Don’t miss the next Mela Seminar: Envisioning 21st Century Museums!
A Public Symposium will take place on the 31st of May 2012 at the Post and Tele Museum in Copenhagen, Denmark.
You can find more information about the event on our website, here.
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MeLa Research Field 3 (http://wp3.mela-project.eu/), composed by international institutions and led by the University of Glasgow, is organising an international conference on ’Migrating heritage: networks and collaborations across European museums, libraries and public cultural institutions’, 3-4 December 2012, to identify and explore innovative trans-national and trans-local partnerships, collaborations and policies between European museums, libraries & other public cultural institutions around the themes of European cultural and scientific heritage, migration and integration, and use of ICTs. [...] MeLa RF03 Brainstorming workshop on European heritage, migrations and new media: networks and collaborations across museums, libraries and public cultural institutions was held on 23 April 2012 at the University of Glasgow. During this successful and interactive event, MeLa Consortium members and invited guests from the Research Field 03 expert group discussed topics of collaboration across museums, libraries and public cultural institutions, migration and European cultural and scientific heritage. The workshop was kicked off by the local hosts Dr John Richards, Head of History of Art at the University of Glasgow and Perla Innocenti, Research Fellow and RF03 Leader, who provided an overview of MeLa and Rf03. [...] Perla Innocenti (University of Glasgow) further enriched RF03 fieldwork research with a visit to the Europeana headquarters in the The Hague in April 2012, and interviews with key staff members. Europeana is a single access point to millions of books, paintings, films, museum objects and archival records that have been digitised throughout Europe from European cultural and scientific institutions. It provides heritage institutions with the opportunity to reach out to more users, increase their web traffic, enhance their users’ experience and build new partnerships. It is a is a platform for knowledge exchange between librarians, curators, archivists and the creative industries. And it is a prestigious initiative endorsed by the European Commission as a means to stimulate creative economy and promote cultural tourism. Perla interviewed Annette Friberg (Head of Aggregation and projects), Els Jacob (Europeana Assistant Director) and Jan Molendijk (Technical and Operations Director, pictured below) about Europeana version 1 [...] MeLa Research Field 03 team is delighted to announce its brainstorming event, a workshop on 23 April 2012 reserved for MeLA consortium members and invited guests from the Research Field 03 expert group and other selected institutions. This event is an opportunity for us to network with scholars and experts across the topics of collaboration, cultural institutions, migration and European heritage, to take a look at questions outside our specific field of expertise and to develop our ideas further. The Research Field 03 expert group includes representatives from museums, libraries, foundations, associations and cultural policy. The event program is articulated in four sessions: Narratives for Europe: Katherine Watson (Director of European Cultural Foundation), Dr Sreten Ugricic (writer, philosopher, former Director of the National Library of Serbia) – followed by Q&A and discussion European cultural and scientific heritage: Dr Bernhard Serexhe (Chief Curator of ZKM Media Museum), Giulia Grechi (University of [...] 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 [...] The RF03 team moved forward in the ongoing research on networks and collaborations with a case study at the Centre Virtuel de la Connaissance sur l’Europe (CVCE) on 8-9 March 2012. Based in Luxembourg, the CVCE is an interdisciplinary research and documentation centre dedicated to the European integration process. Its mission is to create, share and valorise knowledge in an innovative digital environment. Perla Innocenti (University of Glasgow) participated to the ASSETS project final workshop, a Europeana collaborative project described by CVCE in the RF03 online survey. This workshop provided a great overview of the ASSETS project achievements, and Europeana developments. Interesting discussions also focussed on the concept of European culture and European heritage, multimedia and copyright, and engagement with users. Perla then conducted in-depth interviews with Ghislain Sillaume and Cristina Blanco Sio-Lopez in relation to networks, collaboration models, European culture and European integration. ASSETS (Advanced Service Search and [...] The paper “Bridging multicultural communities: developing the framework for a EU Transnational Museums and Libraries Network” by Perla Innocenti, John Richards, Sabine Wieber (University of Glasgow) has been successfully accepted at the Digital Humaties (DH) International Conference 2012. The theme of the conference, which is taking place on 16 – 22 july 2012 at the University of Hamburg, Germany, focuses on ‘Digital Diversity: Cultures, languages and method’, is also relevant for MeLA topics. Conference organisers specifically invited proposals on the potential and impact of digital methods and models in fostering multilingualism and multiculturalism, and on the challenges and potential presented to DH in terms of linguistic and cultural diversity. Our paper has been highly praised by the reviewers, and we are looking forward to disseminating MeLA and RF03 research ! |
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