colors
Clutter, like natural history museum
Stuff. Looking through stuff. Where’s Waldo? Busy.
Feel of natural lighting
Interactives
Post-cards for the visitors
“money” to buy and choose stuff with
Why do we care?
Glamour of travel?
Exotic trip
People want to travel
Travel and methods etc may have changed, but the collecting is the same.
Concept of journey is something people then share with people today
From in class:
Personal collections. We all are collectors in some form.
Where do we put things? What do we do with them?
On display in homes
On fridge
In museums
Educate the public
Basis of museums is collection
If you go somewhere, and don’t take an object, you are still collecting … ? What are you collecting? Collecting memories.
What makes it a collection? As compared to accumulation, bunch of junk …
How has definition of collection changed over time?
Is it about what you bring back to share about your trip and/or your personal identity?
Travel does not have to be around the world.
Relation between objects, meaning, time and place, context
February 3 meeting notes
Brainstorming Notes:
Topic ideas to explore:
- Kitschy travel souvenirs, we collect souvenirs when we travel
- What does this say about us, and about what we think about other places?
- Why do we collect? Why do we travel?
- What sorts of things were popular to collect? What sorts of things are popular to collect now?
- Similarities and differences between collecting then and now
- Connect Victorian culture to now through common theme of collecting souvenirs: it is relevant to today while still being about the objects collected in the Victorian era
- How were things carried? How did objects travel? How did people travel?
- Exhibition could look like a marketplace, visually overwhelming, stuff everywhere, variety of colors, shapes, things …
- How do objects become meaningful? What objects become meaningful? What gives objects meaning?
- Kitschy things can be put in a museum and they don’t look so kitschy anymore
- Mary Ann was “collecting culture” as she traveled. This is something we still do today. Buying things when we travel.
- Collecting souvenirs as part of collecting experiences? Collecting memories?
- How do collections start?
- Travel component is important
- Why are we fascinated by stuff from elsewhere? (otherness, Orientalism, history of museums)
- For people who can’t travel, think about: general obsession with objects, what do we keep?
- We don’t know what of the collection is real, authentic, where it all came from, was any of it acquired at auctions? She bought some stuff in the place where it’s from, but some of it was acquired at the Centennial Exhibition.
Brainstorm location for exhibition:
- Airport (actually, physically in an airport) Animal!
- Train station (i.e., 30th Street, Union Station)
- How much do we have to plan the travel route of the exhibition? Not all places have major transportation centers.
- Does it have to go to the same kind of venue each place it goes?
- Who is the target audience? Travelers. But we also want our exhibition to be a destination. And we want people who can’t travel to be interested.
Brainstorm activities:
- Duty free zone
- How do you choose what to buy in the gift shop?
- Where have you been?
- What do you collect?
More brainstorming notes:
Big Ideas: Travel, journey (of people and of objects).
One goal: Visitors will question the meaning of their personal collections.
Context determines whether or not an object is valuable. Do people who make kitschy souvenirs think they are making something valuable? But it is valuable when you take it home.
How understanding of culture has changed over time.(Seeing objects brought back from somewhere else used to be the primary way of learning about culture)
Culture is shared through sharing of objects
Collecting experiences. Representing these experiences with objects.
Collecting experiences = creating yourself
A person’s journey to acquire an object gives the object personal meaning.
What about people who travel to a specific place with the specific purpose of acquiring something specific?
What’s the difference between travelling to a place to personally buy an object vs. buying from a dealer?
deliverables for Monday Feb 15
Big Idea: Collecting is part of human nature.
Mission Statement: Visitors will explore the habits and history of collecting while engaging with objects and each other.
Exhibition Goals:
· Visitors will leave with an understanding of how collecting is part of human nature.
· Visitors will look at their own collecting habits in a new way
· Visitors will make connections with others
· Visitors will expand their understanding of what a collection is.
Visitor Objectives:
· Visitors will be able to articulate many different ways that people collect
· Visitors will engage with the exhibit to identify what kind of collector they are.
· Visitors will engage with the exhibition in a social way.
Team Goals:
· To inspire intergenerational sharing of experiences.
· To push ideas and think outside the box
· To remain positive.
Team Objectives:
· Using the Ryerss collection to illustrate collecting habits
· Will accurately represent the viewpoints of a number of disciplines, including science, history, and anthropology
Target Audience:
· Primary Audience: Families with kids with kids in elementary through middle school, up to about 13 or14 years old
· Secondary audience: Adults (parents, grandparents, adults without kids)
Possible location: natural history or anthropology museum, such as the National Geographic Museum in DC
Walk-aways
Wow, that’s me
Oh, I do that
That’s so me
Huh.
I used to have a thing like …
When I was a kid …
I never really thought about it that way
Look at this!
That’s so Great Aunt Betty
This looks like grandma’s apartment
We should come back with Uncle Joe
I didn’t realize how long people have been collecting …
I didn’t realize collecting has been going on for so long …
This is so much more fun than the mall!
Object List
From 11 Feb Meeting
Objects to represent quantity: Snuff bottles Shoes Dolls Boats Ivory Figurines Statues Trinkets Objects to represent social aspects: Pieces of coliseum/ great wall (status) Family China Portraits Objects to represent travel: Souvenirs *something to illustrate authentic vs fake? Objects to represent human nature/science: Weapons Arrow heads Geodes Rocks/Shells Objects to represent the history of collecting: Worlds Fair – Buddha/Japanese Objects to represent ‘collector’s items’: Teapots
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Gestalt
Any changes???? This is supposed to be the "personality" of the exhibition.
To your right, vendors are yelling, bartering with each other. With a quick turn of your head you see a woman beating the rugs hanging from the lines of her tent. A small child tugs at your leg toting a basket of bright red flowers. Kids run through the street yelling at one another. You stop to smell incense lining a table in their own individual blue boxes, and see the oranges and purples of vegetables on the stand ahead. The rich colors and activity of people around you is stimulating your curiosity, but you move on so you can take in everything. You’re looking for something that will tell a good story.
The marketplace is just beginning to awake in the morning light, and you can feel the warmth of the sun, and the number of bodies beginning to fill the bizarre. The sun reflects off the numerous metallic objects hanging, waiting to be purchased. Objects are stored in jars, boxes and cabinets. Drawers are waiting to be opened. You begin to feel overwhelmed when you notice a religious icon that will fit in your growing collection. The inevitable hunt for this trophy has been won.
Research
http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/antiques_and_collectibles/109502
http://www.coinlink.com/Articles/tips-for-new-collectors/why-do-we-collect-things/
http://www.chicagonow.com/blogs/art-talk-chicago/2009/07/why-do-we-collect-by-dawoud-bey.html
http://www.nationalpsychologist.com/articles/art_v16n2_2.htm - collecting vs. hoarding, if i collect this i am a what?
http://www.coinlink.com/Articles/tips-for-new-collectors/why-do-we-collect-things/
http://www.chicagonow.com/blogs/art-talk-chicago/2009/07/why-do-we-collect-by-dawoud-bey.html
http://www.nationalpsychologist.com/articles/art_v16n2_2.htm - collecting vs. hoarding, if i collect this i am a what?
Swell Stuff
Swell stuff list:
- turkish corner
- shelving with things on
- maketplace
- buying at the end
- is it real?
- duty free
- placing in an airport
- meaning of travel
- small things to very large things
- the internet as travel
- postcards
- other world fairs
- world fairs today
- posters from world fairs
- names of collectors
- turkish corner
- shelving with things on
- maketplace
- buying at the end
- is it real?
- duty free
- placing in an airport
- meaning of travel
- small things to very large things
- the internet as travel
- postcards
- other world fairs
- world fairs today
- posters from world fairs
- names of collectors
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Favorite Brainstorm Words
Mission votes
Explore
Collection
Interpret
Experience
Engage x2
Reyerss
Intrigue x2
Interact
Relate
Reinterpret x2
Context x2
Curiosity
Travel
World
Culture x2
Gorilla
Global
Object votes
Buddah x4
Teapots
Actor Statue
Ivory Taj Mahal
x2
Maps
Shoes
Geisha
Souvenirs
(Kitschy) x2
Personal Item
Rugs
Puppet Theater
Coral
Kimonos x3
Boat
Cognitive votes
Real World Applications x2
Diversity
Self-awareness
Cultures
Material Culture
x2
Personal Taste
Time & Space x2
Connection to
Objects x2
Preservation
Victorian Life x2
History
Family
Home
Visitation
Cultural
Awareness x4
Trade
Orientalism
Affect votes
Curiosity x4
Intrigue x2
Exposed to
Cultures x4
Immersed x2
Childlike
Involved
Delighted
Connected
Inspired
Smart
Stimulated
Overwhelmed x2
Explore
Collection
Interpret
Experience
Engage x2
Reyerss
Intrigue x2
Interact
Relate
Reinterpret x2
Context x2
Curiosity
Travel
World
Culture x2
Gorilla
Global
Object votes
Buddah x4
Teapots
Actor Statue
Ivory Taj Mahal
x2
Maps
Shoes
Geisha
Souvenirs
(Kitschy) x2
Personal Item
Rugs
Puppet Theater
Coral
Kimonos x3
Boat
Cognitive votes
Real World Applications x2
Diversity
Self-awareness
Cultures
Material Culture
x2
Personal Taste
Time & Space x2
Connection to
Objects x2
Preservation
Victorian Life x2
History
Family
Home
Visitation
Cultural
Awareness x4
Trade
Orientalism
Affect votes
Curiosity x4
Intrigue x2
Exposed to
Cultures x4
Immersed x2
Childlike
Involved
Delighted
Connected
Inspired
Smart
Stimulated
Overwhelmed x2
GMP Feb 1
Date: Monday February 1, 2010
Time: during class, about 6:00-6:30 (?)
Attendance: Kelly, Amy, Maggie, Jenna, Emily, Ian, Jessica
What we did:
- Brainstormed words: mission, objects, cognitive, affective
- Each individual team member voted on 3 favorites (noting to self: why)
- Compiled lists of favorites
What we need to do next:
- Go over skills inventory
- Discuss favorites of brainstorming words
- Brainstorm mission statements and big ideas
Deliverables:
· 3 mission statements
· 3 big ideas
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