In 2015 the United Nations drafted the document Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development , identifying seventeen sustainable development goals. Starting from these points, Friday 31 March 2023 from 10.00 am, LOVE US – Association of Italian Contemporary Art Museums presents Contemporary art museums and sustainable development: a necessary practice, an online study day edited by Marcella Beccaria, Vice President of AMACI and Deputy Director, Chief Curator and Curator of the Collections of the Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art, dedicated to the role of museums and cultural institutions in achieving more sustainable global development.
The Study Day will be led by Henry McGhie , author of numerous publications and founder of the museum consultancy firm Curating Tomorrow, which works to enable museums and cultural institutions to contribute to sustainable development programmes. People, Planet, Prosperity, Partnership, Peace will be the themes addressed, directly inspired by the United Nations Agenda.
“Contemporary art museums – argues Henry McGhie – are well placed to support this effort, to critique the past and to combine creative activity and imagination with a concern for our shared future. To do this, museums and those who work in them also need to be made responsible, and this is what I hope we can achieve, together, in this study day.”
Together with McGhie, important professionals and representatives of the AMACI network will tell examples of museum practices currently underway, aimed at sustainable development.
Friday 31 March 2023 will be Lorenzo Balbi, President of AMACI, Director of MAMbo, Fabio De Chirico, Director of Service II – Contemporary Art and Service V – Photography of the General Directorate for Contemporary Creativity of the Ministry of Culture and Marcella Beccaria, Vice President of AMACI, to open the proceedings with institutional greetings, followed by five sessions dedicated to specific themes which will offer the possibility of direct dialogue between institutions, operators in the cultural and public sector.
Henry McGhie founded Curating Tomorrow to help museums and their partners improve their contribution to sustainable development agendas, including the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), biodiversity conservation, climate action, human rights and disaster risk reduction . He writes a number of open access guides on these topics, including Museums and the Sustainable Development Goals (2019). He has always had a passion for nature and has worked in and with museums for thirty years, with an interest in using museums “to the fullest”. It has helped to build partnerships between researchers, museums and policy makers and to incorporate museums into UN agendas and events. He is a member of the Sustainability Working Group established by ICOM in 2018 and, within the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), member of the Commission on Education and Communication (CEC). He was involved in the recognition of museums as key sites for climate change education and action in the 2021 work program for the Paris Agreement. He is interested in working with museums, museum networks and their partners who want to embrace sustainable development as a principle for their contribution to society.
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The initiative will be held on Friday 31 March, starting at 10 am. Participation is free after registering at this link , while places last, by Wednesday 29 March 2023. The link for participation will be sent by Thursday 30 March exclusively to registered people. Simultaneous translation will be guaranteed throughout the day in both Italian and English. For further information write to info@amaci.org.
