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Worlding Public Cultures: The Arts and Social Innovation (WPC) aims to develop a critical art theory and practice-based approach to social innovation, which takes worlding as its central methodology. It is a collaborative research project and transnational platform, conceived by the Transnational and Transcultural Arts and Culture Exchange (TrACE) network, and funded by a Social Innovation Grant from the Trans-Atlantic Platform for the Social Sciences and Humanities. |
Through a series of gatherings, symposia, and events, WPC sought to
- Change public narratives about our globally interconnected yet conflicted world through art, exhibitions, conferences and (academic) writing about art and its cultural, historical and sociopolitical realities.
- Tell new stories from multiple regional perspectives about our transnational and trans-cultural entangled presents, and our shared and sometimes difficult pasts, which intends to imagine new ways of living together in the future.
- be an agent of social innovation that impacts how the global is theorized. Making concrete recommendations for the education and museum sectors, it will contribute to the creation of a more resilient society, with further elastic models of social cohesion through changes in public discourse.
WPC’s project outputs include
- an open-access publication series in partnership with ICI Berlin Press
- a website of baseline data in a “Worlding Database“
- two best/better practices (“white”) papers on pedagogy and on curating in the global context
Principle Investigators:
Lead investigator: Professor Paul Goodwin (University of the Arts London, United Kingdom)
Co-lead investigator: Professor Ming Tiampo (Carleton University, Canada)
Dr. Wayne Modest, (Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam)
Dr. Monica Juneja (Heidelberg University, Germany)
Dr. Alice Ming Wai Jim (Concordia University, Canada)
Dr. Birgit Hopfener (Carleton University, Canada)
Dr. Ruth Phillips (Carleton University, Canada)
Dr. Carmen Robertson (Carleton University, Canada)
Dr. Chiara De Cesari (University of Amsterdam)
Dr. Franziska Koch (Heidelberg University)
Dr. Toshio Watanabe (Sainsbury Institute, University of East Anglia, United Kingdom)
Dr. Analays Alvarez Hernandez (Université de Montréal, Canada)
Dr. Edith-Anne Pageot (UQAM, Canada)
Dr. May Chew (Concordia University, Canada)
Dr. Maya Rae Oppenheimer (Concordia University, Canada)
Museums and Institutional Collaborators:
Tate Modern (London)
National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa)
National Museum of World Cultures (Amsterdam)
Dresden Art Museum (Staatlichen Kunstsammlungen Dresden)
Institute of Cultural Inquiry (Berlin)