Co-museum

MUSEUMS AS AGENTS OF CHANGE

DIVERSITY, ACCESSIBILITY AND INCLUSION
​ATHENS, 30 NOV 2017
THESSALONIKI, 1 DEC 2017
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It has been stated that museums and cultural institutions can change people’s lives. They are pillars of healthy communities and ideal spaces to connect people. While communities around the globe address issues of immigration, religious expression, cultural diversity, discrimination, gender identity, and equality, the commitment of museums to diversity, equity, accessibility, and inclusion has never been more important.

At the seventh edition of the Museum Conference, museum and cultural professionals from the U.S., the UK and Greece will examine the social impact of museums, their role in promoting social inclusion and cohesion, and how diversity and accessibility programs are directly linked with audience engagement, funding sources, resilience and sustainability. The Museum Conference will explore how cultural institutions can reach and retain diverse audiences beyond race, ethnicity, age, class, ability, language and gender; how can museums give voice to underprivileged groups and become places for creative exchange and open dialogue. The conference will also examine how arts professionals can make accessibility a lifelong process for museums and cultural organizations and how cultural organizations can approach wellbeing and become central elements of their communities.

MUSEUMS AS AGENTS OF CHANGE

DIVERSITY, ACCESSIBILITY AND INCLUSION
​ATHENS, 30 NOV 2017
THESSALONIKI, 1 DEC 2017
Screenshot 2020-08-31 at 3.28.23 PM

It has been stated that museums and cultural institutions can change people’s lives. They are pillars of healthy communities and ideal spaces to connect people. While communities around the globe address issues of immigration, religious expression, cultural diversity, discrimination, gender identity, and equality, the commitment of museums to diversity, equity, accessibility, and inclusion has never been more important.

At the seventh edition of the Museum Conference, museum and cultural professionals from the U.S., the UK and Greece will examine the social impact of museums, their role in promoting social inclusion and cohesion, and how diversity and accessibility programs are directly linked with audience engagement, funding sources, resilience and sustainability. The Museum Conference will explore how cultural institutions can reach and retain diverse audiences beyond race, ethnicity, age, class, ability, language and gender; how can museums give voice to underprivileged groups and become places for creative exchange and open dialogue. The conference will also examine how arts professionals can make accessibility a lifelong process for museums and cultural organizations and how cultural organizations can approach wellbeing and become central elements of their communities.

MUSEUMS AS AGENTS OF CHANGE

DIVERSITY, ACCESSIBILITY AND INCLUSION
​ATHENS, 30 NOV 2017
THESSALONIKI, 1 DEC 2017
Screenshot 2020-08-31 at 3.28.23 PM
It has been stated that museums and cultural institutions can change people’s lives. They are pillars of healthy communities and ideal spaces to connect people. While communities around the globe address issues of immigration, religious expression, cultural diversity, discrimination, gender identity, and equality, the commitment of museums to diversity, equity, accessibility, and inclusion has never been more important.
At the seventh edition of the Museum Conference, museum and cultural professionals from the U.S., the UK and Greece will examine the social impact of museums, their role in promoting social inclusion and cohesion, and how diversity and accessibility programs are directly linked with audience engagement, funding sources, resilience and sustainability. The Museum Conference will explore how cultural institutions can reach and retain diverse audiences beyond race, ethnicity, age, class, ability, language and gender; how can museums give voice to underprivileged groups and become places for creative exchange and open dialogue. The conference will also examine how arts professionals can make accessibility a lifelong process for museums and cultural organizations and how cultural organizations can approach wellbeing and become central elements of their communities.

SPEAKERS

Ath / Thess
Dr Nicole Ivy
Director of Inclusion,
American Alliance of Museums U.S.A
Ath
Navine G. Khan-Dossos
EVisual Artist
GR
Ath / Thess
Georgia Krantz
Independent Accessibility Trainer and Consultant
U.S.A
Ath
Maria Papadimitriou
Artist,
Professor of the University of Thessaly,
Department of Architecture GR
Ath / Thess
Sarah Plumb
Research Associate,
Research Centre for Museums and Galleries,
University of Leicester
UK
Ath / Thess
Matt Turtle and Jess Turtle
Co-Founders,
Museum of Homelessness
UK
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Dr Nicole Ivy

Director of Inclusion,
American Alliance of Museums
U.S.A.

Nicole Ivy is the inaugural Director of Inclusion at the American Alliance of Museums. A professional futurist and a historical thinker, Nicole is passionate about the arts and social change, having begun her work in the museum field as an Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) Graduate Fellow at the African American Museum in Philadelphia. She recently completed her tenure as a Museum Futurist and Mellon/American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Public Fellow with the Alliance’s Center for the Future of Museums (CFM).
In addition to her work in the museum field, Nicole has held numerous academic appointments. She was a Visiting Assistant Professor in the History Department at Indiana University, Bloomington (IUB), and an inaugural postdoctoral fellow of the Center for Research on Race and Ethnicity in Society (CRRES) at IUB.
Her professional and scholarly interests include strategic foresight, public history, visual culture, and inclusive change management. She earned her B.A. in English from the University of Florida and her joint Ph.D. in African American Studies and American Studies from Yale University.

Navine G. Khan-Dossos

Visual Artist
GR

Navine G. Khan-Dossos (b. 1982, London) is a visual artist, based in Athens. Her interests include Orientalism in the digital realm, geometry as information and decoration, image calibration, and Aniconism in contemporary culture. Khan-Dossos studied History of Art at Cambridge University, Arabic at Kuwait University, Islamic Art at the Prince’s School of Traditional Art in London, and holds an MA in Fine Art from Chelsea College of Art & Design, London. In 2014/2015, she was a participant at the Van Eyck Academie in Maastricht (NL).
She has exhibited and worked with various institutions, including The Museum of Islamic Art (Doha), Witte de With (Rotterdam), The Delfina Foundation (London), The Library of Amiens (Amiens), Leighton House Museum (London), The Benaki Museum (Athens) and the A.M. Qattan Foundation (Ramallah). She has published work in The White Review and The Happy Hypocrite.

Georgia Krantz

Independent Accessibility Trainer and Consultant
U.S.A.

Georgia Krantz is an independent accessibility trainer and consultant. The bulk of her professional career has been spent in New York City where she works with museums and other cultural institutions to develop accommodations for people with disabilities. In education as well as all other departments, staff members learn how to re-evaluate their thinking and their practices with regards to creating greater inclusion. As a veteran educator, Georgia also specializes in teaching art to people who are blind or have low vision. And as an art historian, she has developed courses that explore relationships between art, sight and blindness.
Georgia currently works in education and accessibility at the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art and New York University, all in New York City, and the Portland Art Museum in Oregon. She worked for many years in education and access at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City. Other institutions where she has facilitated accessibility training and consulting include the Jewish Museum, Dia Art Foundation and Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, all in New York City; and the Oklahoma City Museum of Art in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas and the Benaki Museum in Athens, Greece. Georgia volunteered for 7 years as a Steering Committee Member of the Museum Access Consortium in New York City.

Maria Papadimitriou

Artist, Professor of
the University of Thessaly,
Department of Architecture
GR

Maria Papadimitriou is a Greek contemporary visual artist living and working between Athens and Volos, Greece. After graduating with an honours degree in painting from the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts (ENSBA), Paris, Papadimitriou began practicing as a visual artist in 1989. She uses the medium of sculpture, installation, public art, video and photography to realize her artworks.
In 2002 she represented Greece for the 25th edition of the São Paulo Biennial with the project T.A.M.A. (Temporary Autonomous Museum for All), an ongoing project still central to her artistic practice. She is the founder of the nonprofit organisation T.A.M.A. and the Art Canteen Souzy Tros. Since November 2016 she has been collaborating with the artist Rick Lowe in the organisation and development of Victoria Square Project. She is Professor of Visual Arts at the Department of Architecture of the University of Thessaly in Volos. Matters of identity, social integration and exclusion are the recurring issues in her work. Her work has been presented in numerous shows internationally. In 2003 she won the DESTE prize for contemporary Greek art and in 2016 she was awarded with the rank of “Officier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Academiques” by the French government.

Sarah Plumb

Research Associate,
Research Centre for Museums and Galleries,
University of Leicester
UK

Sarah Plumb is a Research Associate at the Research Centre for Museums and Galleries (RCMG) at the School of Museum Studies, University of Leicester, UK. RCMG’s focus is to develop research that stimulates new thinking and creative practice that enables cultural organisations to become more ambitious and impactful in nurturing more equitable and inclusive societies. Before joining the University of Leicester, Sarah worked as a museum and gallery educator for over twelve years, specialising in working with marginalised groups and individuals.

Matt Turtle and Jess Turtle

Co-Founders,
Museum of Homelessness
UK

Matt and Jess are the co-founders of the UK’s first Museum of Homelessness, which is being developed by people from all walks of life, including – and in particular – those who have been homeless. As well as developing the Museum of Homelessness (MoH), Jess works on the Policy and Programmes team at the Museums Association, running their Transformers programme for mid-career museum professionals who want to make radical change in their museum. Jess is also the Chair of Trustees for the Simon Community, a homelessness charity in London, and sits on Battersea Arts Centre’s heritage committee.
Matt currently works full-time on the MoH but has previously worked in programming and education roles for the Design Museum, Open House London, Crafts Council and the Royal Academy of Arts. He has an MA in Curating Contemporary Design.
They are visiting tutors at the University of Essex and Kings College, London.