During the pilot event 'Museums Facing Extinction' in November 2019 at the Futurium in Berlin, Germany, we asked our participants to share a provocation which will inspire the coming workshops.
Here are the two provocations of Dr Cara Courage, Head of Tate Exchange, Tate (United Kingdom):
- “We have cleared the low-hanging fruit of carbon change at Tate. We are now in the systemic period which is complex and difficult. Change in museums is contingent of so many factors, and we go through processes of very deep thought because we need to know what we are doing is right. I don’t want to change that, but how do we work at this pace when we realise that the **climate emergency** is not going to wait for us.”
- “I question the notion of museums as a civic place. Not all museums have the capacity to be an active civic space but all of them could be a **relational space**. I think there is a real positivity in that.”
