“Expographic Storytelling”: The Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography of the University of Turin as a Field of Dialogic Representation

Pecci, Anna Maria; Mangiapane, Gianluigi

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“…As Pecci and Mangiapane (2010: 147) argue, 'Migrants are not representatives of the cultures they come from, but interpreters or witnesses who, instead of wearing the uniform of culture, creatively escape from its essentialist definition of a bounded and confined unity'. In other words, these projects work on identity as 'the start rather than the end of the conversation' (Khan 2010), and work with a notion of the museum as a space for generating new (inclusive and liberatory) meanings (Pecci and Mangiapane 2010;. Moreover, they highlight methodological issues which are key to the development of 'third spaces'.…”

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“…Third, some museums are facilitating interaction with contemporary artists in order to develop new perspectives on the notions of heritage or identity, and to experiment with unconventional communication and relational methodologies, mediated through contemporary art languages. 8 The potential of the first area of experimentation -cultural mediators as 'new interpreters' of the museum's heritage -is evident in a project called Tongue to Tongue: A Collaborative Exhibition, jointly promoted by the Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography of the University of Turin and the Centre for African Studies (Pecci and Mangiapane 2010;Pecci 2009b;.…”

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Museums, Equality and Social Justice

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2012

Curator The Museum Journal

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The last two decades have seen concerns for equality, diversity, social justice and human rights move from the margins of museum thinking and practice, to the core. The arguments -both moral and pragmatic -for engaging diverse audiences, creating the conditions for more equitable access to museum resources, and opening up opportunities for participation, now enjoy considerable consensus in many parts of the world. A growing number of institutions are concerned to construct new narratives that represent a plurality of lived experiences, histories and identities which aim to nurture support for more progressive, ethically-informed ways of seeing and to actively inform contemporary public debates on often contested rights-related issues. At the same time it would be misleading to suggest an even and uncontested transition from the museum as an organisation that has been widely understood to marginalise, exclude and oppress to one which is wholly inclusive. Moreover, there are signs that momentum towards making museums more inclusive and equitable is slowing down or, in some contexts, reversing.Museums, Equality and Social Justice aims to reflect on and, crucially, to inform debates in museum research, policy and practice at this critical time. It brings together new research from academics and practitioners and insights from artists, activists and commentators to explore the ways in which museums, galleries and heritage organisations are engaging with the fast-changing equalities terrain and the shifting politics of identity at global, national and local levels and to investigate their potential to contribute to more equitable, fair and just societies.

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Museums, Equality and Social Justice

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2012

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“…Between 2008 and 2015, one of the priorities of the MAET projects was to involve those subjectivities that usually were not taken into account by MAET activities (Mangiapane et al, 2013;Pecci, 2019;Pecci & Mangiapane, 2010). Of particular relevance was the project APAU: A piece about us (2014)(2015), written by the museum anthropologist Anna Maria Pecci and created by two associations involved in cultural and cultural heritage enhancement initiatives: Associazione culturale Passages (Passages Association) and Giovani Musulmani d'Italia (Young Italian Muslims Association, GMI).…”

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Experimental museology: institutions, representations, users,

Knell

2022

Museum Management and Curatorship

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Experimental Museology scrutinizes innovative endeavours to transform museum interactions with the world. Analysing cutting-edge cases from around the globe, the volume demonstrates how museums can design, apply and assess new modes of audience engagement and participation.Written by an interdisciplinary group of researchers and research-led professionals, the book argues that museum transformations must be focussed on conceptualising and documenting the everyday challenges and choices facing museums, especially in relation to wider social, political and economic ramifications. In order to illuminate the complexity of these challenges, the volume is structured into three related key dimensions of museum practice -namely institutions, representations and users. Each chapter is based on a curatorial design proposed and performed in collaboration between university-based academics and a museum. Taken together, the chapters provide insights into a diversity of geographical contexts, fields and museums, thus building a comprehensive and reflexive repository of design practices and formative experiments that can help strengthen future museum research and design.Experimental Museology will be of great value to academics and students in the fields of museum, gallery and heritage studies, as well as architecture, design, communication and cultural studies. It will also be of interest to museum professionals and anyone else who is interested in learning more about experimentation and design as resources in museums.

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“Expographic Storytelling”: The Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography of the University of Turin as a Field of Dialogic Representation

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