Philippe Dubé

The Beauty of the Living1

Professor of museology at the University of Laval in Quebec, Canada, Philippe Dubé is currently interested in studying the practices of popular museology (for example, wax museums) and its display. In addition to contributing regularly to journals such as Muse, Musées, Museum Quarterly, MUSEUM International and Forces, he has published two books, Two Hundred Years of Holidays in Charlevoix (Deux cents ans de villégiature dans Charlevoix), Quebec, PUL, 1986 and Tattoo-Tattooed: History, Techniques and Tattoo Designs in French America (TatooTatoué: histoire, techniques, motifs du tatouage en Amérique française), Montreal, Jean Basile, 1980. He recently published, in collaboration with David Karel and Philippe Baylaucq, Marcel Baril – Engimatic Figure of Quebecois Art (Marcel Baril – Figure énigmatique de l‘art québécois), Quebec, PUL, 2002.

Museum, Motion and Emotion in the City

François Côté is co-founder and co-ordinator of the Laboratoire de Muséologie et d’Ingénierie de la Culture (LAMIC) at Laval University, Quebec, Canada. Philippe Dubé is currently heading a postgraduate museum studies programme at Laval University. Geoffrey Edwards is the Canada Research Chair in cognitive geomatics at Laval University. Marie Louise Bourbeau is a lyric artist who collaborates in research projects at the conjecture of the worlds of art and science.