A Stitch in Time: A pilot study between Deakin University and the National Wool Museum.
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posted on 2024-06-03, 00:57 authored by Julianne MossJulianne Moss, Eve MayesEve Mayes, Merinda KellyMerinda Kelly, Trevor Mccandless, Harsha ChandirSince 2018 we have been building a partnership with the National Wool Museum to research relations between educational and cultural institutions. We ask how these could potentially be reimagined through the enactment of sustainable, decolonizing pedagogies and engagement strategies which support more equitable futures for young people and their kin in a de/re/industrializing city.
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Background Since 2018 our team has been building a strong, generative partnership with the National Wool Museum to research relations between educational and cultural institutions. In this project we investigated how these relationships could potentially be reimagined through the enactment of sustainable, decolonizing pedagogies and engagement strategies which support more equitable futures for young people and their kin in the de/re/industrializing city of Geelong. While delayed due to Covid-19, our report, 'Stitch in Time' led to a commission informed by this research for the forthcoming Hands-on Heritage Learning and Engagement Program to be studied in 2023-24. Contribution This pilot study provided learning, engagement and curatorial staff and other stakeholders at the NWM with new knowledge and understandings regarding the impacts and affordances of their spaces, collections, exhibitions and activities for young people in the Stich in Time Program. While this project extended knowledge and understandings of the role that wool has played in the history of the city, our analysis of the NWM highlighted new, research-informed pedagogical knowledge and opportunities for the museum as it strives to story Geelong as a vibrant and sustainable de/re/industrializing city with many tales and stories to tell as well as the Wool Story. Significance This research is significantly informed and scaffolded by my initial inclusion in the Iconic Industries Exhibition at the NWM in 2017, my participatory art activation in the Museum the resulting Iconic Industries book. Prior peer-reviewed traditional research and non-traditional research outcomes concerning change, transition and de-re-industrialization in the Geelong region has led to further professional requests from the NWM and other institutions to develop and research engagement and learning programs and pedagogies. (See relevant DRO's and NTRO's). This research has also informed my recent conference presentations at the INSEA World Congress, Türkiye.Publisher
Deakin University for National Wool MuseumPlace of publication
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