OPEN CALLS

Published 01-07-2015

Over 110 projects and cases were submitted from 14 different countries. 21 of them were selected to participate on Reimagining the Museum‘s stage. You can check the full list below.

ON STAGE

Pia Landro – Head of Education, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Buenos Aires (Argentina)

Learn about the advantages and disadvantages of thinking under pressure and a new approach to successfully dealing with stressful workplace situations.

Felicitas Asbert, Conservator, Museo Superior de Bellas Artes Evita Palacio Ferreyra (Argentina)

Gain insight on how an art museum found a practical yet imaginative solution to insect problems that has become a commonly accepted museum practice.

Maria Gabriela Doña, Head of Conservation y Restoration, General Office of Cultural Heritage of Salta (Argentina)

What does heritage mean in an ancient desert village? Learn how the towns of Iruya and Tastil in Argentina engaged their communities in defining their heritage and collective identity through the preservation and interpretation of their day-to-day objects and traditions.

Agueda Caro Petersen, General coordinator, Museo de Ciencias Naturales de la Municipalidad de Necochea (Argentina)

Learn about a project in which teenage students interested in science built an unprecedented atlas of wildlife in Necochea, a small town in the Province of Buenos Aires.

Juliane Serres, Coordinator, Museu das Coisas Banais (Brazil)

Gain insight on a research project developed with students at the Federal University of Pelotas that created a virtual museum highlighting and inviting discussion on the significance of everyday objects that have sentimental value.

Arturo Charria, Director, Museos Escolares de la Memoria (Colombia)

Learn about a museum program in which students from high schools in disadvantaged neighborhoods envisioned a museum to reconstruct historical memory through objects and stories.

Alesha Mercado, Adjoint Curator, MUAC – Museo de Arte Contemporáneo (Mexico)

Who is teaching whom? This case study explores the relationship and exciting synergy between two museums, one located in an impoverished area near Mexico City, and the other an iconic museum belonging to the National University.

Clara Gabriela Castillo Domínguez, Coordinator of Exhibit and Collection Register, Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso (Mexico)

Investigate the challenges of negotiating terms and conditions on contracts for temporary exhibitions that often include the interests and participation of stakeholders such as curators, donors, artists and sponsors.

Maria Laura Donati, Coordinator of Social Programs, Fundación Navarro Viola (Argentina)

Some museums in the Province of Buenos Aires engage adults over the age of 65 to serve as cultural facilitators. Gain insight on the benefits and risks of engagement with this audience in this role.

Juan Manuel Peña, Director, Fundación Chasquis (Colombia)

A museum multimedia program entitled “I Am Going to Tell You the Story” addresses the problem of land ownership in Colombia by focusing on the rural community of Las Pavas. Find out about this interactive installation that tells a compelling story through the songs of peasants.

Isabela Ribeiro de Arruda, Museum educator, Museu Paulista da Universidade de Sao Paulo (Brazil)

How does a museum remain active when it is closed to the public for renovation? Learn about the experience of one museum that offered workshops, games and educational activities that attracted a totally new and unexpected audience, and gain insight on innovative ideas to remain active during museum renovation or reconstruction.

Milene Chiovatto, Coordinator of Núcleo de Ação Educativa, Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo (Brazil)

This presentation will engage the audience in a game that enhances learning about the museum’s art collection and fosters, through play, connections among visitors of all ages.

Eva Carolina Gómez Mannheim, Director, Museo para la Identidad Nacional (Honduras)

As Einstein said, “In times of crisis, only imagination is more important than knowledge.” Find out what happened when The Museo para la Identidad Nacional used its own imagination and creativity to install a roof made of multicolored umbrellas across the street.

Ulla Holmquist, Curator, Museo Larco (Peru)

How are professional networks created and sustained despite physical and conceptual distances? Gain insight on the formation and success of the Network of Pedagogical Latin American Museums, a group of museum professionals that is diverse but unified in ideology, and lessons learned that can be applied in creating professional practice networks.

Kathryn Potts, Associate Director, Helena Rubinstein Chair of Education, The Whitney Museum of American Art (USA)

Learn how the recently reopened Whitney Museum is envisioning a new way of integrating itself into New York City by removing both physical and social barriers.

Kerry Doyle – Director and Chief Curator, Rubin Center for the Visual Arts (USA)

The Rubin Center is located on the US-Mexico border in the world’s largest binational metropolitan area. Understand how this border context guides the museum’s practice in visitor engagement by eliminating physical divisions through cross-border exhibitions, installations and performances.

THE CROWNING EVENT

Arturo Martín Mac Kay Fulle, Professor at Universidad de Lima (Peru)

This presentation envisions a new interpretation center on immigration in to be called: IDEM – Inga and Mandinga. Its name refers to historiographer Ricardo Palma’s famous phrase about the origins of the Peruvian population and social equality in Peru. The IDEM Center would champion the blended Peruvian culture as an example of advocating for a society without prejudice.

Paula Caballería Aguilera, Head of Education, Museo de Artes Visuales (Chile)            

Often museums are competitors rather than allies in attracting audiences. Based on principles applied in games, scientific thinking and social networking, this presentation advances a new approach among art museums that promotes sharing audiences as a means of offering interconnected, recreational, social and memorable learning opportunities in a multi-museum experience.

Marcela Giorla, Educator, Museo del Juguete de San Isidro y Analía Bernardi, Educator, Ferrowhite museo-taller (Argentina)        

This presentation proposes mounting a collaborative exhibition about toy trains on a real train that travels between Buenos Aires and Bahia Blanca, where the Museo del Juguete de San Isidro and Ferrowhite Museo Taller are respectively located. The exhibition would engage visitors in play and impart knowledge on how rail transportation fueled Argentina’s progress and development.

Paulina Guarnieri, Head of Education, Fundación Proa and member of REMCAA (Argentina)           

This presentation proposes a Platform for Latin American Projects—an online tool used to visualize, contextualize and research museum practices in Latin America. The tool would offer information on past and current projects, proposed or visionary proposals and a resource library to foster continuous learning and museum exchange.

Yazmín Guerrero Reyes, Researcher (Mexico) 

According to UNESCO, 50 percent of the languages spoken in the world are in danger of disappearing. While Mexico is one of the eight nations that account for half of the world’s languages, many languages spoken there are vanishing due to ignorance and prejudice. This presentation proposes a traveling exhibition on languages as a vital link to our understanding of cultural origins and identities.

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1. Claudia Beatriz Vargas Zavala
   July 2nd, 2015 at 02:18 PM

   Buenas tardes. He revisado esta lista de seleccionados que me parecen muy interesantes las temáticas mostradas por cada uno. Quisiera saber si cada año se realiza esta convocatoria y de qué forma pudiera participar en una próxima ocasión ya que tengo experiencia laborando en museos y me encantaría formar parte de este tipo de proyectos, concursos, convocatorias.

   Espero pudieran resolver mi duda y ayudarme a participar en próximos eventos.

   Gracias y saludos desde México!!