Challenging Populist Truth-Making in Europe (CHAPTER)
Projektbeschreibung
Challenging Populist Truth-Making in Europe: The Role of Museums in a Digital ‘Post-Truth’ European Society (CHAPTER) is funded by the Volkswagen Foundation. Through ethnographic research and digital innovation, it develops approaches and best practice examples to support museums in challenging the growing influence of populist truth-making in Europe. The project is based at the Institute for European Ethnology at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, the Ludwig Uhland Institute for Historical and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Tübingen, the Jagiellonian University (JU) in Krakow and University College London (UCL). It cooperates with museums and board members from different European countries, as well as with software developer Fluxguide in Vienna. A key goal of the project is to work with young visitors from the UK, Poland and Germany to co-design a museum app that inspires critical reflection on the power of populist truth-making. The project brings together a broad range of anthropological fields, including digital anthropology, museum anthropology, political anthropology and the anthropology of emotions/affects to develop a European perspective on how museums can challenge the power of populist truth-making in contemporary digital societies.
Team
Projektleitung
Prof. Dr. Christoph Bareither
Prof. Dr. Haidy Geismar
Prof. Dr. Roma Sendyka
Postdoc
PhDs
Helena Kieß
Pia Schramm
Alice Millar
Marlena Nikody