Research On The Design Of Intangible Cultural Heritage Exhibition

Intangible cultural heritage(ICH)represents the product of pre-industrial era.Due to the transformation of our way of living and production,the heritage is on the verge of extinction.However,the arrival of post-industrial era makes people realize the spiritual and social crisis facing them bought by the industrial revolution.In particular,East Asian countries such as China,Japan and South Korea are increasingly anxious over their own cultural state.Against this backdrop,ICH is playing a critical role in shaping the current state for individuals and establishing cultural identity for a nation.As an important means of cultural reconstruction and transmission,exhibition currently is one of the ways that make general public accessible to the heritage,but it is confronted with a number of challenges.Among these challenges,the most prominent is the solo exhibition mechanism of traditional museums leads to decoupling ICH exhibitions from social reality.Based on the reflection of ICH exhibitions in domestic museums and relevant researches,the author,by introducing narratology into exhibition research,revolves around the functions and features of ICH exhibition in an effort to unfold discussions on the concepts and methodology of ICH exhibitions.First,from synchronic and diachronic perspective,the author analyzes ICH's historical status and cultural values.After that,ICH features are outlined,including immateriality,non-character and time-based,and the relationship between things and things,between persons and things,between persons and persons,between persons and records and between records and records are also explored.As institutions of traditional museums only fits cultural relics,they cannot meet ICH exhibition's complex,live and multi-layered needs.On this basis,the author draws on the diachronic method from narratology to explore how to build a sound relationship among persons,stories and things and set up a bridge between visitors and above-mentioned three elements.By virtue of the analysis of narrative perspective and internal relations,the author can form diverse perspectives in the ICH exhibitions including from exhibition designers,inheritors,visitors and original state,and a two-way open narrative structure between narrators and visitors.By comparing ICH exhibitions with novels,films and other narrative media,the author seeks to expound the space as a feature of the exhibition.On this basis,the author explores how to achieve narrative continuity in a weakly mandatory time-based exhibition sequence as the continuity is an essential condition for the introduction of immateriality.By dissecting narrative time in ICH exhibitions,the author finds the differences between time in narrative and time in current society and analyzes the differences between old cultural system in the pre-industrial era and cultural value system in modern times,pointing out the internal conflict between the clear,standard and science-based exhibitions and unclear,obscure and superstitious cultural characters.The purpose of the thesis is about how to build connections between visitors and ICH under the old cultural system in a bid to present the immateriality to visitors,with an ultimate goal to stress how important the ICH is in setting up cultural identity for an individual and even a nation.When identifying the superstitious factors in the ICH,the author redefines the role of visitors in the exhibition and holds the view that visitors' perceptual experience is a point of penetration for narrative in the exhibition.Sentiments triggered by narrative,imagination guided by on-site continuous scenes and unified elements in the exhibition enable visitors to experience the full narrative story.Based on analyzing ICH exhibition narrative,the author proposes specific needs and strategies for exhibitions and pinpoints how collection departments,exhibition departments,mass work department and museum offices limit ICH exhibitions and how indispensable it is to put in place exhibition designer institution.Finally,the author needs to emphasize that the exhibition cannot provide a corresponding norm.Instead,the author aims to tell exhibition designer to notice these unfound elements and relations in traditional exhibitions.Through the integrated use of research methods from design science,sociology,anthropology,folklore and history,the author hopes ICH exhibition can go beyond solo and outdated exhibition method so as to achieve ICH functions and values in modern society.