scholarly journals The ‘Manchester Together Archive’: researching and developing a museum practice of spontaneous memorials

2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 510-532
Author(s):  
Kostas Arvanitis
Keyword(s):  
City Council ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Art Gallery ◽  
Public Response ◽  
The Public ◽  
Mass Participation ◽  
Manchester City ◽  
Museum Practice ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Heritage Performance

On 22 May 2017, a homemade bomb was detonated in the foyer of Manchester Arena as people were leaving the Ariana Grande concert. Twenty-three people (including the bomber) were killed and over 800 were injured. Within hours of the attack, people of Manchester began to leave flowers, candles, soft toys, balloons, written notes and other items in St Ann’s Square and other locations around the city. In June 2017, the Manchester City Council tasked Manchester Art Gallery to oversee the removal and collection of material objects from St Ann’s Square. Manchester Art Gallery ultimately stored more than 10,000 objects to form what is now known as the ‘Manchester Together Archive’ of the public response to the Manchester Arena attack. An associated research project, co-designed by the author with Manchester Art Gallery staff, aimed to document creatively the evolving thinking, interactions with different stakeholders and decision-making about the archive, as well as the impact of those decisions on institutional life, policy and practice.After reviewing the literature on museum practices around spontaneous memorials, this paper goes on to critically reflect on how cultural professionals in Manchester addressed the gap in their experience with spontaneous memorials by adapting or diverting from standard collecting processes. It aims to demonstrate that this was a creative process of negotiating the interaction between their professional ethics and a strong sense of civic and social responsibility, which led to a new museum practice altogether. The paper argues that this museum practice was also the result of accepting and inviting the migration of the memorial’s characteristics (as a public, spontaneous and mass participation heritage performance) into the resulting Manchester Together Archive and the collecting process itself. This meant that the archive was not a ‘collection’ of the spontaneous memorial, but another form and manifestation of the memorial itself, which offered a perspective of cultural remembrance that is driven by a focus on process, rather than permanence. The paper concludes with some brief thoughts on how this new museum practice around the Manchester Together Archive is impacting already on Manchester Art Gallery’s broader policy and practice and its process of rethinking its spaces, activity and engagement with its publics. 

scholarly journals The Ancient Walls of Damascus and the Siege of Mouaddamiyya: A Historical and Spatial Analysis of Bounded Place and Cultural Identity

2017 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 441-453 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nour Halabi
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Spatial Organization ◽  
The Political ◽  
Islamic State ◽  
Public Response ◽  
The Public ◽  
Syrian Crisis ◽  
Political Turmoil ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Vast Area

Throughout the Syrian crisis, the presence of material and symbolic boundaries to culture became a particularly salient element of the continuously unfolding political turmoil. As one terrorist group, Daesh, or the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, seeks to unite the vast area of the Middle East under the political, religious, and cultural administration of a “Greater State of Syria,” or “al-Sham,” this article revisits the historical spatial organization of Damascus and the construction of city boundaries and walls as factors that contributed to the cultivation of spatially grounded cleavages within Syrian and Damascene identity. In the latter section of this article, I reflect on the impact of these cleavages on the Syrian crisis by focusing on the public response to the siege of the Mouaddamiyya neighborhood.

ANALISIS STRATEGI PEMERINTAH KOTA BOGOR DALAM MENGELOLA TEMPAT PEMAKAMAN UMUM PADA DINAS KEBERSIHAN DAN PERTAMANAN KOTA BOGOR

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 111
Author(s):  
M. Subki Tahyudin ◽  
Abubakar Iskandar ◽  
M. Yamin Saleh
Keyword(s):  
Management Strategies ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
City Government ◽  
Management Policy ◽  
City Administration ◽  
Human Resource Capacity ◽  
Public Response ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The City

The focus of the research is the management of TPU in the city of Bogor, the purpose of this study was to determine the strategy of the City Government in the management of TPU, to investigate the implementation of the government's strategy of Bogor manage TPU and for mengetaui impact strategy Bogor city administration to the user community TPU. The method used in this study is a qualitative method by taking the informant of the two types of informants for Administrative manager of TPU and user communities TPU using techniques snow ball, TPU city of Bogor there are eight TPU, the study focused on four TPU them TPU Gunung Gadung, TPU Cipaku, TPU and TPU Dreded Blender. researchers showed that the provision of land in Bogor City TPU has not been ideal with the needs of the community cemetery. At this time the city of Bogor require five (5) hectares of TPU, the strategy of the City Government in managing the TPU results structured interview stated that the strategy pegelolaan TPU is expected to provide services to the needs of society in a cemetery that is desired and expected by the public, in the implementation of the policy as a strategy management of TPU, the management of TPU is not ideal with the regulations the City Government as the provisions of the management planned, many factors and constraints in managing TPU like availability of land in the city of Bogor is very difficult to get, quality and human resource capacity to be a factor to failure in managing the TPU, lack of socialization management policy to the community of the importance of the TPU management policy, as well as the lack of attention from the Bogor city administration for the management of TPU. the impact of management strategies TPU on society shows that the answer No 54.1% and 45.9% YES answer is public response to the TPU management policy means greater datipada answers No answer Yes to show people are not satisfied with the services provided by the City Government Bogor UPTD Funeral manage TPU.Keywords: Policies, TPU, Human Resources.

scholarly journals Art in the Digital during and after Covid: Aura and Apparatus of Online Exhibitions

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
João Pedro Amorim ◽  
◽  
Luís Teixeira ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Art ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Art World ◽  
Art Gallery ◽  
Digital Platforms ◽  
The Public ◽  
Alternative Materials ◽  
Digital Reproduction ◽  
Mega Event ◽  
The Impact

The public health measures that were put in place to contain COVID-19 impacted the lives of people and institutions alike. For its global impact and transformation, the pandemic has the potential to be classified as a mega-event. Such radical events have become great opportunities to the testing of new technologies and forms of organisation, (Masi, 2016) that might in the future become prevalent. The impact of the pandemic was particularly felt in the contemporary art world, as the entire cultural activity was suspended. During this period, art institutions and collectives around the world reacted by adapting and providing alternative materials online. This paper aims at reflecting upon the challenges facing the exhibition of contemporary art online. Following Boris Groys’ (2016) actualisation of Walter Benjamin, we problematise how the digital reproduction of art affects the aura of an artwork. Proposing a critique of the apparatus of digital platforms, we analyse how the digital reproduces and enhances ideological structures that overpass the whole of society. For that purpose we analyse how four different organisations (an artist-run space, an art gallery, a museum and an art biennale) have migrated their activity to online platforms. The case-studies will allow a broad understanding of the different approaches available – with some radically taking advantage of the digital environment, and others merely digitising the role taken henceforth by printed catalogues.

scholarly journals Why Keep It If You Can’t See It!:   an Investigation into Public and Professional Attitudes  Towards Collection Care, Access and Utilisation in New Zealand Museums

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Gabrielle Emma-Jean West
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
Public Understanding ◽  
Original Research ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Professional Attitudes ◽  
The Public ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative Methods ◽  
Care Access ◽  
Museum Practice

<p>Increasingly museums throughout the world are seeking to work more closely with their communities so that their values, needs and expectations can be better understood. However, problems arise when professional and public understanding is out of step, as can be seen with the frequent popular controversies about museums supposedly ‘locking up their treasures’ in their basements. There is a perceived notion in current museum practice that stored museum collections need to become more accessible and utilised to a greater degree, without jeopardising the care of the collection. The access and utilisation of collections is addressed by museums in the name of public need, yet little research is done on what the public know or think about it. Within museum studies a small amount of literature has skirted around this topic but few have discussed it directly, or conducted research into public and professional attitudes to this issue. This dissertation addresses this gap by conducting original research which canvassed both the museum visiting public and museum professionals for their opinions. The research design was based on both qualitative and quantitative methods: namely surveys, interviews, a review of current museum policy and practice and an analysis of new initiatives in collection development, access and use Internationally and in New Zealand. The data generated revealed a much clearer idea of public understanding from a sample of visitors, and more detailed individual opinions from key professional informants in two local museums in Rotorua and Hamilton. This research will contribute to the literature on museum practice in New Zealand, help the museum sector to approach this often emotionally charged discussion with more information, and also encourage an important debate allowing the visiting public to have a greater say in what they think about the current access to and care of their local stored collections. The dissertation concludes by suggesting that the complexities and commonalities that arose out of all the opinions canvassed offer a framework for future solutions and strategies. There is an urgent need for further research on the thoughts and feelings of the public about collection care, access and utilisation so that New Zealand museums can embark on a journey that will take their stored collections out into the full light of the public realm.</p>

THE PERCEPTION OF LOCAL COMMUNITY TOWARD TOURIST ACCOMMODATION DEVELOPMENT, CASE STUDY: VILLAGE OF SEMINYAK, BALI

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 442
Author(s):  
Komang Trisna Pratiwi Arcana ◽  
Kadek Wiweka
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Public Response ◽  
The Public ◽  
Study Village ◽  
Qualitative Methodologies ◽  
Tourist Accommodation ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Village

The growth of tourism accommodation (villa) in the district of Kuta Utara, which is so rapid and uncontrolled, tends to have raised some concerns on the impact that may arise (socio-cultural, environmental and economic). The gap between benefit and cost of the phenomenon raises the question of how perception, response, changes the behavior of the culture and mindset of the local community towards the development of their area travel accommodation. To examine the case, this study combines the two forms of both quantitative and qualitative methodologies (multi-method). The qualitative methods done by observing a research site to see the behavior of local people in the village of Seminyak and informal talks (interview) that is guided by an interview guidelines related to the perception of the local community, the village headman, and the managers of accommodation (villa). While quantitative methods conducted by distributing questionnaires to local communities (90 respondents) were selected randomly. The result of this study is the public response to the development of the accommodation is in the phase of “Euphoria”. It is seen from some of the symptoms, which generally public responses tend to more focus on the advantage of the economic aspects and as if the exclusion of other effects that arise as the socio-cultural and environmental.

The Pied Piper of Crime in America: An Analysis of the Presidents’ and Public’s Agenda on Crime

2002 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 139-155 ◽  
Author(s):  
Willard M. Oliver
Keyword(s):  
Time Series ◽  
Regression Analysis ◽  
Public Opinion ◽  
Presidential Rhetoric ◽  
Policy Area ◽  
Time Series Regression ◽  
Public Response ◽  
The Public ◽  
State Of The Union ◽  
The Impact

The theory of presidential influence over public opinion is used to predict the impact of presidential rhetoric on crime over the public’s concern for crime being “the most important problem facing the nation.” It is hypothesized that the more attention presidents give to the policy area of crime in the their State of the Union Addresses, the more concerned the public becomes with crime. Utilizing a time-series regression analysis of data collected from a content analysis of presidents’ State of the Union addresses on the Gallup Poll’s Most Important Problem series from 1946 to 1996, the analysis demonstrates that presidential mention of crime seems to elicit a public response, thus influencing public opinion of crime with a decay effect of approximately 1 year.

The Petersburg Crucible: Alchemy and the Russian Nobility in Catherine the Great’s Russia

2012 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 56-99
Author(s):  
Robert Collis
Keyword(s):  
Grade System ◽  
Final Part ◽  
High Grade ◽  
Cultural Significance ◽  
Core Component ◽  
Public Response ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Impact

This article studies the cultural significance of alchemy among the Russian nobility in St. Petersburg during the reign of Catherine the Great. It is argued that Catherine the Great perceived alchemy as a Western practice promoted by foreign charlatans and by mystically-inclined Freemasons, which threatened to undermine the foundations of her vision of Russia being a beacon of reason and enlightenment. The first section of this paper concentrates on Petr Ivanovich Melissino and examines the manner in which this prominent Russian aristocrat incorporated alchemy as a core component of his seven-grade Masonic Rite. The high-grade system came to prominence in St. Petersburg in the mid 1760s and it is argued that it acted as a focus for Russian and European aristocrats. The second part of this article studies the impact on the Russian nobility of the visit of Cagliostro to St. Petersburg between 1779 and 1780. This section includes an in-depth examination of the empress’s personal response to Cagliostro’s visit, which included a series of remarkable letters to Grigorii Potemkin. The final part of this article studies the public response of Catherine to the attraction of alchemy among her nobility in the 1780s, via the medium of theatrical comedies.

Policy Testing in Virtual Environments

2012 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Magdalini Kardara ◽  
Omri Fuchs ◽  
Eleni Kosta ◽  
Fotis Aisopos ◽  
Ilias Spais ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Virtual Worlds ◽  
The Public ◽  
Virtual Spaces ◽  
3D Virtual Worlds ◽  
Policy Measures ◽  
Policy Testing ◽  
Testing Environments ◽  
Mass Participation ◽  
The Impact

Governments want to improve their policy making process by being able to accurately predict the impact of prospective policy measures to the community. Current e-government tools fail to capture the public opinion as they lack in mass participation. Instead of relying on outdated methods of communicating with the public, governments should embrace Web 2.0 technologies and take advantage of the vast the flows of information available online. In +Spaces, the authors introduce a novel way of accessing and evaluating public opinion by using popular virtual spaces, i.e., 3D Virtual Worlds and Social networks, as testing environments and developing an interface that would allow applications to operate inside them, capturing the reactions of citizens to prospective policies. They present the +Spaces platform giving emphasis on technical challenges such as Virtual Spaces interoperability as well as legal requirements related to processing user created data and how the authors addressed them.

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