The C3 Centre: Creative Industries and Creative Communities
The PhD is designed to address a city’s heritage contexts by developing multi-level and participatory curatorial tools for Community Collaboration in the museum and heritage sites sector.
Background
We are offering a PhD studentship around innovative models for cultural and heritage management.
The PhD is designed to address the priority areas of a city’s heritage contexts, considering the following themes:
- The role of co-creation and co-curation in relation to processes and structures around programming, education, cultural enterprise and outreach;
- Innovative models for museum/heritage site management and cross-sector collaboration of multiple, diverse, tangible and intangible assets in complex heritage ecosystems (including heritage sites, civil society organisations, commercial stakeholders, communities, etc);
- The identification of underpinning infrastructures for co-creation and co-curation, aimed to support historical, contemporary, and future oriented storytelling;
- The processes and systemic pre-requisites for continued innovation around curation, preservation, presentation, narration, communication and management of museum and heritage assets;
Concepts
Co-Creation, Participatory-Practices and Community Collaboration are increasingly accepted concepts to develop more impactful partnerships, place-shaping and faster to implement initiatives, also in the museum and heritage sites sector.
Participatory management of cultural and heritage organisation has been accepted already in many European and World cities as a key pre-requisite for place-shaping and placemaking, as well as meeting the challenge of finding economically viable innovative new business models, alternative financing, and new modes of community engagement.
Culture 3.0 is a shorthand term for concepts and practices encompassing co-creation, everyday creativity, immersiveness, socially engaging arts and culture, and digitally enabled prosumers (combining consumers and producers). Adapting Culture 3.0 concepts in museum practices is thought to increase impact, strengthen scalability, deepen engagement, and create a more diversity supporting accessibility of heritage and museums as part of placemaking.