Promotion: speakers from UNStudio, AMO, and the Venice Biennale share their insights on how architecture and design can be used to make transformative museum experiences during a Design Doha panel that can be streamed on Dezeen.
Named Enchanted Vessel: Museum as a design showcase, the panel formed part of Design Doha's talks event, the Design Doha Forum, and was dedicated to exploring the relationship between design and museums.
It brought together four leading practitioners from across exhibition design, curation and museum architecture: the director of architecture firm OMA's research studio, AMO, Samir Bantal; former Venice Biennale executive director and current Pritzker Prize Awards executive director Manuela Lucà-Dazio; architect and founder of UNStudio Ben van Berkel; and Qatar Museums director of central exhibitions Sheika Reem Al-Thani, who moderated the panel. The Enchanted Vessel panel looked at how design impacts museums
Van Berkel is currently working on the Dadu, Children's Museum of Qatar ? one of a group of museums currently under development in the country ? and spoke about the role of architecture in building successful contemporary museum environments.
He said that the most important part that architecture could play was to "engage the public so intensely" that they wanted to stay in the space where they've been drawn to see an object or exhibition.
In the Dadu, this had meant reflecting on the area's past and incorporating it into the design o...