Museu do Amanha

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  Mega-Events as Economies of the Imagination

  Creating Atmospheres for Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020

  • Rodanthi Tzanelli(Author)
  • 2017(Publication Date)
  • Taylor & Francis

    (Publisher)

  The Museum of Tomorrow stands as an objection to such harmful social habits of mobility. Another greener path to the future is provided by digital technologies that minimise some of the societal costs host cities incur before and during the mega-event. In the context of Rio 2016, wider societal access to digital communications has a double green face: first, it allows the organisation of transport for global mega-event visitors via the Internet and new portable hardware in more environmentally friendly ways (Germann Molz and Paris, 2015); and second, it contributes to the production of a utopian façade for the city, allowing the mobility of local cultures in the cybersphere. So, although technologies of gazing are a communal anathema, they can also function as a ‘greener’ alternative to education to consider seriously. Intended as a pedagogical tool, the development features photovoltaic panels on its steel roof, which tilt to follow the sun’s course across the sky, so the building changes ‘like a flower or a plant’ (Murdock, 4 October 2010). The project’s developer, the Fundação Roberto Marinho, reputed for making abstract concepts concrete practice, has been involved in other educational projects of an interactive (audio-visual) nature, better connected to native Brazilian philosophies of embodied well-being. The project has inspired other architects to design interactive sustainable projects, including the Swiss RAFAA Solar City Tower, aiming to represent ‘an inner attitude, a symbol of society facing the future’ (ibid.). Thus, the Museum of Tomorrow is built on the urgency to manage environmental risks by technological means – its infrastructure uses natural elements, such as sea and rain water, to generate electricity. Its inner structure, leading visitors from a ground-floor plaza upwards and then volte-face through a nave-like gallery to exhibits, represents an absent womb as human rebirth within, but at the centre of a hybrid natural-machinic ecosystem

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  Mega-Event Mobilities

  A Critical Analysis

  • Noel B. Salazar, Christiane Timmerman, Johan Wets, Luana Gama Gato, Sarah Van den Broucke(Authors)
  • 2016(Publication Date)
  • Routledge

    (Publisher)

  The giant construction resembles a spaceship and its main area is divided into five sectors designed to address the project’s main preoccupation with human progress (Rio2016 News, 18 December 2015). Officially inaugurated in 2015 by President Rousseff, Rio governor Pezão and mayor Paes, it institutionally endorses Rio’s attempt to follow the arrow of time as well as its direction upwards (progress) and towards a telos (the West). Calatrava’s vision is located next to Rio’s main cruise terminal, so it is physically linked to tourism mobilities, but its connection to the ‘Marvellous Port’, a waterfront building surrounding gardens and pools, is a statement of a greener future. Intended as a pedagogical tool, the development features photovoltaic panels on its steel roof, which tilt to follow the sun’s course across the sky, so the building changes ‘like a flower or a plant’ (Murdock, 2010). The project’s developer, the Fundação Roberto Marinho, reputed for making abstract concepts concrete practice, has been involved in other educational projects of an interactive (audiovisual) nature, better connected to native Brazilian philosophies of embodied well-being (Tzanelli, 2015). The project has inspired other architects to design interactive sustainable projects, including the Swiss RAFAA Solar City Tower, aiming to represent ‘an inner attitude, a symbol of society facing the future’ (Mur-dock, 2010). Thus, the Museum of Tomorrow is built on the urgency to manage environmental risks by technological means – its infrastructure uses natural elements, such as sea and rainwater, to generate electricity. Its inner structure, leading visitors from a ground-floor plaza upwards and then volte-face through a nave-like gallery to exhibits, represents an absent womb as human rebirth within, but not at the centre of a hybrid natural-mechanic ecosystem

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  Human Rights Museums

  Critical Tensions Between Memory and Justice

  • Jennifer Carter(Author)
  • 2022(Publication Date)
  • Taylor & Francis

    (Publisher)

  54 In 2020, in response to COVID-19, for example, the Museum launched an awareness programme about biodiversity, underscoring the interrelations between the human and natural worlds. Versed in ‘culture’ – film, food, sport, music – this initiative is an excellent illustration of the relationality of humans and their environments on a global scale.

  In addition to discussing museums as multi-functional entities, exhibitions as multi-modal, multi-dimensional and multi-sensory platforms for engagement also merit discussion. Exhibitions can be designed to very different effects, and they have been one platform of several whose number and strategies in relation to the climate crisis have significantly increased since the turn of the third millennium. Over the span of three decades, the goals of such exhibitions have changed substantively, from a focus on the science of climate change and largely curated within science centres and natural history museums (like the American Museum of Natural History did in 1992 in its ‘Global Warming: Understanding the Forecast’ exhibition, with its focus on causes and effects, albeit actions for mitigating global warming were also presented), to embrace – more recently – a broader remit: the ‘future implications of climate change on human societies’55 and specific modes of climate action (such as Gothenburg’s Världskulturnuseet [Museum of World Culture] in Sweden and its wide-ranging ‘Human Nature’ exhibition of 2019, discussed below), amidst an equally broader range of museological genres. Exhibitions may well be information-rich resources, but they are also prime locations for strategizing with citizens.56

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