ISSUE THEME: ACTIVE DISRUPTION
Deadline: January 5, 2024
What new or revolutionary ideas can we bring about when we not only accept change as inevitable but actively pursue it in our institutions?
For the Fall 2024 issue of Exhibition, we seek articles that explore the many ways museum exhibitions are actively disrupting the status quo and harnessing change as a positive force, for staff and visitors alike. Although we recognize that the pandemic disrupted life and work in ways that we are still coming to terms with, for this issue we seek to explore forms of disruption that we instigate by choice in an effort to proactively shape the future of our field. Proposals for this issue might:
- Question business-as-usual approaches to exhibition-making by highlighting forward-thinking alternatives.
- Explore evolving roles and shifting relationships among staff, audiences, and community stakeholders in the creation of exhibitions.
- Propose new metrics for measuring an exhibition's impact.
- Address DEAI initiatives that have provoked real and ongoing changes.
- Reevaluate the purpose of exhibitions within institutions, communities, and our rapidly changing world.
- Examine staff- or community-led applications of AI or other technologies that have led to new approaches to content delivery or exhibition design.
- Look at transformative approaches to design and exhibition-making that are shaping the exhibitions of tomorrow.
Or…disrupt our assumptions and take this theme in another direction entirely.
To see the complete call and for instructions for submitting a proposal to our peer review process, go to:
https://www.aam-us.org/programs/exhibition-journal/call-for-papers/
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Jeanne Goswami
Consultant
Salem MA
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