with museum professionals and volunteers and any other staff member of the museum (artists, guides, guards) Hint: To achieve these aims try to set up a partnership with a local museum. If you have the chance to work with museum professionals or art mediators it will be easier to gain a sensibility to the subject and the questions raised. If you are working in a museum, try to find an organisation that works with local sor with target groups you would like to see entering to your institution. This way both of the sides will have an increased awareness of existing best practices elsewhere, gaining inspiration and a willingness to adopt such practices in the local context. Finally you can exchange techniques on how to reach out for new audiences, how to make the institution more receptive as well as invite new audience to TAKE PART in the institutional context. Diversity from two angles We started this chapter by saying that we wanted to show diversity from different angles, see a possible definition of it: let’s from the field of biology, where it refers to the degree of variation of life forms “Taken within an ecosystem the concept of to the social world denotes the ‘diversity’ applied plurality of ethnic, religious, age, gender, functional references i.e. cultural references in a – wide sense. Diversity is often used in a normative context, which calls for a need of tolerance and promotion of this plurality. In both biological and social context diversity can be claimed as necessary for the system. We all belong to different groups defined by ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, age; physical abilities, religious beliefs, political beliefs, or other ideologies, but none of these groups define us. We are all individual and Artemisszió Foundation) unique.” (Diana Szántó, In accordance to the definition of being unique and diverse we wanted to reflect this reality in spaces of the city and in the museum. With the aim of raising consciousness of cultural
with museum professionals and volunteers and any other staff member of the museum (artists, guides, guards) Hint: To achieve these aims try to set up a partnership with a local museum. If you have the chance to work with museum professionals or art mediators it will be easier to gain a sensibility to the subject and the questions raised. If you are working in a museum, try to find an organisation that works with local sor with target groups you would like to see entering to your institution. This way both of the sides will have an increased awareness of existing best practices elsewhere, gaining inspiration and a willingness to adopt such practices in the local context. Finally you can exchange techniques on how to reach out for new audiences, how to make the institution more receptive as well as invite new audience to TAKE PART in the institutional context. Diversity from two angles We started this chapter by saying that we wanted to show diversity from different angles, let’s see a possible definition of it: “Taken from the field of biology, where it refers to the degree of variation of life forms within an ecosystem the concept of ‘diversity’ applied to the social world denotes the plurality of ethnic, religious, age, gender, functional references – i.e. cultural references in a wide sense. Diversity is often used in a normative context, which calls for a need of tolerance and promotion of this plurality. In both biological and social context diversity can be claimed as necessary for the system. We all belong to different groups defined by ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, age; physical abilities, religious beliefs, political beliefs, or other ideologies, but none of these groups define us. We are all individual and unique.” (Diana Szántó, Artemisszió Foundation) In accordance to the definition of being unique and diverse we wanted to reflect this reality in spaces of the city and in the museum. With the aim of raising consciousness of cultural