I attended a workshop with my colleagues this week with James at the Talbot Rice Gallery on Writing didactic texts for Talbot Rice Gallery displays and exhibitions. The workshop provided insight into effectively writing educational texts for a non-specialist audience and corrected our vision. Over the past two weeks, despite working together as a group, our writing habits and presentation styles differed due to our respective cultural backgrounds, and our draft texts appeared to be overly narrative and critical rather than the ‘non-narrative’ that James had initially intended for us to present.
In addition to the workshop, we also came up with some new ideas for the exhibition programme, including:
– Use some objects in the exhibition so it doesn’t feel so text-heavy
– Create a walking tour
– Create a Walking guide map
– Create leaflets for visitors to take away
– Make our exhibition booklet
– To have a suggestion box
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Activities that we came up with
These exhibition activities are all feasible at this point, and the group has shown a great willingness to participate in designing these exciting ideas. We put extra effort into discussing the concept of a walking tour of the gallery and developing a booklet, and based on our previous research into the history of the gallery’s architecture and the uniqueness of the gallery’s Greek stone columns and bas-reliefs about the overall space, we proposed to mark the unique architectural design and design a tour route, taking into account the gallery floor plan that James had given us as a reference.
Talbot Rice Gallery will officially present the new exhibition next week, and we have great expectations for it.
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