Dear Stuart,
Thanks so much for the link – very interesting project indeed (crowd-sourcing in the humanities, see below).
Sorry, yes (it's funny what we take for granted and don't make clear, isn't it?) absolutely the question we're interested in is the role of the public – and of 'democracy' – in heritage decision making. The Co-Design project really aims to identify how we might research (Phase 2 of the project) the decision making implications of the participative (community engagement) turn in museum and heritage practice.
Stewardship in a heritage context is akin to the delegated authority to many different types of professionals – to make decisions on our behalf. It's been criticised so much because it, arguably, has the effect of using the excuse of the 'future' to preserve professional power now. So some questions we're turning over: To be democratic does heritage need to be more present-centric? How do might we more democratically address 'the needs of the future'?
So one thing to chuck in the mix here is the approach of environmental activists to drawing the rights of the future into present discussions :http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/damian-carrington-blog/2012/jan/04/climate-politics-future-generation-justice
For those who want to chip in on this – and be fab if you did – sign up for the CoDesign discussion list: www.jiscmail.ac.uk/CODESIGNHERITAGE<http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/CODESIGNHERITAGE>
Cheers again Stuart! Helen
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Date: Friday, 12 April 2013 10:14
To: "[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>" <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>>
Subject: Re: AHRC Co-Design project: 'How should decisions about heritage be made?'
All,
Thanks for this interesting discussion. I wonder what the role of the public/visitors/audiences is in the making of such decisions. It might be interesting to look at this in the context of crowd-sourcing, the subject of our own Connected Communities research review (http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/Funding-Opportunities/Research-funding/Connected-Communities/Scoping-studies-and-reviews/Documents/Crowd%20Sourcing%20in%20the%20Humanities.pdf) E.g. the Bonney et. al. report (2009) frames such projects in as contributory, collaborative and co-created. I suspect that the GLAM sector, as opposed to the humanities more generally, has issues which are quite specific.
All best,
-Stuart
On 12/04/2013 09:58, Susan Ashley wrote:
Hello all,
In response to Helen Graham's posting, I believe my research touches on many of the issues raised by the Co-Design project. I am investigating 'museum-making' among immigrant communities as a particular means that people employ to make sense of their ideas about heritage, identity and citizenship.I am studying the Canadian situation, but am newly arrived in the UK and beginning to find comparables here. My focus is on self-generated, non-professionalised practices of heritage display outside of mainstream institutions - in community centres, temples, community museums, memorials or other spaces. Two examples I am looking at here, to give you an idea of my interests, are the Chattri Memorial and accompanying public enactments, and projects like this from the Pakistani Cultural Society:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=sGtefcC7O64
I would like to hear from anyone else working in this area, from any perspective, and welcome suggestions and examples.
Cheers,
Susan
Susan Ashley, PhD
Senior Lecturer
Cultural Management
Faculty of Arts, Design and Social Sciences
Northumbria University
Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK
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Subject: Re: AHRC Co-Design project: 'How should decisions about heritage be made?'
Hi Dave,
Thanks - really looking forward to our first Ways of Knowing workshop in
May. Be brilliant to hear via this list about your current Cultural
Intermediation and the Creative Economy project. And your maplocal project
has lots of potential use for in museums and hertiage contexts...
https://maplocal.org.uk/about
And to everyone - work-in-progress updates would be an especially
interesting use for this list. No need to write much just a few lines and
a few links. There's so much brilliant stuff going on at the moment.
Helen
On 11/04/2013 10:34, "Obrien, Dave" <[log in to unmask]><mailto:[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>Looks good- ways of knowing looks especially fascinating.
>
>Dr Dave O'Brien
>Lecturer, Cultural Industries
>City University London
>Northampton Sq
>London
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>On 11 Apr 2013, at 10:16, "Helen Graham" <[log in to unmask]><mailto:[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> Morning all,
>>
>> We wanted to send round a brief update about our current AHRC Co-Design
>>project: Œhow should decisions about heritage be made?¹ A team of 14 of
>>us from funders, national museums, community archives, radical
>>heritage groups, researchers are taking four months to design a
>>research project, which we will then carry out over the following year.
>>The story of our progress so far can be found here: http://bit.ly/10KlbpO
>>
>> Out of the workshop a few questions are emerging (as you'll see at the
>>bottom of the blog) which might end up helping us form our research plan
>>but we currently getting some discussion going about one of them the
>>politically thorny question of Œstewardship¹ on our Jisc discussion
>>list:
>>www.jiscmail.ac.uk/CODESIGNHERITAGE<http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/CODESIGNHERITAGE><http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/CODESIGNHER
>>ITAGE>
>>
>> Be really keen to hear people's thoughts on where we are up to in
>>general and to hear about any connections with the work-in-progress of
>>anyone on this list. And we'll be back in touch via this list again
>>after our final workshop to share our research plan.
>>
>> Best wishes, Helen
>>
>> Helen Graham
>> University Research Fellow in Tangible and Intangible Heritage and
>>Director, Centre for Critical Studies in Museums, Galleries and Heritage
>>
>> School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies
>> University of Leeds
>> E-mail: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
>> 0113 3431224
>> http://helengraham.wordpress.com/
>>
>> Current Research Projects:
>> 'How should decisions about heritage be made'? (AHRC Connected
>>Communities, Co-Design Development Grant)
>> http://codesignheritage.wordpress.com/
>>
>> Ways of Knowing (AHRC Connected Communities Follow Up)
>> http://waysofknowingresearch.wordpress.com/
>>
>> StoryStorm Network (EPSRC Culture and Communities Network+)
>>
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