{"id":630,"date":"2018-08-21T16:52:13","date_gmt":"2018-08-21T20:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/ctca\/?page_id=630"},"modified":"2026-02-22T17:13:50","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T22:13:50","slug":"worlding-public-cultures","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/ctca\/partnerships-special-projects\/trace\/worlding-public-cultures\/","title":{"rendered":"Worlding Public Cultures"},"content":{"rendered":"<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%; height: 24px;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"height: 24px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 24.5119%; height: 24px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1505\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/ctca\/wp-content\/uploads\/WPC_logo_vector_black.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"195\" height=\"90\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/ctca\/wp-content\/uploads\/WPC_logo_vector_black.jpg 195w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/ctca\/wp-content\/uploads\/WPC_logo_vector_black-160x74.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 195px) 100vw, 195px\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 75.4881%; height: 24px;\">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 <strong><em>worlding<\/em><\/strong> 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.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Through a series of <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/ctca\/events\/worlding-public-cultures-events\/\">gatherings, symposia, and events<\/a>, WPC sought to<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>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.<\/li>\n<li>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.<\/li>\n<li>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.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>WPC&#8217;s project outputs include<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>an open-access <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/ctca\/worlding-public-cultures-publication-series-x-ici-berlin-press\/\">publication series<\/a> in partnership with ICI Berlin Press<\/li>\n<li>a website of baseline data in a &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldingcultures.org\/wpc-db\">Worlding Database<\/a>&#8220;<\/li>\n<li>two best\/better practices (&#8220;white&#8221;) papers on pedagogy and on curating in the global context<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Principle Investigators:<br \/>\n<\/span><strong>Lead investigator<\/strong>: Professor Paul Goodwin (University of the Arts London, United Kingdom)<br \/>\n<strong>Co-lead investigator<\/strong>: Professor Ming Tiampo (Carleton University, Canada)<br \/>\nDr. Wayne Modest, (Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam)<br \/>\nDr. Monica Juneja (Heidelberg University, Germany)<br \/>\nDr. Alice Ming Wai Jim (Concordia University, Canada)<br \/>\nDr. Birgit Hopfener (Carleton University, Canada)<br \/>\nDr. Ruth Phillips (Carleton University, Canada)<br \/>\nDr. Carmen Robertson (Carleton University, Canada)<br \/>\nDr. Chiara De Cesari (University of Amsterdam)<br \/>\nDr. Franziska Koch (Heidelberg University)<br \/>\nDr. Toshio Watanabe (Sainsbury Institute, University of East Anglia, United Kingdom)<br \/>\nDr. Analays Alvarez Hernandez (Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al, Canada)<br \/>\nDr. Edith-Anne Pageot (UQAM, Canada)<br \/>\nDr. May Chew (Concordia University, Canada)<br \/>\nDr. Maya Rae Oppenheimer (Concordia University, Canada)<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Museums and Institutional Collaborators:<br \/>\n<\/span>Tate Modern (London)<br \/>\nNational Gallery of Canada (Ottawa)<br \/>\nNational Museum of World Cultures (Amsterdam)<br \/>\nDresden Art Museum (Staatlichen Kunstsammlungen Dresden)<br \/>\nInstitute of Cultural Inquiry (Berlin)<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. 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