In this paper we explore the idea of an equity of imagination in the context of learning in the art museum. We mean by this a shared mental space in which artworks and publics are afforded mutual agency and power to generate meaning, with opportunities to conjure new meanings for shifting and changing contexts. We focus on how this can emerge through artistic interventions that seek to expand definitions of what museum learning is and could be. We investigate these ideas drawing on the work of Boris Charmatz, and The International Institute for Important Items (The I.I.I.I), as well as from a range of thinkers primarily from a French philosophical tradition. Through this we discuss how research guided by the imaginary may be used to more equitably connect visting publics with public collections, which are changing and evolving repositories of collective imagination.

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想象博物馆：通过想象的实践研究想象


在本文中，我们探讨了在艺术博物馆学习的背景下想象力公平的概念。我们的意思是一个共享的精神空间，在这个空间里，艺术作品和公众被赋予了共同的能动性和产生意义的能力，并有机会为不断变化的环境创造新的意义。我们专注于如何通过艺术干预来实现这一点，这些干预旨在扩大博物馆学习是什么和可能是什么的定义。我们借鉴了 Boris Charmatz 和国际重要物品研究所 （The I.I.I.I） 的工作，以及主要来自法国哲学传统的一系列思想家的研究。通过这篇文章，我们讨论了如何利用以想象为导向的研究来更公平地将公众与公共收藏联系起来，这些收藏正在不断变化和发展的集体想象力的宝库。