AH5607 Participation and Co-production in Museums and Heritage

Academic year

2024 to 2025 Semester 2

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Key module information

SCOTCAT credits

30

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SCQF level

SCQF level 11

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Planned timetable

TBC

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Module coordinator

Dr G Bozoglu

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Module Staff

Dr Gonul Bozoglu

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Module description

Participatory practice has become a critical aspect of museum and heritage work in attempts to go beyond a conventional focus on care for objects and sites. However, official understandings of communities and practices of community engagement often risk reproducing hierarchies of value and exclusion. Participation is understood as an empowering, inclusive, and active form of inclusion, but it is also subject to critiques about upholding inequality and elitism. The module addresses the practices, politics, and ethics of community participation in heritage and museums with a special focus on creativity. This means both the creativity of communities themselves, and the creative approaches that museum, gallery, and heritage organisations and actors can take when working with communities, for example through types of co-production. The module will be illustrated through international case studies, including ongoing practice-based research.

Relationship to other modules

Pre-requisites

BEFORE TAKING THIS MODULE YOU MUST TAKE GD5601 AND TAKE GD5602

Assessment pattern

Coursework - 100%

Re-assessment

Coursework - 100%

Learning and teaching methods and delivery

Weekly contact

1.5 hour seminar (x11 weeks)

Scheduled learning hours

28

The number of compulsory student:staff contact hours over the period of the module.

Guided independent study hours

264

The number of hours that students are expected to invest in independent study over the period of the module.

Intended learning outcomes

  • Apply and evaluate various theoretical approaches to museum and heritage studies.
  • Develop awareness of issues in participatory approaches, reflexively engaging in active practice.
  • Apply research findings and critical thinking to the field of participation.
  • Demonstrate research skills by use of library and online resources.
  • Converse in a group and present ideas to others.