New explorative research network on the everyday life of urban monuments
From 2024 to 2026 the Museum of Copenhagen heads the explorative research network The Everyday Life of Urban Monuments that recently received app. 550.000 DKK in funding from the Independent Research Fund Denmark. The network aim to explore and develop new methods and theoretical perspectives on the study of urban monuments.
The core group consists of leading scholars and cultural heritage professionals from Amsterdam, Berlin, Stockholm, Bristol, Wroclaw and Copenhagen (see list below), but wishes to include other scholars and curators interested in the field through invitations and open calls.
The network is coordinated by Jakob Ingemann Parby, senior researcher at the Museum of Copenhagen and Tanja Schult, associate professor at Stockholm University and aims at developing research environments and stimulate studies of the relationship between cities, citizens and monumental practices, including the development of research partnerships and fundraising for one or more larger joint research projects.
The project activities include a kickoff-seminar in Copenhagen in May 2024 and a concluding conference in the fall of 2026 plus three thematic workshops:
- Monumental typologies and biographies
- Ignition and care: Monuments in jeopardy
- Commemoration and Citizenship: Outreach and participation
The location, dates and format of these workshops will be announced later.
Results from the projects will be published in Journal of Urban History/Memory Studies Journal, Sculpture Journal og Frieze/Public Art Dialogue as well as in an anthology gathering the results of the concluding conference in 2026.
Further info: Jakob Ingemann Parby, Museum of Copenhagen, jakobp@kk.dk
Project description Network Everyday Monuments (205 Kb)
Network core group:
Jakob Ingemann Parby, Senior Researcher, Museum of Copenhagen
Mathias Danbolt, Professor, Art History, Department of Arts and Cultural Studies, University of Copenhagen, PI of Moving Monuments: The Material Lives of Sculptures from the Danish Colonial Era (2021-25)
Amalie Skovmøller, Associate Professor, Art History, Department of Arts and Cultural Studies, University of Copenhagen, co-PI of Moving Monuments: The Material Lives of Sculptures from the Danish Colonial Era (2021-25)
Tanja Schult, Associate Professor/Senior Lecturer Art History, Department of Culture and Aesthetics, Stockholm University – co-PI of Rethink and Reload – Monuments in 21st Century Democracies between Iconoclasm and Revival
Tim Cole, Professor of Social History, University of Bristol, Co-PI of Rethink and Reload – Monuments in 21st Century Democracies between Iconoclasm and Revival
Agnieszka Tomaszewicz, Architect, Associate Professor, Faculty of Architecture, Wrocław University of Science and Technology
Annemarie de Wildt, Stadscuratorium Amsterdam, vicechair CAMOC, Amsterdam City Museum
Svava Riesto, Professor, Landscape Architecture and Planning, University of Copenhagen
Urte Evert, museum director, Zitadelle Spandau, Berlin
Ida Hornung, PhD-stipendiate, Museum of Copenhagen/Department of Arts and Cultural Studies, University of Copenhagen
Last updated: December 21, 2023
Source: Department of Culture and Aesthetics