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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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
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>Looks good- ways of knowing looks especially fascinating.
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>Dr Dave O'Brien
>Lecturer, Cultural Industries
>City University London
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>London
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>On 11 Apr 2013, at 10:16, "Helen Graham" <
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>> Morning all,
>>
>> We wanted to send round a brief update about our current AHRC Co-Design
>>project: how 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 stewardship¹ on our Jisc discussion
>>list:
>>www.jiscmail.ac.uk/CODESIGNHERITAGE<http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/CODESIGNHER
>>ITAGE>
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>> 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
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>> 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/
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>> Ways of Knowing (AHRC Connected Communities Follow Up)
>> http://waysofknowingresearch.wordpress.com/
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>> StoryStorm Network (EPSRC Culture and Communities Network+)
>>
