Laurie Waller
Research student BA MSctel:+44 (0)20 7919 7707
Email: sop03aw@gold.ac.uk
Museums, objects and curatorial practices; science and technology studies; ethnography; social theory and philosophy; participation and political theory; the public understanding of science.
Research interests
I am currently undertaking an ethnographic study in a national museum. The focus of the study is on the involvement of lay persons in the curation process, called co-curation. I am interested in exploring how the use of co-curation can be thought of as an experiment. The study will also look at the ways in which participants engage, and are engaged, with the objects in the museum's collections. The ethnographic field work will feature a participatory dimension as I join a group of laptop musicians to co-curate an exhibition based on the life and work of electronic sound pioneer Daphne Oram. Through participating in the co-curation process I intend to explore in the ways in which what is produced and exhibited might be thought of as a research output.