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MeLa Publications

The MeLa editorial activity promotes the widespread use of the advancement of knowledge produced by the Project. Special policies have been agreed by the Consortium Partners in order to guarantee a high open access level to all Project products, and in particular to make publications readable and downloadable.
In this page, you can find a selection of MeLa related documents, and the articles, papers and books produced by the Consortium members within the MeLa Project, which will be available free of charge whenever possible and, in any case, at least in their executive summary.

These works are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License.

 

The MeLa*Books Series

 

>> Access the series of open-access digital publications which report the main findings ensued from the research activities developed by the different MeLa Research Fields.

 


   


  • Museums in an Age of Migrations

    Basso Peressut, Luca, and Clelia Pozzi, eds. 2012. Museums in an Age of Migrations. Milan: Politecnico di Milano, Dipartimento di Progettazione dell'Architettura.

    This volume collects a series of essays that offer a starting point for the MeLa Project, reflecting on the role of museums and heritage in relation to the contemporary global and multicultural world. International scholars and researchers interrogate themselves on issues of history, memory, identity and citizenship, and explore their effects on the organization, functioning, communication strategies, exhibition design and architecture of museums. With contributions by: Jamie Allen, Kirsti Andersen, Peter Aronsson, Luca Basso Peressut, Iain Chambers, Mela Dávila Freire, Gordon J. Fyfe, David Gauthier, Perla Innocenti, Francesca Lanz, Rhiannon Mason, Mark Nash, Massimo Negri, Giovanni Pinna, Gennaro Postiglione, Sreten Ugričić, Michel Van Praët, and Chris Whitehead.

    Museums in an Age of Migrations Luca Basso Peressut, Clelia Pozzi - Books - March 2012 Fd06 Document more
  • MeLa Newsletter #04

    The MeLa Staff is pleased to launch the new issue of the MeLa Newsletter, providing updated news about the Project, its outcomes, events and publications, and briefly introducing the nine Project Partners. Don't miss in this issue: ‘Insights from Copenhagen’: a report on the General Meeting of the MeLa Partners in Copenhagen through the words of some of the scholars and museum operators who actively participated to the Seminar; ‘Reports from the MeLa Brainstorming Events’: a presentation of the Research Fields 01, 02 and 03 Workshops by Chris Whitehead, Perla Innocenti and Mariangela Orabona; ‘Beyond Modernity. Do Ethnographic Museums Need Ethnography?’: an insight on the RIME conference by Giulia Grechi; MeLa forthcoming events.

    MeLa Newsletter #04 MeLa Newsletter - Document - July 2012 Fd07 Document more
  • Crossing Borders. Connecting European Identities in Museums and Online

    Simon Knell et al., eds. 2012. Crossing Borders. Connecting European Identities in Museums and Online. Linköping: Linköping University Electronic Press.

    Eunamus second open access report is now online. This report presents key findings of research undertaken by the EuNaMus consortium in its attempts to understand the ‘museology of Europe’. This notion is used here to describe activities which are peculiar to museums and which result from the manner in which museums assemble and deploy objects. This research investigated the ways in which captial cities, national art museums, online museum-like spaces, and national, regional and local museums produce opportunities for connecting identities.

    Crossing Borders. Connecting European Identities in Museums and Online Simon Knell, Bodil Axelsson, Lill Eilertsen, Eleni Myrivili, Ilaria Porciani, Andrew Sawyer and Sheila Watson - Books - April 2012 Document more
  • RF01 Brainstorming: Museums, Migrations and Identities

    The document illustrates the research advancement produced within the Research Field 01, presented during the RF01 Brainstorming that was held at the University of Newcastle on 20th April 2012.

    RF01 Brainstorming: Museums, Migrations and Identities Chris Whitehead, Rhiannon Mason, Susannah Eckersley - Presentation - April 2012 Fd01 Document more
  • MeLa Newsletter #03

    The MeLa Staff is pleased to launch the new issue of the MeLa Newsletter, providing updated news about the Project, its outcomes, events and publications, and briefly introducing the nine Project Partners. Don't miss in this issue: 'The Postnational Museum': an insight from a keynote presentation; 'Questioning the Development of European Identity/Identities': a report from the European Commission Conference; 'The First MeLa Brainstorming': an introduction to the Mela event in Naples; 'The Invention of the Savage': a personal view of the exhibition; MeLa forthcoming events.

    MeLa Newsletter #03 MeLa Newsletter - Document - March 2012 Fd07 Document more
  • MeLa* 2012 Calendar

    The MeLa* Project is organizing a series of events aimed at deppening the knowledge inthe Project Reserach Fields. Check the calendar below recording the fortcoming scheduled events and find out more on each Research Field webpage and blog.

    MeLa* 2012 Calendar MeLa* - Document - July 2012 Document more
  • MeLa Bibliography January 2012

    This bibliography is intended as a general overview of the printed books on museums topics published in English, French, German, Spanish and Italian in Europe and the United States over the last twenty years or so.

    The chosen period (1992-2012) is only apparently arbitrary, since this is the period of major output of studies and research in the rapidly changing contemporary museum field.
    This bibliography, even though widely comprehensive, is necessarily and intentionally selected and represents a significant frame of reference for the whole disciplinary body of museum studies, museology, museography, museum architecture and exhibition design. What is missing are the essays published in books which are not strictly related to museums, magazines and on the web (a different kind of documentation indeed), and a section dedicated to museums' technicalities and management (this will be added in a further version of the reference). Inside the sections the books are listed by publication date (from old to new) and documented with an image of the cover, a brief description taken from different sources - back covers, publishers' presentations, introduction texts - and the table of contents.

    The bibliography represents a background of information shared by all the project's partners and aims to be a useful point of departure for going further in depth in the different fields of MeLa research.

    MeLa Bibliography January 2012 MeLa Working Document - Document - January 2012 Fd06 Document more
  • Current Issues in European Cultural Studies. Conference proceedings.

    Fredriksson, Martin (ed.). 2011. Current Issues in European Cultural Studies June 15–17, Norrköping, Sweden 2011. Linköping: Linköping University Electronic Press.

    We are very happy to announce that  the proceedings from the conference Current Issues in European Cultural Studies, held in Norrköping in June, are now published at Linköping University Electronic Press

    Current Issues in European Cultural Studies. Conference proceedings. Fredriksson Martin - Books - November 2011 Document more
  • MeLa Newsletter #02

    The MeLa Staff is pleased to launch the new issue of the MeLa Newsletter. The MeLa Newsletter provides an update every four months about the Project, its outcomes, events and publications and will briefly introduce the nine Project Partners. Don't miss in this issue: 'Post note to a thought-provoking exhibition' 'MeLa in Barcelona': research meeting report 'The history of migration in museums': conference report 'Mistaken identity?': a personal view of the conference The Museum 2011 MeLa forthcoming events

    MeLa Newsletter #02 MeLa Newsletter - Document - December 2011 Fd07 Document more
  • «Vibrations» & «Ordre Compliqué» - Due strategie per immaginare il museo postcoloniale

    This paper will be published in Estetica - Studi e Ricerche “Il Museo Postcoloniale”, edited by Lidia Curti (coming spring 2012).

    Museum and libraries have undergone profound transformation processes in the last decades. From heralds of national identities and monophonic narratives, they have been turned into supporters of new pluralistic civic communities, capable of answering both to the ever-changing needs of the population and the hunger for «multiplicity» of today’s transnational culture. The paper introduces some remarks on the situation, moving from a shared theoretical panorama and focusing on three key interrelated concepts – migrations, vibrations, multiplicity - with the purpose of defining forms and strategies for the conservation, exhibition and transmission of trans-cultural knowledge. This structure represents a first operative approach undertaken by the research group of Politecnico di Milano within the general framework of the European project MeLA (www.mela-project.eu) – a project that reflects on the future role of museums in the contemporary society.

    «Vibrations» & «Ordre Compliqué» - Due strategie per immaginare il museo postcoloniale Parati Margherita, Postiglione Gennaro, Pozzi Clelia - Document - October 2011 Document more
  • Building National Museums in Europe 1750–2010. Conference proceedings from EuNaMus

    Aronsson, Peter, and Gabriella Elgenius (eds.). 2011. Building National Museums in Europe 1750–2010: Conference Proceedings from EuNaMus, European National Museums: Identity Politics, the Uses of the Past and the European Citizen, Bologna 28–30 April, 2011. Linköping: Linköping University Electronic Press.

    EuNaMus is proud to present the first comprehensive overview over national museums in Europe: the proceedings from the EuNaMus conference held in Bologna (30 March - 1 April 2011).

    This publication is the first in a series of open access reports from EuNaMus.

    Building National Museums in Europe 1750–2010. Conference proceedings from EuNaMus Aronsson Peter, Elgenius Gabriella - Books - October 2011 Document more
  • Exhibiting Europe

    Krankenhagen, Stefan (ed). 2011. "Thematic Section: Exhibiting Europe." Culture Unbound: Journal of Current Cultural Research 3: 269-400.

    A thematic section including the papers given in Oslo during the conference "Exhibiting Europe. The Development of European narratives in museums, collections, and exhibitions" is now published in the peer-reviewd journal Culture Unbound.

    Essays:
    1. Stefan Krankenhagen | Exhibiting Europe: The Development of European Narratives in Museums, Collections, and Exhibitions
    2. Torgeir Rinke Bangstad | Routes of Industrial Heritage: On the Animation of Sedentary Objects
    3. Alexander Badenoch |Harmonized Spaces, Dissonant Objects, Inventing Europe? Mobilizing Digital Heritage
    4. Nanna Thylstrup | The Digital Dimension of European Cultural Politics: Index, Intellectual Property and Internet Governance
    5. Kerstin Poehls | Europe Blurred: Migration, Margins and the Museum
    6. Ljiljana Radonic | Croatia – Exhibiting Memory and History at the ‘Shores of Europe’
    7. Steffi de Jong | Is This Us? The Construction of European Woman/Man in the Exhibition It’s our History!
    8. Wolfram Kaiser | From Great Men to Ordinary Citizens? The Biographical Approach to Narrating European Integration in Museums

    Exhibiting Europe Krankenhagen Stefan - Essays - October 2011 Document more
  • MeLa Newsletter #01

    The MeLa Staff is pleased to launch this first issue of the MeLa Newsletter.
    The MeLa Newsletter will provide an update every four months about the Project, its outcomes, events and publications and will briefly introduce the nine Project Partners. Moreover each issue and a monthly bulletin will present other relevant activities and events related to MeLa research topics which are going on in the wider European research community such as call for papers, book presentations, exhibition reviews or other research project descriptions.

    MeLa Newsletter #01 MeLa Newsletter - Document - July 2011 Fd07 Document more
  • Open Call for Proposals_MACBA Study Center

    Open Call for Proposals. Redefinition of the Lobby of Macba Study Center.
    The role fulfilled by the Study Center’s ground floor, a “friction zone” which shares features with museum exhibition areas, library reading rooms and event spaces, is currently in the process of being redefined.
    This Open Call aims to gather ideas for the drafting of a new space pattern, yet undefined in a standardized form. We aim to do this with the help of specialists –architects— who will be able to approach the project from new perspectives, and will hopefully be not biased by traditional Museology in the task of giving physical shape to the uses and requirements that we have drafted on paper.
    All the information about the Call, its programme, objectives and rules are settled out in this document.

    Table of Contents
    1. Context: The MeLa Research Project
    2. Technical Requirements
    3. The MACBA Study Center. Structure and Staff, Building 4. Starting Point: The Lobby as an Exhibition Area
    5. Redefinition of Uses for the Lobby
    6. Desired Physical Features for the New Space
    7. Some Examples of Possible New Uses for the Lobby
    8. Similar Spaces Operating in other Institutions
    9. Some Examples for Creative or Interesting Settings, Furniture Pieces, et al.
    10. Annexes: Elevation and Floor Plans
    11. Some Photos of Study Center Building, Surroundings and Exhibitions Presented to Date

    Open Call for Proposals_MACBA Study Center MACBA - Document - June 2011 Fd06 Document more