This panel session will present three case studies at a range of scales, from temporary installation, a permanent exhibit, and a municipal-scaled portion of the urban fabric, all demonstrating how each can facilitate cultural healing amidst this distrust.
Emily and Dan will be accompanied by Sean Mooney, Managing Director and Chief Curator at the Rock Foundation, John Bulla, Deputy Director & Chief Operating Officer at the Heard Museum, and Hamza Walker, Executive Director at Brick, and Amanda Golden, Managing Principal at Designing Local.

Learning objectives include:

• Recognizing lack of trust amongst communities and enacting strategies to restore trust in museums and cultural spaces through engagement in programming, creating new works, and recontextualizing historical objects, memorials and artifacts.

• Illustrating cultural understanding strategies to reframe experiences for marginalized communities.

• Approaches to integrate communities in the design process at multiple scales – from exhibits to municipal and community driven spaces.

• Reframing dominant societal worldviews to embrace diverse perspectives, where multiple viewpoints can co-exist.

• Demonstrating how storytelling can be a vehicle for building cultural understanding and relates the narrative necessary to contextualize objects and artifacts.

The panel discussion will be held on the last day of the conference, Friday, May 9, from 10:30 -11:30 AM.