Abstract
The design museum was a rising genre of museums in the late 1980s during a golden age of museums on an international scale. Along with the building boom of museums, with the advent of new museology and the notion of socially inclusive museums, museums become more visitor-oriented and inclusive. Based on Richard Sandell’s theory, this thesis argues that design museums can be seen as a form of social design to deal with social exclusion. It chooses two Asian design museums founded in recent years and explores how they use design as an assistive approach to achieve the goal of social inclusiveness and to what extent they achieve their objectives.
Keywords
social inclusion; design museums; social design
DOI
https://doi.org/10.21606/drs.2020.268
Citation
Wen, Q., and Ng, S. (2020) Inclusive Design Museums and Social Design, in Boess, S., Cheung, M. and Cain, R. (eds.), Synergy - DRS International Conference 2020, 11-14 August, Held online. https://doi.org/10.21606/drs.2020.268
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Inclusive Design Museums and Social Design
The design museum was a rising genre of museums in the late 1980s during a golden age of museums on an international scale. Along with the building boom of museums, with the advent of new museology and the notion of socially inclusive museums, museums become more visitor-oriented and inclusive. Based on Richard Sandell’s theory, this thesis argues that design museums can be seen as a form of social design to deal with social exclusion. It chooses two Asian design museums founded in recent years and explores how they use design as an assistive approach to achieve the goal of social inclusiveness and to what extent they achieve their objectives.