Ecologising Museums
The implications around climate change have far-reaching consequences but they can also have far-reaching benefits. The e-publication Ecologising Museums explores how museums and cultural institutions can face the issue not only head-on, but from all angles. To what degree are the core activities of collecting, preserving and presenting in fact attitudes that embody an unsustainable view of the world and the relationship between man and nature?
Chapters
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1.Introduction
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2.Let Us Now Praise Famous Seeds
by Michael Taussig -
3.Beyond COP21: Collaborating with Indigenous People to Understand Climate Change and the Arctic
by Candis Callison -
4.Theorising More-Than Human Collectives for Climate Change Action in Museums
by Fiona R. Cameron -
5.Fictioning is a Worlding
by Clémence Seurat -
6.Late Subatlantic. Science Poetry in Times of Global Warming
by Ursula Biemann -
7.Ecosophy and Slow Anthropology. A Conversation with Barbara Glowczewski
by Barbara Glowczewski, Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez, Sarah Werkmeister -
8.Necroaesthetics: Denaturalising the Collection
by Anna-Sophie Springer, Etienne Turpin -
9.The Eclipse of the Witness: Natural Anatomy and the Scopic Regime of Modern Exhibition-Machines
by Vincent Normand -
10.Imagining a Culture Beyond Oil at the Paris Climate Talks
by Mel Evans and Kevin Smith of Liberate Tate -
11.Climate Risks, Art, and Red Cross Action. Towards a Humanitarian Role for Museums?
by Pablo Suarez -
12.Biographies