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The space of the contemporary collection is typically designed to help the viewer read the object categories as rationally ordained. The room in which our exhibition of the modern paradigm is housed, the gallery of the College of Creative Studies, is a large, white, well-lit modernist box. Category headings are affixed to the wall in large letters. Wall labels are used extensively to explain the function of the objects and the parameters of the categories. The generous spacing between objects encourage the viewer to consider them as singular items, or as a part of a small group of functionally similar items. Legibility, functionalism, and rational clarity are the dominant aims of this display strategy.
(However the 360 degree view of this room uses a more irrational strategy, warping and multiplying the unitary perspective of the viewer.)
