The Making of the Museum of Education (Kosovo)
The Making of the Museum of Education: Memory, violence and resistance as seen by artists, youth and institutions was a Changing the Story Phase 2 ECR project.
The Making of the Museum of Education explored the ways in which museums emerge, the interactions between places, narratives and social actors in the process of excavation and construction of pasts. The research is process-oriented and based towards the rooted and full-cycle understanding of memory production and mobilization it produces in the post-conflict societies.
Researchers and participants of the workshop were asked to reflect on the process through blogs, podcasts, video documentation. This process hinged on self reflective and dialogic critiques of its own practices, and the process itself was a rich source of methodological, theoretical and practical interventions. Through the process of training, data gathering, discussions, public screenings and creation of an interactive digital platform, the project sought to initiate plural and critical public discussion, allowing the space for analysis of the conflicting, converging and connective acts of remembrance across temporal and generational experiences. A documentary film documented the process.
The project produced a digital media platform exploring the ways spaces and platforms contribute to the production of multilayered, intersecting and occasionally competing narratives. Furthermore by paying attention to a range of media, from film to literary texts to archives, project interrogated the mobilizing potential of public remembrance, its catalyzing and re-mediating force in activist projects.
Visit the project digital media platform to find out more about the Making the Museum of Education project & the school-house system in Kosovo in the 1990s. Check out video & newspaper archives, interviews with former teachers & students, the School-houses documentary and loads more!
The emphasis of the research is placed on the inter-generational and plural remembrance of events. Digital remembrance creates new examples and practices that direct us to adopt a more hybrid understanding of remembrance as practiced both offline and online and therefore consider mediatized – transformed memory. Because memories change, shift and rely on political contexts it is crucial to interrogate a series of identified past events are interpreted today and in what ways they inform current understandings of violence?
Watch the recording from The Making of the Museum of Education Film Screening and Panel Discussion, a Changing the Story Inside Out and Outside In Festival event (June 2021):
Project Location
Kosovo
The Making of the Museum of Education: Memory, violence and resistance as seen by artists, youth and institutions is a Changing the Story Phase 2 ECR project
Resource Archive
Search or browse the resource archive for films, reports, toolkits and other resources produced by the Changing the Story and its commissioned projects. Items relating to Kosovo are listed below:
| Title | Summary | Author | Categories | Tags | doc_categories_hfilter | doc_tags_hfilter |
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| Playwriting for Peace: Actualizing Perpetual Peace in Post-Conflict Pristina, Kosovo | Blog (2019/08/05) Playwriting for Peace: Actualizing Perpetual Peace in Post-Conflict Pristina, Kosovo | Emily Russell, Matt Harmon | Kosovo, Young Changemakers | format: blog, language: english, subject: reflections | kosovo changemakers location | blog language-english subject-reflections |
| ACT – Arts, critical thinking & active citizenship (Kosovo) | The ACT project combines research and applied components, producing alternative practices to be proposed to formal and informal educational institutions, as well as academic research and publishing in Kosovo. The … | Dr Nita Luci, Dr Stephanie Schwandner-Sievers | Kosovo, Phase 1 | format: film, subject: participatory arts, subject: reflections | kosovo phase1 location | film subject-participatory-arts subject-reflections |
| Field research in the time of COVID-19: how creativity saved the day | Blog (2021/03/26) Field research in the time of COVID-19: how creativity saved the day | Mary Drosopulos | Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Phase 2 | format: blog, language: english, subject: reflections, subject: youth | bosnia-and-herzegovina kosovo phase2 location | blog language-english subject-reflections youth |
| Fragments on Heroes, Artists and Interventions: Challenging Gender Ideology and Provoking Active Citizenship through the Arts in Kosovo | This is an Accepted Manuscript version of chapter 6 of the book 'Participatory Arts in International Development' published by Routledge/CRC Press on 29 August 2019. The final version of each … | Dr Linda Gusia, Dr Lura Pollozhani, Dr Nita Luci, Dr Stephanie Schwandner-Sievers | Kosovo | format: article, language: english, subject: gender | kosovo location | article language-english gender |
| Inside-out and outside-in on dealing with the past in Kosovo | Inside-out and outside-in on dealing with the past in Kosovo by Nita Luci and Linda Guisa is a chapter in the edited book Unravelling Liberal Interventionism Local Critiques of Statebuilding … | Gëzim Visoka, Vjosa Musliu | Kosovo | format: article, language: english, SDG 16 Institutions, subject: policy | kosovo location | article language-english sdg-16-institutions subject-policy |
| BOOM concerts in 1980s Kosovo | Blog (2019/04/29) BOOM concerts in 1980s Kosovo | Rina Krasniqi (Lirindja) | Kosovo, Phase 1 | format: blog, language: english | kosovo phase1 location | blog language-english |
| ReSpace introduce 'The Hertica Home' | 'The Hertica Home' is a short 3D interactive documentary that uses testimony to explore connections between space and memory by focusing upon the the Sami Frasheri gymnasium faculty in the … | Dr Paula Callus | Event, Kosovo | format: film, language: english, SDG 16 Institutions, SDG 17 Partnerships, SDG 4 Education | event kosovo location | film language-english sdg-16-institutions sdg-17-partnerships sdg-4-education |
| Changing the Story Consolidating Learning CoLearnSEE | Find out more about the Changing the Story Consolidating Learning project CoLearnSEE. Highlights projects across South Eastern Europe | Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Phase 2, Rwanda | format: film, SDG 10 Inequalities, SDG 4 Education, SDG 5 Gender, SDG 8 Work, subject: participatory arts | bosnia-and-herzegovina kosovo phase2 rwanda location | film sdg-10-inequalities sdg-4-education sdg-5-gender sdg-8-work subject-participatory-arts | |
| Remembering the Srebrenica Genocide on Holocaust Memorial Day | Blog (2020/02/09) Remembering the Srebrenica Genocide on Holocaust Memorial Day | Kosovo, Phase 1, Phase 2, Rwanda | format: blog, language: english, subject: reflections | kosovo phase1 phase2 rwanda location | blog language-english subject-reflections | |
| SEE Education Making the Museum of Education | This panel event, part of the Changing the Story: Inside Out and Outside In Festival (Kosovo), brought together the people who contributed to making the school house system during the … | Event, Kosovo | format: film, language: english, SDG 16 Institutions, SDG 17 Partnerships, SDG 4 Education | event kosovo location | film language-english sdg-16-institutions sdg-17-partnerships sdg-4-education | |
| Longing for lost normalcy | Longing for Lost Normalcy: Social Memory, Transitional Justice, and the ‘House Museum’ to Missing Persons in Kosovo by Schwandner-Sievers, S. and Klinkner, M. In spring 1999, amidst a wider ethnic … | Dr Stephanie Schwandner-Sievers, M. Klinkner | Kosovo | format: article, language: english, SDG 11 Sustainable Cities, SDG 16 Institutions | kosovo location | article language-english sdg-11-sustainable-cities sdg-16-institutions |
| The amazing women of Ljubljana | Blog (2020/06/19) The amazing women of Ljubljana | Kosovo, Phase 1 | format: blog, language: english, subject: reflections | kosovo phase1 location | blog language-english subject-reflections | |
| Understanding Places from a Distance | Blog (2021/04/27) Understanding Places from a Distance | Dr Paula Callus | Kosovo, Phase 2, Rwanda | format: blog, language: english, subject: reflections | kosovo phase2 rwanda location | blog language-english subject-reflections |
| The Making of School Houses in the 90s and the School House Museum | Blog (2021/04/27) The Making of School Houses in the 90s and the School House Museum | Kosovo, Phase 2 | format: blog, language: english, subject: reflections, subject: youth | kosovo phase2 location | blog language-english subject-reflections youth | |
| Epistemic justice and everyday nationalism | Epistemic justice and everyday nationalism: An auto‐ethnography of transnational student encounters in a post‐war memory and reconciliation project in Kosovo is a journal article by Nita Luci and Stephanie Schwandner-Sievers. … | Dr Nita Luci, Dr Stephanie Schwandner-Sievers | Kosovo | format: article, language: english, SDG 16 Institutions | kosovo location | article language-english sdg-16-institutions |
| The planet of no memory | This fanzine is created by the Youth Research Board's Preserving Memory Group composed by: David, Antonia, Trina and Leonard. It comes as a product of art research on projects supported … | Antonia Bello, David Espitia, Leonard Nyiringabo, Trina Hoti | Colombia, Kosovo, Rwanda, Youth Research Board | format: zine, language: english | colombia kosovo rwanda youth-research-board location | format-zine language-english |
| SEE Education Making the Museum of Education | This panel event, part of the Changing the Story: Inside Out and Outside In Festival (Kosovo), brought together the people who contributed to making the school house system during the … | Event, Kosovo | format: film, language: english, SDG 16 Institutions, SDG 17 Partnerships, SDG 4 Education | event kosovo location | film language-english sdg-16-institutions sdg-17-partnerships sdg-4-education | |
| PUBLICATION LAUNCH! Changing the Story: Our Third Year | Blog (2021/05/21) PUBLICATION LAUNCH! Changing the Story: Our Third Year | Aisha Kayani | Cambodia, Colombia, India, Kosovo, Phase 2, South Africa, Young Changemakers | format: blog, language: english, subject: covid19, subject: participatory arts, subject: youth | cambodia colombia india kosovo phase2 south-africa changemakers location | blog language-english subject-covid19 subject-participatory-arts youth |
| Local and international determinants of Kosovo’s statehood - Volume II | Edited by Ioannis Armakolas, Agon Demjaha, Arolda Elbasani and Stephanie Schwandner-Sievers, the volume is the follow up of the successful earlier collection focusing on some of the most pressing and … | Agon Demjaha, Arolda Elbasani, Dr Stephanie Schwandner-Sievers, Ioannis Armakolas | Kosovo | format: article, language: english | kosovo location | article language-english |
| Introducing Safeguarding to Children | Changing the Story has produced a series of short videos which address the various aspects of safeguarding in international development research. The aim of the series is to provide you … | Kosovo, Safeguarding | format: film, language: english, SDG 16 Institutions, SDG 4 Education | kosovo safeguarding location | film language-english sdg-16-institutions sdg-4-education | |
| Kicking off Changing the Story in Kosovo | Pre-proofed versions of book chapters for published book. Links to 13 pdf chapters | Dr Lura Pollozhani | Kosovo, Phase 1 | format: blog, language: english | kosovo phase1 location | blog language-english |
| ReSpace Symposium (June 2021) | ReSpace investigates how concepts of space, through arts-based participatory methods, can engage the ‘post-memory’ generation (Hirsch, 2008) in Rwanda and Kosovo to reimagine specific sites of memory. Chaired by ReSpace … | Dr Paula Callus | Event, Kosovo, Phase 2, Rwanda | format: film, language: english, SDG 16 Institutions, SDG 17 Partnerships, SDG 4 Education, subject: participatory arts | event kosovo phase2 rwanda location | film language-english sdg-16-institutions sdg-17-partnerships sdg-4-education subject-participatory-arts |
| Phase One Critical Review: Arts, Critical Thinking and Active Citizenship | Written by Lura Pollozhani and Hajrulla Çeku, this critical review of the Phase One Kosovo project ACT: Arts, Critical Thinking and Active Citizenship will explore the overarching research questions: how … | Dr Lura Pollozhani, Hajrulla Çeku | Kosovo, Phase 1 | format: report, language: english, SDG 16 Institutions, SDG 4 Education, SDG 5 Gender, subject: reflections, subject: youth | kosovo phase1 location | report language-english sdg-16-institutions sdg-4-education sdg-5-gender subject-reflections youth |
| Fragments on Heroes, Artists and Interventions (2020) | Fragments on Heroes, Artists and Interventions: Challenging Gender Ideology and Provoking Active Citizenship through the Arts in Kosovo is a chapter in the edited book Cooke, P. and Soria-Dolan, I., … | Dr Linda Gusia, Dr Lura Pollozhani, Dr Nita Luci, Dr Stephanie Schwandner-Sievers | Kosovo | format: article, language: english, SDG 10 Inequalities, SDG 16 Institutions, SDG 17 Partnerships, SDG 5 Gender, subject: gender, subject: participatory arts | kosovo location | article language-english sdg-10-inequalities sdg-16-institutions sdg-17-partnerships sdg-5-gender gender subject-participatory-arts |
| Boom Zine Animation | ACT – Arts, critical thinking & active citizenship (Kosovo): Watch the final cut of the animation created by the Boom Zine 'proof of concept' project which looks at the development … | Kosovo, Phase 1 | format: film, SDG 16 Institutions, SDG 4 Education | kosovo phase1 location | film sdg-16-institutions sdg-4-education | |
| ACT arts critical thinking active citizenship in Kosovo | Blog (2018/05/18) ACT arts critical thinking active citizenship in Kosovo | Dr Nita Luci | Kosovo, Phase 1 | format: blog, language: english | kosovo phase1 location | blog language-english |
| Building Trust | Changing the Story has produced a series of short videos which address the various aspects of safeguarding in international development research. The aim of the series is to provide you … | Diona Ahmetaj, Dorentina Podrimqaku, Genta Limani | Kosovo, Safeguarding | format: film, language: english | kosovo safeguarding location | film language-english |
| Toolkits and Resources from Kosovo | Blog (2018/03/01) Toolkits and Resources from Kosovo | Dr Nita Luci | Kosovo, Phase 1 | format: blog, language: english | kosovo phase1 location | blog language-english |
| Changing the Story Festival InSide Out and OutSide In Programme | Festival programme for a hybrid event that took place 14-18 June 2021 in person in Kosovo and online. It featured the launch of the artwork installation “The Square of Untruth”, … | Event, Kosovo | language: english, SDG 16 Institutions, SDG 17 Partnerships, SDG 4 Education, SDG 5 Gender | event kosovo location | language-english sdg-16-institutions sdg-17-partnerships sdg-4-education sdg-5-gender | |
| What about the survivors? The importance of a victim-centred approach to transitional justice in the Western Balkans — reflections on a conference | Blog (2021/01/20) What about the survivors? The importance of a victim-centred approach to transitional justice in the Western Balkans — reflections on a conference | Event, Kosovo, Phase 1 | format: blog, language: english, subject: reflections | event kosovo phase1 location | blog language-english subject-reflections |