King's College London

Working with Decolonising the Archive (DTA) have focussed creating mechanisms for “cultural (re)construction” through engagement with various forms of cultural and heritage production to enable opportunities for critical engagement, skills exchange and (self-)repair. Through this project, we will adapt the approaches to knowledge production and exchange, within a broad diasporic decolonial framework that they have developed.

Working with DTA’s current adult education course, ‘Museum Restitution’ as a topic and approach, we will test and evaluate the extent to which their approach to cultural re(construction), restitution and repair can be adapted within a UK higher education context.

The overarching aim is to develop and embed new methodologies for engaging different audiences within a reparative framework, with a focus on disrupting institutional barriers to knowledge exchange.