Cultural Practices
MATERIAL LEARNING, OBJECTS, AND ONLINE EMBODIMENTS
Museum and gallery audience engagement and collections-based activity often centres on sensory response to handling real material. Likewise,
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Cultural Practices
- Sep 14, 2020
- 8 min
THE LAWS OF ILLUMINATION
Librarians who began practising in the last twenty years have had the phrases, ‘the death of the book,’ and ‘the end of libraries’ ringing i
Cultural Practices
- Aug 17, 2020
- 10 min
PROVIDING EMOTIONAL SUPPORT FOR ARCHIVE VOLUNTEERS: METHODS USED ON THE MANCHESTER TOGETHER ARCHIVE
This article presents some of the methods used to provide emotional support to volunteers working with the Manchester Together Archive (MTA)
Cultural Practices
- Jul 18, 2020
- 9 min
WHAT COLLECTING SPONTANEOUS MEMORIALS CAN TELL US ABOUT COLLECTING COVID-19 – PART II
In this 2-part article, Kostas Arvanitis reflects on what collecting spontaneous memorials after traumatic events, such as terrorist attacks
Cultural Practices
- Jun 22, 2020
- 8 min
RETHINKING THE ROLE OF MUSEUMS IN A TIME OF CRISIS
As museums around the world have increasingly committed to making themselves digitally accessible to the public during lockdown, we have bee
Cultural Practices
- May 22, 2020
- 7 min
REMEMBERING 22/5/2017
Jenny Marsden reflects on the work that has taken place with the Manchester Together Archive over the last 18 months, focusing on the volunt
Cultural Practices
- May 18, 2020
- 6 min
CURATING THE S(H)ELF: COLLECTING AND DISPLAYING OBJECTS IN TIMES OF UNCERTAINTY
Marion Endt-Jones reflects on collections created by artists in times of personal uncertainty and crisis, as reconstitutions of self and ide
Cultural Practices
- Apr 24, 2020
- 8 min
WHAT COLLECTING SPONTANEOUS MEMORIALS CAN TELL US ABOUT COLLECTING COVID-19 – PART I
Kostas Arvanitis reflects on what collecting spontaneous memorials after traumatic events, such as terrorist attacks, can tell us about coll