학술논문
Anthropocenic Objects. Collecting Practices for the Age of Humans
Document Type
article
Author
Ulrike Sturm; Elisabeth Heyne; Elisa Herrmann; Bergit Arends; Anna-Lisa Dieter; Eric Dorfman; Frank Drauschke; Nicole Heller; Rebecca Kahn; Katja Kaiser; Gerda Koch; Nicolas Kramar; Alicia Mansilla Sánchez; Franz Mauelshagen; Tahani Nadim; Richard Pell; Mareike Petersen; Katharina Schmidt-Loske; Henning Scholz; Colin Sterling; Helmuth Trischler; Sarah Wagner
Source
Research Ideas and Outcomes, Vol 8, Iss , Pp 1-31 (2022)
Subject
Language
English
ISSN
2367-7163
Abstract
The knowledge needed to tackle future environmental and societal challenges can only be generated through exchange between science and society. The conventional distinction made between natural and cultural heritage in museums and other institutions is no longer appropriate in the Anthropocene. Museums must rethink the social and cultural dimensions of existing museum collections and reinvent the organization of knowledge production for our present. In three workshops at the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, practitioners and interdisciplinary theorists discussed the concept of “Anthropocenic objects” and considered how they create opportunities for the emergence of new collecting practices involving participatory research and open exchange between research, society, and conservation institutions.