scholarly journals There is no ‘I’ in Team: Reflections on Team-Based Content Development at the National Museum of Australia

2010 ◽  
Vol 17 ◽  
pp. 16-33
Author(s):  
Guy Hansen
Keyword(s):  
Project Teams ◽  
National Museum ◽  
Profound Impact ◽  
Interdisciplinary Project ◽  
Content Development ◽  
Strong Focus ◽  
National Museum Of Australia ◽  
Trench Warfare ◽  
The Way

In recent years one of the most important trends in the development of history exhibitions in major museums has been the use of interdisciplinary project teams for content development. This approach, often referred to as the team based model of content development, has, in many institutions, replaced older models of exhibition production built around the expertise of the curator. The implementation of team based models has had a profound impact on the way exhibitions are produced. When done well it has helped deliver exhibitions combining a strong focus on audience needs with in-depth scholarship and collections research. In some contexts, however, the tyranny of the team has given rise to a form of museological trench warfare in which different stakeholders struggle for creative control of an exhibition. In this article I will explore some aspects of the team based approach with reference to the development of the opening suite of exhibitions for the National Museum of Australia (NMA) in 2001. My observations are drawn from my experience as the lead curator of the Nation Gallery, one of the NMA’s opening exhibitions.

Political Obedience

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Glenn Burgess
Keyword(s):  
Political Order ◽  
Popular Sovereignty ◽  
Profound Impact ◽  
Development Of Resistance ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Reformation ◽  
Resistance Theory ◽  
The Way

The Reformation had a profound impact on European thinking about political obedience. This chapter explores the way in which the Reformation “mood” embraced theories of absolute authority, but also led to a questioning of authority. It explores the development of resistance theory and ideas of popular sovereignty, and of toleration, all of which cast significant limits on the authority of secular rulers. Reformation impulses also inspired some to genuinely revolutionary attempts to transform the social and political order, and these revolutionary ideas are explored too. The approach taken is to avoid narrative, and to explore particular moments at which the implication of Reformation ideas becomes apparent.

scholarly journals Towards the best future for humankind: ZIPAR whitepaper.

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marko Kovic ◽  
Christian Caspar ◽  
Adrian Rauchfleisch
Keyword(s):  
Medium Term ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Profound Impact ◽  
Future Challenges ◽  
The Way

Humankind is facing major challenges in the short-term, medium-term, and long-term future. Those challenges will have a profound impact on humankind’s future progress and wellbeing. In this whitepaper, we outline our understanding of humankind’s future challenges, and we describe the way in which we work towards identifying as well as managing them. In doing so, we pursue the overall goal of ZIPAR: We want to make the best future for humankind (ever so slightly) more probable.

Moral Objectivity

1984 ◽  
Vol 17 ◽  
pp. 135-170 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Lear
Keyword(s):  
General Question ◽  
Moral Objectivity ◽  
Profound Impact ◽  
The Way

Morality exercises a deep and questionable influence on the way we live our lives. The influence is deep both because moral injunctions are embedded in our psyches long before we can reflect on their status and because even after we become reflective agents, the question of how we should live our lives among others is intimately bound up with the more general question of how we should live our lives: our stance toward morality and our conception of our lives as having significance are of a piece. The influence is questionable because morality pretends to a level of objectivity that it may not possess. Moral injunctions are meant to be binding on us in some way that is independent of the desires or preferences we may happen to have. When one asserts that a certain action is morally worthy or shameful one is, prime facie, doing more than merely expressing approval or disapproval or trying to get others to act as instruments of one's own will. If moral assertions were shown, at bottom, to be merely such exhortations, then they would be shown to wear a disguise. Morality would be revealed as pretending to an objectivity it does not have, and such a revelation could not but have a profound impact on our lives. It is doubtful that such a revelation could be kept locked up inside our studies.

Taking note: a kaleidoscopic view on two, or three, modes of fieldnoting

2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (5) ◽  
pp. 540-559
Author(s):  
Janne Flora ◽  
Astrid Oberborbeck Andersen
Keyword(s):  
Note Taking ◽  
Interdisciplinary Project ◽  
Fieldwork Experience ◽  
Gps Devices ◽  
The Way

In this article we examine what can be captured, recorded, remembered, and shared through different note-taking modalities. The case narrated is one of a simultaneous fieldwork experience carried out as part of a larger interdisciplinary project in Greenland. It reveals how the same situation is recorded differently in our respective notebooks; and that the way we write fieldnotes is not just determined by the anthropologists, but also by the field. We present three kinds of fieldnotes from the same day, produced partly by writing/not writing in notebooks, and by using handheld GPS devices that map activities related to hunting and travel. We suggest that our fieldnotes may best be understood as fragments, details and contexts. Although our fieldnotes may add up an entirety, they cannot represent a complete whole. Together, these fragments are mosaic configurations rather than complete or coherent sets of registered events and situations that come together kaleidoscopically.

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