Museums as Complex Systems in the Face of the War
Museums lose their conceptual complexity and polysemy under conditions of war, forced confrontation, and struggles for survival, which may lead to a loss of diversity in the long run. Parametric General Systems analysis allows us to consider a museum as a system and to explore substratum, structural...
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University of Leicester
2023-07-01
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| description | Museums lose their conceptual complexity and polysemy under conditions of war, forced confrontation, and struggles for survival, which may lead to a loss of diversity in the long run. Parametric General Systems analysis allows us to consider a museum as a system and to explore substratum, structural, and conceptual types of simplicity and complexity. Such qualitative analysis makes it possible to move the discussion from the ideological and value sphere to the field of rational and science-based justification. This justification, in turn, illustrates why it is important to maintain complex interpretations in Ukrainian museums during the current war. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-58669ccfb8104cddb1aafa32963e49212023-08-01T09:18:31ZengUniversity of LeicesterMuseum & Society1479-83602023-07-01212172310.29311/mas.v21i2.42913494Museums as Complex Systems in the Face of the WarIevgeniia Ivanova0University of AberdeenMuseums lose their conceptual complexity and polysemy under conditions of war, forced confrontation, and struggles for survival, which may lead to a loss of diversity in the long run. Parametric General Systems analysis allows us to consider a museum as a system and to explore substratum, structural, and conceptual types of simplicity and complexity. Such qualitative analysis makes it possible to move the discussion from the ideological and value sphere to the field of rational and science-based justification. This justification, in turn, illustrates why it is important to maintain complex interpretations in Ukrainian museums during the current war.https://journals.le.ac.uk/ojs1/index.php/mas/article/view/4291museumwarcomplexitysimplicitysubstratumstructureconceptparametric general systems theoryukraine |
| spellingShingle | Ievgeniia Ivanova Museums as Complex Systems in the Face of the War Museum & Society museum war complexity simplicity substratum structure concept parametric general systems theory ukraine |
| title | Museums as Complex Systems in the Face of the War |
| title_full | Museums as Complex Systems in the Face of the War |
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| title_short | Museums as Complex Systems in the Face of the War |
| title_sort | museums as complex systems in the face of the war |
| topic | museum war complexity simplicity substratum structure concept parametric general systems theory ukraine |
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