The TyPA Lab on Museum Management is an intensive training program for museum professionals and new leaders in museums and cultural centers in Latin America, while also promoting research on new developments in the field.
Primarily intended for professionals with a genuine will for change, management and leadership-oriented, the TyPA Lab aims to provide the future managers of Latin American museums with theoretical and practical tools.
We offer a balanced combination of three one-week encounters in Buenos Aires throughout a semester, with lectures and hands-on workshops, weekly on-line seminars with international experts during the intervals, and virtual group discussions among colleagues through a digital platform.
The program is conceived with high academic standards, based on the vast training experience of Fundación TyPA, the partnership with recognized institutions and the participation of prestigious faculty members from the region, US and Europe.
From August to November 2014 Fundación TyPA developed the second edition of this largely successful program with thirty participants coming from different regions in Argentina, as well as Brazil and Chile.
OBJECTIVES
- To encourage strategic thinking, institutional reformulation and interdisciplinary work.
- To promote and enhance a theoretical and methodological development on these topics.
- To provide the most innovative tools for creative management in museums.
- To create a network of professionals and enhance the exchange of resources and expertise.
FORMAT
One semester: August – December 2014, consisting of:
* Three one week face-to-face meetings:
Week 1: August 4th to August 9th: Fundación PROA
Week 2: September 29th to October 4th: Malba – Fundación Costantini
Week 3: November 17th to November 22th: Espacio Fundación Telefónica
* Online meetings during the entire program, through webinars with local and foreign experts, exercises provided by teachers and personalized mentoring sessions on personal projects.
CONTENTS
The Lab is organized into three main chapters: 1. ORGANIZATION; 2. VISITORS; 3. COMMUNICATION.
During each intensive week, these topics are approached through different levels: theoretical concepts, strategies, institutional implementation and analysis of real cases.
As a complement, workshops on the following topics will be held: Leadership / Project Management / Conceptual exhibition designing / Budgets and funding
Participants will develop a personal project throughout the program.
FACULTY
The faculty is composed of scholars in different fields of museum studies, the humanities and cultural management, and experienced practitioners of the museum world, both Argentine and foreign.
Core Faculty
GONZALO AGUILAR (Argentina) - PhD in Philosophy and Literature, University of Buenos Aires
PATRICIA AUSTIN (UK) - Course Leader, MA Narrative Enviroments, Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London
LESLIE BEDFORD (USA) - Museum Consultant, The Museum Group
AMÉRICO CASTILLA (Argentina) - President at Fundación TyPA
ERNESTO GORE (Argentina) - Full-time professor at Universidad de San Andrés (Argentina) and co-founder of Master´s Program in Organizational Studies.
ELAINE HEUMANN GURIAN (USA) - Museum Consultant, The Museum Group
TIM MCNIEL (USA) - Professor, Department of Design, University of California and Director at UC Davis Design Museum
CONXA RODÀ (Spain) - Head of Strategy and Communication, Museu Nacional d´Art de Catalunya (Barcelona) and co-director of Postgraduate course on Museum Management at DEC-Universidad Pompeu Fabra + MNAC
MÉLANIE ROUSTAN (France) - Researcher and museologist at National Museum of Natural Science, Paris
MARITA SOTO (Argentina) - Semiologist, Professor at University of Buenos Aires, IUNA and IDAES-UNSAM
Speakers and Workshop teachers:
ANGELES ALVAREZ (Argentina) - Collections Register and Documentation, National System for Collection Management, National Office of Heritage and Museums, Ministry of Culture.
ARIEL BER (Argentina) - Facilitator, Scrum coach and Organizational change agent.
GUILLERMO BREA (Argentina) - Professor, Department of Design, Architecture and Urbanism, Universidad de Buenos Aires.
VIOLETA BRONSTEIN (Argentina) - Executive coordinator at Fundación TyPA.
PABLO CHIMENTI (Argentina) - Visual artist.
MARIA JULIA D´AGOSTINO (Argentina) - Manager for Political Reform at the Ministry of Government, Government of the City of Buenos Aires.
NICOLÁS DUCOTÉ (Argentina) - Co-founder at CIPPEC. Currently City Councillor at Pilar, Buenos Aires Province.
LEANDRO ERLICH (Argentina) - Visual Artist.
MARIBEL GARCIA (Argentina) - Coordinator at Red de Museos de los Pueblos de Olavarría .
FLORENCIA GONZÁLEZ DE LANGARICA (Argentina) - Co-founder at REEMCA- Red de Educadores de Museos y Centros de Arte de Argentina.
CLAUDIO GÓMEZ PAPIC (Chile) - Director, Museo Nacional de Historia Natural de Chile.
BARBARA HENRY (USA) - Museum Consultant, expert in Community Programs.
PÍA LANDRO (Argentina) - Head of Education, Macba- Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Buenos Aires.
MARTINA MAINI (Italy-Argentina) - Community Psychologist, Universitá Cattolica, Milan.
LAURA MALOSETTI COSTA (Argentina) - Program Chair, MA in Latin American and Argentinian Art History, IDAES/UNSAM
ADRIENNE MCGRAW (USA) - Program Chair and Assistent Professor, Museum Studies, J.F. Kennedy University, San Francisco
REYNALDO MERLINO (Argentina) - Director, Ferrowhite (museo taller), Bahía Blanca
CINTIA MEZZA (Argentina) - Head Curator and Programming, Fundación PROA
TAM MURO (Argentina) - Visual artista and Exhibition Designer
VALENTIN MURO (Argentina) - Communication manager at Wikimedia Argentina. Coordinator at Wazzabi.
JOSÉ NUN (Argentina) - Researcher at CONICET. Former Secretary of Culture of the Presidency of the Nation of Argentina (2004-09)
DANIELA PELLEGRINELLI (Argentina) - Director, Museo del Juguete de San Isidro
MARIANO SARDÓN (Argentina) - Visual artist
VIVIAN SPOLIANSKI (Argentina) - Responsible for Archives and Library, Museo Etnográfico (FFyL, UBA)
NICOLÁS TESTONI (Argentina) - Head of Communication and Cultural Proyects, Ferrowhite (museo taller), Bahía Blanca
PARTICIPANTS
Thirty museum and other cultural institutions´ professionals from Argentina, Chile and Brazil.
(See more info in Spanish)
