(gesellschaftliche Impulse werden) interaktiv verhandelt

English translation: interactively used

09:17 Jun 22, 2012
German to English translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Art, Arts & Crafts, Painting / museum website
German term or phrase: (gesellschaftliche Impulse werden) interaktiv verhandelt
I really can't get my head around this sentence this morning! Is anyone feeling more inspired?

"Das Museum versteht sich „als Kraftwerk“: Auf drei Etagen werden kreative und gesellschaftliche Impulse der Vergangenheit und Gegenwart gespeichert, vermittelt und interaktiv verhandelt."

Can you negotiate with an artwork?

Thanks!
Rachel Ward
United Kingdom
Local time: 19:11
English translation:interactively used
Explanation:
as per discussion entry

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Note added at 1 day7 hrs (2012-06-23 16:38:25 GMT)
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for clarity: the sparks of creative and social ideas?
Selected response from:

Kate Collyer
United Kingdom
Local time: 19:11
Grading comment
Thanks to everyone for your help! In the end my translation used elements of almost every suggestion, but Kate's point about the conceit of the whole paragraph was what got me on the right track.
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Summary of answers provided
4 +1presented in an interactive display
Helen Shiner
3 +1discussed/presented interactively
Michél Dallaserra
4interactively used
Kate Collyer
3discussed (interactively)
Steffen Walter
3visitors can engage with
mill2
3... and offered for active, and interactive, debate
Stephen Reader


Discussion entries: 7





  

Answers


6 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
discussed (interactively)


Explanation:
I'd rather use "to discuss" here (stored/archived, mediated and discussed) but am unsure as to how to render the "gesellschaftliche Impulse" (societal ?).

Steffen Walter
Germany
Local time: 20:11
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in GermanGerman
PRO pts in category: 31
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41 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
visitors can engage with


Explanation:
Just a suggestion to turn it around - the museum houses and presents these works, the public engages with them...

mill2
Local time: 20:11
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 4

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  Helen Shiner: But that is always the case. This calls for something more specific.
7 hrs
  -> point taken. I was just throwing something out to encourage turning the sentence around
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9 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +1
discussed/presented interactively


Explanation:
"Verhandeln" im Sinne von "diskutieren, behandeln, darstellen, präsentieren".

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Note added at 1 Stunde (2012-06-22 10:54:39 GMT)
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"Past und current creative and social trends" as a possible way ro render "kreative und gesellschaftliche Impulse".

Michél Dallaserra
Germany
Local time: 20:11
Native speaker of: Native in GermanGerman, Native in EnglishEnglish

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Susan Welsh: "presented interactively" - I don't think it's about discussion, but about interactive museum exhibits of some sort, which are very common nowadays, especially aimed at children. They would not be paintings.
1 hr
  -> Thanks for your useful input, Susan!
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2 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
presented in an interactive display


Explanation:
I think the point is that the display/exhibition is interactive not the presentation/discussion of it - they are not inviting visitors to engage interactively with the design of the show, just the show itself, if you like.

The gesellschaftliche Impulse will depend on context that you don't give. Social trends might be right as another asker has suggested. Or societal influences (on the arts, painting involved?). And I wouldn't use 'creative' - I think it must mean influences coming from the art world rather than the wider world.

Helen Shiner
United Kingdom
Local time: 19:11
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 275

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Stephen Reader: '...and put to public (or "the ((visiting)) public's") debate' - ? Think the interaktiv IS the 'ver-' i.e. 'be-' handeln
2 hrs
  -> Could be, Stephen, maybe the public gets to vote whether the Industrial Revolution inflected Impressionism or whether Goethe's theory of colour informed Turner's work, or something!! Guess more context would unravel this one...
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5 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
... and offered for active, and interactive, debate


Explanation:
... are archived ((or: stored, recorded...)), presented ((or 'conveyed' etc.)) and put ((or 'opened', etc.)) to active, and interactive, debate.
Eng-lang. museums/their edu. depts. like 'hands-on' for 'active' (& potentially, interactive).

Stephen Reader
Local time: 20:11
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Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 115
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1 day 6 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
interactively used


Explanation:
as per discussion entry

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Note added at 1 day7 hrs (2012-06-23 16:38:25 GMT)
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for clarity: the sparks of creative and social ideas?

Example sentence(s):
  • The museum sees itself as a power station: over three floors, creative and social sparks are stored, transmitted and (interactively) used
Kate Collyer
United Kingdom
Local time: 19:11
Works in field
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 8
Grading comment
Thanks to everyone for your help! In the end my translation used elements of almost every suggestion, but Kate's point about the conceit of the whole paragraph was what got me on the right track.
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