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OHD_BLG_0041 The winds of change are blowing…
I feel there is a change in the wind… Specifically people are starting to think more long term about their projects, they are becoming more archive focused. This is not too surprising there is a reason my PhD is happening now and not earlier. Timing is everything when it comes to research and people from different fields have invested in this PhD which they would not have done if it was a ridiculously radical idea. But crucially funding bodies also seem to be changing their tune slightly. I was pointed in the direction of the National Heritage Fund’s new programme, Dynamic Collections. According to their new campaign:
Our new campaign supports collecting organisations across the UK to become more inclusive and resilient, with a focus on engagement, re-interpretation and collections management.
THE NATIONAL HERITAGE FUND
Sounds pretty promising if you ask me…
OHD_BLG_0067 Sites of Conscience
by Liv Ševčenko
“Heritage can never be outside politics – it is always embedded in changing power relations between people.“
“integrating dialogue into every stage of heritage management, from planning to preservation to interpretation, and allowing for continual evolution.”
Museums are great at showing history, but they always do this through the lens of the present. And the present has this annoying habit of constantly changing, this means that the lens used to initially set up the exhibition is probably out of date by now.
The International Coalition of Sites of Conscience fights this problem by setting up heritage sites as places for open dialogue about contemporary problems. They do this by obviously working with the community but also continuously mining their history for perspectives on problems. It’s continuous baby! And exactly what I want to do!
Also super fun idea of incorporating discussions on how to set up an exhibition into the exhibition.
Above you see my brainstorm around what dialogues we could possibly do a SDH, bu I think that other people are way more suited to think about this. However it will be a good exercise to do with people.