How do modern and contemporary art museums act to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals?
Abstract:
This webinar explored the findings from the CIMAM 2022 survey, How do Modern and Contemporary Art Museums Act to Achieve the Sustainable Development Goals?, conducted among museums of modern and contemporary art museum professionals and curators worldwide on how museums operate in diverse cultural and socio-economic contexts to respond to the SDGs 2030 Agenda.
Watch the webinar here
Invited Speakers:
- Caitlin Southwick, Director of Ki Culture, Secretary of ICOM Sustainability Group, and CEO and Founder of Sustainability in Conservation, London, United Kingdom, provided insight and conclusions from the survey on the social aspects of sustainability.
- Henry McGhie, Founder, Curating Tomorrow, Liverpool, United Kingdom, shared his assessments of progress being made toward environmental goals.
- Martin Müller, Professor in the Department of Geography and Sustainability, University of Lausanne, Switzerland, gave his critical view on the evolution toward greener economies of the museums surveyed.
- Anthony Kiendl, CEO and Director of the Vancouver Art Gallery in Vancouver presented Canada's first passive museum.
Moderated by Louisa Buck, Writer and broadcaster on contemporary art, London, United Kingdom, and with the collaboration of Malgorzata Ludwisiak, Artistic Director of the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw and CIMAM Board member.
Also, we’d like to share with you some materials of your interest that were presented during yesterday's session:
- ICOM’s International Museum Day 2023 interactive map, addressed by Laetitia Conort, at the session
- Martin Müller’s article: The sustainability star: a model for museums
- CIMAM’s Toolkit on Environmental Sustainability in the Museum Practice
- References provided by Hanry McGhie:
McGhie, H. A., Black, T., Indriago, G., Kapustina, C. and J. Chu (2022). Measuring and Reporting Greenhouse Gas Emissions: an introduction for museums and cultural institutions. Curating Tomorrow and Co2Action. Curating Tomorrow, UK. https://curatingtomorrow236646048.files.wordpress.com/2022/10/measuring-reporting-greenhouse-gas-emissions-2022.pdf
McGhie, H.A. (2022). Action for Climate Empowerment: a guide for galleries, libraries, archives and museums. https://curatingtomorrow236646048.files.wordpress.com/2022/03/action-for-climate-empowerment-curating-tomorrow-2022.pdf
McGhie, H.A. (2022). Understanding the Sustainable Development Goals, a guide for galleries, libraries, archives and museums https://curatingtomorrow236646048.files.wordpress.com/2022/08/understanding-the-sdgs-curating-tomorrow-2022-2.pdf
McGhie, H.A., Harrison, R. and C. Sterling (2022). Reimagining and Mobilising Museums for Climate Action. ICOM Voices https://icom.museum/en/news/reimagining-and-mobilising-museums-for-climate-action/
McGhie, H.A. (2021). Mobilising Museums for Climate Action. Toolkit – Museums for Climate Action
McGhie, H.A. (2021). Mainstreaming the Sustainable Development Goals in Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums
McGhie, H.A. (2020). The Sustainable Development Goals: Helping Transform our World Through Museums. ICOM Voices https://icom.museum/en/news/the-sustainable-development-goals-helping-transform-our-world-through-museums/
McGhie, H.A. (2020). Museums and Human Rights: human rights as a basis for public service
https://curatingtomorrow236646048.files.wordpress.com/2022/03/museums-and-human-rights2-2020.pdf
McGhie, H.A. (2020). Museums and Disaster Risk Reduction
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McGhie, H.A., Mander, S.A. and A. Minns (2020). The Time Machine: challenging perceptions of time and place to enhance climate change engagement through museums. Museum and Society 18(2): 183-97. Available on Long Now Foundation website https://longnow.org/ideas/the-time-machine/
McGhie, H.A. (2019). Museums and the Sustainable Development Goals
McGhie, H.A. (2019). Museum Collections and Biodiversity Conservation https://curatingtomorrow236646048.files.wordpress.com/2019/08/museum-collections-and-biodiversity-conservation-2019.pdf
McGhie, H.A. (2019). Climate Change Engagement: A Different Narrative. In Addressing the Challenges in Communicating Climate Change Across Various Audiences (pp.13-29) https://www.researchgate.net/publication/328050246_Climate_Change_Engagement_A_Different_Narrative
McGhie, H.A., Mander, S.A. and R. Underhill (2018). Engaging People With Climate Change Through Museums. In book: Handbook of Climate Change Communication: Vol. 3 (pp.329-348) https://www.researchgate.net/publication/322367606_Engaging_People_with_Climate_Change_Through_Museums
ICOM Sustainability page https://icom.museum/en/research/sustainability-and-local-development/
(open access book), Dal Santo, R., Borrelli, N. and P. Davis (2023). Ecomuseums and Climate Change. https://www.ledipublishing.com/book/9788855268387/ecomuseums-and-climate-change/
ICCROM Our Collections Matter initiative https://www.iccrom.org/programmes/our-collections-matter
ICCROM Our Collections Matter Toolkit (300+ tools linked to SDGs for collections-based institutions) https://ocm.iccrom.org/
Reimagining Museums for Climate Action (AHRC-funded project for COP26) https://www.museumsforclimateaction.org/
NEMO (2023). Museums in the Climate Crisis: Survey results and recommendations for the sustainable transition of Europe. https://www.ne-mo.org/fileadmin/Dateien/public/Publications/NEMO_Report_Museums_in_the_climate_crisis_11.2022.pdf
Harrison, R. and C. Sterling (eds.)(2021). Reimagining Museums for Climate Action. (open access book) https://www.museumsforclimateaction.org/mobilise/book