Igniting Connections: How Community Collaboration Organically Creates Success

Redefining Home: A Story of Japanese Canadian Resettlement in Toronto explores the story of Harold and Hana Kawasoe, a young Japanese Canadian couple, who chose Toronto as their new home in the face of immeasurable loss they, and many other Japanese Canadians faced during the Second World War. Using...

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Published in:The iJournal: Graduate Student Journal of the Faculty of Information 2019-09, Vol.4 (3), p.28-36
Main Authors: Drascic-Gaudio, Meghan, Graham, Hailey, Howard, Madeleine
Format: Article
Language:English
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Summary:Redefining Home: A Story of Japanese Canadian Resettlement in Toronto explores the story of Harold and Hana Kawasoe, a young Japanese Canadian couple, who chose Toronto as their new home in the face of immeasurable loss they, and many other Japanese Canadians faced during the Second World War. Using a co-curation approach to share the Kawasoe story, the exhibit team discovered how community collaboration and the facilitation of diverse experiences can organically create support and success for museums and historic houses. Redefining Home offers a lens through which the strengths and weaknesses of this method can be seen, and this paper further discusses how it can be implemented by others going forward. Igniting community connections and creating platforms for many voices offers museums valuable and important insight into diverse and unique narratives. Keywords: case study, community collaboration, museums, exhibition development, co-curation
ISSN:2561-7397
2561-7397
DOI:10.33137/ijournal.v4i3.33077