Community Museums in the Creative Economy

该项目将与南美洲哥伦比亚的遗产和文化部门合作，以实现联合国可持续发展目标。它将与在人权、历史记忆、受害者代表和冲突记忆领域工作的非政府组织伙伴和基层博物馆合作。这些组织致力于揭示隐藏的、边缘化的或被歪曲的文化、社会群体和身份的故事，以捕捉冲突受害者的记忆、非暴力抵抗的故事、社区动员和自助。该项目将共同开发和实施创意博物馆产品、实践和活动，以支持基层和社区博物馆。这些博物馆产品、实践和活动的测试和实施将吸引不同的受众，并将公众定位为博物馆内容的积极共同创造者。因此，该项目将支持这些社区组织的人权工作，以防止暴力，并设想和建设和平的未来。该项目还将有助于更广泛地促进创意经济的可持续发展，因为，随着新博物馆学的趋势和呼吁博物馆及其实践的非殖民化，它将支持社区赋权，行动主义，文化表达和参与，不仅使博物馆空间的使用民主化，而且使博物馆内容本身的创作民主化。社区博物馆是独一无二的，可以记录不为人知的故事，关于互惠和集体的力量，关于拒绝携带武器，关于承诺见证和记录真相。该项目旨在通过非殖民化博物馆和博物馆产品的概念和规范，并通过授权当地专家记录，创建，策展和讲述他们的生活和故事的自我指导陈述，来承认并将这些价值观嵌入我们的学术理论和实践中。为了实现这一目标，该项目将运行3个相互关联的工作包。其中第一个项目将支持哥伦比亚全国27个基层和社区博物馆，试行互动、低成本的产品和活动，旨在鼓励公众反思记忆、人权和博物馆的代表性问题。该团队将为这些博物馆设计一个时间表，以试用每个产品，并伴随着活动，让观众参与自我策展的实践-也就是说，策展他们自己的生活经历，作为一个通过过去的记忆和对未来的愿望工作的过程第二个工作包将与五个特定的社区博物馆或团体合作，这些博物馆或团体被指定为赠款的合作伙伴。这些非政府组织中的每一个都已经拥有运营博物馆，记忆空间或临时展览的专业知识，我们将与他们合作，开发基于共同策展的活动，旨在将社区纳入策展过程，作为整合当地社区多种观点的一种方式。这五个社区博物馆或团体都将根据各自的专业知识和空间，在合作的特定方面发挥主导作用，并将举办一个展示成果的展览。第三个工作包将针对目前不认为自己是博物馆的基层组织，但其现有的档案和资源有能力展出-从而为社区组织参与创意经济建设未来的能力。从工作包一和二学习，这个工作包将开发工具，包括清单，最佳实践指南和在线培训课程，以帮助基层组织决定从他们现有的资源中选择哪些元素最适合博物馆或展览空间。

This project will engage partners in the heritage and cultural sectors in Colombia, South America, to address the UN Sustainable Development Goals. It will collaborate with NGO partners and grassroots museums who work in the areas of human rights, historical memory, victim representation and memories of conflict. These organisations strive to uncover the stories of hidden, marginalised, or misrepresented cultures, social groups, and identities to capture the memories of victims of conflict, stories of non-violent resistance, community mobilisation and self-help.Working together, the project will develop and implement creative museum products, practices and activities that will support grassroots, community-based museums. The testing and implementation of these museum products, practices and activities will engage diverse audiences, and will position the public as active co-creators of museum content. The project will thus support these community organisations in their human rights work to prevent violence, and envision and build for peaceful futures.The project will also contribute to the sustainable development of the creative economy more broadly, because, following in the trends of new museology and calls to decolonise the museum and its practices, it will support community empowerment, activism, cultural expression and participation by democratising not only access to museum spaces, but also the very creation of museum content itself. Community museums are uniquely placed to document untold stories of the power of reciprocity and collectivity, of a refusal to bear arms, of a commitment to bear witness and document truths. This project seeks to acknowledge and embed such values into our academic theory and practice, by decolonising notions and norms of museums and museal products, and by empowering local experts to document, create, curate, and narrate self-directed representations of their lives and stories.In order to achieve this, the project will run 3 interlinking work packages. The first of these will support 27 grassroots and community museums across Colombia by trialling interactive, low-cost products and activities which aim to encourage the public to reflect on issues of memory, human rights, and representation in museums. The team will design a schedule for these museums to trial each product, with accompanying activities to engage audiences in practices of self-curation - that is, curating their own life experiences as a process of working through memories of the past, and aspirations for the futureThe second work package will work with five specific community museums or groups who are named partners on the grant. Each of these NGOs already has expertise in running museums, memory spaces, or temporary exhibitions and, working with them, we will develop activities based on co-curation, with the aim of bring in communities into the curating process, as a way of integrating multiple perspectives from local communities. Each of these five community museums or groups will take a lead on a particular aspect of this co-curation, tailored to their expertise and spaces, and will hold an exhibition showcasing the results.The third work package will be targeted at grassroots organisations that do not currently conceive of themselves as museums, but whose existing archives and resources have the capacity to be exhibited - thus building future capacity for community organisations to participate in the creative economy. Learning from work packages one and two, this work package will develop tools including a checklist, best practice guides, and an online training session to help grassroots organisations decide what elements from their existing resources would work best in a museum or exhibition space.