Worklab Members Meeting

12 July 2013 (3-5pm)

1. Kalle Kallio (Worklab Chair, Finnish Labour Museum) welcomed members to the meeting

2. Each member attending the meeting gave an update about their institution’s work and future plans

3. Worklab News

• Labour and Landscape – Six articles based on the 2010 Tampere Conference are going to print soon and are already available online (International Journal of Heritage Studies 2013, Issue 5)
• Sound of Work – the project is now due to begin (led by Museum of Work, Sweden)
• Website – changes are to be implemented to the website and all members should try to be more active in using the website

4. Future Projects

• ILO 2019 anniversary – Chairman to write to all members to ask if they want to take part and for their ideas
• Dagmar Kift’s (LWL Industriemuseum, Germany) Writer Project – Dagmar to write a short brief for the project to find project partners (for touring exhibition)
• Unemployment – Louise Karlsgov Skyggebjerg (Worker’s Museum, Denmark) is still interested in this theme in Denmark – Katy Archer (People’s History Museum, UK) to provide details of the UK project which potentially will be run in partnership with Exeter University
• Sofia Seifarth’s (Technical Museum, Sweden) Medical and Technical Issues project is in planning stage – Sofia to write a short project brief for other members
• Music was discussed as a potential future topic for collaboration – many members had connections to the theme
• Suffrage and democracy was discussed as a potential future topic for collaboration – particularly around Women’s Suffrage which could be talked about more as part of a future conference
• The Fight for the Welfare State was discussed as a topic (particularly of interest to Louise and Katy)

5. Conferences

• A Worklab Conference will be held in Austria in 2014 around themes of work and labour
• Following Worklab Conference will be held as A Work with Sounds conference in Dortmund in 2015 as part of that project