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This book examines collaborative practices in museums, heritage, and the arts. It offers an interdisciplinary approach combining both practical and theoretical perspectives from leading scholars and practitioners to better understand and support cocreation and collaboration in the cultural sector.
List of contents
Acknowledgements; List of figures; Introduction: Towards Shared Ground: Collaboration and Co-Creation in Museums, Heritage, and the Arts; 1. Community Consultation to Co-Creation: a history of talking past each other?; 2. Context is everything: Museums and the politics of collaboration; 3. Socially Engaged Art Within and Beyond the Museum; 4. Seeding Authority: A Conversation on Museum Decolonisation in Hawai¿i and Beyond; 5. Non-Colonial Indigenous Creative Action in Heritage Museums; 6. Collaboration as a Relational Process: Co-Creating Relationships and Making Connections; 7. Nuyayanlh, Learning How to Heal with Heritage with the Nuxalk First Nation; 8. Gulahallat - Discussing Community-based Co-acting, -knowing, and -thinking among Sámi Research, Museum and Art; 9. Songlines Singing the Museum; 10. Co-Creation as relational relay: reflections on navigating across protocol, translation, time and space; 11. Digital Returns in the Archival Multiverse; 12. From Co-creation to Empowerment: Documenting the Genesis Myth in the Creation Ritual Poetry of the Indigenous Lotud People in Sabah, East Malaysia; 13. In the Way to Become Civic Museums; 14. 'The tikar not the table': community, collaboration and co-creativity in contemporary Southeast Asian art; 15. You Can't Always Collaborate Your Way Out! Reflections on the Ghetto Biennale; 16. Co-creating site-specific performances for social change - Reflections from participatory art experiences in Vanuatu and Senegal; 17. Engaging Young People in Heritage Contexts: design-led approaches to support collaborative participation within the cultural sector; 18. Dimensions of Curation Competing Values Model: A Gestation Story from Theory Development to Practice in Collaboration with Professional Communities; 19. Intangible Cultural Heritage as Co-creation: Challenges, Pathways and Conditions; 20. Co-creating heritage safeguarding and marketing strategies with communities in West Bengal, India: experiences from the HIPAMS project; 21. Emotions in Collaborative Museum Practice; Index.
About the author
Anna Edmundson is Curator, Public Programs, Access & Engagement at the National Archives of Australia (NAA) and an Honorary Lecturer in the Centre for Heritage and Museum Studies at the Australian National University (ANU).
Maya Haviland is Translational Fellow and Senior Lecturer in the Centre for Heritage and Museum Studies in the College of Arts and Social Sciences at the ANU.
Summary
This book examines collaborative practices in museums, heritage, and the arts. It offers an interdisciplinary approach combining both practical and theoretical perspectives from leading scholars and practitioners to better understand and support cocreation and collaboration in the cultural sector.
