ABSTRACT
@#In response to the global crisis brought about by the coronavirus pandemic, the Philippine government declared a countrywide State of Calamity, apart from imposing quarantines of different stringency across regions. As workplaces have been mandated to implement alternative arrangements, these major changes in turn have caused disruptions in, and called for adjustments to, business operations, with museums being among the affected. As museums are venues that store physical collections that call for physical presence and even the tactile involvement of audiences and visitors, their operations will have to be inevitably transformed postpandemic, as are their visitors, whose mental health is likely to have been affected by the pandemic and resulting quarantine. Using the lens of crisis management, this paper analyzed the museum sector's response to the changes brought about by the spread of disease and the resulting imposition of quarantine. Through a review of the responses of several Manila-based museums to the crisis, the paper assessed the readiness of the museums in creating appropriate and effective measures to manage decreased foot traffic and economic impact, among others. The paper asserts that various tactics were used as reactions, instead of proactive steps, to mitigate the effects of the pandemic to museums. The analyses are juxtaposed with degrowth initiatives, which may potentially address the economic issues arising from the pandemic. These initiatives may be of help in resolving the issue of collections management and curatorship, with a focus on the quality, rather than the quantity, of the museum's collection and profits. Through postmodern and new museology theory, shifts from physical to virtual and other alternative modes of art experience are discussed as possible and effective solutions to this crisis. Overall, the paper aims to propose a revised model of operation that may be useful to museology in particular, and mental and planetary health in general.
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Museums , Mental HealthABSTRACT
@#In response to the global crisis brought about by the coronavirus pandemic, the Philippine government declared a countrywide State of Calamity, apart from imposing quarantines of different stringency across regions. As workplaces have been mandated to implement alternative arrangements, these major changes in turn have caused disruptions in, and called for adjustments to, business operations, with museums being among the affected. As museums are venues that store physical collections that call for physical presence and even the tactile involvement of audiences and visitors, their operations will have to be inevitably transformed post-pandemic, as are their visitors, whose mental health are likely to have been affected by the pandemic and resulting quarantine. Using the lens of crisis management, this paper analyzed the museums’ response to the changes brought about by the spread of disease and the resulting imposition of quarantine. Through a review of the responses of several Manila-based museums to the crisis, the paper assessed the readiness of the museums in creating appropriate and effective measures to manage decreased foot traffic and economic impact, among others. The paper asserts that various tactics were used as reactions, instead of proactive steps, to mitigate the effects of the pandemic to museums. The analyses are juxtaposed with degrowth initiatives, which may potentially address the economic issues arising from the pandemic. These initiatives may be of help in resolving the issue of collections management and curatorship, with a focus on the quality, rather than the quantity, of the museum’s collection and profits. Through postmodern and new museology theory, shifts from physical to virtual and other alternative modes of art experience are discussed as possible and effective solutions to this crisis. Overall, the paper aims to propose a revised model of operation that may be useful to museology in particular, and mental and planetary health in general.
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Mental Health , Museums , Postmodernism , Information Theory , Health CommunicationABSTRACT
La psiquiatría es un proyecto por excelencia modernista y una aplicación paradigmática de las aspiraciones de la Ilustración. La teoría posmoderna proporciona una liberación con efecto sobre las prácticas modernistas, y el "método científico" funciona en un discurso modernista como una metanarrativa. La psiquiatría posmoderna apelaría a la sabiduría de la comunidad de práctica. La postpsiquiatría es una variante de la psiquiatría crítica. Desde una epistemología positivista, la biopsiquiatría utiliza los métodos de las ciencias naturales para la explicación de la experiencia humana. En este encuadre postpsiquiátrico en el que los presupuestos de los usuarios son el punto de partida, la relación terapéutica es horizontal y los profesionales se sitúan a su servicio. Las imperfecciones de la mente médica no pueden subestimarse. Tampoco pueden las consecuencias negativas de su afirmación ser el único paradigma psiquiátrico legítimo. Sin embargo, la psiquiatría no puede prescindir de la mente médica.
Psychiatry is by excellence a modernist project and a paradigmatic application of the aspirations of the Enlightenment. Postmodern theory provides a liberation effect on modernist practices. and the "scientific method" works in a modernist discourse as a meta-narrative. Postmodern psychiatry would appeal to the wisdom of the community of practice.Post-psychiatry is a variant of critical psychiatry. From a positivist epistemology, biopsychiatry uses the methods of the natural sciences for the explanation of human experience. In this postpsychiatric framework in which the assumptions of the users are the starting point, the therapeutic relationship is horizontal and the professionals are at their service.The imperfections of the medical mind can not be underestimated. Neither can the negative consequences of their claim be the only legitimate psychiatric paradigm. However, psychiatry can not do without the medical mind