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Diarias globales by Lorena Wolffer: Reconnecting during the COVID-19 pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic sent most of the world population to their homes. In many countries in Latin America, it seemed to stop the...

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THE NEW NORMAL?: Voices of the COVID-19 pandemic

The Institute for Cultural Practices is proud to present ‘The New Normal?: Voices of the COVID-19 Pandemic’, a pop-up exhibition in...

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Art History & Cultural Practices Research Seminars

To register please follow the link to the AHCP Eventbrite page here. Dr Roaa Ali, University of Manchester 3 November: Alistair Hudson,...

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AS WE COME OUT OF LOCKDOWN, LET’S NOT GO BACK TO LOCKING OUT THE WORLD: CREATING EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES

During the pandemic, literary events have migrated online. Over the past year, whether you were based in the centre or the periphery, in Lon

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YOU CAN’T TOUCH THIS: WHAT NOW FOR USER-CENTRED ENGAGEMENT TOOLS IN THESE POST-PANDEMIC TIMES?

Following their cross-disciplinary project investigating how digital tools could increase engagement between MOSTYN, a public contemporary a

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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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CURATING COVID-19

This article discusses the student exhibitions curated as part of the ‘Managing Collections and Exhibitions’ module on the MA Art Gallery an

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CO-CREATION IN COVID-TIME: EMBRACING CHANGE AND UNCERTAINTY

While community co-creation is becoming a buzzword in the museum sector, many museums are still hesitant to share power, give away control a

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REFRESH, REEVALUATE, RECONNECT

Cultural Practice is the magazine of the Institute for Cultural Practices (ICP) at the University of Manchester. The magazine was launched i

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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

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#CLOSEDBUTACTIVE? AN EXHIBITION TRYING TO FIND ITS VOICE DURING LOCKDOWN

This Insight looks at the temporary exhibition “We Capitalists. From Zero to Turbo” at the Bundeskunsthalle in Bonn, Germany, which was open

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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