WEB QUEST.
How far is Agost? How can you go?
What can you see in Agost?
When is the street market hold?
If you like trekking , is Agost a good place to go? Why?
A dinosaur in Agost? Why? Where?
Who is Emili Boix?
What is the main characteristic of the pottery made in Agost?
About the museum
What is the Museum about?
Why is the building important?
Who founded the museum? Can you find a picture of the founder?
Who is the director of the Museum now?
How many pottery workshops are there in Agost now?
How many workshops where there in the past? About 50 years ago?
About Fangart.
What is Fangart?
In how many workshops can you participate? Are they free?
What can you learn by participating in the workshops?
Web pages
https://www.spain-holiday.com/Alicante-province/articles/potter-ing-about-in-agost-alicante
https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Agost
http://www.enfangart.es/en/activities/pottery%E2%80%99s-secrets-1.html
https://www.turideer.com/post/agost-the-ceramics-town
http://www.museoagost.com/cms/index.php?lang=en
https://www.caminsdedinosaures.com/en/dinosaur-trails
VOCABULARY. Make meaning groups with the following words and find out their meanings.
pottery chapel pitcher drinking jugs clay pot potter
bell tower dome chapel wheel throwing kiln
WHAT IS A MUSEUM?
DO WE NEED MUSEUMS?
WHAT DO OBJECTS MEAN?
WHAT DO OBJECTS TELL US?
Surrounded by thousands of objects, we tend to forget
they tell stories of change. This is mirrored at museums, where the
drama in the quotidian is often overlooked. In the session we explore
and discuss changes in the materialities of everyday life - and its
musealization.
Long abstract:
Objects play a central part in our daily lives. But many of them are
hardly ever noticed. Even though we often use them on a daily basis, we
might not think of these thousands of everyday objects as parts of
cultural practices. As something informing about the multitude of
relations between individuals and materiality and into the change of
the everyday.
Museums and other institutions with collections have been working with
everyday life for decades. But the challenge remain; how do we handle
the changes and materiality of the quotidian in the context of
collections? How do we track the often unnoticed changes in the
seemingly stable objects around us? And in our relations with them?
With an outset in papers that focus on everyday life, changes and
materiality we will discuss questions like: How do cultural institutions
with collections represent, track and reflect often unnoticed
transformations? How do we track relations between individuals and
materiality? How can we make collection and dissemination strategies
that don't favour symbolic and canonized objects over the quotidian and
mass produced, the cheap and the short lived like toothbrushes, power
outlets, and kitchen rolls? Or over the more long lived but still
overlooked like parking spaces, the local DIY centre, and the bus stop?
WHAT IS MUSEALIZATION?
