Material Culture
Historic Houses, Global Crossroads Research Blend 5
Historic Houses, Global Crossroads Research Blend 5: Material Culture
RB5 is unlocking globally interconnected intercultural meanings embodied by material culture at each site in relation to discourses on global exchange, movement, and cultural triumphalism. Drawing on Aravamudan’s concept of ‘Tropicopolitans’ (1999), RB5 is researching material culture from originating Indigenous and other community perspectives, fostering potential pathways to diasporic curatorship. Five objects from each property will be 3D-scanned and multiple publics invited to create unique new stories of intergenerational global interconnection, expanded by digital people-powered research on Zooniverse.
Banner Image: Clandeboye House interior | ©Clandeboye Estate
Research Programmes
Connecting Cultures
A collaborative project revealing how historic sites can position themselves as global crossroads, enabling multiple global publics to connect their lived experience with them.
Diplomacy and Treaties
International collaboration revealing globally significant cultures of diplomacy between the Crown, the Haudenosaunee and their neighbours in North America.
Digital Storytelling
Digital resources that involve the public, advance research, energise teaching, and drive knowledge exchange, built in partnership with the UK’s foremost research software engineers.
Resource Use and Environmental Futures
Water Cultures in Conflict at Pebble Mine, Bristol Bay, Alaska
Political Ecologies
Timely interventions that examine the power relations between Indigenous actors and the world’s most pressing environmental challenges.
Completed Projects
Timely interventions that examine the power relations between Indigenous actors and the world’s most pressing environmental challenges.