Planning for the Future Right Now: Riskscapes in Conserving Contemporary Design

Barack, Sarah; Radin, Ben Fino; Lipps, Andrea; Walthew, Jessica

doi:10.1080/01971360.2020.1796377

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“… 23. Small Data Industries, “Designing the Future” and Sarah Barack, Jessica Walthew, Cass Fino-Radin, and Andrea Lipps, “Planning for the Future Right Now: Riskscapes in Conserving Contemporary Design,” Journal of the American Institute for Conservation , 60, no. 2–3, (2021): 115–27, available at: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01971360.2020.1796377. …”

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Defining Digital Design in the National Collection

Walthew,

Lipps,

Rogers

2024

Collections: A Journal for Museum and Archives Professionals

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As the national design collection of the United States, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York City is dedicated to historical and contemporary design with a collection of over 215,000 objects. Since its founding in 1897 as the Cooper Union Museum for the Arts of Decoration, its collection departments have been defined taxonomically by materials. In 2022, the museum created a new collecting department for the first time in its history, acknowledging that Digital collections represent a separate “material.” The introduction of a Digital department stakes a claim that digital design is itself a separate discipline with its own needs of collections management, curation, and conservation. Digital design as both process and product is now pervasive throughout design fields and the collection will continue to grow as the museum strives to represent contemporary design practice. While the museum’s early digital collecting came from a lineage of graphic design and typography, this article discusses the challenges inherent in developing new taxonomies, typologies, classifications, and collections management and preservation processes.

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Defining Digital Design in the National Collection

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2024

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Considerations in Acquisition of 3D-Printed Art

Hamilton,

Oleksik

2024

Journal of the American Institute for Conservation

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Experimentation and collecting practice: balancing flexible policies and accountability in developing born-digital museum collections

Arrigoni

McKim

2022

Museum Management and Curatorship

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This article engages with current approaches to collecting born-digital objects in museums of art and design and reflects on the analysis of two case studies concerned with the acquisitions of a virtual reality artwork and a mobile app. The authors point to their non-standard preservation requirements and their unconventional objecthood to advocate for the value of adopting an experimental attitude to collecting. The case studies invite us to reconsider experimentation within the context of sensitive dialogic processes with creators and users who are unfamiliar with the conventions of museum collecting. Hence, the boundaries of experimentations are developed in relation to existing policies, organisational structures and practices, and defined by the stakes of multiple actors. To conclude, the authors argue that collecting institutions should prioritise building capacity and understanding needs and requirements for this emergent type of object, and embrace uncertainty over the imperative of long-term preservation in its fullest sense.

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Planning for the Future Right Now: Riskscapes in Conserving Contemporary Design

Cited by 4 publications

References 6 publications

Defining Digital Design in the National Collection

Defining Digital Design in the National Collection

Considerations in Acquisition of 3D-Printed Art

Experimentation and collecting practice: balancing flexible policies and accountability in developing born-digital museum collections

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