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| Autore principale: | Spada, Roberta.
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| Titolo: | Museum artefacts of technoscience : media history, curation and narratives about 1930s radio objects in the Italian national science and technology / Roberta Spada. |
| Note: | Tesi di dottorato in Design, XXXVI ciclo, Politecnico di Milano, Museo nazionale della scienza e della tecnica Leonardo Da Vinci, 2024 Tutor: Stefano Crabu, Gabriele Balbi, Simona Casonato, Paolo Volonté |
| Abstract: | How do science and technology museums and heritage participate in co-shaping the nexus between science, technology, and society? This dissertation investigates science and technology museums as performative institutions that co-produce technoscience. Standing at the intersection of Science and Technology Studies (STS), Museum studies, and Media history, this research considers museum artefacts as artefacts in the STS sense. The museal technoscience that I investigate are what I call "technoscientific narratives": narratives about the history, present, and future of science and technology that are crafted both publicly and privately within the museum assemblage. This research takes place at the Museo nazionale scienza e tecnologia "Leonardo da Vinci" (MUST) based in Milan, and asks what narratives about Italian radio technologies were presented at the MUST through three objects from 1930s Italy and the communities that revolved around them, as well as the ways and conditions in which the MUST constructed and enacted technoscientific narratives. [...] The media objects that I analyse belong to the media industry sectors of production, distribution, and consumption and are: a microphone from Radio Corporation of America dated 1935 and donated to the MUST in 2021; the 50-kW radio transmitter from the EIAR-Rai broadcasting station of Siziano, dated 1932 and donated in 1972; and a reproduction of Guglielmo Marconi's magnetic detector in a cigar box dated around the 1930s and donated by the MUST founder in 1956. Through a qualitative approach, I consider the three objects and their biographies as case studies informing three research questions [...]. On one hand, I reconstruct the objects biographies, to understand the practice from the inside and to produce a historical account of the objects. On the other hand, I follow the objects into their museum life, which involves everything that happened after the entrance of the object in the museum collections, to analyse three object-based practices that lie at the heart of museal technoscience: collection, curation, and exhibition. The findings show how the emergence and the performance of technoscientific narratives is co-produced with the practices of collection, curation, and exhibition as well as with museal artefacts. Objects can activate different processes and practices depending on the context, and narratives respond to materiality and emerge from it. Ultimately, this dissertation contributes to our understanding of the role of museums as sites of knowledge production and dissemination, highlighting how materiality lies at the foundation of cultural discourses around technoscience, not only within museums (where materiality is evidently at the centre of practices) but in all kinds of settings where such discourses are publicly performed |
| Altri autori: | Crabu, Stefano.
Balbi, Gabriele. Casonato, Simona. Volonté, Paolo. Politecnico di Milano. Museo nazionale della scienza e della tecnica Leonardo da Vinci (Milano). |
| Collezione tematica: | Tesi di dottorato di interesse storico-scientifico (Italia).
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