Hello everyone.

Can you hear me if I think you can
like to go ahead and get started.

Although I suspect that people will
be filing in in some numbers over

the next fifteen or twenty minutes.

So don't mind that
activity at the back but

I'm delighted to see you all here right
at the beginning of the symposium.

My name is Laura Hall and
green I'm going to so

see a professor in the school
of architecture here and

I wanted to tell you a little bit
about the genesis of the symposium and

the structure of it and give you
a couple of logistical details for

the morning and then we'll get started.

As a new faculty member here last
fall I began to prepare a course that

I'm currently teaching on the history and
theory of museum design and.

In the course of that preparation
came to see him to discover how

many other people at
Georgia Tech have worked on or

were working on aspects of museums some as

historians like me some as
scholars of design discourse

the development of building types
some within museum operations and

some actually designing New Zealand's or

exhibition environments so I wanted to put
all of those resources that expertise.

At the disposal of my students.

And also allow those of us doing this work
to get to know each other better because

often I think that work is done in it
more isolation than should be the case.

So this event came out of
that that desire to inform

ourselves about about this knowledge and
knowledge generation here at Georgia Tech.

We have six presentations this morning.

With two breaks that intervene to allow
you to grab a cup of coffee outside and

also perhaps to engage
the speaker's individua.

If you have questions or things you'd
like to follow up on with them.

I decided to ask Cindy BOWDEN
of the one museum professional

on the roster of speakers to speak first
it seemed to me that the perspective

of the person responsible for
safeguarding a collection for

developing exhibitions conceiving
of them developing them.

And the person responsible for

talking with designers about how
those plans can be realized.

Physically but
that should come first and that made.

Made sense as the beginning
of the symposium.

Will then move to John Folan who
will talk about his work for

this the Sony an institution.

What it's like working for a client
like that with its very particular.

Regulatory and fiscal conditions and

its cultural prestige as
a national institution and

I think he may give us a sense
of the of what a big project

like a new facility for Air and Space
Museum is like sort of from soup to nuts.

Right.
The programming site selection and

then the detailed work of the architect
exploring materials working

to optimize structure working to stay
within budget all of those things so

that will be a longer talk of fifty or
sixty minutes.

Coming up second.

Then after a brief break we will come back
to colleagues here at Georgia Tech John

proponents and the money worth working
with in the field of space syntax

analysis a methodology that can be
applied to the spatial configuration

of different building Titan even
different urban environments that

allows us to evaluate how
particular museum configurations

conducive to the construction of
experience and knowledge in the news.

That is the facilitate
the take away knowledge and

memory of museum experience and so

John will speak I think more generally and
then we'll focus that analysis

to a museum in our own front yard
the High Museum here in Atlanta.

And then finally we will
have after a second break.

Carrie Bruce Cary is a research
scientist here at Georgia attacked

in the field of assistive technology and
so she will be talking about the ethic

the design ethic of universal design and
the effort to truly realize

the promise of democratic access to
museums for all members of our society.

And there are particular strategies that
I think she'll talk about that that will

be of interest to you.

And finally we end with Ruth do so.

Ruth is an Atlanta based artist.

She is artist in residence here in the
College of Architecture at Georgia Tech

and she will be talking about
artists who have Fema ties to

museum experience or
museum conditions in their work that has

people who've reflected on what we
bring to use Iams as visitors and

what they expect of us and artists
who have brought that into their work

so I'm hoping that we time after each
presentation to have a discussion in here.

If we're running short of time those
discussions can certainly continue

outside and I hope they will.

One or two last comments before
I turn it over to Cindy.

This has begun as a a local event because
I'm a new person to Atlanta and so

I'm still accumulating the connections
that would allow a broader purview.

But it has been suggested to me that
this could be a perennial event and

so if that's something you think would be.

Interesting and useful and
if you have ideas for topics or

speakers who might be canvassed for

future events please let me know I would
be happy to follow up on those and

broaden the circle to include more museum
professionals from Atlanta people from

design firms here in town who are working
on museums and exhibition design and

the faculty members at other institutions
so I am delighted to receive any of your

suggestions and you have my email
address on the back of the program.

If you'd like to get in touch
with me after the symposium or

certainly in person today.

And finally the coffee and tea will
be refresh outside before the break.

So please take advantage
of of that as you can.

And I would like you to like to invite
you to tour the architecture building

if you're here from off campus you're
not from the from Georgia Tech take

a few minutes after the symposium or at
whatever point you leave to stroll through

this building in the adjacent building or
the core architecture buildings.

You can peek into studios you
can see work on display and

get a sense of what it is we do here.