Arquivo de etiquetas: Museums

Património imaterial e políticas públicas em Portugal

Detalhe da exposição “Um Cento de Cestos” no Museu de Arte Popular, Lisboa, 2022. Foto: Ana Carvalho

O texto “Intangible Cultural Heritage and Public Policies in Portugal – An Overview” (de Ana Carvalho) foi publicado no livro digital “Intangible Cultural Heritage and Digital Image: Portugal-Slovakia Readings” (2022). Está disponível na íntegra em: http://hdl.handle.net/10174/32368

Resumo:

Ao ratificar a Convenção da UNESCO para a Salvaguarda do Património Cultural Imaterial de 2003, os Estados Parte comprometem-se a implementar as suas directrizes nos respectivos contextos nacionais. Neste contexto, adaptando políticas, procedimentos e sistemas de gestão do património para incluir os princípios da UNESCO e um entendimento sobre Património Cultural Imaterial (PCI), bem como considerar a participação das comunidades nos processos de salvaguarda. Para muitos países isto resultou no repensar de novos discursos, políticas e práticas que contribuíram para uma reflexão renovada sobre a noção de PCI e sobre quais as abordagens de salvaguarda. Portugal está entre os países que, ao ratificar a Convenção em 2008, pôs em marcha uma “nova” política de património e um novo quadro institucional e legislativo para a salvaguarda do PCI. Este capítulo apresenta uma visão geral dos principais passos dados nas políticas públicas relativas ao PCI, reflectindo sobre os seus efeitos e desafios. Este estudo empírico baseia-se na análise de documentos oficiais (por exemplo, legislação e relatórios) e numa revisão bibliográfica. A análise aqui apresentada identifica questões-chave na implementação da Convenção em Portugal, contribuindo para melhor compreender as diversas abordagens e efeitos gerados pela UNESCO.

Abstract:

By signing the 2003 UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICHC), states parties commit to implementing its guidelines in national contexts, adapting policies, procedures and heritage management systems to include the UNESCO principles and an understanding of Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH), as well as considering community participation central to safeguarding processes. For many countries, this has resulted in framing new discourses, policies and practices that have contributed to a new reflection on how ICH is understood and how safeguarding is approached. Portugal is among the countries which, by ratifying the ICHC in 2008, set in motion a new heritage policy and governance framework for the safeguarding of ICH. This chapter presents an overview of the main steps taken in public polices concerning ICH, reflecting on the effects and challenges posed. This empirical study is based on the analysis of official documents (e.g., legislation and reports) and a literature review. The analysis presented herein may be significant to identify key issues in the implementation of ICHC in Portugal, and thus contribute to a comparative overview of the diverse approaches and effects generated by UNESCO.

 

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Carvalho, Ana. 2022. “Intangible Cultural Heritage and Public Policies in Portugal – An Overview.” In Intangible Cultural Heritage and Digital Image: Portugal-Slovakia Readings, ed. Milan Konvit, Filipe Themudo Barata, Antónia Fialho Conde, e Sónia Bombico, 46-63. Évora: UNESCO Chair in Intangible Heritage and Traditional Know – How: Linking Heritage, University of Évora. ISBN: 978-972-778-269-7. http://hdl.handle.net/10174/32368

Museus, património imaterial e tecnologias digitais

Zoom. Around the world in 365 images. Museu de Etnografia, Budapeste. Foto: Ana Carvalho

O texto “Museums, Intangible Cultural Heritage and Digital Technologies: Exploring Interactions” (de Ana Carvalho) foi publicado no livro digital “Intangible Cultural Heritage and Digital Image: Portugal-Slovakia Readings” (2022). Está disponível na íntegra em: http://hdl.handle.net/10174/32369

Resumo:

As tecnologias digitais têm sido entendidas como potenciais ferramentas para os museus expandirem a forma como dão acesso ao património. Um museu que inclua a salvaguarda do Património Cultural Imaterial (PCI) na sua missão e estratégia não ignorará o potencial das novas tecnologias e, portanto, a avaliação da sua capacidade de as integrar de acordo com a agenda do museu e dos seus objectivos. Por outro lado, um museu que seja capaz de abordar a transformação digital estrategicamente estará em melhor posição para utilizar as tecnologias de forma a promover maior valorização, sensibilização e interpretação do PCI. Este capítulo centra-se nos desafios da integração das tecnologias digitais no sector museológico português e identifica constrangimentos e oportunidades. Esta reflexão baseia-se na investigação realizada no âmbito do projecto Mu.SA (2016-2020) e na investigação realizada no Grupo de Projecto Museus no Futuro (2019-2020). No âmbito dos planos de recuperação e resiliência pós-pandemia, é ainda mais premente que as políticas culturais prevejam o apoio aos museus, nomeadamente no que diz respeito à transformação digital, e assegurem que estes disponham das condições e dos recursos necessários para avançarem de uma forma mais integrada e sustentável. Os museus que adoptem uma abordagem mais estratégica relativamente à transformação digital terão melhores condições para capitalizar os seus recursos e cumprir eficazmente a sua missão e objectivos. Neste sentido, os museus serão capazes de proporcionar melhores condições de acesso e expandir os meios de comunicação, contribuindo para a valorização e salvaguarda do PCI.

Abstract: 

Digital technologies have been approached as potential tools for museums to expand on how they provide access to and interaction with heritage. A museum that includes Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) safeguarding in its mission and strategy will not ignore the potential of new technologies and, thus, the assessment of its capacity to integrate them according to the museum’s agenda and its objectives. On the other hand, a museum that is able to address digital transformation strategically will be in a better position to use technologies wisely to foster ICH visibility and awareness, interpretation and interaction. This chapter will focus on the challenges of integrating digital technologies in the Portuguese museum sector and identify the constraints and opportunities. This reflection draws on research conducted within the scope of the Mu.SA project (2016-2020) and the research performed in the Future Museums Project Group (2019-2020). Within the scope of post pandemic recovery plans, it is even more pressing that cultural policies foresee support for museums, namely regarding digital transformation, and ensure that they have the necessary conditions and resources to move forward in a more integrated and sustainable manner. Museums that adopt a more strategic approach to digital transformation will be able to capitalize on their resources to effectively fulfil their mission and goals. Hence, museums will be more effective in increasing access and expanding the means of communicating and supporting ICH safeguarding.

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Carvalho, Ana. 2022. “Museums, Intangible Cultural Heritage and Digital Technologies: Exploring Interactions.” In Intangible Cultural Heritage and Digital Image: Portugal-Slovakia Readings, ed. Milan Konvit, Filipe Themudo Barata, Antónia Fialho Conde, e Sónia Bombico, 83-97 Évora: UNESCO Chair in Intangible Heritage and Traditional Know – How: Linking Heritage, University of Évora. ISBN: 978-972-778-269-7. http://hdl.handle.net/10174/32369

Nova publicação sobre o património imaterial e o digital

Intangible Cultural Heritage and Digital Media: Portugal – Slovakia Readings (2022) é a mais recente publicação com a chancela da Cátedra UNESCO “Património Imaterial e saber-fazer tradicional: ligando patrimónios” da Universidade de Évora. Disponível em acesso aberto aqui: http://hdl.handle.net/10174/32325

Esta publicação resulta do projecto BDIAS – Desenvolvendo mecanismos e formas de apresentação do Património Cultural Imaterial com recurso aos novos meios de comunicação (2019-2022). Pretendeu discutir as metodologias de salvaguarda e valorização do Património Cultural Imaterial (PCI), assim como o papel dos novos meios de comunicação nestes processos.

O BDIAS consistiu num projecto de cooperação internacional na área do PCI, das tecnologias digitais e da transferência de conhecimento, com base numa parceria entre o CIDEHUS – Centro Interdisciplinar de História, Culturas e Sociedades/Cátedra UNESCO em Património Imaterial e Saber-fazer Tradicional: Ligando Patrimónios/Universidade de Évora e a Comenius University (Bratislava, Eslováquia); teve financiamento da FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia ao abrigo do Convénio/Acordo FCT: Cooperação Científica e Tecnológica Portugal/Eslováquia.

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CONTENTS

Intangible Cultural Heritage and Digital Media: Portugal – Slovakia Readings
Coord. Milan Konvit, Filipe Themudo Barata, Antónia Fialho Conde e Sónia Bombico

5 | Introductory remarks, Sónia Bombico
7 | Introduction: May you live in interesting times, Milan Konvit & Antónia Fialho Conde
12 | New media and intangible cultural heritage: challenges and opportunities, Milan Konvit
29 | Intangible cultural heritage in Slovakia from an institutional perspective, Eva Capková
46 | Intangible cultural heritage and public policies in Portugal: an overview, Ana Carvalho
64 | Cultural resource management: the application of management theory and practice in cultural industry, Lukáš Vartiak
83 | Museums, intangible cultural heritage and digital technologies: exploring interactions, Ana Carvalho
98 | Transfer of Intangible Cultural Heritage using Augmented Reality Applications: A Survey on User Experience and Current Limitations of End-User Mobile Technology for Knowledge Transfer, Juraj Grečnár
112| ICH at fingertips: Dissemination and pedagogy through digital media, Shajjad Hossain
137 | Interview with Ricardo Fonseca, Sónia Bombico
143 | Interview with Peter Trnka, by Andrea Jančošková & Veronika Valovicova
147 | Conclusions, Filipe Themudo Barata
150 | About the authors

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Konvit, Milan, Filipe Themudo Barata, Antónia Fialho Conde e Sónia Bombico. 2022. Intangible Cultural Heritage and Digital Media: Portugal – Slovakia Readings. Évora. UNESCO Chair in Intangible Heritage and Traditional Know – How: Linking Heritage, University of Évora. 153 páginas. ISBN 978-972-778-269-7. http://hdl.handle.net/10174/32325

Futuro dos museus em destaque no Dia Internacional dos Museus

A propósito do Dia Internacional dos Museus (18 Maio), este ano sobre “O Futuro dos Museus: Recuperar e Reimaginar”, a Agenda Cultural de Lisboa dá destaque ao tema na sua edição de Maio (pp. 2-9): https://bit.ly/3eUNM8i

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A 18 de Maio celebra-se o Dia Internacional dos Museus. A edição de 2021 está subordinada ao tema “O Futuro dos Museus: Recuperar e Reimaginar”. Num mundo marcado pela crise pandémica, e após um longo período de afastamento físico do convívio com o espaço dos museus, três especialistas refletem sobre as questões da sustentabilidade, da inovação do futuro e da relevância destas instituições vitais para a vida em sociedade, para o seu desenvolvimento e aperfeiçoamento. Texto de Luís Almeida d’Eça. Fotografias de Humberto Mouco

O DIGITAL CRIOU UMA EXPANSÃO DO TRABALHO DOS MUSEUS
Ana Carvalho, Investigadora da Universidade de Évora (CIDEHUS – Centro Interdisciplinar de História, Culturas e Sociedades)

A questão dos museus do futuro não é nova, mas tem-nos inquietado particularmente no último ano. O que é possível fazer para que os museus enfrentem melhor os desafios da sociedade? Esses desafios são múltiplos, porém o que me parece mais evidente é o digital pela forma como se tornou, com as portas dos museus fechadas, no recurso a um espaço imprescindível. Na verdade, já antes da pandemia muitos museus trabalhavam o espaço digital, trazendo novos conteúdos e diversificando os seus públicos. Participei no projeto internacional Mu.SA [2016-2019] que abordava a forma como os museus podem responder aos desafios da sociedade digital. A crise pandémica evidenciou que, de uma forma geral, os museus não estão preparados para esse passo. Não conseguem construir uma estratégia que use o digital como forma de beneficiar a sua missão. Sinto, neste momento, que existe um enorme apetite para voltarmos à experiência física, um cansaço do digital. Os museus têm agora a oportunidade de voltar a garantir essas experiências únicas e autênticas no espaço físico. Mas, a ideia do digital não vai desparecer. É como se houvesse uma expansão do trabalho dos museus e é preciso capacitá-los para essa tarefa. Em Portugal, nos museus nacionais, as equipas são pequenas e envelhecidas, com poucos recursos, algumas com poucas competências na área digital e infraestruturas obsoletas. A ideia de “fazer cada vez mais, com menos recursos” não é possível para um trabalho de comunidade e de continuidade nos museus. Existe uma necessidade de maior cooperação com outras entidades para transferência de conhecimentos, um investimento nas tecnologias de informação, a possibilidade de criar projetos piloto, a promoção do acesso através do investimento na digitalização dos acervos. E, mais do que digitalizar, pensar que histórias se podem contar a partir dessas coleções digitais. Isto implica o reconhecimento das fragilidades e políticas públicas assertivas. Os museus portugueses têm subsistido a crises constantes. Esta é mais uma, mas sem precedentes, e que vai trazer um conjunto de repercussões a vários níveis. Os museus, que já se encontravam numa situação frágil, se não virem estas questões encaradas com cuidado, dificilmente poderão desempenhar funções relevantes.

GRANDES RESERVAS PATRIMONIAIS ESPALHADAS REGIONALMENTE
Fernando António Baptista Pereira, Presidente da Faculdade de Belas-Artes de Lisboa

A transição digital nos museus é um dos imperativos desta década. Digitalizar os acervos e colocá-los online, como também a documentação alusiva a esses acervos, ou seja, muitas exposições, catálogos, estudos de mestrado, de doutoramento, etc. Tarefa que necessita de equipas vocacionadas para este fim. O outro lado desta revolução é, para mim, a possibilidade de criar no museu um espaço wi-fi livre para se poderem inserir as aplicações necessárias para se realizar uma visita com o próprio telemóvel, não com os audioguias tradicionais. Os visitantes têm como grandes rivais do museu o seu próprio telemóvel que os atrai para a leitura de coisas exteriores ao museu. Por isso, é importante que o museu entre no telemóvel do visitante através de uma aplicação que lhe presta informações sobre a obra que está a ver, pois mediante o sistema de beacons consegue localizar a presença das pessoas no museu, podendo mesmo propor jogos sobre a obra em causa e, até, sugerir a visita à medida do gosto individual. Se conseguirmos fazer isto, os museus ultrapassam o fim da era das massas que a pandemia ditou. Importa realizar exposições virtuais e eventos online que possam atrair visitantes espalhados ao longo do ano e não concentrados nos meses de verão e, sobretudo, tornar o dispositivo móvel da pessoa como o seu grande aliado na visita ao museu, permitindo guardar as informações e levar o museu para casa, revisitando-o. Estas são as duas questões fundamentais da transição digital. Acrescentaria ainda uma questão estratégica para o desenvolvimento do país: a constituição de grandes reservas patrimoniais espalhadas regionalmente, associadas a laboratórios de conservação e restauro. Não só se empregariam imensos jovens formados nesses domínios, como se encontravam reservas em condições para albergar o património arqueológico, que é imenso, algum do património etnográfico, que está a sair do país para enriquecer coleções lá fora, e parte do património artístico, que os seus detentores não podem conservar devidamente. Mantendo um registo de propriedade, as reservas seriam os locais onde as peças estariam guardadas e disponíveis para exposições temporárias. Os centros de conservação e restauro associados a essas reservas, os sítios onde essas obras iam sendo estudadas, tratadas e salvaguardadas.

TRABALHO EM REDE É A TENDÊNCIA ORGANIZACIONAL DO FUTURO
Clara Frayão Camacho, Museóloga, Coordenadora do Grupo de Projecto Museus no Futuro

Estamos habituados a ligar os museus ao passado e ao presente mas podem também constituir-se como laboratório de estudo e perspetivação do futuro. Foi isso que fizemos no Grupo de Projeto Museus no Futuro formado em meados de 2019, que coordenei ao longo de um ano e meio, e que culminou num relatório com 50 recomendações para os museus, palácios e monumentos do Ministério da Cultura. A análise demográfica do país, o retomar do Turismo, as questões da sustentabilidade, da participação e da transformação digital, levam-me a traçar algumas ideias sobre a perspetiva dos museus do futuro. A primeira é que a pandemia nos alertou para questões sanitárias de bem-estar físico e mental que devemos seguir. Será que essas questões vão ter repercussões a médio prazo na arquitetura dos museus, no equacionar dos espaços de acolhimento, do trabalho dos serviços educativos, do manuseio de equipamento interativo? No que respeita à participação, é cada vez mais notório que fatias significativas da população gostam não só de ver e contemplar as obras de arte, mas também de agir e participar em programas em que sejam ouvidas, seja através de co-curadoria de exposições temporárias, seja na participação de grupos consultivos, ou até em situações de governança participativa que estão a ser experimentadas nalguns museus do mundo. O museu tem que ser uma casa para todos e pensar sobretudo naqueles que não vêm ao museu, se quer ser relevante para a sociedade e não apenas para parte dela. Os cidadãos com literacia digital cada vez mais elevada vão exigir formas mais interativas de atuação dos museus. No futuro perspetiva-se uma complementaridade entre o físico e o online, nunca o desaparecimento da experiência presencial, essencial para fruir e dialogar com os bens culturais. Também nas questões da sustentabilidade os museus devem ter um papel significativo, seja pedagógico, através de exposições, de reflexão e investigação, seja pelo seu próprio exemplo, em termos de arquitetura, de planeamento de espaços ao ar livre, de estacionamento de bicicletas e práticas sustentáveis. Finalmente, o trabalho em rede é definitivamente a grande tendência organizacional do futuro. Quer do ponto de vista formal, com a renovação da própria rede portuguesa de museus, quer no trabalho no terreno com as várias redes de museus já existentes, quer com diretrizes políticas a nível nacional e municipal, com grande envolvimento da sociedade.

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Agenda Cultural de Lisboa, edição de Maio: https://bit.ly/3eUNM8i

Grupo de Projeto Museus no Futuro: Relatório Final (coord. Clara Frayão Camacho): http://patrimoniocultural.gov.pt/static/data/docs/2021/02/15/RelatorioMuseusnoFuturo.pdf

Projecto Mu.SA – Museum Sector Alliance (2016-2020): http://www.project-musa.eu/pt/

 

Competências digitais no sector dos museus

O texto “Digital Competences: Needs and Training in the Portuguese Museum Sector (de Ana Carvalho e Alexandre Matos) foi publicado no livro The Future of Museum Professionals in the Digital Era – The Success Story of Mu.SA (ed. Achilles Kameas e Panagiota Polymeropoulou, 2020). Está disponível na íntegra em: http://www.project-musa.eu/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Mu.SA-e-book.pdf

Resumo:

Neste capítulo Ana Carvalho (CIDEHUS-Universidade de Évora) e Alexandre Matos (Universidade do Porto) analisam o panorama museológico português em termos de necessidades e da oferta formativa quanto às competências digitais, considerando a formação formal proporcionada pelos cursos de mestrado em museologia e a formação não formal dirigida aos profissionais de museus. Em relação aos planos curriculares dos mestrados em museologia, a pesquisa evidencia uma abordagem pouco estruturada às tecnologias, sendo globalmente introduzidas de forma muito pontual e fragmentada (ex. inventário e gestão de colecções). No que concerne à oferta de formação não formal também se identifica um enfoque residual e pouco estruturado quanto às competências digitais e à introdução das tecnologias. Propõe-se um investimento continuado e assertivo no desenvolvimento profissional, com acento nas competências digitais e no desenvolvimento tecnológico que permita, por sua vez, acompanhar as dinâmicas e as expectativas da sociedade contemporânea.

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In this chapter, Ana Carvalho (CIDEHUS-Universidade de Évora) and Alexandre Matos (Universidade do Porto) analyze the Portuguese situation in terms of needs and training offer regarding digital competences, focusing on formal training in museology master’s and non-formal training for museum professionals available. The findings suggest that, in relation to museology curricula, there is little evidence of a systematic approach to digital competences, where technology may make a punctual and fragmented appearance according to the themes covered (e.g. inventory and collections management). In what concerns non-formal training, there is also a limited focus on digital competences and technology topics, insofar as it is explored in an unstructured way. It proposes that professional development will need to address new competences related to digital technologies as part of the changing dynamics and expectations of contemporary society.

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Carvalho, Ana, e Matos, Alexandre. 2020. “Digital Competences: Needs and Training in the Portuguese Museum Sector” In The Future of Museum Professionals in the Digital Era – The Success Story of Mu.SA, ed. Achilles Kameas e Panagiota Polymeropoulou, 13–19. Athens: Hellenic Open University Press. ISBN: 978-618-84272-9-7. http://www.project-musa.eu/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Mu.SA-e-book.pdf

O futuro dos museus e os desafios da transformação digital

na imagem vê-se uma cena de museu, três jovens a olhar para um telemóvel e no fundo uma imagem a preto e branco de um homem de olhos fechados

O texto “The Future of Museums and Digital Transformation Challenges”/O Futuro dos Museus e os Desafios da Transformação Digital (de Ana Carvalho e Alexandre Matos) foi publicado no livro The Future of Museum Professionals in the Digital Era – The Success Story of Mu.SA (ed. Achilles Kameas e Panagiota Polymeropoulou, 2020). Está disponível na íntegra em: http://www.project-musa.eu/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Mu.SA-e-book.pdf

Resumo:

Neste capítulo, Ana Carvalho (CIDEHUS-Universidade de Évora) e Alexandre Matos (Universidade do Porto) defendem que o planeamento dos museus para a transformação digital, a par com lideranças sólidas são aspectos cruciais para o estabelecimento de objectivos estratégicos. Neste contexto, considera-se a necessidade de reflectir sobre uma mudança de mentalidades, com impacto na forma como os museus se organizam, a introdução de novos conhecimentos e competências, assim como atender ao esforço e aos recursos necessários (qualificação de pessoal, infraestrutura tecnológica e digital, investimento, tempo). Este capítulo  problematiza ainda algumas das questões éticas relacionadas com a transformação digital (ex. protecção de dados e privacidade; acesso aberto às colecções online vs constrangimentos de direitos de autor; acesso aberto vs perda de receitas; museus e controlo da informação; redes sociais).

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In this chapter Ana Carvalho (CIDEHUS-Universidade de Évora) and Alexandre Matos (Universidade do Porto) propose that museum planning for digital transformation, along with strong leadership remain crucial to establishing strategic guidelines and objectives. This not only involves establishing a new mind-set, organizational transformation, the inputs of new knowledge and competences, but also assessing the effort and resources (skilled people, IT infrastructure, money and time) required going forward. This chapter was also significant by pinpointing some of the ethical challenges related to digital transformation (e.g. protection of personal data and privacy, open access to museum collections vs copyright constraints, open access vs loss of income, museums and control of data, and social media).

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Carvalho, Ana, e Matos, Alexandre. 2020. “The Future of Museums and Digital Transformation Challenges.” In The Future of Museum Professionals in the Digital Era – The Success Story of Mu.SA, ed. Achilles Kameas e Panagiota Polymeropoulou, 73–79. Athens: Hellenic Open University Press. ISBN: 978-618-84272-9-7. http://www.project-musa.eu/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Mu.SA-e-book.pdf

Em debate: redes e parcerias colaborativas em prol da democracia cultural

Nos próximo dias 23 e 24 de Março 2021 decorre a conferência digital “Museus e Responsabilidade Social – Participação, Redes e Parcerias” no âmbito da Presidência Portuguesa do Conselho da União Europeia. Programa disponível em: http://conferencemuseumsandsocialresponsibility.dgpc.pt/?p=34

No dia 23, um dos painéis será sobre “Redes e parcerias colaborativas em prol da democracia cultural”. Terá como formato uma entrevista, feita por Ana Carvalho a Paulo Pires do Vale, Comissário do Plano Nacional das Artes, sobre o tema “Territorializar, mobilizar, colaborar e indisciplinar: estratégias do Plano Nacional das Artes”.

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Paulo Pires do Vale é filósofo, professor universitário, ensaísta e curador. Foi Presidente da AICA (Associação Internacional de Críticos de Artes) – Portugal. Desde 2019, é Comissário do Plano Nacional das Artes, uma iniciativa do Ministério da Cultura e do Ministério da Educação com a missão de aproximar as artes, o património e a cultura da vida dos cidadãos, em particular das crianças e dos jovens.

Ana Carvalho é investigadora de pós-doutoramento no Centro Interdisciplinar de História, Culturas e Sociedades (CIDEHUS) da Universidade de Évora. Doutorada em História e Filosofia da Ciência, especialização Museologia e mestre em Museologia (Universidade de Évora). Membro do Grupo de Projeto Museus no Futuro (2019-2020), uma iniciativa do Ministério da Cultura com o objetivo de propor recomendações de política pública. Colaborou como investigadora no projeto Mu.SA – Museum Sector Alliance (2016-2020) sobre os desafios da transformação digital para os museus. É uma das fundadoras da revista MIDAS – Museus e Estudos Interdisciplinares. A sua investigação tem-se centrado em temas do património, da história da museologia e da museologia contemporânea.

Publicado livro sobre o projecto Mu.SA – The Future of Museum Professionals in the Digital Era

O livro “The Future of Museum Professionals in the Digital Era – The Success Story of Mu.SA“, da responsabilidade editorial de Achilles Kameas and Panagiota Polymeropoulou (Hellenic Open University), é um dos resultados finais do projecto Mu.SA – Museum Sector Alliance (2016-2020). Inclui 12 artigos dos parceiros deste consórcio internacional (Portugal, Itália e Grécia), nomeadamente da Hellenic Open University, AKMI S.A, ICOM Hellenic National Committee, ICOM Portugal e Melting Pro Learning.

A investigação desenvolvida no âmbito do projecto Mu.SA (575907-EEP-1-2016-1-EL-EPPKA2-SSA) consistiu em reflectir sobre o papel dos museus na sociedade digital, considerando as necessidades e os desafios da transformação digital no contexto dos museus. A investigação foi desenvolvida a partir de uma análise comparativa em três países do Sul da Europa: Portugal, Grécia e Itália, e no contexto de um consórcio internacional, liderado pela Hellenic Open University (Grécia), com financiamento europeu (Erasmus +, Sector Skills Alliance). 

O projecto Mu.SA teve por objectivo criar ferramentas educativas com vista ao desenvolvimento das competências digitais dos profissionais de museus, através do ensino à distância, nomeadamente por via de um MOOC – um curso online, de acesso livre e sem pré-requisitos de participação. Intitulado “Essential Digital Skills for Museum Professionals”, este curso, realizado em 2019, foi pensado como uma introdução às competências digitais e transferíveis necessárias para melhor capacitar os profissionais face aos desafios da trans- formação digital nos museus. Foi seguido de um curso de especialização (6 meses), com um perfil modular, e compreendendo uma componente teórica e prática. Manteve-se o formato de ensino à distância, através de uma plataforma digital (Moodle), disponibilizando conteúdos online e recursos educativos, incluindo ainda sessões presenciais, actividades de auto-estudo e uma experiência de trabalho efectiva em museu (aproximadamente dez semanas). Alguns destes recursos educativos continuam disponíveis no website do projecto Mu.SA: http://www.project-musa.eu/results/oers/.

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Índice

 ix | Introduction, Achilles Kameas e Panagiota Polymeropoulou

1 | Chapter 1: Greek Museums in the Digital Age: Training Needs of Museum Professionals in the Framework of the Mu.SA Project, Artemis Stamatelou

7 | Chapter 2: The Training Needs of Museum Professionals in the Digital Field in Italy, Antonia Silvaggi, Romina Surace, Federica Pesce, Margherita Sani

13 | Chapter 3: Digital Competences Needs and Training in the Portuguese Museum Sector, Ana Carvalho e Alexandre Matos

21 | Chapter 4: Mu.SA: The Emerging VET Curricula, Spiros A.p. Borotis, Panagiota Polymeropoulou, Christos Pierrakeas, Konstantinos Giannakopoulos e Achilles Kameas

29 | Chapter 5: A Methodology for Realizing VET Curricula: The Mu.SA Case, Christos Pierrakeas, Panagiota Polymeropoulou, Spiros A.p. Borotis e Achilles Kameas

37 | Chapter 6: Insights from Piloting a Community Builder MOOC to Help Museum Professionals Facing 21st Century Challenges, Paula Menino Homem

45 | Chapter 7: Evaluation of the Mu.SA MOOC Course, Massimiliano Dibitonto, Katarzyna Leszczynska e Elisa Cruciani

51 | Chapter 8: Piloting the Specialization Courses of the Mu.SA project: Shifting Towards the Museum of the Future, Eleni Damianou e Giannis Panopoulos

55 | Chapter 9: Evaluation of the Mu.SA Blended Course, Massimiliano Dibitonto, Katarzyna Leszczynska e Elisa Cruciani

63 | Chapter 10: An Agenda for Digital Culture, Ivo Oosterbeek, Maria João Nunes, Ilídio Louro, Ana Fernambuco e Inês Câmara

69 | Chapter 11: Museums for Social Inclusion: Exploring Current Trends in Greek Museums, Artemis Stamatelou

73 | Chapter 12: The Future of Museums and Digital Transformation Challenges, Ana Carvalho e Alexandre Matos

81 | Conclusions

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Kameas, Achilles, e Panagiota Polymeropoulou, eds. 2020. The Future of Museum Professionals in the Digital Era – The Success Story of Mu.SA. Athens: Hellenic Open University Press. 83 páginas. ISBN: 978-618-84272-9-7. http://www.project-musa.eu/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Mu.SA-e-book.pdf

A Ética nas Políticas Públicas do Património Cultural Imaterial: Entrevista com Marc Jacobs

Marc Jacobs, em visita à Universidade de Évora (Colégio do Espírito Santo), 13 de Julho de 2016. Fotografia de Ana Carvalho

Divulgamos a entrevista com o investigador belga Marc Jacobs, que teve lugar na Universidade de Évora a 13 de Julho de 2016 e foi conduzida por Ana Carvalho[1] e Filipe Themudo Barata[2].

Resumo: Desde que foi adoptada (2003), a Convenção para a Salvaguarda do Património Cultural Imaterial da UNESCO continua a suscitar interrogações e a constituir um campo de negociação quanto à sua implementação nas políticas públicas do património cultural dos países que ratificaram o documento. As questões éticas estão actualmente no centro da discussão com a recente adopção de 12 princípios éticos que pretendem guiar as estratégias de salvaguarda do Património Cultural Imaterial. Nesta entrevista com Marc Jacobs, realizada durante a sua visita à Universidade de Évora (Portugal), reflectimos sobre o impacto da Convenção para a Salvaguarda do Património Cultural Imaterial nas políticas nacionais, os seus problemas e oportunidades. Marc Jacobs (1963) é Professor de Estudos Críticos de Patrimônio na Vrije Universiteit Brussel. É desde 2008 diretor da Faro (Flemish Interface Centre for Cultural Heritage), uma organização belga para o setor do patrimônio cultural (material e imaterial). É desde 2014 o coordenador da UNESCO Chair em Critical Heritage Studies na Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Participou na qualidade de representante da Bélgica na redação da Convenção para a Salvaguarda do Patrimônio Cultural Imaterial (2003) e em vários grupos de trabalho durante o primeiro Comité Intergovernamental da Convenção (2006-2008).

Abstract: Since its adoption, UNESCO’s Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage has evoked interrogations and constituted a field of negotiation, concerning its implementation in the cultural heritage public policies of the countries that ratified the document. Ethical issues are now at the center of discussions, after UNESCO adopted 12 ethical principles to guide strategies for the safeguarding of intangible cultural heritage. We took the opportunity of Marc Jacobs’ visit to the University of Évora (Portugal) to do this interview and discuss the impact of UNESCO’s Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage (2003) in national policies, its problems and opportunities. Marc Jacobs (1963) is the director of FARO: Flemish Interface for Cultural Heritage (www.faronet.be) and holder of the UNESCO Chair in Critical Heritage Studies and the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage (www.vub.ac.be). He holds a MA in History from the University of Ghent (1985) and a PhD in History from the VUB (1998). Jacobs has been involved in drafting, elaborating, implementing, and analysing the 2003 UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage since 2002. He was a member of the Belgian delegation to the Intergovernmental Committee of that Convention, from 2006 to 2008, and from 2012 to 2016. Marc Jacobs is a Professor of Critical Heritage Studies at Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Since 2008, he has been the Director of the Flemish Interface for cultural heritage (FARO), an accredited organization specialized in the safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage. He participated as Belgium’s representative in drafting the Intangible Heritage Convention, in many expert groups and in the first Intergovernmental Committee of the Convention (2006-2008).

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Ana Carvalho – When did you start collaborating more closely with UNESCO and the Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Heritage (2003)?

Marc Jacobs – It began in 2001, when the discussions in UNESCO started about making the Convention, and they were looking for experts from several countries. There was a first meeting organized by Chérif Khaznadar – he was in the French UNESCO Commission – and he wanted to assemble a number of people from the Netherlands, Belgium, and France. At that time I had left the University, I had just done my PhD, and I had become director of the Flemish Centre for Popular Culture. They were looking for somebody who knew something about this strange thing called Intangible Cultural Heritage. I was there together with my French-speaking colleague Jean-Pierre Ducastelle, who is the chairperson of the Walloon organization for popular culture. From that time on, we kept on going to every expert meeting that was organized. The Flemish government and the administration, any time they had to reflect about Intangible Cultural Heritage, they sent me together with my French-speaking colleague, we had a lot of freedom to speak and to participate as experts in the discussions. They let us work in all those negotiations leading up to the Convention in 2003. In Belgium, we really stalked politicians and policy makers to quickly ratify the Convention. After that we kept going to the Intergovernmental Committee of the Convention. And especially after 2008, the policy makers started seeing the potential of the Convention, and then more diplomats and people from the administration joined our Belgian team. But, especially in the first years, we had a lot of liberty to defend the “expert” point of view; and this was supported ever since. This was interesting because we saw a lot of other delegations that, from the start, included consisted primarily of diplomats and politicians, and they were often very restricted in what they said; we could respond more quickly.

In 2003 I worked in that Flemish Centre for Popular Culture and the first thing I did when I become director was to put “popular culture” between inverted commas, because it was a politically dangerous concept – folk culture. Especially for extremist parties, this was a very hot topic. So, we had to make it more complex and make it vaguer so it could not just be used as an easy essentialist notion by populists. That’s why I really like the concept of Intangible Cultural Heritage, because populists cannot really use it, it is so intangible and vague. Eventually “Intangible Cultural Heritage” replaced the concept of “popular culture”. “Intangible Cultural Heritage” being a more neutral term, it is something that from a scholarly point of view, and from a political point of view, I really like.

Filipe Themudo Barata – We have had the Convention for 13 years now. In your opinion, what has been done right and wrong?

Marc Jacobs – I think it made sense, it still makes sense. Something I learned is that there is not something monolithic like UNESCO, but that it is an assemblage, that many different actors are co-responsible for what they are doing. In that complex setting, you can have a kind of red line and defend it, and I am quite convinced of the principles and a way that I think is consistent. If you stick to that, you can have a lot of impact and influence, and that’s what I’ve been trying to do right from the beginning: to have a kind of – you can call it my own – agenda, which is compatible with the agenda of the Flemish policy makers, luckily, to look for consistency and coherence in your points of view: to really go for recognition of those non-elite forms of culture, which were called popular culture, that they should deserve a place and should be recognized. But also that the concept of heritage is more than monuments and landscape. That safeguarding can be interesting. And I noticed the concept of Intangible Culture Heritage/Patrimoine Culturel Immatériel – or however you translate it – is a concept that works for policy makers, it works in society, people take the concept seriously and want to think about it. So, that’s one of the things that happened.

What I like about the Convention is article 15, mentioning communities, groups, and individuals, without having a definition of any of these, especially communities and groups. That is very flexible and open, and it is empowering communities and groups. And another point, which I find is extremely important, is that it opens a possibility to organise transfers from rich countries to developing countries, to organise capacity building and transfer of funds.

Also, something that is happening now with the Convention is that there is a lot of money in the Intangible Heritage Fund. One of the things which I, and therefore Belgium, could help influence by participating in many meetings, is that, in addition to making lists and all those other non-interesting things, at least these capacity-building programs are organized and money is flowing in that direction. Especially in Flanders, we managed to help develop a policy around safeguarding Intangible Cultural Heritage. But at the same time, ratifying the Convention helped to convince our government to invest in a UNESCO Trust Fund, and they basically donated, during the last five years 600,000 euros to invest in Southern African countries. For me, that already legitimizes all the energy that has been put into the Convention. At least, I am glad about that.

Filipe Themudo Barata – But if you could change something, what would you change in the 2003 Convention?

Marc Jacobs – In the Convention I would get rid of article 16, the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity (hereafter referred to as the Representative List). That’s a problem.[3] What a lot of actors, countries and experts wanted was a kind of alternative to the UNESCO World Heritage List, which was also part of the Masterpieces program. What I have been doing right from the start is trying to question the notions of masterpieces and world heritage, and to promote a register of good practices of safeguarding. There were many debates between 2001 and 2003, and afterwards. It was clear that a lot of powerful actors wanted a kind of world heritage light, but many specialists counterbalanced this view. This resulted in the Representative List: nobody really knows what “representative” means. The Representative List functions for drawing attention, but not so good for the safeguarding. I don’t believe in it because case studies about the masterpieces program demonstrate that proclaiming something as a masterpiece or putting something on the Representative List has a negative effect in many cases. If you really go and look, it has not helped the local communities. But apparently, it is something you need to do to convince the press, the media, and others.

Ana Carvalho – And you can’t go back, can you?

Marc Jacobs – No. I have a twofold strategy. On the one hand, the Representative List is there. Right from the start, I said we should have a Wikipedia kind of solution, feeding and overflooding the whole system by entering thousands and thousands of phenomena, which through a peer-review process can yield a kind of encyclopaedia. There’s been a kind of discussion or game as to what criteria should be used for the Representative List, and a lot of people wanted the kind of world heritage light list: they wanted to have easy criteria to put items on that list but still enjoy all the advantages of world heritage status. And every time they wanted to make really easy criteria, then Belgium intervened and said – well, let’s go for Wikipedia instead, and let everybody join, but the group did not want to go that far. So, I will keep on repeating – let’s go for a Wikipedia list. There was a lot of resistance, but if you hear the new secretary of the Convention, Tim Curtis[4], he too is already sometimes evoking Wikipedia as a possible alternative in the future.

Ana Carvalho – Scotland initially had a project like Wikipedia, and then changed to another kind of platform.

Marc Jacobs – In Scotland it was Napier University: they had funding for a year, they haven’t been able to fully develop it, and do not forget, the UK has not ratified the Convention. But now Finland has launched a Wiki as their official inventory. So, I think that it is possible. I am in favor of a Representative Wiki. But if there is no Wikipedia, then, from my point of view, we should follow the rules we make together, make an agreement on the criteria. Belgium, and I am partially responsible for this, takes a very tough position, pleading for consistency: the same rules for everyone. If for instance an evaluation body concludes that that a nomination file of an element of Intangible Cultural Heritage does not satisfy the criteria, then we should not put it on the list; that is fair. But this has become a minority position among the 24 countries at present (2016) in the Intergovernmental Committee. You have to follow the criteria. 

Ana Carvalho – One of the aspects we are seeing in Portugal is some confusion about which Intangible Cultural Heritage can be representative, because the criteria for inscription on the lists are quite vague. How are the elements on the Representative List being selected in Belgium[5]?

Marc Jacobs – Belgium is a complex case because we have different Communities. Each is fully autonomous and competent, and functions at the level of a nation state. We have Flanders, the Walloon part, the German-speaking part, and Brussels. Each has its own list, and each has their own strategy for implementing the 2003 Convention.

And we have different policies. Our Walloon colleagues have legislation on masterpieces, so they were very active in the period of the masterpieces program but now they have to change their legislation.

Flanders has submitted several elements to the Representative List, but now our preference is to submit files for the Register of Best Safeguarding Practices.

Beer culture in Belgium. Imagem retirada daqui

The German-speaking part has its own strategy. There is a file coming now on Belgium beer, that is, the art and culture of producing and consuming beer in Belgium. The file was originally sponsored by the Belgian brewers’ association.[6] It was introduced in, via and by the German speaking community, which is a relatively small community – 60,000 people – but autonomous.

So, we have four different strategies, as Brussels is also starting with a policy.

In the beginning (2009), it was rather easy: there were no upper limits. It was easy to submit a file then, now it is much more difficult.

There is an inventory at the Flemish level, established via a specific procedure; twice every year there is a call – who wants to present something for that list in Flanders? But if you want to apply as a community or a person, you have to connect with an official active heritage organisation – this could be a center of expertise, or a museum, or an archive. You have to team up with them and present a safeguarding plan for the next five years. And when you submit something on that list – which is now a database –, you have to submit that file with a safeguarding plan. An underlying goal is to create an inventory of safeguarding plans that are updated every five years.

Ana Carvalho – Are the safeguarding plans a set of intentions, or do they have to be already implemented?

Marc Jacobs – They have to report every year on what they have done. But until now, that’s the same in UNESCO, there are no sanctions for not submitting a report, there is a kind of moral obligation. It is easy to put something on the list, if you write a nice file and describe it, but it is a hard job to report on safeguarding results every year. But there are several interesting examples, where a very active heritage community seems to function. So, in the Flemish inventory you see the active networks emerging, and that’s what policy makers want to do.

Ana Carvalho – And where do you get the resources to draw up these safeguarding plans?

Marc Jacobs – Sometimes it is our local government that sponsors them. In the case of the Belgian beer it was the brewers, they have a lot of money. But often, when they team up with the subsidized and officially recognised heritage institutions, a lot of the work and follow-up is done there, through those brokers and mediators. In some museums, it is part of their job to take care of tangible and intangible heritage, and through that system of linking up with heritage institutions, you see outside people coming to the museum and requesting to help them.

Ana Carvalho – Who are these organizations recognised by?

Marc Jacobs – In practice, they are in most cases recognised by a local government or by the Flemish government.

Filipe Themudo Barata – So, to be included in the regional list you have to present a safeguarding plan and inscribe it on a database.

Marc Jacobs – We have two deadlines every year – May and September –, you have to fill out a form (4-5 pages: who you are, contact persons, what it is about, describe it, and what the safeguarding plan is). It is very easy. At the beginning, we started with just a list with a name of the phenomenon and place, but now the system is more developed. The procedure is as follows: the file is sent to a commission which includes experts, representatives of communities or groups with Intangible Cultural Heritage already on the list, and volunteers. They examine it and give feedback, and then they send it to the Ministry of Culture, that can officialize the decision of that commission. Then, it is put on the inventory or the list. It is sent to an NGO called Tapis Plein (Bruges), which is responsible for developing that database. Originally it was the government, but they outsourced it. They actively document changes and interesting examples. The government intervenes to officialize the inscription on the inventory but for the rest dynamics of civil society should function. For resources, we have project funding. Once you are on that list, it is much easier to get project funding. That is an incentive, but you have to do really interesting things to obtain funds. It is a mechanism designed to have many institutions (heritage organisations) involved and working, and they put pressure on each other to do a better job.

Filipe Themudo Barata – Do you think this is a fair system, at least?

Marc Jacobs – I think so.

Filipe Themudo Barata – Do you think that outside Europe it is possible to organise a system like that?

Marc Jacobs – I think you can organise it like that, and the key is updating. Is it good to inscribe an element on a list, if nobody asks questions about what happens afterwards? Recently, in the meeting in Paris (Sixth session of the General Assembly of the States Parties to the Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, 30 May to 1 June), and in the Windhoek meeting (Nov-Dec. 2015), for instance, a lot of emphasis was put on updating. Because in the List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding List, there was a file from Vietnam that wanted to be removed. The argument was that after four years of urgent safeguarding, it was time to move the file to the Representative List. They requested to set up a procedure. But there are no mechanisms to check this. There are also the periodic reports; a lot of countries are very hesitant to submit those reports. It is a kind of moral pressure on the country, but UNESCO is moving toward a new submission mode for the Lists. They could make a rule saying that, to obtain money, first you have to submit the periodic report.

The “Maître d’art” Pierre Meyer, turner of figures on ivory, with an apprentice. © Alexis Lecomte, Ministère de la Culture – France. Imagem retirada daqui.

Filipe Themudo Barata – What is your opinion on the UNESCO programme Human Living Treasures?

Marc Jacobs – This programme was originally sponsored mainly by South Korea and Japan. There is a very interesting article by Noriko Aikawa-Faure (2014), who is one of the protagonists behind the Convention, and who is a consultant. At this moment, she is making a very critical analysis of how this programme is used in South Korea and Japan. She cautions not to blindly follow these examples. But in a lot of countries they are examining how to do something with the notion of recognition, the apprenticeship system, and so on. I think it is a valuable formula. In Flanders, in Belgium, we managed to convince the Ministry of Culture to try to examine and set up a similar system. In September 2015, there was a big meeting organised by the French UNESCO Commission about this living human treasures programme – how it can be implemented and improved. I think there is some potential there.

The original programme sponsored by Japan and South Korea backfired, because it became a system of recognition with the main effect that the price of products by those masters skyrocketed. It became a very exclusive programme, not primarily about transmission but about exclusiveness. A lot of countries are struggling with it. It is an interesting programme, it should not be just passively accepted but something could be done about it. There is potential, and that’s one of the challenges for the coming years, especially cultivating the connections with economy, tourism, and education. There is a lot of potential there for crafts and arts. I believe in it, but I haven’t seen a very convincing formula developed anywhere yet.

Ana Carvalho – France has the Les Maîtres d’Art (since 1994), for instance.

Marc Jacobs – There is a PhD thesis of Francesca Cominelli (2013) that analysed that programme, discovering flaws. The programme is not always used in the spirit of the Convention. Something else should be developed, I think.

Ana Carvalho – In 2015, UNESCO adopted 12 ethical principles regarding the safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage. What was the motivation behind this initiative? Aren’t there ethics codes already, for each field of research? Anthropology has one, museums have another, and so on. What’s your view on this issue?

Marc Jacobs – Doing something about ethics was a question launched by a lot of countries, Belgium among them, and I was one of the people asking for that. If you look at the Museum Code of Ethics of ICOM, it is a rather unbalanced code of ethics that is not very useful for dealing with Intangible Cultural Heritage. From the anthropological point of view, I like the notion of brokerage and mediation very much. And there is no universally applicable code of ethics – anthropologists are just one of the actors.

The basic idea was to examine whether it would be sensible to make a kind of global code of ethics. Upon reflection, it was said that it was not a good idea, because it is impossible to apply something to the whole world. The solution was to adopt two options. On the one hand, there was the solution of the “12 principles”: basically that’s an exercise in rephrasing or formulating the spirit of the Convention, what the Convention is about, in different words. If you look at the 12 principles, these are very general ideas, but the main characteristic is that, if you put them all together, they occupy only a (few) page(s), which you can translate and distribute all over the world. The document of the 12 principles has a chance of being seen by many eyes and of explaining what the Convention is all about – and that’s already sufficient.

There are some new concepts that have been introduced, one could even say, smuggled, or injected into the 12 principles, which are interesting and new, because they add something to the vocabulary. One of the things is that, instead of “prior and informed consent” there is now “prior and sustained informed consent” (principle n.º 4). This sensitizes for feedback and follow up. Prior and informed consent is one of the criteria for the Representative List – and for the other list too. But by using the word “sustained”, one could, for instance, emphasize that every five years you have to check whether there is still consent within the community.

Ana Carvalho – But that can still be manipulated.

Marc Jacobs – Yes, but at least the word “sustained” is there to be activated, to be mobilized, so there can be a periodic check or follow-up of the consent.

There is another concept – “access and benefit sharing” – which is important in the Diversity Convention, that was introduced or smuggled into one of the 12 principles, opening new doors. It is also there in the UNESCO official document, so it can be used, just like in the texts of the Convention on Biodiversity. And next to promoting the 12 Principles, UNESCO will set up a database on their website with all kinds of ethics tools, e.g. forms and professional codes. UNESCO has to involve accredited NGOs in building up that database. That’s another example of innovation.

Ana Carvalho – The notion of “community” has created several misunderstandings. If I understood well, you prefer the notion of “heritage community” in the Faro Convention (Council of Europe, 2005), which says: “a heritage community consists of people who value specific aspects of cultural heritage which they wish, within the framework of public action, to sustain and transmit to future generations”. Could you explain your perspective regarding this notion?

Marc Jacobs – On the one hand, it is also a very open and constructivist definition. If you see how heritage community is defined in the Faro Convention, you don’t have to be the owner of the heritage, so it can be anyone that has a special interest in it and wants to go for public action around that heritage. On the other hand, I see “heritage community” as a network of actors around heritage – and these could be private persons, they could be museums or other organisations. Basically, we are thinking in terms of networks and not just in terms of a village community, a small, supposedly closed or homogeneous group. By using the word “network”, you can move it to include also experts, centres of expertise and so on. That is how it is used in decrees in Flanders.

Ana Carvalho – So, Belgium uses and adapts the concept but hasn’t ratified the Faro Convention.

Marc Jacobs – Absolutely. Our legislation contains the definition of “heritage community” that we copied from the Faro Convention, but we adapted the definition by adding “organisations”. Personally, I think that by having persons and organizations we can get that network idea – the word “organisation” was smuggled or injected or grafted into that definition. By adding this you can have a whole network structure, and it completely changes the way we can work with this. The advantage of the Convention of Faro is that it is the only European Convention that actually recognizes Intangible Cultural Heritage. So, it is our Trojan horse in the heritage field in Europe, to have Intangible Cultural Heritage included. I like most of what is written in the Convention of Faro, I only have problems with the notion of European heritage as an essence, I don’t believe in that construction.

Filipe Themudo Barata – Which construction do you believe in?

Marc Jacobs – If there are actors with enough energy and plans to call something “heritage” and develop a heritage program, then it is heritage. If you freeze or reify it, if you essentialise it, then it becomes very dangerous. That is also how I think about popular culture. In a network, you have to make it so that no one can possess it, so that it is all over the place: a lot of energy but nobody can control it. It is always a process of finding consensus or a power play, but at least it is something that can change over and over again. That’s what heritage, or a tradition, is. That’s why I like the 2003 Convention – what communities, groups and individuals think is their heritage and the way they manage to convince other people. It is a very relativistic approach.

Ana Carvalho – You are the holder of the UNESCO Chair in Critical Heritage Studies and the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage at Vrije Universiteit Brussel. What are your main goals for the near future?

Marc Jacobs – On the one hand, I want to work on the topic of sustainable development, the new chapter VI in the operational directives of the 2003 Convention on sustainable development and hence about 2030 Agenda of the UN. For instance, the role that safeguarding Intangible Cultural Heritage can play for peace processes – let’s take this seriously and find ways to make it work to reflect on how this could happen. And also, I want to organise a number of seminars, meetings, and publications around this.

On the other hand, in Belgium, or in Flanders, I want to develop more research and help a number of people who are starting their PhDs, to build up some research capacity in order to help reflection.

Another goal is to find some international networks of exchange and do projects together. In the coming years, there are several new chairs that are already emerging, one in Turkey, one in Latvia (Anita Vaivade, she is a very strong legal scholar but with great ambition and I really believe in what she is doing). In the Netherlands there will be perhaps one, and there are several others. If these plans work out, we will have about ten chairs, and it will be a good way to work together. I also think connections can be made with the UNESCO Secretariat, to see what can be done together. For instance, the UNESCO Secretariat wants to set up a worldwide monitoring programme on the impact of the Convention. They want to develop a kind of monitoring system over national committees – they will implement this programme in the coming years. I think the Chairs could play a role in this case, to actually follow it up or make it happen. There are several possibilities, and it is always a challenge to see how independent your work can be, and how critically you can work from the UNESCO point of view. I was actively involved in the intergovernmental committee of the Convention until last June. From now on I will just be observing, and that’s something I look forward to.

Referências

AIKAWA-FAURE, Noriko. Excellence and Authenticity: ‘Living National (Human) Treasures’ in Japan and Korea. International Journal of Intangible Heritage, n.º 9, p. 38–51, 2014.

COMINELLI, Francesca. L’économie du Patrimoine Culturel Immatériel: Savoir-faire et Métiers d’Art en France. Thèse de doctorat en Sciences Economiques, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris), 2013.

Notas

[1] Post-doctoral researcher at the Interdisciplinary Centre for History, Cultures and Societies (CIDEHUS) of the University of Évora (Portugal) and member of the UNESCO Chair in Intangible Heritage and Traditional Know-How: Linking Heritage of the University of Évora. Holds a PhD in History and Philosophy of Science, specialization in Museology (2015) and a master degree in Museology. Her research focuses on museums and cultural heritage (tangible and intangible) and national public policies in Intangible Cultural Heritage.

[2] Full Professor at the University of Évora (Portugal) since 2004, where he teaches several disciplines and seminars connected with History (especially Medieval), Heritage and Museology. He is the holder of the UNESCO Chair in Intangible Heritage and Traditional Know-How: Linking Heritage of the University of Évora.

[3] There are now (July 2016) 337 elements inscribed in the Representative List and 43 elements inscribed in the Urgent Safeguard List. And the Register of Best Safeguarding Practices has only 12 projects.

[4] Tim Curtis started as secretary in beginning of 2016. He has PhD in Cultural Anthropology and has worked for UNESCO since 2000. Curtis has more than 11 years in the field, first at UNESCO Office in Dar-es-Salaam (Tanzania) and then as head of UNESCO’s Cultural Unit in Bangkok (Thailand). He succeeded Cécile Duvelle who was secretary between 2008 and 2015.

[5] Belgium has now (July 2016) 10 elements inscribed in the Representative List and two projects on the Register of Best Safeguarding Practices.

[6] The file for the beer culture in Belgium as an element of Intangible Culture Heritage is at the moment (July 2016) under process by UNESCO for the Representative List.

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Esta entrevista foi publicada originalmente no 16.º número da revista Memória em Rede:

Carvalho, Ana, e Filipe Themudo Barata. 2017. “Ethics in Intangible Cultural Heritage Public Policies: Interview with Marc Jacobs.” Revista Memória em Rede 9 (16): 165–80. https://periodicos.ufpel.edu.br]

Intangible heritage and the museum: new perspectives on cultural preservation

(Fonte: Bookdepository.com)

Alivizatou, Marilena. 2012. Intangible heritage and the museum: new perspectives on cultural preservation. Walnut Creek: Institute of Archeology. Vol. 8, Critical cultural heritage series. 225 páginas. ISBN: 978-1-61132-151-7.

Falar de Património Cultural Imaterial (PCI) é hoje uma tendência internacional como resultado da elaboração da Convenção para a Salvaguarda do Património Cultural Imaterial da UNESCO (2003). No contexto dos museus, a bibliografia que problematiza este novo enfoque é visivelmente crescente, seja em Portugal (ver, Carvalho 2011 [1], entre outros), seja no contexto internacional, como comprova esta recente publicação (Agosto de 2012). A autora, Marilena Alivizatou, é uma investigadora de origem grega que colabora no Institute of Archaeology University College London (informação sobre a autora aqui). Em grande medida, o livro é o resultado da investigação que autora começou a desenvolver a partir de 2003 até ao presente, sendo parte deste trabalho referente à sua tese de doutoramento. Pode dizer-se que este livro é uma síntese desse percurso de investigação.

O que a autora se propôs a fazer foi uma análise crítica do PCI em contexto museológico tanto do ponto vista conceptual como do ponto de vista das práticas. Para o efeito, Alivizatou fez um estudo comparativo de cinco museus em distintos contextos culturais, sociais e políticos: o National Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (Wellington, Nova Zelândia), um museu cujas colecções recuam ao séc. XIX, mas que é criado nos anos noventa (abertura em 1998); o Vanuatu Cultural Centre (Port Vila, Vanuatu), que na origem era um pequeno museu colonial (1956) com colecções etnográficas e de história natural, e que é actualmente um centro cultural indígena; o National Museum of the American Indian (Washington e Nova Yorque, EUA), que abriu em 2004, mas cuja história remonta às primeiras décadas do séc. XX; o Horniman Museum (Londres), fundado no séc. XIX e renovado em 2002 (colecções etnográficas, espécimes de história natural, etc.); e finalmente, o polémico Musée du Quai Branly (Paris), que surgiu em 2006, reunindo as colecções etnográficas do Musée de l’Homme (cuja reabertura tem vindo a ser adiada, estando actualmente prevista para 2015) e as colecções do Musée National des Arts d’Afrique et de l’Oceanie, que encerrou para vir a dar lugar no mesmo espaço à Cité Nationale de l’Histoire de l’Immigration.

A autora tem em conta o discurso sobre PCI via UNESCO, mas assume uma postura  crítica e reflexiva quanto ao discurso oficial, apresentando uma abordagem alternativa à museologia mainstream. Trata-se de um livro de referência para todos os que se interessam pela problematização do património no mundo dos museus.

Conteúdos:

List of Illustrations, p. 9

Acknowledgments, p. 13

1. Intangible Heritage and the Museum, p. 15

2. Global Preservation and Beyond, p. 27

3. From Artefacts to Communities: Participation and Contestation at the Papa Tongarewa, p. 49

4. At the Interface of “Kastom” and Development: The Case of the Vanuatu Cultural Centre, p. 77

5. Intangible Heritage and the Living Memorial of Native Americans, p. 105

6. Reinventing the Gift at the Horniman Museum, p. 135

7. The Dialogue of Cultures, “Laicité”, and Intangible Heritage at the quai Branly, p. 159

8. Rethinking Cultural Preservation, Museum Curation, and Communities, p. 189

Notes, p. 193

Glossary, p. 199

References, p. 201

Index, p. 219

About the Author, p. 225

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[1] Carvalho, Ana. 2011. Os museus e o património cultural imaterial: estratégias para o desenvolvimento de boas práticas. Vol. 28, Biblioteca – Estudos & Colóquios. Lisboa: Edições Colibri e Centro Interdisciplinar de História, Culturas e Sociedades da Universidade de Évora. Sobre o livro consultar o seguinte endereço: http://pcimuseus.wordpress.com/.

Incorporação e Desincorporação em Museus


© Ana Carvalho

Incorporação e Desincorporação em Museus: História, Realidade e Perspectivas Futuras

Autora: Maria Isabel Soares Luna
Orientação: Nélia Dias
Dissertação submetida para obtenção do grau de Mestre em Museologia: Contextos Expositivos, ISCTE – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa
Nota: 18 valores
Data: 14 de Dezembro

A tese está disponível na íntegra no repositório científico do ISCTE:

http://repositorio-iul.iscte.pt/handle/10071/3129

 

Resumo: «A presente dissertação aborda e define os processos de incorporação e de desincorporação de objectos nos museus, entendendo o museu enquanto conceito universal, isto é, atravessando tipologias museais e fronteiras geográficas. As questões que envolvem a incorporação, a permanência e a desincorporação de objectos no museu são aqui examinadas, bem como analisados os seus conceitos. Com base numa análise teórica, pretendem encontrar-se respostas para questões como “o que guardam os museus?”, “porque razões o guardam?” e “para que servem e a quem interessam os objectos de museu?”.

São analisados dois sistemas museológicos aparentemente opostos, em que o maior ou menor grau de “desprendimento” relativamente aos objectos, revela dois modos diferentes de ver e interpretar a instituição museal: o sistema anglo-saxónico, centralizado nos Estados Unidos e na Grã-Bretanha, caracterizado pela visão do museu enquanto museu-escola, e o sistema latino, centralizado na França, caracterizado pela visão do museu enquanto museu-templo. Sensivelmente entre os dois situa-se o modelo português. Claramente derivado da tradição francesa, por óbvias razões culturais, seria contudo marcado pela tradição britânica. Assim, percebe-se, pela análise do estatuto das colecções públicas portuguesas que, não obstante a enunciação inequívoca – mas não enfática – da sua inalienabilidade, se tenham previsto tantas portas de saída para os objectos.»

Abstract: This dissertation discusses and defines the processes of accession and deaccession of objects in museums, here seen as a universal concept, that is, it crosses all museum types and geographic boundaries. The issues concerning accession, permanence and deaccession of objects in the museum institution are here examined and its concepts analyzed. Based on a theoretical analysis, it is intended to find answers to questions like “what do museums keep?”, “Why do they keep it?” and “what are museum objects for and to whom do they interest?”.

Two seemingly opposite museological systems are analyzed, in which a greater or lesser degree of “detachment” in relation to objects, reveals two different ways of seeing and interpreting the museum institution: the Anglo-Saxon system, centered on the United States and Great Britain, characterized by the vision of the museum as a museum school; and the Latin system, centered in France, characterized by the vision of the museum as a museum-temple. More or less between the two lies the Portuguese model. Clearly derived from the French tradition, for obvious cultural reasons, it would, however, be marked by the British tradition. Thus, it can be seen by analyzing the status of the Portuguese public collections which, despite the unequivocal – but not emphatic – statement of their inalienability, has provided so many output-doors for the objects.

Tese: "A Museologia na ilha de S. Miguel:1974-2008"

A Museologia na ilha de S. Miguel:1974-2008
Autora: Sílvia Maria Borba Fonseca e Sousa
Orientação: Prof. Doutor Rui Américo de Sousa Martins
Dissertação apresentada à Universidade dos Açores no âmbito do Curso de Mestrado em Património, Desenvolvimento e Museologia
Ano: 2009

A tese está disponível na íntegra no repositório da Universidade dos Açores:
http://hdl.handle.net/10400.3/620

Resumo:
“[…]. No século XX, a partir da década de setenta, e à semelhança do que aconteceu por todo o país, nos Açores assistiu-se a um acentuar da consciência e valorização patrimoniais, que se reflectiram em novas experiências museológicas locais. De registar o papel de relevo que assumiram desde logo a Universidade dos Açores e as autarquias, na salvaguarda e valorização do património cultural. Em São Miguel, a maior ilha do arquipélago dos Açores, situada no grupo oriental, esta realidade é marcante, verificando-se, desde a década de setenta do século XX, um acentuado crescimento por toda a ilha de instituições de carácter museológico. Será portanto no período de 1974 a 2008, que centraremos a nossa análise, considerando o conjunto de espaços museológicos existentes no contexto micaelense. Da diversidade de realidades que encontrámos em São Miguel, e independentemente da sua designação, considerámos aquelas que se enquadravam no âmbito do conceito de museu, segundo as orientações do International Council of Museums (ICOM), e da Lei-quadro dos museus portugueses, tendo ainda em conta as recentes orientações da Nova Museologia. Ou seja, associada à acção de recolha e preservação patrimonial, apresentavam, de forma mais ou menos desenvolvida, funções museológicas de investigação, conservação e comunicação, bem como acções de promoção do desenvolvimento da comunidade em que se inseriam e, em alguns casos, da sua participação nas dinâmicas museológicas. Seleccionado o nosso objecto de estudo, definidas as realidades museológicas a observar e delineado o período temporal a considerar, orientámos a nossa pesquisa no sentido de analisar os diferentes processos museológicos, […]” (da Introdução)

INTERCOM 2008

Registrations are now open for the INTERCOM conference to be held in Rotorua, New Zealand from 24-28 November 2008. The conference theme is “Museums, Tourism, Visitor Experience.”

Earlybird registration will be available until 30 June.

Please go to the conference website at www.intercom2008.co.nz for conference details and registration.

Greg McManus
Chair ICOM New Zealand
Director
Rotorua Museum of Art & History
Rotorua District Council
Private Bag 3029
Rotorua Mail Centre
Rotorua 3046
NEW ZEALAND
www.rotoruamuseum.co.nz
Tel. 64+7+350 1814
DDI: 07 3500568
Fax. 64+7+349 2819
027 271 4328

Fonte: MUSEUM-L