Overview
The Cartographies of Interruption and Influence Connection Workshop took place from 24–27 August 2025 at the Frauenmuseum Merano / Museo delle Donne Merano (Italy). The workshop brought together feminist educators, curators, artists, and researchers from diverse international contexts to explore feminist educational strategies in museums in response to gender-based violence.
Across four days, participants engaged in collective storytelling, object-based inquiry, embodied and creative pedagogies, feminist mapping, and site-based learning. Through presentations, workshops, city walks, and shared reflective practices, the workshop examined how museums and cultural institutions can function as spaces of resistance, care, and transformative feminist knowledge production.
Key Details
- Workshop type: FIRN / IAWM Connection Workshop
- Dates: 24–27 August 2025 (4 days)
- Location: Frauenmuseum Merano / Museo delle Donne Merano, Italy
- Theme: Feminist educational strategies in museums responding to gender-based violence
Focus and Approach
The workshop centred feminist pedagogical and curatorial practices that respond to gender-based violence through museums and cultural institutions. Participants shared research, exhibitions, educational programs, and creative practices that make visible women’s experiences, resist dominant narratives, and foster feminist solidarity across borders.
Creative and embodied methods, including collective storytelling, object-based work, feminist mapping, and writing, were used to explore how knowledge, memory, and resistance are produced, shared, and felt within museum spaces and public sites.
Visual Story Map and Workshop Documentation
