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Curating Emotions: Exploring emotional competence in curatorial practice

Descripción del proyecto

Los sentimientos importan en el museo

La exposición ideal en un museo es aquella que capta la atención del visitante y despierta en él una emoción, ya sea de nostalgia o de esperanza. El formato y los contenidos de una exposición crean narrativas que fomentan sentimientos como la empatía, la resiliencia y la apertura. Sin embargo, se sabe poco sobre el papel de las emociones en el trabajo de conservación o en la explicación de los conocimientos y las capacidades necesarios. Para colmar esta brecha del conocimiento, el proyecto financiado con fondos europeos MusE llevará a cabo un estudio pionero sobre las emociones en las labores de conservación. Realizará una investigación interdisciplinar e intersectorial que combinará humanidades, ciencias afectivas y colaboraciones con museos y el mundo académico para elaborar un nuevo concepto de competencia emocional en los trabajos de conservación.

Objetivo

Museums are sites of emotional engagement: what is represented in an exhibition (and how) may influence what visitors will know, think, remember and do – as a consequence of what they felt. This is particularly evident in the current context of global crises, which have brought museums to deal to an unprecedented extent with situations and topics that engender a range of emotional responses, from anxiety to fear, despair, nostalgia, empathy and hope.
As new responsibilities and expectations are now placed on museums, curatorial teams are rapidly adapting the content and form of exhibitions: exhibition narratives explicitly invoke vulnerability, resilience and empathy, and offer to help us navigate through the emotional volatility and uncertainty of our times.
Yet, whilst we know that exhibitions affect us, virtually no scholarly attention has been paid to emotions in curatorial work. The project then asks: What is the place and role of emotions in curatorial work? How is engagement with emotions impacting on curatorial work and related skills and knowledge?
The main aim of this MSCA fellowship is to engage in cross-disciplinary (humanities-affective sciences) and cross-sectoral (academia-museum) collaborative research on emotions in museums. This will be the first study investigating emotions in curatorial practice; it will develop a new concept – emotional competence in curatorial work – and pioneer a novel methodology combining methods in museum studies, psychology and linguistics, with a tight collaboration with museum professionals.
I will be based at the Swiss Center for Affective Sciences (CISA), University of Geneva - the world's first research centre dedicated to the interdisciplinary study of emotions and their effects on human behaviour and society. At CISA, I will acquire essential training in the affective sciences (on theoretical and methodological approaches to the study of emotions) and apply this new knowledge and skills to the project.

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Coordinador

UNIVERSITE DE GENEVE
Aportación neta de la UEn
€ 203 149,44
Dirección
RUE DU GENERAL DUFOUR 24
1211 Geneve
Suiza

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Región
Schweiz/Suisse/Svizzera Région lémanique Genève
Tipo de actividad
Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
Enlaces
Coste total
€ 203 149,44