Visual study of museum experiences : On visual organization of social space

2011 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 21530516
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Sociology
• Research Institution: Hitotsubashi University
• Principal Investigator: YASUKAWA Hajime 一橋大学, 大学院・社会学研究科, 教授 (00200501)
• Project Period (FY): 2009 – 2011
• Keywords: 視覚社会学 / ヴィジュアル・スタディ / 美術館来館者 / 画像データベース写真誘出インタビュー / フォト・ヴォイス / ヴィジュアル・ナラティヴ

Research Abstract

This is a sociological visual study, whose theme is to propose a model of museum visitor study focusing on visitors' discrete experiences. Visitors photographed an exhibition respectively and were interviewed on their images. Images and narratives were accumulated into an image database, through which it was attempted to represent museum experiences collectively and discretely. A part of outcome was displayed immediately in museum, which showed a possibility of "action-research-like "development : making the research project an amplifier of museum experiences. One of unresolved task is the working-out of interpretation method of visual narratives.