“New Museum Design” 

Guest speaker: Laura Hanks

Biography

Laura Hanks is Associate Professor in the Department of Architecture and Built Environment at the University of Nottingham, where she teaches across the undergraduate and postgraduate programmes.  Her research interests include contemporary museum design, the architectural expression of identities and issues of narrative place making.  She has published chapters in Architecture and the Canadian Fabric (UBC Press, 2012), The Future of Museum and Gallery Design (Routledge, 2018) and Museum Making: Narratives, Architectures, Exhibitions (Routledge, 2012), which she also co-edited.  Notable among her other publications are Museum Builders II (John Wiley and Sons, 2004) and New Museum Design (Routledge, 2021).