The Spiral as concept and as metaphor

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  • David Anderson

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https://doi.org/10.5617/nm.3470

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Professor Patrick Geddes, perhaps the greatest of the early city planners and museologists in the United Kingdom, was commissioned by the Carnegie Trust in 1903 to put forward proposals to develop Carnegie’s home town, the City of Dunfermline. The report was inspired by a determination to infuse the whole city with the museum spirit, and museums with an awareness of the needs and interests of the ordinary inhabitants of the city. Geddes’ proposals are of relevance principally because of his determination to seek alternatives to the museums he saw around him. ”I have no faith in the educational value of the commonplace art museum with its metal masterpieces in a glass case and the smithy no where,” he wrote. ”This whole museum tradition, though still too largely in power, answers but to stamp- or scalp-collecting. Wherever real technical education is beginning, it centres on seeing and sharing the real work, and then applies the paper drawings and the collections of the old system to their right uses.” He stressed that he was aiming to create not Utopia but Eu-topia. 

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