Open Museums: spaces of social participation

Fabienne Venet

Migration:Cities Workshop, Mexico 2017. Fabienne Venet is currently director of the Institute of Studies and Dissemination on Migration A.C. (INEDIM) and is Fellow Ashoka. She was coordinator of the Migration Studies Program of the Mexican Human Rights Academy (AMDH), consultant for the Regional Office in Mexico of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and founder and director of Sin Fronteras IAP. She has also been a guest scholar at the Center for Inter-American Studies and Programs (CEPI) of the Autonomous Technological Institute of Mexico (ITAM) and member of the National Council for the Prevention of Discrimination (CONAPRED). She has worked for more than 25 years on issues of migration, asylum and human rights from civil society, seeking to promote dialogue and the development of more just and adequate public policies.

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Curator at Museum Rotterdam

City museums as strategic places of diversity

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Migration:Cities Workshop in June the 2nd 2018, Historical Museum Frankfurt. Prof. dr. Paul Th. van de Laar is endowed professor in urban history at the Erasmus University School of History, … [read more]

Migration:Cities Workshop in June the 2nd 2018, Historical Museum Frankfurt. Prof. dr. Paul Th. van de Laar is endowed professor in urban history at the Erasmus University School of History, Culture and Communication. Besides, he is a managing director of Museum Rotterdam (the City Museum), responsible for the new focus on city museums and their role in a changing urban context, in particular the role of cultural heritage in superdiverse cities. [hide]

Interactive Workshop Session

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Migration:Cities Workshop in June the 2nd 2018, Historical Museum Frankfurt. Interactive Workshop Session from CAMOC's Vice Chair, Catherince C. Cole.

Towards a common migration strategy for museums

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Migration:Cities Workshop in June the 2nd 2018, Historical Museum Frankfurt. Smaro Skoulikidis has over 27 years’ experience with the United Nations, formulating and managing large scale … [read more]

Migration:Cities Workshop in June the 2nd 2018, Historical Museum Frankfurt. Smaro Skoulikidis has over 27 years’ experience with the United Nations, formulating and managing large scale humanitarian, post-conflict, recovery and development programmes. She has worked with a number of UN organizations, including the United Nations Development Programme, the World Food Programme, as well as Peacekeeping Missions, and is currently the Director of the Office of the Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary General in the Peacekeeping Mission (MONUSCO) in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. She also has a Diploma in Museum Studies from the Reinwardt Academie in the Netherlands and has been an advisor to the National Museum in Kuala Lumpur, Liberia and the DRC. [hide]

Museums Change Lives?

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Migration:Cities Workshop in June the 2nd 2018, Historical Museum Frankfurt. Emma Winch is the Learning Manager for Hackney Museum, a small community history museum in the diverse London Borough … [read more]

Migration:Cities Workshop in June the 2nd 2018, Historical Museum Frankfurt. Emma Winch is the Learning Manager for Hackney Museum, a small community history museum in the diverse London Borough of Hackney, with an international reputation for its pioneering community engagement programme. In 2014 she was also part of the management team who opened Black Cultural Archives, the UK’s first Black heritage centre in London where she oversaw the learning and exhibition programme and co- curated their first two exhibitions. Emma organizes the annual UK-wide Antiuniversity Now Festival, sits on the Education Committee for the Migration Museum and works as a Freelance Heritage Consultant, advising organizations on community engagement, writing online and printed learning resources, and mentoring early career museum professionals. [hide]

The museums and the Movement of People and Ideas

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Migration:Cities Workshop in June the 2nd 2018, Historical Museum Frankfurt. Donald is an Urbanist, Curator and Director of Regeneration and Community Partnerships for Tate Galleries. Over the … [read more]

Migration:Cities Workshop in June the 2nd 2018, Historical Museum Frankfurt. Donald is an Urbanist, Curator and Director of Regeneration and Community Partnerships for Tate Galleries. Over the last twenty five years his work has been at the forefront of exploring and thinking about the role culture, architecture, food & museums can play in place making, economic and social development of cities and communities. He is lead Curator on the Tate Modern Turbine Hall Commission 2017 with Danish artists Superflex. Donald is also Chair of Borough Food Market in London. [hide]