Posts tagged community building
Radical With-nessing on Common Ground
Radical With-nessing on Common Ground

Bynoe shares on her experience at the recently convened Commonwealth Association of Museums (CAM) 2024 Triennial Conference whose theme ‘The View From Here: Sustainability, Community and Knowledge Systems,’ welcomed delegates from the four corners of the globe. Hosted in Auckland, Aotearoa, from March 3rd to 8th, under the radical hospitality and care of the Auckland War Memorial Museum and the Waikato Museum, these observations summarise important questions raised during the gathering around the possibility of decolonisation, aspects of collaboration, guardianship and community engagement.

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Mayreau island is a cultural bastion where — despite challenges — community spirit is alive and adaptive
Mayreau island is a cultural bastion where — despite challenges — community spirit is alive and adaptive

This is the first instalment of a two-part post under the Shared Island Stories initiative, supported by the School of Art History at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland, which explores ways in which to build collaborative tools to inform case studies in support of the project “Sacred Space and Social Memory: Interrogating Co-becoming in Community-Based Practices in the Grenadines and the Isle of Skye.” Funded by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) with project reference: EP/X023036/1. Many thanks to Janine Mendes Franco and Skye Hernandez for the editing assistance and publishing on Global Voices ‘The Bridge.’

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