scholarly journals Private Tastes and Public Desires: Exploring the Perspectives and Practices of Private Collectors who Share their Collections Publicly

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Kiri Griffin
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Observational Data ◽  
Public Institutions ◽  
Publicly Funded ◽  
The Public ◽  
Individual Agency ◽  
Evaluative Judgments ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Heritage Collections ◽  
Valuable Service

<p>Private collectors who share their collections publicly provide a valuable service to the public. They collect and provide access to cultural heritage materials just as public institutions such as museums and galleries within the heritage sector do. While there is a wealth of literature that discusses the significance of publicly funded heritage institutions to the heritage sector there is an absence of literature that explores the private collector’s relationship to the heritage sector from their perspective. Literature on private collectors has tended to privilege the perspectives of publicly funded heritage institutions, affirming these institutions as the best place for the care and access to heritage collections. None of this literature or research has considered the private collector’s perspective as a means to better understand their collecting activities or their position in relation to the heritage sector. This thesis places the private collector at the centre of enquiry. It explores the private collector’s position in relation to the heritage sector through examining their perceptions and collecting practices relative to publicly funded heritage institutions. Audiovisual interviews were conducted with eight private collectors to achieve this aim. Verbal and observational data captured through this method was analyzed and considered in relation to existing literature regarding the values and practices of public heritage institutions, as well as sociological theories of agency. Findings showed that there is a shared ethos between the private collector and the publicly funded heritage institution. This ethos is founded on common values and collecting practices. Findings also reveal that the individual agency of the private collector offers them autonomy in their collecting activities. This autonomy causes them to enact their collecting practices in accordance with their own subjective tastes. These tastes distinguish the private collector and their collecting practices from publicly funded heritage institutions and assist in identifying the private collector’s position in relation to the heritage sector. This research contributes to a canon of international and national research into private collectors and evaluative judgments regarding collecting. It enhances the publicly funded heritage institutions potential to collaborate with private collectors through providing a deeper understanding of their perspectives and practices.</p>

scholarly journals Private Tastes and Public Desires: Exploring the Perspectives and Practices of Private Collectors who Share their Collections Publicly

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Kiri Griffin
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Observational Data ◽  
Public Institutions ◽  
Publicly Funded ◽  
The Public ◽  
Individual Agency ◽  
Evaluative Judgments ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Heritage Collections ◽  
Valuable Service

<p>Private collectors who share their collections publicly provide a valuable service to the public. They collect and provide access to cultural heritage materials just as public institutions such as museums and galleries within the heritage sector do. While there is a wealth of literature that discusses the significance of publicly funded heritage institutions to the heritage sector there is an absence of literature that explores the private collector’s relationship to the heritage sector from their perspective. Literature on private collectors has tended to privilege the perspectives of publicly funded heritage institutions, affirming these institutions as the best place for the care and access to heritage collections. None of this literature or research has considered the private collector’s perspective as a means to better understand their collecting activities or their position in relation to the heritage sector. This thesis places the private collector at the centre of enquiry. It explores the private collector’s position in relation to the heritage sector through examining their perceptions and collecting practices relative to publicly funded heritage institutions. Audiovisual interviews were conducted with eight private collectors to achieve this aim. Verbal and observational data captured through this method was analyzed and considered in relation to existing literature regarding the values and practices of public heritage institutions, as well as sociological theories of agency. Findings showed that there is a shared ethos between the private collector and the publicly funded heritage institution. This ethos is founded on common values and collecting practices. Findings also reveal that the individual agency of the private collector offers them autonomy in their collecting activities. This autonomy causes them to enact their collecting practices in accordance with their own subjective tastes. These tastes distinguish the private collector and their collecting practices from publicly funded heritage institutions and assist in identifying the private collector’s position in relation to the heritage sector. This research contributes to a canon of international and national research into private collectors and evaluative judgments regarding collecting. It enhances the publicly funded heritage institutions potential to collaborate with private collectors through providing a deeper understanding of their perspectives and practices.</p>

scholarly journals Private Tastes and Public Desires: Exploring the Perspectives and Practices of Private Collectors who Share their Collections Publicly

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Kiri Griffin
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Observational Data ◽  
Public Institutions ◽  
Publicly Funded ◽  
The Public ◽  
Individual Agency ◽  
Evaluative Judgments ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Heritage Collections ◽  
Valuable Service

<p>Private collectors who share their collections publicly provide a valuable service to the public. They collect and provide access to cultural heritage materials just as public institutions such as museums and galleries within the heritage sector do. While there is a wealth of literature that discusses the significance of publicly funded heritage institutions to the heritage sector there is an absence of literature that explores the private collector’s relationship to the heritage sector from their perspective. Literature on private collectors has tended to privilege the perspectives of publicly funded heritage institutions, affirming these institutions as the best place for the care and access to heritage collections. None of this literature or research has considered the private collector’s perspective as a means to better understand their collecting activities or their position in relation to the heritage sector. This thesis places the private collector at the centre of enquiry. It explores the private collector’s position in relation to the heritage sector through examining their perceptions and collecting practices relative to publicly funded heritage institutions. Audiovisual interviews were conducted with eight private collectors to achieve this aim. Verbal and observational data captured through this method was analyzed and considered in relation to existing literature regarding the values and practices of public heritage institutions, as well as sociological theories of agency. Findings showed that there is a shared ethos between the private collector and the publicly funded heritage institution. This ethos is founded on common values and collecting practices. Findings also reveal that the individual agency of the private collector offers them autonomy in their collecting activities. This autonomy causes them to enact their collecting practices in accordance with their own subjective tastes. These tastes distinguish the private collector and their collecting practices from publicly funded heritage institutions and assist in identifying the private collector’s position in relation to the heritage sector. This research contributes to a canon of international and national research into private collectors and evaluative judgments regarding collecting. It enhances the publicly funded heritage institutions potential to collaborate with private collectors through providing a deeper understanding of their perspectives and practices.</p>

scholarly journals Private Tastes and Public Desires: Exploring the Perspectives and Practices of Private Collectors who Share their Collections Publicly

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Kiri Griffin
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Observational Data ◽  
Public Institutions ◽  
Publicly Funded ◽  
The Public ◽  
Individual Agency ◽  
Evaluative Judgments ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Heritage Collections ◽  
Valuable Service

<p>Private collectors who share their collections publicly provide a valuable service to the public. They collect and provide access to cultural heritage materials just as public institutions such as museums and galleries within the heritage sector do. While there is a wealth of literature that discusses the significance of publicly funded heritage institutions to the heritage sector there is an absence of literature that explores the private collector’s relationship to the heritage sector from their perspective. Literature on private collectors has tended to privilege the perspectives of publicly funded heritage institutions, affirming these institutions as the best place for the care and access to heritage collections. None of this literature or research has considered the private collector’s perspective as a means to better understand their collecting activities or their position in relation to the heritage sector. This thesis places the private collector at the centre of enquiry. It explores the private collector’s position in relation to the heritage sector through examining their perceptions and collecting practices relative to publicly funded heritage institutions. Audiovisual interviews were conducted with eight private collectors to achieve this aim. Verbal and observational data captured through this method was analyzed and considered in relation to existing literature regarding the values and practices of public heritage institutions, as well as sociological theories of agency. Findings showed that there is a shared ethos between the private collector and the publicly funded heritage institution. This ethos is founded on common values and collecting practices. Findings also reveal that the individual agency of the private collector offers them autonomy in their collecting activities. This autonomy causes them to enact their collecting practices in accordance with their own subjective tastes. These tastes distinguish the private collector and their collecting practices from publicly funded heritage institutions and assist in identifying the private collector’s position in relation to the heritage sector. This research contributes to a canon of international and national research into private collectors and evaluative judgments regarding collecting. It enhances the publicly funded heritage institutions potential to collaborate with private collectors through providing a deeper understanding of their perspectives and practices.</p>

scholarly journals Sobre Luzes e Sombras: a revitalização da Praça XV de Novembro no centro histórico da cidade do Rio de Janeiro e o papel da paisagem urbana como patrimônio cultural (1982-2012) / The revitalization (...)

2015 ◽  
Vol 25 (44) ◽  
pp. 134-148
Author(s):  
Leonardo Civale
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
Historical Period ◽  
The Public ◽  
Affective Value ◽  
Historical Identity ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Political Actions

Em um mundo marcado pela velocidade de circulação de mercadorias, pessoas e, sobretudo do capital, não há como escapar de uma sensação de um tempo presente que se eterniza. No entanto, a despeito da unificação de mercados e da construção de uma economia mundial, presenciamos no período histórico que vai do final do século XX ao início do século XXI, a importância, cada vez maior, da memória, da história, do passado e das recordações individuais e coletivas. Essa força historicista tem desejado e orientado a conservação e transmissão de um patrimônio cultural comum de cunho material ou imaterial. Deste modo, podemos identificar por parte de autoridades governamentais, pela da ação política de camadas de intelectuais, ou através da pressão de grupos identitários, uma espécie de obsessão memorialista, cujo objetivo consciente ou não, é a preservação da identidade de uma determinada comunidade. O desejo de conservação e preservação teria aumentado na medida em os diferentes grupos de pressão e as camadas intelectuais desconfiariam dos projetos de futuro, das promessas do desenvolvimento econômico e das dádivas dos diferentes modelos de utopias comunitárias. No entanto, na discussão sobre o que se deve conservar e preservar, não é a memória e a identidade histórica dos grupos subalternizados, mas sim aquelas de grupos dominantes com forte capacidade de exercer pressão social e coletiva. O presente trabalho se debruça sobre um exemplo concreto, a revitalização de uma praça no coração do centro histórico da cidade do Rio de Janeiro e procura refletir sobre o papel fundamental da preservação do patrimônio cultural material ou intangível como um instrumento de preservação da identidade histórica e cultural dos diferentes grupos que dividem o espaço urbano. O trabalho pretende assim revelar como os interesses políticos e culturais de determinados grupos podem iluminar alguns objetos de valor cultural e afetivos, mas, ao mesmo tempo produzir sombras outros tantos que são fundamentais para a memória coletiva de grupos com menor poder de pressão e representação social.  Ao se ocupar do exemplo recente do processo de revitalização do centro da cidade do Rio de Janeiro, o artigo tema intenção de destacar a importância da discussão do patrimônio cultural como política pública.Palavras-chaves: paisagem cultural, patrimônio, espaço, memória, identidade     Abstract  In spite of the unification of markets and the construction of a worldwide economy, we witnessed, during the historical period between the end of the 20th and the beginning of the 21st centuries, the ever-growing importance of the memory, the history, the past, and of the individual or collective reminiscences. This historical force has desired and oriented the conservation and transmission of a common cultural heritage, be it material or immaterial. Therefore, we are able to identify, on the part of governmental authorities, by means of the political actions of the intellectual segments or through the pressure by identity groups, a sort of memoirist obsession, whose objective, is to preserve the identity of a given community. However, during the discussion regarding what should be conserved and preserved, the conclusions reached was that it was not the memoirs and the historical identity of subordinate groups, but those of dominant groups, capable of exerting social and collective pressure. This paper examines a concrete example: the revitalization of a plaza in the historical center of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, seeking to reflect on the fundamental role of preservation to our cultural heritage. This study aims, therefore, to reveal how the public and cultural interests behind given groups may highlight some objects of cultural or affective value, but, at the same time, undermine many others that are also fundamental for the memory of collective groups of lesser power and social representation.Keywords: cultural landscape, cultural heritage, space, memory, identity

scholarly journals The public–private–people partnership (P4) for cultural heritage management purposes

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Cristina Boniotti
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Community Involvement ◽  
Stakeholder Participation ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Public Institutions ◽  
Heritage Management ◽  
Cultural Heritage Management ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Public ◽  
Italian Context

PurposeIn light of the difficulties the governments typically face in conserving and managing their rich public cultural heritage, which often lingers in a condition of neglect, this study aims to identify a set of additional tools capable of providing adequate financial resources as well as skills.Design/methodology/approachThe general research methodology adopted is of a qualitative, rather than a quantitative, nature. In fact, the resulting considerations are mainly the consequence of a first broad theoretical examination, aimed at analyzing the different management models a public entity may adopt, and an applicable verification, aimed at describing some case histories selected by means of interviews.FindingsThe study develops a preliminary reflection on possible sector-specific models for public-built cultural heritage management that have not been well defined yet, especially so in reference to one of the institutional options, namely, the adoption of public–private–people agreements. Indeed, in addition to establishing the ties needed to link public institutions with the business sector, some strong involvement of society as a whole is advised to foster the implementation of projects and expedite the solution of shared problems. At a local level, for instance, private stakeholder participation must be encouraged, with special attention to the latter's cultural closeness to the territory involved.Originality/valueThis research identifies some tools suitable for adoption in the cultural heritage field, which would serve as perfect examples of community involvement and commitment, and some useful case studies resulting from the Italian context.

Redundancy in the Australian Public Service — Some Critical Reflections

2013 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 525-555
Author(s):  
Cameron Roles
Keyword(s):  
Public Service ◽  
The Public ◽  
Individual Agency ◽  
Collective Agreements ◽  
Unfair Dismissal ◽  
The Law ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Critical Reflections

This article critically examines the law concerning dismissal on grounds of redundancy as it applies to the Australian Public Service (‘APS’). Such an examination is timely, given the newly elected Coalition government's stated intention to reduce the APS by 12 000 employees through natural attrition. The article argues that a reduction of 12 000 employees through natural attrition alone is unlikely, and that redundancies are almost inevitable. Against this backdrop, the article considers recent legislative developments concerning dismissal on grounds of redundancy. Its focus is the genuine redundancy exclusion contained in s 389 of the Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth) (‘FW Act’) and its application to APS employment. The genuine redundancy exclusion precludes unfair dismissal claims if the redundancy is genuine, the employer complies with any consultation obligations in a modern award or enterprise agreement and it would not have been reasonable in all the circumstances to redeploy the affected employee within the employer's enterprise or that of an associated entity. The article argues that, prior to the FW Act, redundancy obligations were predominantly dealt with in collective agreements, and did not require consultations or redeployment of redundant employees beyond the individual agency. However the FW Act fundamentally changed the law in this area. The article contends that a failure to comply with consultation obligations in an agency enterprise agreement will increase the prospects of a dismissal being found to be unfair. In the APS this is problematic, given the convoluted nature of many consultation clauses in enterprise agreements. The article also argues that the redeployment obligations in s 389(2) are extremely broad and, contrary to past practice under the Public Service Act 1999 (Cth) (‘PS Act’), encompass redeployment across the APS. The obligation to redeploy across the APS creates tensions in the law between the provisions of the FW Act and the devolution of managerial powers under the PS Act.

scholarly journals Crystallography at your door

2014 ◽  
Vol 70 (a1) ◽  
pp. C1033-C1033
Author(s):  
Alessia Bacchi ◽  
Nicola Corriero ◽  
Annalisa Guerri ◽  
Andrea Lenco ◽  
Chiara Massera ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High Schools ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Public Awareness ◽  
Public Institutions ◽  
Crystalline Materials ◽  
The Public ◽  
Regular Shape ◽  
Natural Beauty ◽  
The Impact

The idea at the basis of the project 'Crystallography at your door' is to associate crystallography with cultural, artistic, and natural beauty by creating a virtual list of `Crystallographic sites in Italy'. One of the challenges that science in general has to face is to increase awareness of the impact that research has on daily life, culture and history. In addition, crystallography is not a discipline generally known to public, and while the words chemistry, physics, biology immediately bring to people at least some memories of lessons at high schools, crystallography remains an obscure term. However the natural beauty of crystals related to their regular shape, symmetry, colours has since the dawn of humankind fascinated people; even nowadays concepts related to crystals are widely used in marketing to convey to the buyers the idea of cleanliness, purity and freshness of many products, that are not necessarily related to crystalline materials. On the wave of IYCr2014 the Italian Crystallographic Association promotes initiatives to bring people closer to crystallography [1]; one of these is aimed at stimulating people to look around for places where crystallography may be seen 'in action' in all its facets: mines, saltworks, historical places related to the work of crystallographers, museums, and most of all buildings or masterpieces of art where symmetry has been exploited to create beauty. Italy has a unique strength in the artistic and cultural heritage fields; in the last years the public awareness towards the richness of Italy in this area has been growing and has being fostered by media and public institutions. A list of 'italian crystallographic sites' has been compiled and is being continuously extended on the IYCr2014 italian website[1]; it will be advertised at tourist offices and an applet for smartphones will be implemented.

scholarly journals Homeopathy, Western medicine and the discourse of evidence: Negotiating legitimacy in a public online forum

2018 ◽  
Vol 66 (7) ◽  
pp. 1013-1030 ◽  
Author(s):  
William J Gibson
Keyword(s):  
National Health Service ◽  
Health Service ◽  
Public Engagement ◽  
Western Medicine ◽  
Healthcare Systems ◽  
Public Institutions ◽  
Publicly Funded ◽  
Online Forum ◽  
The Public ◽  
Category Distinction

This article reports on the analysis of an online forum on the UK’s National Health Service website where participants debated the provision of homeopathy as publicly funded medical treatment. Using membership categorisation analysis, the article looks at how members negotiated a category distinction between homeopathy and ‘orthodox Western medicine’, focusing on the discursive resources that the participants drew on to position each other and the website itself in moral terms. This analysis contributes to our understanding of the institutionalisation of complementary and alternative medicine by demonstrating the strong polarisation of views that are present in the public domain, and the ways that public institutions become held accountable to ideologies of evidence and choice. In this way, the study adds to our growing knowledge about public engagement in pluralistic healthcare systems, showing further the limitations of the ‘rational choice’ assumptions that underlie pluralism.

scholarly journals DoeDat, the Crowdsourcing Platform of Meise Botanic Garden

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. e26803
Author(s):  
Quentin Groom ◽  
Sofie De Smedt ◽  
Nuno Veríssimo Pereira ◽  
Ann Bogaerts ◽  
Henry Engledow
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Software Systems ◽  
Human Intelligence ◽  
Herbarium Specimens ◽  
Botanic Garden ◽  
The Public ◽  
Australian Museum ◽  
Real Value ◽  
Heritage Collections

Herbarium specimens hold a wealth of data about plants; where they come from, where they were collected and by whom. Once digitized, these data can be searched, mapped and compared. However, the information on specimens is often handwritten and even the best software systems cannot read it. This is where we get real value from citizen involvement. Digitizing these data is only possible with the aid of human intelligence. DoeDat is a multilingual open-source platform for transcription, based upon the DigiVol program of the Australian Museum and Atlas of Living Australia. DoeDat is a product of our digitization project Digital Access to Cultural Heritage Collections (DOE!), funded by the Flemish Government. DoeDat is about creating data and also, ‘Doe Dat’ means ‘do that’ in Dutch. DoeDat will help us digitize our collections, and will also give the public the chance to take an active part in the process. We aim to build a community of enthusiastic online volunteers who will help us liberate botanical data from specimen labels and documents. We launched the platform on Science Day and within two months, more than one hundred volunteers had transcribed more than 4,000 specimens. Join in at www.DoeDat.be

scholarly journals At the Intersection of Identities

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 127-137
Author(s):  
Judit Hidasi
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Multiple Identities ◽  
Human Values ◽  
Common Denominator ◽  
Future Trends ◽  
The Public ◽  
Multicultural Environment ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Mental Programming ◽  
Private Domain

Abstract It is assumed that part of today’s societal difficulties, uncertainties and crisis worldwide can be attributed to the competing of multiple identities, to their intersections and their overlapping nature – on the level of nations, on the level of communities and also on the level of the individual. We aim at presenting a typology of identities that come into play in the public and in the private domain of the individual. It is hypothesized that there is a strong interdependence of cultural heritage, human values and social traditions in the competition of identities. These questions, which are interrelated and interconnected with each other through a common denominator, namely “cultural-mental programming” and “reprogramming efforts,” are going to be pondered about in the presentation. In the context of globalization the relevance of this topic is reinforced by the need to adapt to changes within the ever-intensifying shift from intercultural to multicultural environment in communities, in business and in work places. Attempts will be made to articulate some projections with respect to future trends that are to be expected: the way to go from competing identities to establishing a competitive identity (Simon Anholt). The contribution does not offer ready solutions but rather serves as fuel for further discussions.

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