Conference Programme
Conference Opening Night
Monday 18 October - 18.00 CET onwards
Spazju Kreattiv - The Malta Centre for Creativity, St James Cavalier, Valletta
18.00 hrs: Musical Introduction feat.
Malta Philharmonic Orchestra Principal Flute, Rebecca Hall
18.10 hrs: Welcome Speech by Conference Co-Convenors
18.20 hrs: Speech by Pro-Rector for Academic Affairs, University of Malta
18.25 hrs: Official Inauguration by HE the President of the Republic of Malta
18.30 hrs: Keynote Speech by Riel Miller, Head of Futures Literacy, UNESCO
19.15 hrs: Musical Piece feat.
Malta Philharmonic Orchestra Principal Flute, Rebecca Hall
19.30 hrs: Conversations Around Museum Futures feat.
Daniel Azzopardi
Artistic Director, Spazju Kreattiv, Valletta
Eleanor Suggett
Head of Experience, Barker Langham
Gonzalo Herrero Delicado
Curator, architect and educator
Paul Tourle
Senior Consultant, Barker Langham
20.15 hrs: Reception (for in-presence participants)
First Day of Proceedings
Tuesday 19 October - 8.45 hrs CET
Old University Campus, Valletta
08.45 hrs: Registration & Welcome Note
Session 1 - Democratising Museum Spaces
09.00 hrs: Keynote Speech by Jette Sandahl - European Museum Forum
Plenary Session
Moderator: Patricia Camilleri
09.40 hrs: Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing: Unmasking ‘social’ museum utopias as tools of governance
Evelyn Fränzl
Freelance interdisciplinary researcher, Austria
10.00 hrs: From Cultural Democracy to Cultural Justice: Creating an inclusive art world
Kathryn Brown, Alain Quemin, Glòria Guirao Soro, Yoram Eshkol-Rokach,
Oceáne Sailly & Franziska Wilmsen
Loughborough University, United Kingdom and Université Paris VIII, France
10.20 hrs: Picnic at Tito’s Mausoleum? Democratisation of the Museum of Yugoslavia
Milena Jokanović
University of Belgrade, Museum of Yugoslavia, Serbia
10.40 hrs Sudden Disturbance: transforming participation in a time of pandemic
The case of Polish museums
Marta Kopiniak
University of Wroclaw, Poland
Questions and Discussion
11.10 hrs: Coffee Break
(included with registration)
Session 2 - Making Sense of Digital
11.30 hrs: Keynote speech by Fabio Viola - Tuomuseo
Plenary Session
Moderator: Reuben Grima
12.00 hrs: The Museum Social Media Experience: User practices, views and feelings
Sophia Bakogianni
Open University of Cyprus
12.20 hrs: Disrupting Museums: Innovative Trends in Partnerships
between Museums and Startups
Brendan Ciecko
Cuseum, U.S.A.
12.40 hrs: FutureS of the Past : A virtual museum that challenges assumptions
and (visual) perceptions
Vicky Karaiskou
Open University of Cyprus
13.00 hrs: A Bright, Hybrid Future for Exhibitions
Bernadine Brocker Wieder
Vastari, United Kingdom
Questions and Discussion
13.30 hrs: Lunch Break
Parallel Sessions A - Democratising Museum Spaces
14.30 hrs CET
Moderator: Toni Attard
14.30 hrs: Aiming Beyond an Institutional Comfort Zone:
what organically growing art scenes may rather need
Borbála Kálmán
Ludwig Museum - Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest (Hungary)
14.50 hrs: Socio-Political Curatorship: museums as inclusive spaces for community voice,
welfare, and change
John Vella
Bir Mula Heritage Museum, Malta
15.10 hrs: In Search of Equilibrium between Physical and Digital: A case study from the Martin Von Wagner Museum in Würzburg
Dominik Lengyel & Catherine Toulouse
Brandenburg University, Germany
15.30 hrs: The Era of ‘Co’: Caring of in Co-Creative and Collaborative Practices
in Covid-19 Times
Elena Terranova
King’s College London
Questions and Discussion
Parallel Sessions A - Making Sense of Digital
14.30 hrs CET
Moderator: Dylan Seychell
14.30 hrs: The Role of Emotions in Museums of the Future
Paolo Mazzanti, Alberto del Bimbo, Lorenzo Greppi & Claudio Rosati
MICC - Media Integration andCommunication Center | NEMECH - New Media for Cultural Heritage - University of Florence | MuseiEmotivi Project, Italy
14.50 hrs: TikTok and Museum Education: A visual content analysis
Emma June Huebner
Concordia University, Canada
15.10 hrs: The Multi-Platform Museum: An analysis of audience behaviour for 2 million Smartify users on-site and at home
Anna Lowe
Smartify, United Kingdom
15.30 hrs: Virtual Museum and Storytelling: an educational experience at the Pinacoteca Nazionale of Ferrara, Italy
Stefania de Vincentis
Ca Foscari University, Venice
Questions and Discussion
Parallel Sessions B - Democratising the Museum Space
16.00 hrs CET
Moderator: Joe Gravina
16.00 hrs: Social Inclusion in Museum Education:
Where are we and where should we go?
Kata Springinzeisz
Pontifical University, Chile
16.20 hrs: Going Liquid: a reflection on the inevitable fluidity of museum’s communication
Juan Gonçalves
CIEBA, Faculty of Fine Arts, Lisbon
16.40 hrs: "Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world”
Museum education as the driving force in shaping the future of museums
Margo de Groot Conen
MK5060, The Netherlands
17.00 hrs: Collaborative Art as Change Maker
Karen Holdaway Grøn & Brigit Eriksson
Trapholt Museum of Modern Art, Crafts and Design, Kolding, Denmark
University of Aarhus, Denmark
Questions and Discussion
Parallel Sessions B - Making Sense of Digital
16.00 hrs CET
Moderator: Karsten Xuereb
16.00 hrs: Towards Augmented Art & Culture Experiences
Christopher Schutte
Particle - Singapore | Lugano | Milan
16.20 hrs: The Human Element in Online Experiences - Relevance and significance
Giuliano Gaia & Stefania Boiano
Invisible Studio - Milan | London
16.40 hrs: How is Artificial Intelligence Renewing the Way We Analyse the Museum Experience?
Dylan Seychell
Colour my Travel | Department of Artificial Intelligence, University of Malta
17.00 hrs: Digital Transformation One Step At a Time
Rasa Bocyte & Johan Oomen
Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision, The Netherlands
Questions and discussion
17.30 hrs: Conclusion of Proceedings
19.30 hrs: Dinner at La Giara Restaurant, Valletta (booking essential)
Second Day of Proceedings
Wednesday 20 October - 9.00 hrs CET
Old University Campus, Valletta
Welcome note
Day Session - Sustainability and Climate Change
9.00 hrs: Keynote Speech by Diane Drubay - Founder of We Are Museums
Plenary Session
Moderator: Clayton Cutajar
09.40 hrs: Love of Museums in the ‘Time of Cholera’: theory vs real-life
Ioanna Hadjicosti
Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation, Cyprus
10.00 hrs: The Role of Narratives and Emotions to Fight Climate Inaction: A perspective from museums and science communication
Eduardo Rodriguez Batista
University of La Laguna, Canary Islands
10.20 hrs: Climate Change in the Ethnological Museum: Exploring local impacts and agency in the South Pacific with augmented reality
Cristina Navarro
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Maja Stark
INKA research group, HTW Berlin
10.40 hrs: Greening a Historic House Museum:
The pollinator project at Palazzo Falzon Historic House Museum
Caroline Tonna
Palazzo Falson Historic House Museum, Malta
Questions and Discussion
11.15 hrs: Coffee Break
(included with registration)
11.45 hrs: Where do we stand?
Agents of Change: Building Better Futures for Museums
Mike Murawski - consultant and author of Museums as Agents of Change
12.20 hrs: Lunch Break
13.20 hrs: Conversations Around Museum Futures feat.
Patrick Noack
Executive Director, Dubai Future Foundation
Gail Lord
President and Co-Founder, Lord Cultural Resources
Sunil Kant Munjal
Founder Patron, Serendipity Arts Foundation, New Delhi (India)
Moderator: Sandro Debono
Workshops
Parallel Session A - Democratising the Museum Space
Moderator: Kurt Borg
14.00 hrs: Neighbourhood Museum as a Participatory Artistic and Heritage Action
Željka Miklošević
Zagreb University, Croatia
14.20 hrs: Co-Creating Cultural Heritage Value in Museums:
a participatory futures-oriented approach
Petra Caruana Dingli, Lisa Pace & Sandra Dingli
The Edward Debono Institute, University of Malta
14.40 hrs: Reclaiming Cultural Democracy: what museums can learn from artist-run institutions
Matilde Balatti
Tenthaus, Oslo
15.00 hrs: Empowering Museum Guards to Become Connectors: A case study
Christopher Vorwerk
Stadtmuseum, Berlin
Questions and Discussion
Parallel Session A - Making Sense of Digital
Moderator: Maria Cutajar
14.00 hrs: Improving the visitor Experience with AI forecast: The Case of the London Postal Museum
Cesare Fiala
CultureHint, London
14.20 hrs: Communication Devices and Technology for an Inclusive Museum:
The integrated system ‘Museo Facile’
Ivana Bruno
Universita degli Studi di Cassino e del Lazio Meridionale, Italy
14.40 hrs: Touching the Untouchable: the role of social media at Bali museum during Covid-19 pandemic
Costina Andreea Calota
University of Pisa, Italy
Enrico Cori
Università Politecnica delle Marche
Francesca Cavallotti
Museo del Balì
15.00 hrs: Archaeological sites as places for recovery: (Co)-creating the Museum of Sounds
Chrysi Vomvogianni
Hellenic Ministry of Culture, Greece
Questions and Discussion
Parallel Session B - Democratising the Museum Space
Moderator: Caldon Mercieca
15.30 hrs: The Pepoli Museum in Trapani Looks to the Future
Roberta Cruciata
University of Palermo, Italy
15.50 hrs: We are a Planet: Inside an exhibition about sustainability at Norrbottens Museum, Sweden
Jose Antonio G. Martorell
Freelance Museum Educator, Spain
16.10 hrs: The Power of Digital Storytelling: Creating human experiences to impact social change
Audrey Rose Mizzi
Spazju Kreattiv, Malta
16.30 hrs: Connecting Museums with Communities through Storytelling
Giovanna Conforto & Flavio Milandri
Centro Italiano Storytelling / Metamuseo girovago, Italy
Questions and Discussion
Parallel Session B - Making Sense of Digital
Moderator: Adrian Debattista
15.30 hrs: Sustainable Experimentation and New Collaborations with XR: GRIMMWELT+
Manuela Greipel
GRIMMWELT Kassel, Germany
15.50 hrs: Developing a Virtual Experience in Collaboration with a Small Game Studio and a Local Museum: A preliminary case study
Miia Seppänen
Harhama Games, Finland
16.10 hrs: From Crosswords to Animal Crossing: Museum interpretation and digital games during the pandemic and beyond
Amy Hondsmerk
Nottingham Trent University, United Kingdom
Questions and Discussion
17.00 hrs: Conclusion of Proceedings and Conference Finale