Congratulations to Dr Amy Brookes on securing British Academy funding for her innovative project ‘The Speculative Space of Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums’.<\/p>\n
The project will formalise a creative-critical network connecting speculative fiction with Gallery, Library, Archive and Museum (GLAM) spaces and collections across the UK. Using speculative fiction as a creative practice for critical reflection, the initiative supports GLAM institutions engaged in decolonisation and decarbonisation efforts that respond to social and climate justice demands.<\/p>\n
Building on seven successful pilot workshops, Dr Brookes has developed an original methodology of creative networking events centred on small-scale collective making. This approach prompts sustained engagement and creates necessary space to address issues of significant complexity and nuance, including re-evaluation of curation, collection and exhibition processes.<\/p>\n
The British Academy funding will establish the formal ‘Speculative Space Research Group’, enabling knowledge and method dissemination, extending participation, and fostering long-term collaborative opportunities. This represents an important intersection of creative practice, institutional critique, and environmental justice – areas increasingly relevant to contemporary urban cultural spaces.<\/p>\n
The project demonstrates how speculative approaches can support cultural institutions in reimagining their roles and practices in response to pressing social and environmental challenges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"