Radical Museology/Radical Pedagogy: Curating Beyond Boundaries
In this born digital project, we use the practices, genres, and logics of exhibition as an organizing framework for communicating a subversive approach to writing pedagogy. We have selected, arranged, interpreted, and juxtaposed artifacts from museums and from the University of Rhode Island (URI) first-year writing curriculum that tell a disjointed and fragmented story about what social justice work is possible in both museums and schools. In keeping with our work to disrupt sedimented writing instruction practices, we cultivate here dis-orientation, dis-census, and dis-obedience as necessary dispositions for unlearning and unmaking hegemony in the classroom. We invite participants to experience these affective dimensions of radical pedagogy and listen to the “noise” as they step into a three-dimensional virtual reality classroom we developed with the open-source platform Artsteps. As a corollary to the VR exhibition, which is available at https://www.artsteps.com/view/5d795b7124396e1a5c2cfd0b, this exhibition catalogue further contextualizes and interprets the artifacts, theorizing the productive juxtaposition of radical museology and radical pedagogy.
In this born digital project, we use the practices, genres, and logics of exhibition as an organizing framework for communicating a subversive approach to writing pedagogy. We have selected, arranged, interpreted, and juxtaposed artifacts from museums and from the University of Rhode Island (URI) first-year writing curriculum that tell a disjointed and fragmented story about what social justice work is possible in both museums and schools. In keeping with our work to disrupt sedimented writing instruction practices, we cultivate here dis-orientation, dis-census, and dis-obedience as necessary dispositions for unlearning and unmaking hegemony in the classroom. We invite participants to experience these affective dimensions of radical pedagogy and listen to the “noise” as they step into a three-dimensional virtual reality classroom we developed with the open-source platform Artsteps. As a corollary to the VR exhibition, which is available at https://www.artsteps.com/view/5d795b7124396e1a5c2cfd0b, this exhibition catalogue further contextualizes and interprets the artifacts, theorizing the productive juxtaposition of radical museology and radical pedagogy.
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Applying Radical Museology to
Curriculum Design and
Classroom Practice
Radical museology leverages the power of juxtapositions to activate new ways of making meaning while
simultaneously acknowledging infinite plurality and difference. As such, juxtaposition, as a transformational
modality, can be employed to disrupt outmoded thinking practices and patterns in our classrooms and
beyond. In this project, we illustrate how collecting and juxtaposing seemingly disparate artifacts bring
about new ways to think about learning across institutional boundaries.
Educators can adopt this practice of radical museology by using juxtaposition as an organizing principle
for course design. If we think of our courses as exhibitions, we can place divergent ideas, texts, materials,
bodies, tools, and technologies into physical and virtual shared spaces to make visible the dis-census
inherent in knowledge making and disciplinary communities. Instead of privileging agreement, smoothing
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