[...] One thing is certain, in a period of increasing virtuality, museums continue to offer a unique opportunity for us to experience objects at first hand, stimulating our taste, sensibility and a more critical and active unserstanding ; interweaving the cognitive, emotional and sensitive aspects of our being. [...]
[...] The collection, initially made up of around 600 equipment and fashion design pieces, and currently with 2500, maps out the history of our taste and forms from 1930s to the present day. [...]
[...] Today, we are living at a time when design is increasingly present a global concept, communicating images and ideas, psychological associations, values or feelings, posing ethical, social or ecological questions, having recquired a poetic transcendenting (strict) functionality. [...]
[...] It must be a space that allows for personal contact with the most signifiant objects in the history of design, icons of their time, unique attemps to (re)invent the everyday world and that still make us think about our present and future. [...]
Barbara Coutindo (MUDE museum director / Liboa)
We were in Lisboa in the beginning of October and we visited the permanent exhibition in the MUDE, or Museum of Design. The students participated with real concentrated and interestet.
So, maybe we can use some phrases selected from the catalogue introduction and ask the students to :
1/ translate the text
2/ write a personnal dealing about their feeling about their visit of MUDE, using the vocabulary of the text handed out.
-->3/ read their text to the class. In fact, we can record these speeches could even be recorded as video-clips.
