CMUK being an activist museum worker
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Slides from Bridget McKenzie/Climate Museum UK for the 29 July 2020 event on Being an Activist Museum Worker
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CMUK being an activist museum worker
- 1. Being an Activist Museum: intersecting issues Bridget McKenzie
- 3. If there’s one issue… Extractivist capitalism – stealing land & labour - is creating an Earth Crisis
- 7. What can Museums do when ‘our house is on fire?’ Shift to CARE for people, places and planet: • Educate & alert people to danger? • Create safer places and care for those affected, including other species? • Overhaul the whole system to stop causes of the crisis?
- 8. Climate Museum UK stirs and collects responses to the Climate & Ecological Emergency climatemuseumuk.org
- 9. Mobile, digital, distributed
- 12. Remembrance Day for Lost Species https://www.lostspeciesday.org/ Annual remembrance day - a chance each year to explore the stories of extinct and critically endangered species, cultures, lifeways, and ecological communities.
- 14. Challenges • CIC: have to be non-political, have to be for good of community • Distributed model: common cause & brand for a team of individuals with different passions & experiences, working in different contexts • The Earth Crisis! New context will continue to shock as events unfold • The dominant system is geared to suppress attempts to dismantle it. So how do we support each other?
Editor's Notes
- What kinds of leadership do museums and cultural organisations need in a time of Climate and Ecological Emergency, or Earth crisis for short? I’m arguing for a new ethics of leadership, and new concepts of the purpose of culture, which draw on feminism and ecological ways of being. These can help create the conditions for organisations and communities to face the full register of challenges of the Earth crisis. In general terms, not just for museums, these challenges require much more than technical solutions, but they are fundamentally about building resilience or being ‘anti-fragile’, growing compassion and changing our cultures from extractivism to ecocentricity.
- Museums are used to caring. Museums care for collections. But we have to rethink caring for culture for posterity as key purpose of culture But what when posterity is threatened? Shift to CARE for people, places and planet: Stop causes of crisis? Alert people to danger? Create a safer world and care for those affected? Overhaul the whole system?
- In 2018 I decided to try creating a museum that could model this Anticipating and imagining what will happen Helping make concrete the solutions, to show what we have to do Caring Key point is that we’re more of a team of different people, than a museum in the traditional sense, although we are collecting…
- I helped to found CDE – building a community working for a just, regenerative culture
- Taking part in action weeks or remembrance days etc. Growing care for all beings, beyond humans, beyond humans like your own kind
- An overview of our model