In this session, we will use practice-based examples to discuss current debates on who is represented, whose perspectives are centred, and who gets to participate in curatorial choices within heritage spaces. Who are museums and heritage sites for? What does participation mean in this context, and how does co-production mediate the tensions arising from these questions?
Participants will be invited to critically reflect on dimensions of this discourse, including the interplay of language, power dynamics, funding, collective agency, and differing epistemological underpinnings in the participatory processes discussed.
This session will be run by Professor Kathryn Eccles, Senior Research Fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute and Pembroke College.
