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POLIMI group has just concluded a workshop of two days in Milan with Professor Chris Whitehead, from the University of Newcastle.
Within the Research Field 06 frame, the researchers from POLIMI presented their ongoing activities, problematic questions and preliminary findings. Through the contribution of Prof Whitehead it was possible to trigger an interesting discussion about the critical and methodological issues concerning the investigation.
On 8th May the workshop ended with a lecture by Prof Whitehead, “Analyzing Display ” through an exploration of the approaches to exhibition design, regarding both his past experience of curatorships and exhibitions and his recent work in the frame of the MeLa Project.
You can find the presentations of the POLIMI group on Issuu, here.
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On Thursday 12th April, the MeLa team at POLIMI organized an internal workshop to discuss the advancement of research activities within the Research Fields 06.
The discussion has been enhanced by the presence of three guest discussants, expert in the field of Museography and Museology: Antonio Aimi, anthropologist, curator and museum consultant, Paolo Caponi, member of the scientific committee of the online research journal of the Università degli Studi di Milano «Altre Modernità. Rivista di studi letterari e culturali», and Guido Vaglio, director of the Museo Diffuso della Resistenza, della Deportazione, della Guerra, dei Diritti e della Libertà in Turin.
Follow these links to acces a report of the discussion and more information on the specific lines of inquiry:
- 20120412_REPORT_MeLa_POLIMI internal workshop
- web overview of all the presentations on Issuu
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EUNAMUS next Conference will be held in Oslo on June 27-29.
“In a Europe realizing the impact of globalization and human mass migration, the role of the national museums is put to debate. Studies from five different countries on how nations (and EU) develop policy in order to deploy national museums in redefinition of the nation state will be presented at this conference, establishing an arena in which museologists and cultural politicians get the chance to meet and debate a matter deeply important to everybody concerned with cultural identity uses.”
You can find more information, the program and a list of the guest speakers on our website, here.
The deadline of the Call for Paper ‘Placing’ Europe in the Museum: people(s), places, identities, that will take place in Newcastle, UK, on the 3-4th September 2012, has been extended to 30th April.
You can find more information about the International Conference on our website, here.
From March 20 to 23, Anna Chiara Cimoli (Politecnico di Milano) visited two important German migration museums: the Deutsches Auswanderer Haus in Bremerhaven and BallinStadt in Hamburg. Both milestones in the –however recent- history of migration museums, the first one in particular considered a possible “model” for its peculiar layout choices and its historical discourse, they raise questions about the recourse to theatre techniques in museums (the “architect as director”), the proposal of the migrant’s journey as a sensible experience, and the universal value of the identification with real biographies.
The German Emigration Center, Bremerhaven
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Prof. Gennaro Postiglione, Technical Manager of the project, has just come back from Norway.
Trough his surveys and meetings he could collect some information for the MeLa Project too, regarding interesting Museums and possible contacts.
Expand the post to find out some brief notes.
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On Wednesday February 22nd, we of the MeLa team at POLIMI held an internal workshop to discuss the advancement of our research within the Research Fields 5 and 6. The workshop resulted in fruitful conversation and exchange about the contribution of DPA and INDACO researchers to the project.
For a report of the discussion and more information on the specific lines of inquiry undertaken by POLIMI, follow these links:
- 20120222_REPORT_MeLa_POLIMIinternalworkshop
- web overview of all the presentations on Issuu
Report from the Bruxelles meeting on 09.02.2012
THE DEVELOPMENT OF EUROPEAN IDENTITIES: POLICY AND RESEARCH ISSUES. Insights from European Research supported under the 6th and 7th Framework Programmes
Promoted by European Commission
Main questions • Is a common European identity or are several diverging European identities emerging, and if yes, what shape(s) does it, do they, take? • What (policy and research) implications does the development of a European identity, European identities have for the European Union?
The meeting was arranged in the following 4 thematic sessions • Session 1: Dimensions, definitions, problems of European identity/identities • Session 2: Political Europe • Session 3: Transnational mobilità • Session 4: Tendencies toward homogenizing and diversifying Europe
They were articulated in 1 key speach, a roundtable with a panel of invited discussants and 20 min open plenary discussion.
Target participants (between 30 and 50 along the long day) • representatives from [...]
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On October 29th POLIMI-DPA attended the International Conference organized within the celebration of the ‘2011 Museum of the Year’ Prize promoted by ICOM Italia. Held in the remarkable Museum Complex Santa Maria della Scala, situated in front of the gothic Dome in Siena, this event provided the opportunity to meet some ICOM representatives, and to listen to their report about the role of museum networks as strategic agents in this critical age, when economic, political, and social changes are menacing the activities (and the survival) of cultural Institutions.
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This week Luca Basso Peressut, MeLa Project Coordinator, will present MeLa research topics at ICME-ICOM Annual Meeting “Dissolving Boundaries: Museological Approaches to National, Social and Cultural Issues”, held in Bad Staffelstein.
All the participants will also visit some interesting museums in the area.
We will report this experience as soon as possible.
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