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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Our most popular playlist with nearly 1,000 views, the Critical Identity Narrative playlist includes, to date,
seven digital stories that explore intersectional identity from students’ perspectives. The stories we selected
for this playlist represent a wide range of identity issues that our students navigate on a daily basis. This
public collection, available on YouTube and linked to the WRT 104 course website, includes stories about
inequitable gender roles in Cape Verdean culture (the video playing in the gallery); conflicts between
religion and (homo)sexuality; failures of the body in youth; and the difficulties that women of color face in
science, technology, engineering, and math. As co-curators, we intentionally mounted work that represents
bodies and identities that aren’t typically reflected in first-year writing—those of fellow students—creating an
exhibition that speaks to a multiplicity of student backgrounds, cultures, and experiences.
Link:
https://youtu.be/0Ybd81Y95ZU
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