Programs, Past Meetings
xxii, Paris, 2017: What Works for What Object? Gestures, Savoir-Faire and Body Culture in Musems of Science and Technology
SUNDAY, 8 October, Musée des arts et métiers
13.00 Visit to the exhibition Les Meilleurs Ouvriers de France and performance MOF en scène:
des mots et des mains with Didier Ruiz
Salle de conférence, Musée des arts et métiers
15.00 Welcome Address: Yves Winkin
I. FROM USE TO PRODUCTON
Chair Yves Winkin
15:15 Tim Boon (Science Museum): "From Histories of Use to Gestures of Making" abstract
16.00 Keynote Address One
Otto Sibum (Uppsala University): "Gestural knowledge"
17.30 Tea
18.00 Laura Ronzon (Leonardo da Vinci) and Francesco Clerici: A cinema evening. "Handle with
care. The Story of an Object" abstract
20.00 Buffet Dinner in the Cafe des Techniques of the museum
MONDAY, 9 October
Salle de conférence, Musée des arts et métiers
II. RE-ENACTMENT/RECONSTUCTON
Chair: Tim Boon
9.00 Marta Ajmar (V&A museum): "Encounters on the Shop Floor" abstract
10.30 Coffee
11:00 Panel 1: Making visible the invisible technicians
Chair: Arnaud Dubois
Alexandra Rose and Jane Desborough (Science Museum): "London Science City: a gallery in the
making" abstract
Kristen Frederick-Frost (Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of American History): "Much ado about the dew of death: the past and current work practices revealed by a collection of chemical agents" abstract
Dirk van Delft (Museum Boerhaave): "Challenges towards a new museum"
12:30-13:30 Lunch
13.30 News Update from all Museums
14.30 Artefacts news, website and publications
15.30 Coffee Break
16:00 Panel two: Technical gesture and learning practices
Chair: Laura Rozon
Arnaud Dubois: "How to understand engineering sciences with the techniques
of the body: The case of the bridges collection of the Musée des Arts et Métiers explained by
circus acrobatics" abstract
Cathleen Lewis (Smithsonian Institution, National Air and Space Museum): "The Future of the Spacesuit Glove: Gestures,
Multinational Crews and Engineers" abstract
Artemis Yagou (Deutsches Museum): "Between Play and Work : developing professional skills and
attitudes through construction toys" abstract
17.30 Workshop : mini-MOF
Making and knowing technical gesture in the museum
19.30 Free. Dinner in Paris
TUESDAY, 10 October
Salle de conférence, Musée des arts et métiers
III. BODY CULTURE AND INTANGIBLE HERITAGE
Chair:
9.00 Brian Dewalt (Canada Science and Technology Museum): "The Surgical Touch: Exhibiting
Medicine Beyond the Historic Instruments" abstract
Simona Casonato (Leonardo da Vinci): "'See the ionization with your mind.' Narrated gestures in
the contemporary particle physics : an experiment in intangible heritage study" abstract
Katherine Ott (NMAH): "19th-Century Stomach Pumps and the Art
of Moving Fluids" abstract
Lionel Dufaux (Musée des arts et métiers): Ambulatory lecture
11.00 Coffee
11.30 Keynote Two
Chair: Robert Bud (Science Museum)
Klaus Staubermann (National Museums Scotland): "From Material Culture to Maker Culture - or
how can we can bring ‘things’ back to life" abstract
12.30 Concluding Address
Yves Winkin and Tim Boon
13.00 End of conference