Museum Connections 2024

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Josephine CHANTER

DESIGN MUSEUM LONDON

Director of Audiences

Biography

Josephine Chanter enables audiences to access life enriching ideas. Beginning her career in public affairs, she has since worked at the National Gallery, Crafts Council and the Design Museum, being appointed to her current position of Director of Audiences at the Design Museum in 2017. She successfully launched the Design Museum in its new Kensington building which has since welcomed over 2 million visitors. With the Arts and Humanities Research Council she co-founded the Future Observatory the UKs ÂŁ20m hub for design research.

EVENTS

Find us at the following events:
Jan 16, 2024
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Climate empowerment & exhibitions: innovative audience engagement

Celia BACHMANN (STAPFERHAUS )Josephine CHANTER (DESIGN MUSEUM LONDON)Ronan DE LA CROIX (CHANGENOW)Sebastian MALL (REFLEKT / MUSEUM FĂśR KOMMUNIKATION FRANKFURT & BERLIN)
Description
Exhibitions dealing with the climate and environmental crises have become widespread in cultural and scientific venues, with the aim not only of spreading knowledge, but also of providing the keys to taking action. An increasing number of venues have set themselves the goal of helping to fight eco-anxiety and promoting climate empowerment. In this context, what are the new paradigms in audience engagement? On the one hand, there are exhibitions that base their approach on prior opinion polls on the climate and environmental crises; on the other, there are projects that incorporate the opinions and feelings of audiences into the exhibition itineraries themselves; and there are exhibitions that are born out of dialogue with their audiences, with participatory programming that supports climate mobilisation in very concrete ways. These are just some of the innovative and very relevant ways in which cultural venues can embody their responsibility in relation to these issues.
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