Reimagining museums for climate action [Recurs electrònic] / edited by Rodney Harrison, Colin Sterling

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Museums for Climate Action (Projecte)

Publication details: London : Museums for Climate Action, 2021Edition: 1st edDescription: 172 p. : digital, fitxer PDF (12,11 Mb)ISBN:

9781739971519 (E-Book)

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Summary: This book is not a typical academic edited volume. Nor does it subscribe to the usual dictates of an exhibition catalogue. It does not seek to provide a comprehensive overview of work on climate change and museums or claim to have discovered One Quick Trick to Solve the Climate Emergency. Instead, the book reflects the main characteristics of the Reimagining Museums for Climate Action project: it is collaborative, distributed, conversational, subversive, nomadic and, at times, playful. The arguments it puts forward emerge through dialogue and speculation just as much as they respond to and build on empirical research. In this sense, the book is perhaps best seen as a partial and in many ways still evolving artefact of the Reimagining Museums project. It can be read from cover-to-cover, or its varied contents can be traversed in a less rigid fashion. It is one "output" among many, and its main aim is to prompt further transdisciplinary alliances, rather than set out a particular position or manifesto. To this end, the book invites peripatetic readings and strange deviations. It is anchored by eight concepts that reflect the diversity and creativity of museums, but it is also motivated by a desire to (re)situate this field within a broader set of debates on the roots of social and environmental injustice, and the role of museums in these histories. (Font: Document)

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Museums otherwise: a compendium of possible futures / Rodney Harrison, Colin Sterling -- Exhibit 1: Museum of open Windows: Reflections on the museum of open Windows / Nico Alexandroff ; Testaments from the age of humans: museums in a changing world / Barker Langham -- Exhibit 2: Existances: Existances museums: postponing the end of the world / Jairza Fernandes Rocha Da Silva, Natalino Neves Da Silva, Nayhara J. A. Pereira Thiers Vieira, Walter Francisco Figueiredo Lowande ; Taking the logos down: from oil sponsorship to a fossil free culture / Chris Garrard ; Genealogies of the emergency: a conversation on race, climate and museus with Subhadra Das & Ashish Ghadiali facilitated by Henry McGhie & Rodney Harrison -- Exhibit 3: Natural future museus: Natural future museums: indigenous territories as museums for climate action / Thiago Jesus -- Further concepts ; Playing with the impossible at e-werk luckenwalde / Helen Turner -- Exhibit 4: Weathering with Us: Healing and intimacy in climate narratives / Isabella Ong, Tan Wen Jun -- Exhibit 5: Dundee museum of transport: Climate commons: a conversation on equity, design and imagination with Miranda Massie & Mark Chambers -- Exhibit 6: Elephant in the room: Elephant in the room transcript / Rania Ghosn, El Hadi Jazairy ; Shot/reverse shot: a conversation on architecture, design and the climate emergency with Rania Ghosn, El Hadi Jazairy & Peg Rawes facilitated by Rodney Harrison -- Exhibit 7: Story:web: Museums in an earth crisis: a conversation on museums, collecting and radical change with Climate Museum UK & students of the V&A / RCA History of Design Programme -- Exhibit 8: A series of collective, non-statistical evidence: Murmurs from the future: a conversation on speculative design with Anab Jain & Colin Sterling -- Acknowledgements

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