Cultural Resilience – A Useful Perspective for Rethinking Museum Practices?

Professor Dr. Leopold Klepacki, Academic Director at the Institute of Pedagogy at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany and Tanja Klepacki, PhD, senior researcher at the UNESCO Chair in Digital Culture and Arts in Education at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany will give a presentation with the title “Cultural Resilience – A Useful Perspective for Rethinking Museum Practices?”

• Time: November 20 2024 from 10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
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  Their presentation will be conducted in English.

“Based on an understanding of museums as places of cultural education, the workshop-lecture explores the question of the extent to which museums as organizations of preservation and transmission can be effective in opening cultural futures in times of profound cultural transformation. To this end, the speakers will first introduce a broad concept of cultural education. Building on this conception they will, in a second step, open a specific perspective on education for cultural sustainability in terms of enabling sustainable cultural practice. In this context, from an educational science point of view, particular attention is drawn to the concept of cultural resilience as a critical, reflective and constructive collective participation in shaping cultural transformation. Building on these theoretical foundations, some examples of cultural resilience and cultural resilience education will be analyzed in detail to be able to differentiate and illustrate central logics, practices and structures. Finally, in a third step, the insights and perspectives gained will be related to the question of the extent to which museum practice can be thought of as a practice for initiating cultural resilience and the extent to which museums can thus become places for working on cultural sustainability.”

Prof. Dr. Leopold Klepacki is Academic Director at the Institute of Pedagogy at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany. He studied pedagogy, theater studies and history of German literature. He conducts conceptual, theoretical and historical research on aesthetic and cultural education, cultural transmission and transformation processes, as well as on questions of cultural sustainability and cultural resilience.

Tanja Klepacki, PhD, works as senior researcher at the UNESCO Chair in Digital Culture and Arts in Education at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany. Amongst others, she is the executive manager of the Chair’s Academy for Digital Culture and Performative Education in Nuremberg. Her fields of interest include theoretical and empirical studies in the fields of culture, aesthetic and arts education, cultural heritage and transformation dynamics as well as cultural sustainability and cultural resilience.

• Organised by the research network CultureSustain: https://cc.au.dk/en/culturesustain