TY - GEN
T1 - Contemporary museums in an age of migrations
T2 - 4th International Conference on Cultural Heritage, EuroMed 2012
AU - Basso Peressut, Luca
AU - Postiglione, Gennaro
AU - Lanz, Francesca
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - Looking at European cultural heritage from the perspective of the twenty-first century, the question of its interpretation and reinterpretation is essential. This especially regards the different ways that societies and individuals use museums or other cultural institutions for the conservation and transmission of knowledge. The MeLa project brings a new concept to the core of this cultural problem. Age of migrations is a key term for thinking through planetary processes that reveal the deep refashioning of economic, cultural and political spheres under the impact of the accelerated mobility of goods, people, ideas and knowledge. In this context, a reconfiguration of existing museums is needed, especially for museums that are devoted to new themes and topics emerging in this contemporary age, when the great narratives of the modernity have left a multiplicity of stories and voices. The four-year interdisciplinary research MeLa aims at envisioning one such development of contemporary European museums.
AB - Looking at European cultural heritage from the perspective of the twenty-first century, the question of its interpretation and reinterpretation is essential. This especially regards the different ways that societies and individuals use museums or other cultural institutions for the conservation and transmission of knowledge. The MeLa project brings a new concept to the core of this cultural problem. Age of migrations is a key term for thinking through planetary processes that reveal the deep refashioning of economic, cultural and political spheres under the impact of the accelerated mobility of goods, people, ideas and knowledge. In this context, a reconfiguration of existing museums is needed, especially for museums that are devoted to new themes and topics emerging in this contemporary age, when the great narratives of the modernity have left a multiplicity of stories and voices. The four-year interdisciplinary research MeLa aims at envisioning one such development of contemporary European museums.
KW - Citizenship
KW - History & Memory
KW - Identity
KW - Migrations
KW - Mobility
KW - Museums
KW - Representation
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84868013952&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-34234-9_92
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-34234-9_92
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84868013952
SN - 9783642342332
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 857
EP - 864
BT - Progress in Cultural Heritage Preservation - 4th International Conference, EuroMed 2012, Proceedings
Y2 - 29 October 2012 through 3 November 2012
ER -
