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Комитет по коллекциям и деятельности Музеев Городов, сокращенно - КАМОК, является
самым молодым Международным Комитетом ICOM.
Это - форум для людей, которые работают в музеях городов или интересуются городскими музеями, планированием города, его историей, экономикой, архитектурой или географией, всеми аспектами городской жизни для того,чтобы вместе разделить знание и опыт, обменяться идеиями и распространять накопленный опыт по всему миру. 国际博物馆协会城市博物馆专业委员会是国际博协中最年轻的一个国际委员会。它为城市博物馆从业人员或对城市博物馆感兴趣的人员,城市规划者,历史学者,经济学者,建筑师或地理学者提供一个交流平台。通过这个平台,所有这些人可以在国际范围内分享知识、经验,交流思想,寻求合作伙伴。
Das Internationale Komitee fűr die Sammlungen und Tätigkeiten der stadtspezifischen
Museen, CAMOC genannt, ist das jűngste internationale Komitee des ICOM
Es soll als Forum dienen fűr all diejenigen, die im Bereich der stadtspezifischen Museen mitarbeiten oder sich fűr deren Arbeit interessieren: so Stadtplaner, Historiker, Őkonomen, Architekten und Geographen. Im Rahmen von CAMOC kőnnen sie ggf Wissen und Erfahrungen teilen, Ideen austauschen und Partnerschaften űber nationale Grenzen hinaus aufstellen. Our history is to a substantial degree the description of the triumph of cities and city life. J.John Palen Cities are about blue people turning red people purple. Constantinos Doxiadis
The International Committee for the Collections and Activities of Museums of Cities is one of ICOM's youngest International Committees. It is a forum for people who work in or are interested in museums about cities, urban planners, historians, economists, architects or geographers, all of whom can share knowledge and experience, exchange ideas and explore partnerships across national boundaries. In short, CAMOC is about cities and the people who live in them. To join CAMOC and take part in its activities click on Introduction at the top of this page, then on Joining the Committee. Otherwise go directly to www.icom Le
Comité International d'ICOM pour les Collections et les Activités des
Musées de Ville, CAMOC, est le comité d'ICOM le plus récent.
Ce comité constitue une tribune pour les personnes qui travaillent dans les musées consacrés aux villes dans lesquelles ils se situent, ainsi que pour les personnes qui s'y intéressent, historiens, urbanistes, économistes, architectes ou géographes ayant connaissances et expertise à échanger à ce sujet, et qui sont en mesure de créer des liens sur un plan international. O Comité Internacional para as Colecções e Actividades dos Museus de Cidade (CAMOC,
em sigla) é o mais recent Comité Internacional do Conselho Internacional
de Museus (ICOM).
Este Comité pretende ser um forum de encontro tanto para aqueles que trabalham em museus de cidade como os que se interessam pelas suas actividades, especialistas em planeamento urbano, economistas, arquitectos or geógrafos, tendo assim a possibilidade de disseminar conhecimento e experiência, trocar impressões e ideas e explorar possibilidades de trabalho conjunto com institutições congéneres além fronteiras. El Comité Internacional de Colecciones y Actividades de Muesos de Ciudades, CAMOC
en abreviación, es el más reciente Comité Internacional de ICOM.
Es un foro para la gente que trabaja en los museos dedicados
a ciudades o se interesa en ellos, así como para planificadores urbanos,
historiadores, economistas, arquitectos o geógrafos, pudiendo todos
ellos compartir conjuntamente conocimientos y experiencia, intercambiar
ideas y explorar asociaciones o colaboraciones a través de las fronteras
internacionales.
Museums of cities 국제도시박물관위원회
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International Council of Museums (ICOM) is a non-governmental organisation
of museums and museum professionals based in Paris which is, to put it
briefly, concerned with museums and their contribution to society.
ICOM has formal relations with UNESCO and it carries out part of UNESCO's programme for museums. It also has a consultative status with the United Nations' Economic and Social Council. ICOM’s activities revolve around 116 National Committees in countries across the world and 30 International Committees. The latest International Committee to be set up is CAMOC: the International Committee for the Collections and Activities of Museums of Cities. It owes its origins to the initiative of Moscow City Museum and museum professionals in other countries who felt the need for a Committee which would focus on museums of the city. The Committee also reflects the growing focus world wide on cites: their economic importance, their spectacular growth and the problems and possibilities they present. The matters for debate on the city are almost endless: pollution, regeneration, the private car, public transport, the flight to the suburbs, the destruction of heritage, insensitive development. The Committee aims to be at the centre of this debate, not least through supporting and encouraging museums of cities in their work of collecting, preserving and presenting original material on the city’s past, present and future, work which can reinforce the city’s identity and contribute to its development. The Committee was approved by ICOM’s Executive Council during the ICOM General Conference held in Seoul in October 2004. Then, at a meeting in Moscow in April 2005 organised by Irina Smagina and her colleagues at Moscow City Museum delegates from 13 countries drafte
This is our first ebook. Click on camoc Published in Decdember 2012 ___________________________________________________________________ CAMOC's latest newsletter is now on line. ________________________________________________________________
Rio de Janeiro: the ICOM | CAMOC conference 10-17. 8. 2013 Street art in Leblon, Rio ©Ian Jones
>To start: Rio in sight and sound: watch?v=1o2pVxo1Ff4 < Youtube video from Ana Rodriguez, São Paulo architect and CAMOC member This year the triennial conferences of ICOM and its International Committees takes place in Rio. Corcovado Courtesy Marizilida Cruppe BBC O Rio vive a maior transformação urbana de sua história: um momento único Rio is living through the biggest urban transformation in its history. The ICOM conference is one of a string of international events which Rio is host to. In 2012 it was the venue for the United Nations conference on sustainable development. In 2014 it will be one of Brazil's host cities for the World Football Cup and in 2016 it will be the home of the Olympics and Paralympics. The consequence is adramaticdaily transformation of the city. It is a unique moment in the city's history and an excitingtime to visit an exciting city. _______________________________________________________________ 1. The ICOM conference. Museums (memory+creativity)= social change Confêrencia do ICOM: Museus (memória +criatividade) = mudança social ICOM's conference will take place on 10-17 August 2013. Our Brazilian partners are well advanced in their planning and the full programme will be provided very soon on this site: www.icomrio2013.org In the meantime you can register on the site which also contains information about accommodation and travel arrangements. Cidade das Artes, the ICOM conference venue, under construction. The architect is the Paris based Christian de Portzamparc. The building opened on January 3 with Rock in Rio,the Musical. The official opening is in May. It covers 97,000 sq metres in Barra da Tijuca in the western section of Rio, where the Olympic Park is now being built. © Nelson_KON_003_04 The Cidade das Artes from another angle. It is situated at the junction of Av. das Americas with Av.Ayrton Senna and near the Alvorado bus station. ©Andre_VIERA_9510retouch. See also www.portzamparc.com 2. The CAMOC conference with ICLAM, MINOM, the Favela Museum and the Municipality of Rio To make the best of the opportunities that the ICOM Triennial Conference presents,CAMOC will be collaborating with different partners for different joint projects - 2.1 CAMOC 12-13 August Firstly, a CAMOC-only session during which we intend to focus on the themes of Museums (memory + creativity) = social change and The Role of Urban Revitalisation in Generating Social Capital. Both relate to CAMOC's other joint projects: "Insight Favela - Museum of the Favela" and "Live from Rio: Revitalisation as an Engine of Growth". Then a joint session - 2.2 CAMOC and ICLM 13-14 August CITY TEXTureS: reflecting the city in literature and museums Confêrencia do CAMOC. as TEXTuras da CIDADE: a cidade na literature e no museu The theme has been chosen in conjunction with ICLM, ICOM's international committee for Literary Museums. Both committees will be looking for proposals for papers, presentations and workshops that deal with the relationship between writers and the city. We will have joint events at the ICOM conference venue and at the Rio Botanic Gardens. 2.3 CAMOC, MINOM and the Favela Museum 15 August With MINOM (the Movement for a New Museology) and the Favela Museum we will be collaborating on our joint project "Insight Favela - Museum of the Favela". This is an exciting development which started last year. It consists of a day of observations, interviews and recordings in the Pavãozinho Favela. There will have to be a limit on the number of participants for this day in the favela. 2.4 Municipality of Rio de Janeiro 15 August CAMOC will collaborate with the Municipality for the project we’ve called “Live from Rio: Revitalisation as an Engine of Growth”. The project involves a tour of the Porto Maravilha urba regeneration site with contributions from urban architects who have developed the official plan and from city hall representatives.
3. Chamada de trabalhos | Convocatoria de Ponencias |Требования к докладам | Call for Papers It will be a full programme and we look forward to your papers and presentations on any of these themes: 1. City TEXTures; 2. Museums (memory + creativity)= social change; 3. The Role of Urban Revitalisation in Generating Social Change. We have expanded on the themes in our Call for Papers and explained what we'd like from you. We have detailed versions in four languages: Portuguese Spanish English Russian2 _________________________________________________________________
Corcovado, the pavement by Roberto Burle Marx on Copacabana, Rio Branco, the Botanic Gardens ©Ian Jones Cidade Maravilhosa Never been there? Rio de Janeiro is one of the world's most spectacular, vivid and rewarding cities and we aim to create a memorable conference,not least because cities are a city museum's only artefact and Rio is an exceptional artefact by any standard.
The city is plastered with icons: Copacabana, Ipanema, Corcovado, the Botanic Gardens, the favelas, bossa nova, Tom Jobim, Zico, the Maracanã stadium (now being prepared for the 2014 World Football Cup and the 2016 Olympics) - and best of all the people, the Cariocas. For a spectacular view of Rio via a helicopter flight: watch?v=LgagQi7Iy1o
In 2012, Rio and its setting were declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site. To understand why, take the ferry across Guanabara Bay to Niterói and walk up to the contemporary art gallery by the late Oscar Niemeyer. It's a very long walk, but at the end you are rewarded with one of the most dramatic urban and natural landscapes on the planet. This next video is a memorial to Oscar Niemeyer, whose buildings are all over Rio. Towards the end (1:13:55) there are shots of the inside and exterior of this remarkable gallery, as well as views over the Bay: watch?v=X078KFCFLsM At the Niterói end of the ferry terminal is Niemeyer's arts centre, now finally completed. Rio from Niterói on the other side of Guanabara Bay ©Ian Jones Yet, at the same time Rio is a vast working city, the headquarters Petrobras and home to a string of Brazilian and international companies, and the second largest city in one of the world's fastest developing economies. Rio Branco in Centro gives a flavour of this other Rio- a commercial centre, but with Belle Epoque masterpieces scattered around like the Confeitaria Colombo in Rua Gonçalves and the extraordinary Belle Epoque Municipal Theatre. Each area of Rio is different and each has its own character - Centro, Zona Norte, Zona Sul, and districts like Leblon, Barra da Tijuca, Lagoa Rodrigo de Freitas, and the favelas. It has extremes of wealth and poverty, but also a remarkable degree of tolerance and harmony.
Favela street art © Suay Aksoy
Rio: muitos povos, a mema lingua, todos vivendo em paz It is almost impossible to sum up the city and its 11 million + inhabitants, but one of the best accounts is by Roy Castro.The English edition is titled:Rio de Janeiro:Carnival under Fire (London: Bloomsbury 2003). See also our latest Newsletter where we describe our city museum project, a project which is being carried out in partnership with the municipality of Rio and ICOM Brazil. Copacabana, the ultimate in city icons ©Ian Jones We should also mention the many museum projects underway: for example,the Museu do Amanhã/ Museum of Tomorrow designed by Santiago Calatrava and the Museu da Imagem e do Som/ Museum of Image and Sound by Diller Scofidio + Renfro on Copacabana - all part of the build up to the events of 2014 and 2016.
A favela museum to visit www.museudamare.org © Suay Aksoy "Favelas are not always a problem. Favelas can sometimes be a solution" Eduardo Paes Mayor of Rio The favela museum of Pavão-Pavãozinho on the hill between Copacabana and Ipanema © Suay Aksoy A postcript: Rio has an energetic young Mayor, Eduardo Paes who was elected in 2008. Among his many new programmes are Morar Carioca the favela regeneration project; the Bus Rapid Transit system, and the IBM smart cities project, Rio's nerve centre, which co-ordinates city services from transport to weather forecasts making Rio one of the world's first "smart" cities. You can hear his views on Rio and the city of the future on www.ted.com Click his name in the search box. Rio rapidly modernising its transport system and it is now becoming a cycling city with a bike hire scheme as in London and Paris. Cycling in Rio is easy- apart from the favelas it is flat. See bikerio We will keep you posted on developments via this site and our newsletters.
Os ingredientes do Rio, sua tolerância, sua aceitação do diferente, sua vocação para o prazer e sua abertura de mente e espírito… (Hans Donner) Ficamos esperando por você ! So, we hope to see you in Rio. ______________________________________________________________________ Elections to the Executive Board In Rio we will have a new Executive Board. We look forward to new members and if you would like to join the Board please click on these links for nomination papers: Nomination_form_Final ; Call for nomination Board_Final There is also a Russian language version at Election in Russian _______________________________________________________________________ City Museums: Collisions|Connections Vancouver 24-26 October 2012 Photo courtesy Tourism Vancouver
A conference on city museums and their engagement with city life The programme and abstracts are on: CAMOC Final Program lo-res.pdf There is also a full report in the February issue of the CAMOC newsletter - see below. ______________________________________________________________________ Newsletters Our previous newsletter is at CAMOC Newsletter 2013_01 This is where you get more information about our Rio conference and the Call for Papers. An accout of the first meeting to launch CAMOC's city museum/urban centre project in Rio de Janeiro is at CAMOC Newsletter 2012_04 Previous newsletters: CAMOC Newsletter 2012_03 ; CAMOC Newsletter 201202 ; CAMOC 2012 01 ; CAMOC Newsletter 03 ; CAMOC Newsletter July 2011 ; CAMOC Newsletter 2011 ______________________________________________________________________
Museum of the City The web site created by our member, Professor Chet Orloff. ________________________________________________________________________________________
Publications Our Greatest Artefact: the City Tunis: © Habib Saidi Our latest book has now been published as a 184 page illustrated ebook. It is a collection of essays on cities and museums about them, drawn from our conferences in Istanbul, Shanghai and Berlin. It is available on camoc Urban Life and Museums Outside the Jewish Museum Berlin © Ian Jones Museum International: No. 231 (Vol. 58. No.3) UNESCO, Paris September 2006 ISSN 1350 0775. A special edition of the journal, edited by Isabelle Vinson and devoted to the proceedings of CAMOC's first conference in Boston, USA. 111pp City Museums and City Development The siege of Moscow © Moscow City Museum archives Altamira Press, Lanham, New York, Toronto, Plymouth 2008 ISBN:978-0-7591-1180-6 189pp Paperback edition 2010 "A far more compelling book than others of its kind." Museums Journal, London "Cities need museums as people need memories: not as a repository of their past, but as a token of their identity and a guide to the future. "Here is a unique survey of city museums from five continents to stimulate discussion..." Joseph Rykwert, author of The Seduction of Place: The City in the Twenty-First Century
City Museums and the Future of the City Museum of the History of Seoul © Ian Jones Proceedings of the CAMOC conference in Seoul 2008. Museum of the History of Seoul Seoul 2010. In Korean and English. 230pp A Better City Shanghai © Ian Jones Summary proceedings of the CAMOC conference in Shanghai. Shanghai History Museum Shanghai 2010. In Chinese and English. 333pp ______________________________________________________ Museums of the City: a website CAMOC was awarded a grant by ICOM in 2009 to set up a web site devoted to museums of the city. It's the brainchild of Professor Chet Orloff at Portland State University. It's now up and running at www.museumofthecity.org
The site is still being developed and contributions are welcomed. ______________________________________________________
The Cities Programme at the London School of Economics is an international centre dedicated to the understanding of urban life. Much of its work is of direct relevance to the interests of CAMOC and its range of publications on cities and city life is exceptional. More information can be found on citiesProgramme _______________________________________________________
SALT, Istanbul SALT is a centre for exhibitions, conferences, public programmes, research projects and, among many other things, urbanism. It's activities are based in two iconic districts of Istanbul:Beyoğlu and Galata. One of its latest ventures has been The Making Of Beyoğlu, a series of workshops examining case studies in Beyoğlu. You can check it out on a first rate web site: www.saltonline.org SALT's related web site is more or less a virtual museum of Istanbul and is of exceptional flair and imagination: www.becomingistanbul.org ______________________________________________________
Photos from previous CAMOC meetings: Berlin Photo: Hans Peter Merten © German National Tourist Board Berlin 2011. In der Asphaltstadt bin ich daheim Bertolt Brecht Shanghai Shanghai 2010 Shanghai city centre Our conference organiser Zhang Lan, Director of the Shanghai History Museum
Shanghai - the conference One of our Shanghai conference excursions was to Tongli, a water town in the Yangtse basin. It has been regenerated by our keynote speaker, Professor Ruan Ysan.He has been recognised by UNESCO for his urban regeneration work in China
Istanbul Istanbul 2009. Marlen Mouliou, CAMOC's current Secretary Chet Orloff, adjunct Professor of urban studies and planning Portland State University,Director emeritus Orgeon Historical Society,former CAMOC Board member and originator of our associated web site, museum of the city - see above Istanbul 2009. Suay Aksoy, our current President, Elena Koroshenko, Russian/ English interpreter for our conferences, Galina Vedernikova, CAMOC's first President and Director of Moscow City Museum and Irina Smagina, Deputy Director of the Museum
Tatarstan Board meeting in Tatarstan 2008. Karen Koh, Seoul History Museum
Seoul Seoul 2008. Blaz Persin, Director, City Museum of Ljubljana, Slovenia Seoul 2008. Delegates from Malaysia, Korea and India Copenhagen Board meeting, Copenhagen 2007. Joergen Selmer, then Director of the Museum of Copenhagen and Otto Hochreiter, Director of Graz City Museum Vienna Some of us on an excursion to Klosterneuburg, Vienna 2007 Vienna 2007. Irina Smagina,Burkhard von Roda,Director of the Basel History Museum, Blaz Persin
Boston Bernard Rushing, USA Ana Rodrigues, Brazil CAMOC's first conference took place at Northeastern University, Boston in 2006
Moscow CAMOC was set up in Moscow in 2005 ________________________________________________________ London: Olympic City 2012. Near the Olympic Park. An opinion not necessarily shared by other Londoners. _________________________________________________________
Moscow, where CAMOC was set up in 2005 ____________________________________________________________________ |
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