About
Funded by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) through the Australia-Indonesia Institute (AII) and the Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, the AIM Project is a collaboration between the Indonesian Heritage Agency, Cultural Office of DKI Jakarta Province, Deakin University's Cultural Heritage Asia-Pacific Group, Western Australian Museum (WAM), and the Southeast Asia Museum Services (SEAMS).
AIM Project
Traditionally, exhibitions have been conceived within a national frame of reference. However, more recent approaches address the challenges of decolonisation and stress trans-national connections and movement.
Through a process of co-curation with practitioners and academics in Australia and Indonesia, the AIM Project developed new approaches to understanding how these often-difficult histories are collected and displayed and resulted in a prototype for understanding the cross-cultural significance of objects and how they are interpreted.
The AIM Project address this through a series of facilitated workshops, and ongoing mentoring and knowledge exchange, resulting in an online exhibition of diverse objects that will act as exemplars of the collaborative approach.
Activities
Workshops
AIM Project facilitates workshops and mentorships and knowledge exchange on curatorial research.
Exhibition
Through collaborative interpretation approach, AIM Project results are displayed in digital exhibition platform (Tetangga Exhibition).
Methodology
AIM Project uses the Significance 2.0 methodology that will be contextualised in local application.
Provenance Guildelines
Through AIM Project 2024, Provenance Guidelines will be implemented at the pilot museums in Indonesia.
