Community Museums in the Creative Economy

该项目将吸引南美洲哥伦比亚遗产和文化部门的合作伙伴，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。这些组织致力于揭开隐藏的、被边缘化的或被歪曲的文化、社会团体和身份的故事，以捕捉冲突受害者的记忆、非暴力抵抗、社区动员和自助的故事。该项目将共同努力，开发和实施创造性的博物馆产品、做法和活动，以支持基层社区博物馆。这些博物馆产品、做法和活动的测试和实施将吸引不同的受众，并使公众成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，展望和建设和平的未来。该项目还将有助于更广泛的创意经济的可持续发展，因为随着新博物馆学的趋势和对博物馆及其做法非殖民化的呼声，该项目将支持社区赋权、激进主义、文化表达和参与，不仅使进入博物馆空间的途径民主化，而且使博物馆内容本身的创作民主化。社区博物馆是记录互惠和集体力量、拒绝携带武器、承诺见证和记录真相的不为人知的故事的独特位置。这个项目试图承认这些价值，并将其嵌入到我们的学术理论和实践中，通过非殖民化的博物馆和博物馆产品的概念和规范，并授权当地专家记录、创造、策划和叙述他们的生活和故事的自我指导的表现。为了实现这一点，该项目将运行3个相互关联的工作包。第一个项目将通过试验低成本的互动产品和活动，支持哥伦比亚各地的27个基层和社区博物馆，旨在鼓励公众反思记忆、人权和博物馆中的代表性问题。该团队将为这些博物馆设计一个时间表，让他们试用每一种产品，并伴随着让观众参与自我管理实践的活动--也就是说，策划他们自己的生活经历，作为一个过程，通过对过去的记忆和对未来的渴望来工作。第二个工作方案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在管理博物馆、记忆空间或临时展览方面拥有专业知识，我们将与他们合作，开展以共同策展为基础的活动，目的是将社区纳入策展过程，作为一种整合当地社区多种观点的方式。这五个社区博物馆或团体将在联合策展中的某一方面发挥带头作用，为他们的专业知识和空间量身定做，并将举办一个展览展示结果。第三个工作方案将针对目前不认为自己是博物馆，但其现有档案和资源有能力展示的基层组织，从而建立未来社区组织参与创意经济的能力。从工作包一和包二中学习，该工作包将开发工具，包括核对表、最佳实践指南和在线培训课程，以帮助基层组织确定其现有资源中的哪些元素在博物馆或展览空间中最有效。

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.