Theorising more-than human collectives for climate change action in museums

Urgent action is required to produce knowledge and cognitive frames that will give rise to new ways of thinking and acting to promote a liveable planet for the long term. Such action requires innovation across all disciplines and sectors. It also demands we engage afresh with familiar established concepts and constructions. Museums are among modernity's most emblematic and trusted pedagogical institutions. Recognised as icons of modern and critical humanism, they are instrumental in shaping visions of the world, of culture and cultural difference, human relations with the non-human world, technology and science. While recent social constructivist ways of thinking acknowledge reality as socially constructed (Alvesson & Sköldberg 2010) and while the representation of plural subjectivities have become popular, many institutions continue to support the notion of a human-centred world, a separate "given" nature and constructed culture, and binary subject positions.