Contemporary curating and museum education : [International Conference, 21-22 November 2014, Museum für Gestaltung Zürich

In the context of critical museology, museums are questioning their social role, defining the museum as a site for knowledge exchange and participation in creating links between past and present. Museum education has evolved as a practice in its own right, questioning, expanding and transforming exhibitions and institutions. How does museum work change if we conceive of curating and education as an integrated practice? This question is addressed by international contributors from different types of museums. For anyone interested in the future of museums, it offers insights into the diversity of positions and experiences of translating the »grand designs« of museology into practice. Exhibiting,Curating,Museum,Educational Turn,Cultural Management,Museum Education,Museology,Cultural Education Content Preface Curating and Museum Education as Expansion of the Display Introduction Reaching Out. How to Increase the Social and Cultural Value of Architecture? Curation & Education as an Integrated Concept. The Exhibition Out to Sea? The Plastic Garbage Project in the Museum für Gestaltung Zürich In Dialogue with the Visitors. The AFRITECTURE Exhibition and its Interactive Display Puzzle. Education as Curatorial Practice Curatorial Work Towards a New Relationship Between People, Places and Things. MUDE Museum Action to Boost the Intrinsic Relational Value of Culture Curating and Museum Education as Expansion of the Museum Introduction Identity and Ambiguity. Experiences from Hohenems with the Objects of Dispersal City History Museums as Generators of Participation Exhibiting Migration. Forms of Representation between Visibility and Invisibility How Access-iting?. Museums as Cultural Educators or Shelters of Knowledge The Participatory City Museum Education at the Centre of the District Six Museum Curating and Museum Education as Social Intervention Introduction Contact Zone (Un)realised. ‘Other’ Visitors as Interventions in the Exhibition Space Inside the Post-Representative Museum The Anatomy of an AND Who’s Gallery?. #BlankSlates and Geniuses Living Young Curation and Education as a Decolonisation of the Museum Introduction Wiphala. Identity and Conflict The Decolonisation of the Mapuche Museum in Cañete Education in Museums, Community Mediation and the Right to the City in the Historic Centre of Quito “Good for You, But I Don’t Care!”. Critical Museum Pedagogy in Educational and Curatorial Practice Visitors or Community?. Collaborative Museology and the Role of Education and Outreach in Ethnographic Museums Bibliography Authors and Editors Illustration credits

In the context of critical museology, museums are questioning their social role, defining the museum as a site for knowledge exchange and participation in creating links between past and present. Museum education has evolved as a practice in its own right, questioning, expanding and transforming exhibitions and institutions. How does museum work change if we conceive of curating and education as an integrated practice?This question is addressed by international contributors from different types of museums. For anyone interested in the future of museums, it offers insights into the diversity of positions and experiences of translating the »grand designs« of museology into practice.

"In the context of critical museology, museums are questioning their social role, defining the museum as a site for knowledge exchange and participation in creating links between past and present. Museum education has evolved as a practice in its own right, questioning, expanding and transforming exhibitions and institutions. How does museum work change if we conceive of curating and education as an integrated practice? This question is addressed by international contributors from different kinds of museums. For anyone interested in the future of museums, it offers insights into the diversity of positions and experiences of translating the "grand designs" of museology into practice." "Museum directors are beginning to question the role of their museums in the production of knowledge and participation, in creating links between the present and the past. Museum education has evolved as a practice in its own right, questioning, expanding, and transforming exhibitions and institutions. How does museum work change if we conceive of curating and education as an integrated practice? In this anthology, international scholars employed at a range of museums address this question. For anyone interested in the future of these institutions, this book explores diverse approaches to translating the "grand designs" of critical museology into practice."--Publisher description