There are different ways of knowing a city. There is data and theory, research and history, but there is also sensing and feeling. Moreover, different types of people-academics and planners, residents and tourists, artists and garbage collectors-develop different bodies of knowledge about the city. In this informal presentation, Rainey Tisdale will discuss her experience curating the city for urban residents. She will share conceptual models and methods city museums use to observe, document, and share knowledge about the city in the hopes of cross-pollinating with Aarhus University's urban researchers.

Mini-bio
Rainey Tisdale is an independent museum curator, based in Boston, who works at the intersection of cities, objects, and creativity. She is an international expert on city museums and blogs at CityStories. She teaches Material Culture in the Museum Studies Program at Tufts University. With Linda Norris, she is the co-author of Creativity in Museum Practice (Left Coast Press, 2013). She has held fellowships as a Fulbright Scholar in Helsinki, Finland, and as a Community Fellow at Brown University’s Center for Public Humanities.

Contact: Mikkel Thelle, iksmikkel@cas.au.dk, Casper Andersen, ideca@cas.au.dk