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Participatory practices: inclusion, dialogue and trust in museums and academia
- 1. Participatory practices: inclusion, dialogue and trust in museums and academia Mia Ridgehttp://miaridge.com/ http://openobjects.org.uk/ @mia_out Helen Weinstein historyworks@gmail.comhttp://historyworks.tv/ @historyworkstv We Curate, Venice, 1 June 2013
- 2. ‘Here be dragons’ • The landscape • From knowledge transfer to knowledge exchange • Learning to let go • Challenging ‘curatorial practice’ • Some provocations
- 4. From ‘knowledge transfer’ to ‘knowledge exchange’
- 5. Etty in York
- 6. Learning to let go: true collaboration and engagement
- 8. Free Derry
- 10. Beamish: from nostalgia to contested pasts
- 14. Provocations ‘...If you invite people to really participate in the making of a museum, the process must change the museum.’ Daniel Spock (2009)
- 15. Provocations • Museums and... – The digital divide – Climate change and food security – 3D printers in homes – Globalism and localism – On-going financial crises – State eavesdropping and censorship – Fundamentalist religions; secularism • What are museums for in 2013?
- 16. Participatory practices: inclusion, dialogue and trust in museums and academia Mia Ridgehttp://miaridge.com/ http://openobjects.org.uk/ @mia_out Helen Weinstein historyworks@gmail.comhttp://historyworks.tv/ @historyworkstv We Curate, Venice, 1 June 2013
Editor's Notes
- Keynote for the We Curate event http://www.wecurate.org/ at Signum Foundation Palazzo Donà, Campo San Polo, Venezia on Participatory practices: inclusion, dialogue and trust in museums and academia
- FREE DERRY MUSEUM= EG OF COMMUNITY CURATION: WHERE THE MUSEUMS IN NORTHERN IRELAND PROBLEMATIC AND CURATION TOO SAFE OR PERCEIVED TO BE TAKING SIDES= SO THE FREE DERRY MUSEUM HAS BEEN CO-CURATED FROM THE START, SOURCING OBJECTS AND STORIES FROM THE DOMESTIC, SHOWING AND SHARING THE IMPACT OF THE TROUBLES ON FAMILY LIFE...= TAKE TROUBLES POSTER HERE: CONTENT IS POLITICAL AND CHALLENGING AND CONTESTED BUT OFFERS TALKING POINTS...http://www.museumoffreederry.org/history.html
- HERITAGE & MUSEUM SITES LEARNING TOO HOW TO LISTEN TO THEIR COMMUNITIES AND CHANGE THE POWER STRUCTURES OF THEIR CURATORIAL PRACTICE= BEAMISH HAD BEEN KNOWN FOR NOSTALGIC ATTITUDE TO THE INDUSTRIAL PAST= IT IS A "LIVING HISTORY MUSEUM" WITH COSTUMED REENACTORS PEOPLING THE ATTRACTIONS= YET IN NORTHERN ENGLAND BEAMISH IS INFACT ADJACENT TO COAL AND STEEL INDUSTRIES= DEPRIVATION AND UNEMPLOYMENT HAVE BEEN ACCUTE SINCE THATCHER YEARS= THIS IS A CONTESTED PAST AND PRESENT: NOT THEREFORE APPROPRIATE TO SHOWCASE THE COAL MINING VILLAGE AND ARTEFACTS AS A NOSTALGIA: AND REALLY ENGAGING WITH COMMUNITIES AND ALLOWING EVENTS AND EXHIBITIONS TO BE CO-CURATED HAS DEVELOPED A NEW ETHOS AT BEAMISH- SO CURATORS ARE ATTEMPTING TO CHANGE THE POWER RELATIONSHIP WITH THEIR PUBLIC: TO BE THE FACILITATORS FOR THE BEAMISH PROGRAMME NOW THAT SO MUCH OF THE CONTENT OF THE PROGRAMME IS DELIVERED VIA THEIR PARTICIPATORY PRACTICES- EG OF SILKWORTH: BEAMISH EVENT ABOUT THE COALSTRIKE AND EVICTIONS CO-CURATED BY LOCAL HISTORY GROUPShttps://es-la.facebook.com/BeamishLivingMuseum/posts/379924695366730
- References: http://georgiamuseum.org/art/exhibitions/on-view/deaccessioning-bernard-smolhttp://hyperallergic.com/72127/georgia-museum-of-art-crowdsources-a-deaccession-decision/http://gmoa.blogspot.com/2013/05/deaccessioning-bernard-smol.html
- Spock, Daniel. “Museum Authority up for Grabs: The Latest Thing, or Following a Long Trend Line?” Exhibitionist no. Fall (2009): 6–10.
- Keynote for the We Curate event http://www.wecurate.org/ at Signum Foundation Palazzo Donà, Campo San Polo, Venezia on Participatory practices: inclusion, dialogue and trust in museums and academia