by Liv Ševčenko
“Heritage can never be outside politics – it is always embedded in changing power relations between people.“
“integrating dialogue into every stage of heritage management, from planning to preservation to interpretation, and allowing for continual evolution.”
Museums are great at showing history, but they always do this through the lens of the present. And the present has this annoying habit of constantly changing, this means that the lens used to initially set up the exhibition is probably out of date by now.
The International Coalition of Sites of Conscience fights this problem by setting up heritage sites as places for open dialogue about contemporary problems. They do this by obviously working with the community but also continuously mining their history for perspectives on problems. It’s continuous baby! And exactly what I want to do!
Also super fun idea of incorporating discussions on how to set up an exhibition into the exhibition.
Above you see my brainstorm around what dialogues we could possibly do a SDH, bu I think that other people are way more suited to think about this. However it will be a good exercise to do with people.