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Two members of EULAC Museums project, Paula Menino Homem (convener) and Lu\u00eds Raposo (speaker), participated in the Panel on \u201cHeritage, museums and communities: integration and development relationships\u201d.<\/p>\r\n

\u00a0<\/p>","text":"Two members of EULAC Museums project, Paula Menino Homem (convener) and Lu\u00eds Raposo (speaker), participated in the Panel on \u201cHeritage, museums and communities: integration and development relationships\u201d.\r\n\u00a0"},{"value":"

Proposed by EULAC MUSEUMS project, the round-table on \u201cBravery and a sense of place in abandoned lands: the role of eco- and community museums\u201d has taken place in the frame of the Museums Association Conference & Exhibition 2016, held in Glasgow, from 7 to 9 November 2106. The round table was convened by Gillian Findlay (City of Edinburgh Council), having as speakers Karen E. Brown (Univ. St Andrews), Luis Raposo (ICOM-Europe), Andy Wightman (MSP). It has been followed by about one hundred attendants which have also participated in a final group workshop, based in some of the provocative ideas raised by speakers.<\/p>","text":"Proposed by EULAC MUSEUMS project, the round-table on \u201cBravery and a sense of place in abandoned lands: the role of eco- and community museums\u201d has taken place in the frame of the Museums Association Conference & Exhibition 2016, held in Glasgow, from 7 to 9 November 2106. The round table was convened by Gillian Findlay (City of Edinburgh Council), having as speakers Karen E. Brown (Univ. St Andrews), Luis Raposo (ICOM-Europe), Andy Wightman (MSP). It has been followed by about one hundred attendants which have also participated in a final group workshop, based in some of the provocative ideas raised by speakers."},{"value":"

This workshop, oriented by Alan Miller and his team, was directed towards all museums professionals and museums lovers in having interest in photography or digital interpretation and would like to learn more.<\/p>\r\n

The workshop introduced the different techniques that can be used, photogrammetry, laser scanning and structured light. Participants, about twenty five people in total, have had the opportunity for hands on experience of each technique and will focus on the use photogrammetry using technology that is readily available to participants (mobile phones and cameras) using freely available and open source software.<\/p>\r\n

The three goals of the workshops were to:<\/p>\r\n

1) To create and disseminate exemplar digital content;<\/p>\r\n

2) To train enthusiasts in digital 3D technologies and interpretation;<\/p>\r\n

3) To equip museums to run further workshops and dissemination activities.<\/p>\r\n

The workshops also introduced participants to using mobile phones and other available digital technologies to create, archive and present 3D and spherical representations of artifacts and their context.\u00a0 Six stages of the process were addressed in this regard:<\/p>\r\n

1) The selection of subjects for digitization;\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

2) The process of digital capture;<\/p>\r\n

3)\u00a0 Post processing and enhancement ;<\/p>\r\n

4)\u00a0 Digital archiving in a connected world;<\/p>\r\n

The research team at St Andrews have produced a Manual on creating 3D objects for community museum use. The aim of the manual is to instruct local people in how to make 3D objects using photogrammetry in particular. The manuals have been researched during and used alongside workshops in the EU-LAC project, and afterwards by community groups continuing to digitise and send data to the project.<\/p>","text":"This workshop, oriented by Alan Miller and his team, was directed towards all museums professionals and museums lovers in having interest in photography or digital interpretation and would like to learn more.\r\nThe workshop introduced the different techniques that can be used, photogrammetry, laser scanning and structured light. Participants, about twenty five people in total, have had the opportunity for hands on experience of each technique and will focus on the use photogrammetry using technology that is readily available to participants (mobile phones and cameras) using freely available and open source software.\r\nThe three goals of the workshops were to:\r\n1) To create and disseminate exemplar digital content;\r\n2) To train enthusiasts in digital 3D technologies and interpretation;\r\n3) To equip museums to run further workshops and dissemination activities.\r\nThe workshops also introduced participants to using mobile phones and other available digital technologies to create, archive and present 3D and spherical representations of artifacts and their context.\u00a0 Six stages of the process were addressed in this regard:\r\n1) The selection of subjects for digitization;\u00a0\r\n2) The process of digital capture;\r\n3)\u00a0 Post processing and enhancement ;\r\n4)\u00a0 Digital archiving in a connected world;\r\nThe research team at St Andrews have produced a Manual on creating 3D objects for community museum use. The aim of the manual is to instruct local people in how to make 3D objects using photogrammetry in particular. The manuals have been researched during and used alongside workshops in the EU-LAC project, and afterwards by community groups continuing to digitise and send data to the project."},{"value":"

As invited speaker, Karen Brown has presented in this Meeting a communication on \u201cEco- and Community Museums and Tourism in Scotland and Costa Rica\u201d. Lu\u00eds Raposo, chaired the session where Fran\u00e7ois Mairesse (President of ICOMFOM) presented his communication on \u201c Touriste, mon ami?\u201d In general, EULAC MUSEUMS assisted the organizers in elaborating the program and invete experts from different origins which were present in Portugal for the kick-off meeting of the Project.<\/p>","text":"As invited speaker, Karen Brown has presented in this Meeting a communication on \u201cEco- and Community Museums and Tourism in Scotland and Costa Rica\u201d. Lu\u00eds Raposo, chaired the session where Fran\u00e7ois Mairesse (President of ICOMFOM) presented his communication on \u201c Touriste, mon ami?\u201d In general, EULAC MUSEUMS assisted the organizers in elaborating the program and invete experts from different origins which were present in Portugal for the kick-off meeting of the Project."},{"value":"

Karen Brown, EULAC MUSEUMS Coordinator, has participated in this European\u00a0 Conference as invited speaker, to present the Scottish \u201ccase-study\u201d, either in relation to the National Museum and to the relationship between museums and communities. She also participated in a panel on the evaluation of Europeans funded projects for museums and cultural heritage. This panel was coordinated by Lu\u00eds Raposo (President of ICOM Europe) and composed by: Chris Whitehead (Coordinator of CoHERE Project - Critical Heritages: performing and representing identities in Europe, and Professor at Newcastle University, UK), Daniele Jalla, (President of ICOM Italy), Dominique Poulot (Member of the CulturalBase European platform, and Professor at the Universit\u00e9 de Paris 1, Panth\u00e9on-Sorbonne, France), Karen Brown (Coordinator of EU-LAC MUSEUMS Project and Head of the Museum, Galleries and Collections Institute, St. Andrews University, Scotland, UK), Monika Hagedorn-Saupe (Europeana Foundation Governing Board Member), Luca Basso Peressut (Coordinator of MELA Project - European Museums in an Age of Migration, and Professor at the Politecnico di Milano, Italy), Peter Aronsson (Coordinator of EUNAMUS Project - European National Museums, and Professor and Pro-rector of the Linnaeus University, Sweden)<\/p>\r\n

From the final conclusions of the Conference (URL: http:\/\/network.icom.museum\/europe\/activities\/conferences\/) a specific paragraph resulted from this panel:<\/p>\r\n

(5) The important role of international public financed projects for culture and heritage, as the ones of the European Union and the Council of Europe, has been stressed and attentively evaluated with the participation of the coordinators of some of the most influential in recent years and other still in course or being initiated. Museums\u2019 research, mainly university oriented, has developed enormously due the opportunities derived from this frame. Also museums, and National Museums in especial due to their larger capacity to accommodate wide nets of cooperation, took advantage from these projects, which are necessarily to be continued and enlarged, since culture and humanities still are significantly less funded than other social domains including the so-called \u201cfundamental sciences\u201d. However, concerns have been expressed relating the extent to which the important results deriving from European funded projects have been really absorbed by museums, benefiting their everyday life, upgrading their professional standards and ameliorating their social services. These worries were accentuated by the observed \u201cdepopulation\u201d or \u201cgeneration gap\u201d processes undergoing in many museums, all across Europe, making it enormously difficult, if not impossible, for them to act as fully partners, in a mutual fruitful way. This dramatic evolution has to be corrected and closer attention shall be given in the future to the drafting of projects, so that their outcomes are to include as much as possible practical sound results, for museums and their publics.<\/p>","text":"Karen Brown, EULAC MUSEUMS Coordinator, has participated in this European\u00a0 Conference as invited speaker, to present the Scottish \u201ccase-study\u201d, either in relation to the National Museum and to the relationship between museums and communities. She also participated in a panel on the evaluation of Europeans funded projects for museums and cultural heritage. This panel was coordinated by Lu\u00eds Raposo (President of ICOM Europe) and composed by: Chris Whitehead (Coordinator of CoHERE Project - Critical Heritages: performing and representing identities in Europe, and Professor at Newcastle University, UK), Daniele Jalla, (President of ICOM Italy), Dominique Poulot (Member of the CulturalBase European platform, and Professor at the Universit\u00e9 de Paris 1, Panth\u00e9on-Sorbonne, France), Karen Brown (Coordinator of EU-LAC MUSEUMS Project and Head of the Museum, Galleries and Collections Institute, St. Andrews University, Scotland, UK), Monika Hagedorn-Saupe (Europeana Foundation Governing Board Member), Luca Basso Peressut (Coordinator of MELA Project - European Museums in an Age of Migration, and Professor at the Politecnico di Milano, Italy), Peter Aronsson (Coordinator of EUNAMUS Project - European National Museums, and Professor and Pro-rector of the Linnaeus University, Sweden)\r\nFrom the final conclusions of the Conference (URL: http:\/\/network.icom.museum\/europe\/activities\/conferences\/) a specific paragraph resulted from this panel:\r\n(5) The important role of international public financed projects for culture and heritage, as the ones of the European Union and the Council of Europe, has been stressed and attentively evaluated with the participation of the coordinators of some of the most influential in recent years and other still in course or being initiated. Museums\u2019 research, mainly university oriented, has developed enormously due the opportunities derived from this frame. Also museums, and National Museums in especial due to their larger capacity to accommodate wide nets of cooperation, took advantage from these projects, which are necessarily to be continued and enlarged, since culture and humanities still are significantly less funded than other social domains including the so-called \u201cfundamental sciences\u201d. However, concerns have been expressed relating the extent to which the important results deriving from European funded projects have been really absorbed by museums, benefiting their everyday life, upgrading their professional standards and ameliorating their social services. These worries were accentuated by the observed \u201cdepopulation\u201d or \u201cgeneration gap\u201d processes undergoing in many museums, all across Europe, making it enormously difficult, if not impossible, for them to act as fully partners, in a mutual fruitful way. This dramatic evolution has to be corrected and closer attention shall be given in the future to the drafting of projects, so that their outcomes are to include as much as possible practical sound results, for museums and their publics."},{"value":"

On 1 November at the National Archaeological Museum in Lisbon, Portugal, the first meeting of the EU-LAC-MUSEUMS project, \u201cMuseums and Community: Concepts, Experiences, and Sustainability in Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean\u201d, will be held.<\/p>\r\n

This partnership between the European and Latin American & Caribbean Regional Alliances of ICOM was established during the 2014 ICOM Advisory Meeting. In March 2016, the project consortium of eight partners in total, including ICOM, won a grant from the EU. Over four years, from September 2016 to 2020, in the framework of \u201cMuseums and Community: Concepts, Experiences, and Sustainability in Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean (EU-LAC-MUSEUMS)\u201d, the close connections between Europe and Latin America and the Caribbean in the field of community museology will be studied by exploring the cultural, scientific and social dimensions of EU-LAC relations.<\/p>\r\n

The objectives of this ambitious project include the enhancement of mutual awareness in the museum spheres of the EU-CELAC regions by researching the concepts and experiences of sustainability in museums and communities in the two regions, with a special focus on heritage technologies and histories of migration as they relate to these communities. The consortium is to be coordinated by the University Court of the University of St Andrews, in Scotland (UK). As one of the main partners, the ICOM Secretariat is expected to participate in meetings (annual General Assembly) and symposiums dedicated to the project, and to promote the project through its different channels of communication. Moreover, ICOM\u2019s participation helps ensure that the project activities are carried out in accordance with the ICOM Code of Ethics, as stated in the grant agreement.<\/p>","text":"On 1 November at the National Archaeological Museum in Lisbon, Portugal, the first meeting of the EU-LAC-MUSEUMS project, \u201cMuseums and Community: Concepts, Experiences, and Sustainability in Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean\u201d, will be held.\r\nThis partnership between the European and Latin American & Caribbean Regional Alliances of ICOM was established during the 2014 ICOM Advisory Meeting. In March 2016, the project consortium of eight partners in total, including ICOM, won a grant from the EU. Over four years, from September 2016 to 2020, in the framework of \u201cMuseums and Community: Concepts, Experiences, and Sustainability in Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean (EU-LAC-MUSEUMS)\u201d, the close connections between Europe and Latin America and the Caribbean in the field of community museology will be studied by exploring the cultural, scientific and social dimensions of EU-LAC relations.\r\nThe objectives of this ambitious project include the enhancement of mutual awareness in the museum spheres of the EU-CELAC regions by researching the concepts and experiences of sustainability in museums and communities in the two regions, with a special focus on heritage technologies and histories of migration as they relate to these communities. The consortium is to be coordinated by the University Court of the University of St Andrews, in Scotland (UK). As one of the main partners, the ICOM Secretariat is expected to participate in meetings (annual General Assembly) and symposiums dedicated to the project, and to promote the project through its different channels of communication. Moreover, ICOM\u2019s participation helps ensure that the project activities are carried out in accordance with the ICOM Code of Ethics, as stated in the grant agreement."},{"value":"

Karen Brown, Jamie Brown and Karin Weil represented the EU-LAC-MUSEUMS project at the \u201cEurope as a Global Actor\u201d conference held in the European Commission buildings in Brussels, on 03 December 2016. The aim of the conference was to bring together consortia currently funded under this stream of Horizon2020 programme. Training was also provided in matters of data Management, Ethics and other aspects of project management.<\/p>\r\n

Networking was also avaluable part of the event, and we made contact with our \u201csister\u201d project, EU-LAC Focus.<\/p>","text":"Karen Brown, Jamie Brown and Karin Weil represented the EU-LAC-MUSEUMS project at the \u201cEurope as a Global Actor\u201d conference held in the European Commission buildings in Brussels, on 03 December 2016. The aim of the conference was to bring together consortia currently funded under this stream of Horizon2020 programme. Training was also provided in matters of data Management, Ethics and other aspects of project management.\r\nNetworking was also avaluable part of the event, and we made contact with our \u201csister\u201d project, EU-LAC Focus."},{"value":"

During the XIIIth Chilean Museological Congress or XIII Jornadas Museol\u00f3gicas Chilenas (26-28\/10\/2016), Karin Weil, Sim\u00f3n Urbina and Marcelo Godoy present the EULAC-Museums project and its principal topics, international members and institutions involves. The team expose a brief abstract of genesis of the consortium and specific objectives of working package consider for the regional investigation at Los R\u00edos territory and community museums in southern Chile y Latinoam\u00e9rica.<\/p>\r\n

The public that assist to this presentation was principally composed by the members of the Museum\u2019s regional network of Los R\u00edos, ICOM-Chile Board, professionals and researchers linked with museology and heritage management at a national and international level (Per\u00fa, Brasil, Uruguay, Argentina and Cuba).<\/p>\r\n

In order to disseminate the project EULAC-MUSEUMS and his principal tasks we invited journalist of different printed and digital media to cover the meeting and the project itself looking forward the main challenges of 2017.<\/p>","text":"During the XIIIth Chilean Museological Congress or XIII Jornadas Museol\u00f3gicas Chilenas (26-28\/10\/2016), Karin Weil, Sim\u00f3n Urbina and Marcelo Godoy present the EULAC-Museums project and its principal topics, international members and institutions involves. The team expose a brief abstract of genesis of the consortium and specific objectives of working package consider for the regional investigation at Los R\u00edos territory and community museums in southern Chile y Latinoam\u00e9rica.\r\nThe public that assist to this presentation was principally composed by the members of the Museum\u2019s regional network of Los R\u00edos, ICOM-Chile Board, professionals and researchers linked with museology and heritage management at a national and international level (Per\u00fa, Brasil, Uruguay, Argentina and Cuba).\r\nIn order to disseminate the project EULAC-MUSEUMS and his principal tasks we invited journalist of different printed and digital media to cover the meeting and the project itself looking forward the main challenges of 2017."},{"value":"

Youth participants create a video to introduce themselves to their colleagues in Scotland and Costa Rica.<\/p>\r\n

During the first Portuguese youth exchange on the 21st of January at the Hat Museum in S\u00e3o Jo\u00e3o da Madeira, the six youth participants of the project gathered together to create a video where they introduce themselves to their colleagues in three different languages: Portuguese, Spanish and English. For the activity, the youngsters were challenged to decorate three hats representing the involved countries in the project. Organized in groups of two and also with the help of several parents, each team reimagined Scotland, Costa Rica and Portugal in the shape of a hat.<\/p>\r\n

One of the goals of the project is to encourage and foster healthy and sustainable connections between the youth groups and through which the group aims to explore the various ways they can communicate with their counterparts.<\/p>","text":"Youth participants create a video to introduce themselves to their colleagues in Scotland and Costa Rica.\r\nDuring the first Portuguese youth exchange on the 21st of January at the Hat Museum in S\u00e3o Jo\u00e3o da Madeira, the six youth participants of the project gathered together to create a video where they introduce themselves to their colleagues in three different languages: Portuguese, Spanish and English. For the activity, the youngsters were challenged to decorate three hats representing the involved countries in the project. Organized in groups of two and also with the help of several parents, each team reimagined Scotland, Costa Rica and Portugal in the shape of a hat.\r\nOne of the goals of the project is to encourage and foster healthy and sustainable connections between the youth groups and through which the group aims to explore the various ways they can communicate with their counterparts."},{"value":"

Em coopera\u00e7\u00e3o com o Departamento de Museologia da ULHT e no \u00e2mbito da sua participa\u00e7\u00e3o no Projecto EULAC Museums, o Museu Nacional de Arqueologia promoveu um Encontro\/Debate para troca de experi\u00eancias entre Portugal e Brasil no dom\u00ednio da museologia e dos museus comunit\u00e1rios. Do lado portugu\u00eas tomou-se como caso de estudo o Museu da Ruralidade, de Castro Verde, um projecto museol\u00f3gico polinucleado, que pretende envolver a comunidade na dignifica\u00e7\u00e3o da mem\u00f3ria, na recusa do esquecimento e na constru\u00e7\u00e3o de um di\u00e1logo de interven\u00e7\u00e3o de anima\u00e7\u00e3o social. Do lado brasileiro observaram-se duas experi\u00eancias bastante diversas: o chamado Museu do Homem do Nordeste, do Recife, e o Ponto de Mem\u00f3ria da Estrutural \u2013 Museu Popular, de Bras\u00edlia. O primeiro, na condi\u00e7\u00e3o de iniciativa de inten\u00e7\u00e3o educativa do poder pol\u00edtico, constitui na origem um museu de tipo mais tradicional; mas adquiriu ao longo do tempo, pela programa\u00e7\u00e3o desenvolvida, um car\u00e1ter verdadeiramente comunit\u00e1rio. O segundo, nascido a partir daa aspira\u00e7\u00f5es da comunidade de respigadores e vizinhos de uma das maiores lixeiras da Am\u00e9rica do Sul, nos sub\u00farbios da capital brasileira, constitui uma verdadeira iniciativa popular, que a pol\u00edtica museol\u00f3gica nacional desenvolvida durante a presid\u00eancia de Lula da Silva veio a dar cobertura, no \u00e2mbito dos chamados \u201cpontos de mem\u00f3ria\u201d, que come\u00e7aram por ser pouco mais de uma dezena e s\u00e3o hoje mais de duas centenas.<\/p>\r\n

Seguiu-se animado debate com um painel entre todos os presentes, alguns muse\u00f3logos e profissionais, outros estudantes e simples interessados nos temas da museologia comunit\u00e1ria. Acentuou-se neste debate a import\u00e2ncia de o Projecto EULAC Museus poder contribuir para a produ\u00e7\u00e3o de pol\u00edticas museol\u00f3gicas nacionais atentas \u00e0 diversidade do mundo dos museus, nele incorporando experi\u00eancias comunit\u00e1rias muito diversas, nem sempre chamadas de museu sequer, mas de enorme potencial social.<\/p>","text":"Em coopera\u00e7\u00e3o com o Departamento de Museologia da ULHT e no \u00e2mbito da sua participa\u00e7\u00e3o no Projecto EULAC Museums, o Museu Nacional de Arqueologia promoveu um Encontro\/Debate para troca de experi\u00eancias entre Portugal e Brasil no dom\u00ednio da museologia e dos museus comunit\u00e1rios. Do lado portugu\u00eas tomou-se como caso de estudo o Museu da Ruralidade, de Castro Verde, um projecto museol\u00f3gico polinucleado, que pretende envolver a comunidade na dignifica\u00e7\u00e3o da mem\u00f3ria, na recusa do esquecimento e na constru\u00e7\u00e3o de um di\u00e1logo de interven\u00e7\u00e3o de anima\u00e7\u00e3o social. Do lado brasileiro observaram-se duas experi\u00eancias bastante diversas: o chamado Museu do Homem do Nordeste, do Recife, e o Ponto de Mem\u00f3ria da Estrutural \u2013 Museu Popular, de Bras\u00edlia. O primeiro, na condi\u00e7\u00e3o de iniciativa de inten\u00e7\u00e3o educativa do poder pol\u00edtico, constitui na origem um museu de tipo mais tradicional; mas adquiriu ao longo do tempo, pela programa\u00e7\u00e3o desenvolvida, um car\u00e1ter verdadeiramente comunit\u00e1rio. O segundo, nascido a partir daa aspira\u00e7\u00f5es da comunidade de respigadores e vizinhos de uma das maiores lixeiras da Am\u00e9rica do Sul, nos sub\u00farbios da capital brasileira, constitui uma verdadeira iniciativa popular, que a pol\u00edtica museol\u00f3gica nacional desenvolvida durante a presid\u00eancia de Lula da Silva veio a dar cobertura, no \u00e2mbito dos chamados \u201cpontos de mem\u00f3ria\u201d, que come\u00e7aram por ser pouco mais de uma dezena e s\u00e3o hoje mais de duas centenas.\r\nSeguiu-se animado debate com um painel entre todos os presentes, alguns muse\u00f3logos e profissionais, outros estudantes e simples interessados nos temas da museologia comunit\u00e1ria. Acentuou-se neste debate a import\u00e2ncia de o Projecto EULAC Museus poder contribuir para a produ\u00e7\u00e3o de pol\u00edticas museol\u00f3gicas nacionais atentas \u00e0 diversidade do mundo dos museus, nele incorporando experi\u00eancias comunit\u00e1rias muito diversas, nem sempre chamadas de museu sequer, mas de enorme potencial social."},{"value":"

EULAC Museums participation (notice to use in social media and web platform):<\/p>\r\n

The community museum team asked to the Chilean team, to organize a meeting with the authorities of the local community with the purpose of socializing the project, its objectives and the way in which the community museum was going to participate, especially the 3D workshop at the beginning of March. In this meeting\u00a0 Lanco\u00b4s Mayor was very grateful for the opportunity and the project and offered his support and commitment to the museum and the initiative.<\/p>\r\n

Persons who participated in the meeting:<\/p>\r\n

1.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rolando Pe\u00f1a, Major of the city of Lanco.<\/p>\r\n

2.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Gabriela Avenda\u00f1o, Community Development Direction.<\/p>\r\n

3.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Diego Lira, Municipal Culture Manager.<\/p>\r\n

4.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Luis Becerra, Municipal Councilor.<\/p>\r\n

5.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Nerys Mora from the Community Museum \u201cDespierta Hermano\u201d de Malalhue.<\/p>\r\n

6.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Jorge Manzano, Universidad Austral de Chile, Legal Advisor.<\/p>\r\n

7.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Karin Weil, Universidad Austral de Chile, Principal Investigator of the Chilean team.<\/p>\r\n

8.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Marcelo Godoy, Universidad Austral de Chile, Investigator of the Chilean team.<\/p>","text":"EULAC Museums participation (notice to use in social media and web platform):\r\nThe community museum team asked to the Chilean team, to organize a meeting with the authorities of the local community with the purpose of socializing the project, its objectives and the way in which the community museum was going to participate, especially the 3D workshop at the beginning of March. In this meeting\u00a0 Lanco\u00b4s Mayor was very grateful for the opportunity and the project and offered his support and commitment to the museum and the initiative.\r\nPersons who participated in the meeting:\r\n1.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rolando Pe\u00f1a, Major of the city of Lanco.\r\n2.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Gabriela Avenda\u00f1o, Community Development Direction.\r\n3.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Diego Lira, Municipal Culture Manager.\r\n4.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Luis Becerra, Municipal Councilor.\r\n5.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Nerys Mora from the Community Museum \u201cDespierta Hermano\u201d de Malalhue.\r\n6.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Jorge Manzano, Universidad Austral de Chile, Legal Advisor.\r\n7.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Karin Weil, Universidad Austral de Chile, Principal Investigator of the Chilean team.\r\n8.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Marcelo Godoy, Universidad Austral de Chile, Investigator of the Chilean team."},{"value":"

AN open-air museum on Skye has joined with St Andrews\u00a0University<\/a>\u00a0in an international project to help communities across the world show their place in history. Funded by the European Union, the university will lead the project which aims to emphasise the pivotal role of community museums such as Ceumannan, the Skye Ecomuseum managed by Staffin Community Trust.<\/p>\r\n

Known as EU-LAC-Museums (Concepts, Experiences and Sustainability in Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean), the idea was conceived during a meeting of the International Council of Museums in Paris.<\/p>\r\n

The project will include studies on female migration between Caribbean islands and an international touring exhibition on art and migration, as well as questions of community empowerment and sustainability in remote areas. Dr Karen Brown, director of the museums, galleries and collections institute in the\u00a0School<\/a>\u00a0of Art History at the University of St Andrews, will head the four-year project.<\/p>\r\n

\r\n

She will lead a team working with researchers and policy makers in\u00a0Scotland<\/a>, Portugal, Spain, Costa Rica, Chile, Peru and the West Indies to investigate how museums can help protect heritage, particularly for remote and island locations.<\/p>\r\n

Ultimately, the project aims to develop models of best practice that can be used for local development, and the protection of cultural heritage.<\/p>\r\n

As well as Ceumannan, the Rey Curr\u00e9 Museo Comunitario in Costa Rica, run by the native Boruca people, will also be participating. Both are open-air museums encouraging visitors to explore the natural landscape and traditional structures.<\/p>\r\n

Brown said: \u201cIt is a tremendous privilege for St Andrews to be coordinating this new international museums project. Our collaborative research into cross-cutting issues, including sustainability, migration, regional integration and gender, will inform an important moment for museums internationally.\u201d<\/p>\r\n

The project has received funding from Horizon2020, the EU\u2019s largest research and innovation programme.<\/p>\r\n

Youth programme worker James Brown of the university said: \u201cEU-LAC-Museums will empower young people from the remote communities of Isle of Skye, Penafiel in Portugal, Rey Curr\u00e9 and Boruca to discuss and share their unique cultural heritage.\u201d<\/p>\r\n<\/div>","text":"AN open-air museum on Skye has joined with St Andrews\u00a0University\u00a0in an international project to help communities across the world show their place in history. Funded by the European Union, the university will lead the project which aims to emphasise the pivotal role of community museums such as Ceumannan, the Skye Ecomuseum managed by Staffin Community Trust.\r\nKnown as EU-LAC-Museums (Concepts, Experiences and Sustainability in Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean), the idea was conceived during a meeting of the International Council of Museums in Paris.\r\nThe project will include studies on female migration between Caribbean islands and an international touring exhibition on art and migration, as well as questions of community empowerment and sustainability in remote areas. Dr Karen Brown, director of the museums, galleries and collections institute in the\u00a0School\u00a0of Art History at the University of St Andrews, will head the four-year project.\r\n\r\nShe will lead a team working with researchers and policy makers in\u00a0Scotland, Portugal, Spain, Costa Rica, Chile, Peru and the West Indies to investigate how museums can help protect heritage, particularly for remote and island locations.\r\nUltimately, the project aims to develop models of best practice that can be used for local development, and the protection of cultural heritage.\r\nAs well as Ceumannan, the Rey Curr\u00e9 Museo Comunitario in Costa Rica, run by the native Boruca people, will also be participating. Both are open-air museums encouraging visitors to explore the natural landscape and traditional structures.\r\nBrown said: \u201cIt is a tremendous privilege for St Andrews to be coordinating this new international museums project. Our collaborative research into cross-cutting issues, including sustainability, migration, regional integration and gender, will inform an important moment for museums internationally.\u201d\r\nThe project has received funding from Horizon2020, the EU\u2019s largest research and innovation programme.\r\nYouth programme worker James Brown of the university said: \u201cEU-LAC-Museums will empower young people from the remote communities of Isle of Skye, Penafiel in Portugal, Rey Curr\u00e9 and Boruca to discuss and share their unique cultural heritage.\u201d\r\n"},{"value":"

A vice-Presidente da C\u00e2mara Municipal de Barcelos, Armandina Saleiro, esteve presente na assinatura dos protocolos de colabora\u00e7\u00e3o entre a Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto (FLUP), o Munic\u00edpio de Barcelos, o Munic\u00edpio de S. Jo\u00e3o da Madeira e o Munic\u00edpio de Penafiel, no \u00e2mbito do projeto EU-LAC-MUSEUMS, que decorreu no Museu da Chapelaria, em S\u00e3o Jo\u00e3o da Madeira.

Este projecto de cariz internacional, que envolve 8 pa\u00edses, coordenado pela Universidade de St. Andrews, na Esc\u00f3cia, visa a promo\u00e7\u00e3o das rela\u00e7\u00f5es entre a Uni\u00e3o Europeia e a Comunidade de Estados Latino-Americanos e Caribenhos (CELAC).<\/p>\r\n

Em Portugal, o Programa de Mobilidade Jovem que se \u00a0 enquadra no pacote de trabalho 'Educa\u00e7\u00e3o em Museus para a Inclus\u00e3o e Coes\u00e3o Social' \u00e9 coordenado \u00a0pela Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto (FLUP), que convidou tr\u00eas museus municipais a integrarem o cons\u00f3rcio nacional: o Museu da Chapelaria, em S. Jo\u00e3o da Madeira, o Museu de Olaria, em Barcelos, e o Museu Municipal de Penafiel atrav\u00e9s do seu n\u00facleo da aldeia de Quintandona.<\/p>\r\n

Atrav\u00e9s de uma s\u00e9rie de pacotes de trabalho tem\u00e1ticos, este projecto ir\u00e1 trabalhar o tema 'Museus e Comunidade: Conceitos, Experi\u00eancias e Sustentabilidade na Europa, Am\u00e9rica Latina e Caribe.<\/p>","text":"A vice-Presidente da C\u00e2mara Municipal de Barcelos, Armandina Saleiro, esteve presente na assinatura dos protocolos de colabora\u00e7\u00e3o entre a Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto (FLUP), o Munic\u00edpio de Barcelos, o Munic\u00edpio de S. Jo\u00e3o da Madeira e o Munic\u00edpio de Penafiel, no \u00e2mbito do projeto EU-LAC-MUSEUMS, que decorreu no Museu da Chapelaria, em S\u00e3o Jo\u00e3o da Madeira.Este projecto de cariz internacional, que envolve 8 pa\u00edses, coordenado pela Universidade de St. Andrews, na Esc\u00f3cia, visa a promo\u00e7\u00e3o das rela\u00e7\u00f5es entre a Uni\u00e3o Europeia e a Comunidade de Estados Latino-Americanos e Caribenhos (CELAC).\r\nEm Portugal, o Programa de Mobilidade Jovem que se \u00a0 enquadra no pacote de trabalho 'Educa\u00e7\u00e3o em Museus para a Inclus\u00e3o e Coes\u00e3o Social' \u00e9 coordenado \u00a0pela Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto (FLUP), que convidou tr\u00eas museus municipais a integrarem o cons\u00f3rcio nacional: o Museu da Chapelaria, em S. Jo\u00e3o da Madeira, o Museu de Olaria, em Barcelos, e o Museu Municipal de Penafiel atrav\u00e9s do seu n\u00facleo da aldeia de Quintandona.\r\nAtrav\u00e9s de uma s\u00e9rie de pacotes de trabalho tem\u00e1ticos, este projecto ir\u00e1 trabalhar o tema 'Museus e Comunidade: Conceitos, Experi\u00eancias e Sustentabilidade na Europa, Am\u00e9rica Latina e Caribe."},{"value":"

EU-LAC MUSEUMS Participants from Portugal: Getting the Blog started and discussing the Community.<\/strong><\/p>\r\n

Portuguese youth participants create blog where they will be sharing their experience<\/p>\r\n

In the second weekend of February, the participants gathered together in their local museums to create the blog space they will be using for the duration of the project. With the help of the museum professionals, each duo adapted and decorated their blog space accordingly and published their greetings for their colleagues from overseas. The group will also be updating the blog regularly with posts from their everyday lives, their communities and experiences. Everyone is invited to visit the blog, which can be accessed through the following URL: eulacmuseumspt.tumblr.com .<\/p>\r\n

The teams also addressed and discussed the topic of Community: what does it mean, what does it entail? To answer these questions (and many others) the group elaborated a work plan and list including members of the community and artists in order to guide them through their quest.<\/p>\r\n

Contrary to the teams from Barcelos and S\u00e3o Jo\u00e3o da Madeira, the participants from Penafiel gathered in the early morning of Sunday, the 12th of February, at the Social Center of Lagares, as later that day the two girls would be playing with their music band, being music and instruments an important aspect of their community.<\/p>","text":"EU-LAC MUSEUMS Participants from Portugal: Getting the Blog started and discussing the Community.\r\nPortuguese youth participants create blog where they will be sharing their experience\r\nIn the second weekend of February, the participants gathered together in their local museums to create the blog space they will be using for the duration of the project. With the help of the museum professionals, each duo adapted and decorated their blog space accordingly and published their greetings for their colleagues from overseas. The group will also be updating the blog regularly with posts from their everyday lives, their communities and experiences. Everyone is invited to visit the blog, which can be accessed through the following URL: eulacmuseumspt.tumblr.com .\r\nThe teams also addressed and discussed the topic of Community: what does it mean, what does it entail? To answer these questions (and many others) the group elaborated a work plan and list including members of the community and artists in order to guide them through their quest.\r\nContrary to the teams from Barcelos and S\u00e3o Jo\u00e3o da Madeira, the participants from Penafiel gathered in the early morning of Sunday, the 12th of February, at the Social Center of Lagares, as later that day the two girls would be playing with their music band, being music and instruments an important aspect of their community."},{"value":"

During the late 1990s, the structure of the Venice Biennale underwent a dramatic overhaul, expanding into the Arsenale buildings that once housed the city\u2019s shipyards and armouries. Its interconnecting rooms provide a counterpoint to the Giardini\u2019s national pavilions, and the greater curatorial fluidity that this enables has been further extended through the introduction of collateral pavilions and events. These now proliferate throughout the Biennale, offering sites through which artists and curators can explore the charged issues of transnationalism, resurgent nationalism, and globalization. As was particularly evident in Okwui Enwezor\u2019s 2015 Biennale, these interventions can resonate strongly with both Venice\u2019s long history of maritime trading, and the current challenges it faces as a city inhabited primarily by tourists, in a continent struggling to respond coherently to the on-going refugee crisis, with an ecology that has been tangibly affected by climate change. While critics rightly continue to challenge the out-dated nature of the Biennale\u2019s underlying structures, its vast expenditure and excess, and its imbrication in commercial markets, the event is hardly the \u2018goldfish bowl\u2019 once described by the critic and curator Lawrence\u00a0 Alloway; it is now an expanded and contested field of activity, in which the politics of representation and display are constant and highly charged.<\/p>\r\n

The connectivity represented by the collateral events could be said to reflect increasing cultural homogenization, yet this programming might equally demonstrate the rise of diversity and a resurgence of interest in local identities. In Autumn 2001, the Scottish Arts Council (now Creative Scotland) and its partner, the British Council, announced plans to exhibit new work from Scotland at the 50th Venice Biennale in 2003. Scotland used the possibilities provided by the concept of the collateral pavilion and event programme to differentiate its cultural status from that of Great Britain.<\/p>\r\n

This example encapsulates cultural and artistic shifts around the way difference might be mobilized to gain visibility, as well as the intense debates about the status of national and cultural identities in an era of globalization. Equally, the logistical arrangement of these events and pavilions \u2013 as well as their very designation as \u2018collateral\u2019 \u2013 indicates the endurance of power imbalances and global inequalities both in the art world and wider culture.<\/p>\r\n

Drawing on the rich history of the Venice Biennale, together with recent art historical interventions into issues such as globalization, migration, biennial and triennial culture, the status of \u2018the contemporary\u2019, and the relationship between art and politics, we invite papers that explore the ramifications of collateral pavilions and events in Venice. Possible topics for papers include but are by no means limited to:<\/p>\r\n