London, Asia, Exhibitions, Histories

Exhibiting Good Health: Public Health Exhibitions in London, 1948–71

This article examines the changing nature of public health services and their relationship with the public in post-war Britain by an analysis of the exhibitions mounted by Medical Officers of Health (MOsH) in London. Focusing on the period 1948-71, the article explores a time when public health practice, and the problems it faced, were in flux. A decline in infectious disease and an increase in...

Language and Genes Attest Different Histories in Island Southeast Asia

Recent work on autosomal DNA genetic variation across Southeast Asia suggests that genetic diversity largely reflects Pleistocene colonization by modern humans, and was not influenced to any significant degree by major cultural and linguistic changes during the mid-to-late Holocene (roughly, from ~5,000 years ago to the present). These results seemingly show that the spread of Austronesian lang...

Sparc Housing Exhibitions

Multimedia in Exhibitions

Towards Living Exhibitions

This thesis introduces the concept of living exhibitions: continuously evolving museum exhibitions that are cooperatively developed and evaluated by teams of museum professionals and visitor representatives. The author argues that the living exhibition design process should draw its inspiration from multiple resources, including current research on museum learning, interaction principles and te...