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ngaireblankenberg
- Nov 29, 2018
- 3 min
Actually... I'd rather talk about Whiteness.
The cultural sector in Europe (and elsewhere) is overwhelmingly white yet it is trendy/prudent these days to talk of diversity. Let's rather speak more about whiteness, white privilege, white supremacy, the construction of whiteness, historically and today. Once we have grappled with why white people continue to rule the (cultural) world in the 'west', despite fast changing audiences and increasingly diverse graduates, then, we will be ready to do something about it- for rea
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Ngaire Blankenberg
- Jun 12, 2018
- 3 min
A New Language of Science Engagement
Is our current language of science engagement up to the challenges of the future? ‘It is not a foregone conclusion that in 50 years, science centres will still exist. We are not immune to the forces of business disruption’. The warning came from Maurice Bitran, CEO of the Ontario Science Centre in one of the last sessions of last week’s ECSITE annual conference (Europe’s Science Communication Conference). I asked the panel of directors from some of the most established scienc
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ngaireblankenberg
- Mar 20, 2018
- 3 min
Creativity Dies in Captivity
Clients: there is a time for intense collaboration, and then there is a time to let go... For the most part, the more diverse voices in a workshop, the better the concepts. To a point. A common pitfall I see, is when clients (project managers, or curators or directors), fearful of going down the 'wrong' path, cling so tightly to a project, that the professionals hired on the basis of their creativity and experience, wilt... and so do their ideas. So as a client, how can you k
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