Europeana Foundation’s Communicators Community brings you the third in our Decolonising Museum Practices series, exploring various aspects of restitution and community representation in decolonial practice for the field of cultural heritage.

In this 90-minute discussion and audience Q&A led by our moderator, Dr Aris Anagnostopoulos, Head of Community Engagement for the Heritage Management Organization, we’ll dive into communicating decolonisation within the cultural heritage sector and activating community collaborations, in an effort to ensure inclusive and respectful communications practices surrounding decolonisation and community representation.

Target audience

This session is designed for any cultural heritage professionals who want to guide their organisation’s communications practices towards inclusive community representation, free from colonial bias.

Speakers

• Marco Rendina is the Managing Director of the European Fashion Heritage Association, and was responsible for leading the communications team for the 2023-2024 DE-BIAS project. He has been working for two decades with museums, archives and libraries across Europe, supporting them in their digital transformation, advocating for open access and fostering innovation in the cultural heritage sector. For the DE-BIAS project, Marco led the communications team, promoting a more inclusive and respectful approach to digital collections descriptions and the telling of stories and histories of minoritised communities.
• Claudia Augustat holds a PhD in cultural anthropology and has been curating the South America collections at Weltmuseum Wien since 2004. She was the head of the four-year project TAKING CARE: Ethnographic and World Culture Museums as Spaces of Care, co-funded by the European Union and initiated in October 2019. Her research focuses on collections from the Amazon and Tierra del Fuego, material culture and cultural memory, museum and colonialism, collaborative curatorship and decolonising museum practice.