1st Edition

Collaboration and Co-Creation in Museums, Heritage, and the Arts

Edited By Anna Edmundson, Maya Haviland Copyright 2025
350 Pages 23 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

350 Pages 23 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

350 Pages 23 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Collaboration and Co-Creation in Museums, Heritage, and the Arts examines collaborative practices in museums, heritage and the arts. It offers an interdisciplinary approach combining both practical and theoretical perspectives from leading scholars and practitioners to better understand and support co-creation and collaboration in the cultural sector. The volume is divided into five parts,... Read more

Acknowledgements

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Acknowledgements

List of contributors

Towards Shared Ground: Collaboration and Co-Creation in Museums, Heritage and the Arts

Anna Edmundson and Maya Haviland

 

PART 1 The Politics of Engagement

1. Community Consultation to Co-Creation: A History of Talking Past Each Other?

Laurajane Smith

 

2. Context Is Everything: Museums and the Politics of Collaboration 

Kylie Message  

 

3. Socially Engaged Art Within and Beyond the Museum 

 Grant Kester 

 

PART 2 Decolonising, Indigenising and Non-colonial Interventions

4. Seeding Authority: A Conversation on Museum Decolonisation in Hawaiʻi and Beyond 

 Halena Kapuni-Reynolds, Noelle MKY Kahanu, Karen KosasaAmy Lonetree, and Ben Garcia 

 

5. Non-Colonial Indigenous Creative Action in Heritage Museums 

 David Garneau 

 

6. Collaboration as a Relational Process: Co-Creating Relationships and Making Connections 

Christina Kreps 

 

7. Nuyayanlh, Learning How to Heal with Heritage  

 Jennifer Kramer, Emily Jean Leischner, Snxakila Clyde Tallio 

 

8. Gulahallat – Discussing Community-Based Co-Acting, Co-Knowing and Co-Thinking among Sámi Research, Museum and Art. 

Sanna Valkonen, Áile Aikio, Sigga-Marja Magga, Saara Alakorva and Stina Aletta Aikio  

 

PART 3 Revitalisation and Return

9. Songlines Singing the Museum 

 Diana James 

 

10. Co-Creation as relational relay: Reflections on Navigating Across Protocol, Translation, Time and Space.  

 Maya Haviland 

 

11. Digital Returns in the Archival Multiverse  

Anna Edmundson  

 

12. From Co-Creation to Empowerment: Documenting the Genesis Myth in the Creation Ritual Poetry of the Indigenous Lotud People in Sabah, East Malaysia  

Yunci Cai and Judeth John Baptist 

 

PART 4 Brokering Engagement

13. In the Way to Become Civic Museums 

Almudena Caso 

 

14.  ‘The Tikar Not the Table’: Community, Collaboration and Co-creativity in Contemporary Southeast Asian Art  

Michelle Antoinette 

15. You Can’t Always Collaborate Your Way Out!: Reflections on the Ghetto Biennale 

Leah Gordon 

 

16. Co-Creating Site-Specific Performances for Social Change – Reflections from Participatory Art Experiences in Vanuatu and Senegal

Marilena Crosato 

 

PART 5 Scaffolding Co-Creation

17. Engaging Young People in Heritage Contexts: Design-Led Approaches to Support Collaborative Participation Within the Cultural Sector 

Marianne McAra and Lynn-Sayers McHattie 

 

18. Dimensions of Curation Competing Values Model: A Gestation Story from Theory Development to Practice in Collaboration with Professional Communities 

Ann Rowson Love and Pat Villeneuve  

 

19. Intangible Cultural Heritage as Co-creation: Challenges, Pathways and Conditions 

Yujie Zhu and Junmin Liu 

 

20. Co-creating Heritage Safeguarding and Marketing Strategies with Communities in West Bengal, India: Experiences from the HIPAMS project  

Harriet Deacon, Diego Rinallo, Niloy Basu, Ananya Bhattacharya, Siddhartha Chakraborty, Rajat Nath, Kavya Ramalingham, Anindita Patra, June Taboroff, Benedetta Ubertazzi, and Charlotte Waelde 

 

21. Emotions in Collaborative Museum Practice

Marzia Varutti

 

Index

 

Biography

Anna Edmundson is Curator, Public Programs, Access & Engagement at the National Archives of Australia (NAA) and an Honorary Lecturer in the Centre for Heritage and Museum Studies at the Australian National University (ANU).

Maya Haviland is Translational Fellow and Senior Lecturer in the Centre for Heritage and Museum Studies in the College of Arts and Social Sciences at the ANU.