Co-Curation, Co-Creation and Collaboration for Heritage Sites and Museums

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.

Funding

This opportunity is available to CARA members only.

Supervisory team

Professor Carola Boehm

Professor

Having degrees both from the arts (music) as well as the sciences (electrical engineering, computer science) I am a genuine interdisciplinarian.

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Professor Neil Brownsword

Professor

Prof. Brownsword is an artist, researcher and educator. His research into the legacy of deindustrialisation in relation to North Staffordshire's ceramic industry, has had national and international cultural impact.

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Anna Francis

Professor

Anna Francis is an artist, educator and researcher whose work aims to create space to discuss and reframe city resources, through participatory art interventions.

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Course requirements

A relevant first degree. (essential)

An MA or equivalent degree in a related topic/theme/discipline. (essential) 

Evidence of experience or understanding of the cultural sector and culture-led regeneration. (desirable)

How to apply

Applications are open to all Cara Fellows who can start a PhD in June/September 2023.

Applicants will have to meet all of the Cara Fellowship Programme eligibility criteria to be considered for the award. If you have any questions, you can contact info@cara.ngo.

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Carola Boehm

Professor

Start dates
Friday 30 June 2023
Saturday 30 September 2023
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