Amateur museums are independent museums made as leisure projects outside professional frameworks. This paper attempts to distinguish museum making as a leisure activity from professional museums and from collecting and to broadly identify some implications arising from their relations as questions of interest for future research. To do so, I rely on Stebbins theory of serious leisure (1992) and on some literature on institutionalism, collecting and museology, specially Martin's research on popular collecting and its relation to professional museums (1999
Resumen | En el marco de la respuesta a la COVID-19, categorizada por la OMS como pandemia, el concepto de distanciamiento social se ha perfilado como clave en la gestión de esta bioemergencia. Este artículo discute el distanciamiento social desde una perspectiva sociológica, partiendo de los conceptos de proximidad y distancia de Simmel, Cantó-Milà y Sabido Ramos. Queremos mostrar los sentidos y dimensiones implícitos y explícitos otorgados a los conceptos de distancia y distanciamiento sociales durante los primeros meses de pandemia, así como su impacto en las relaciones, las interacciones y los vínculos. Abrimos una reflexión sobre el rol del encuadre de toda relación social entre distancias y proximidades, diferenciando analíticamente entre los conceptos de relación, interacción y vínculo.
Amateur museum making is museum practice (museography) performed as serious leisure. This article proposes an analytical approach to amateur museum making that understands it as a simultaneous practice of production and consumption of museography: this is as a use of museum practice or as the consumption of one’s own museographic activity. With this approach, I specifically attempt to detect how processes of naturalization of museographic conventions, and of empowerment through their amateur use, are intimately linked to the use of museography as a whole and not only to its production or to its consumption as separate processes. For this purpose, I propose an extension of De Certeau’s ideas of the production of consumption in The Practice of Everyday Life and the article presents on in-depth interviews with amateur museum makers and participant observation on three case studies: The Bread Museum (Catalonia, Spain), The House of Butterflies (Catalonia, Spain) and the Toy Museum (Antioquia, Colombia).
Este número de Inmaterial, diseño, arte y sociedad se fija en las responsabilidades y compromisos ante la gran variedad de residuos y deshechos que generamos, así como en las posibilidades materiales, estratégicas, conceptuales y creativas que estos suponen para la investigación en arte y en diseño. El número reúne también tres artículos de la sección Miscelánea.
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