Musealização do design: percursos e questões de representação em contexto expositivo in Museologia e Patrimônio

Abstract

Reflecting on the musealization of design, this article explores and considersquestions of poetics and politics of representations resulting from its specificity. What questionsare directed at the musealization and exhibition of design? This research is developed in thelight of the contemporary museological paradigm, considering and confronting differenttheoretical production on design museums and their historical paths, discussions,representations and different emerging fields. For its discursive relevance, an analysis ofmission statements adopted by different museums is included. Resulting from the diversecontents examined, it is possible to identify motivations that guide the action of designmuseums and their exhibition discourses, as well as the issues of representation which theyface. In this way, some of the complexities affecting discursive choices about musealizeddesign are flagged and there is room for reflection on relevancies, impacts and repercussionsconstructed by design museums representations.