Bruno Brulon Soares
Dr. Bruno Brulon Soares ist Dozent für Museums- und Kulturerbe-Studien an der Universität St. Andrews. Er hat eng mit kommunalen Museen in Brasilien zusammengearbeitet und war an mehreren Basisprojekten zum Kulturerbe beteiligt, die sich mit antikolonialen Praktiken und sozialen Bewegungen befassten. Er war einer der Mitbegründer des Museu Movimento LGBTI+, dem ersten Museum zur LGBTI+-Sozialbewegung in Brasilien. Er ist Vorsitzender des Internationalen Komitees für Social Museology (SOMUS) und Mitglied mehrerer Komitees, darunter des Standing Committee for Ethics. Von 2019 bis 2022 war er Vorsitzender des Internationalen Komitees für Museologie (ICOFOM) und Co-Vorsitzender des Ständigen Komitees für die Definition des Museumsbegriffs des ICOM. Seine Forschungsinteressen konzentrieren sich auf reparative Museologie, gemeindebasierte Museen und die politische Nutzung von Museen und kulturellem Erbe. Zu seinen jüngsten Veröffentlichungen gehören die Monografie The Anticolonial Museum (2023), der gemeinsam herausgegebene Band Decolonising Museology (2020) und das in Kürze erscheinende, gemeinsam verfasste Buch The Museum Definition Handbook: Words Inspiring Action (2025).
Dr. Bruno Brulon Soares is a Reader in Museum and Heritage Studies at the University of St Andrews. He has worked closely with community-based museums in Brazil and with several heritage projects at the grassroots level involving anticolonial practices and social movements. He was one of the co-founders of Museu Movimento LGBTI+, the first museum on the LGBTI+ social movement in Brazil. He is Chair of the International Committee for Social Museology, SOMUS, and serves on several committees, including ICOM’s Standing Committee for Ethics. Between 2019 and 2022, he was the Chair of the International Committee for Museology (ICOFOM) and co-Chair of the Standing Committee for the Museum Definition of ICOM. His research interests have focused on reparative museology, community-based museums and the political uses of museums and cultural heritage. Recent publications include the monograph The Anticolonial Museum (2023), the co-edited volume Decolonising Museology (2020), and the forthcoming co-authored book The Museum Definition Handbook: Words Inspiring Action (2025).
Session: DER SOZIALE RAUM – Empowering Museums
Input: The Power of Change: looking at museums from a pluriversal perspective
The relationship between Europe and the rest of the modern world have produced a division of humanity that allowed to understand the Other in their innate difference from the Western self. Since early modernity, museums have built their borders based on this division that is at once epistemic and political, therefore reiterating the modern frontiers between persons and things, subjects and objects, experience and discipline, primitive and civilised etc. This speech proposes an act of rebellion against these frontiers founded on coloniality and modernity, looking at museums from the perspective of marginalised groups and reconsidering their unsubordinated practices and concepts according to a pluriversal epistemology. Such a perspective serves us to evince the constraints and setbacks of the modern museum, in order to propose an “experimental turn” in museology, one that allows multiple understandings of heritage and the museum, according to various social groups and made of their human connections and pluriversal knowledges.
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