Jenny works closely with academic and other partners on a range of projects. They are too young to have their own websites, but watch this space for updates!
Marking Biodiversity Loss
Working with partners on the Isle of Portland in Dorset (MEMO Project, Eden Portland, Island Community Action), we have been studying how slow (and sometimes fast) environmental and social change is confronted and remembered by this unique community – the source of the iconic Portland stone we know from St. Paul’s Cathedral in London and the UN Building in New York City. We have also sought to support the creation of a memorial to extinct species in a disused stone mine.
This is how Eden Portland envisions turning a stone mine into an underground memorial space.
Jenny and Sebastian Brooke talking to delegates at COP15
In this context, Jenny has been working with Prof Eiman Kanjo (Computing, NTU) to develop an app that allows members of the public and school kids to “make their mark” and creatively petition to call for the memorial to be built and for other measures to combat biodiversity loss.” You can download the App here:
“We have presented this app to the Portland community, as well as at the UN Summit on Biological Diversity (COP-15) in Montréal in December 2022.”
Mnemonic Democracy
With Sarah Gensburger (Sciences-Po Paris), Matt James & Oliver Schmidtke (University of Victoria), and others, Jenny is working on the early stages of a research project on “The Crisis of Democracy as a Crisis of Memory,” which will seek to improve empirical data available on the memory-democracy nexus.
Apartheid Museum, South Africa.
The Legacy of the Dunera
The Dunera was a ship that deported mostly German and Austrian refugees from Nazi Germany to Australia, where they were interned in 1940. Jenny’s grandfather Heinz was among them. Jenny is now working with Seumas Spark (Monash University, Australia) and Blerina Kellezi (NTU), as well as over a dozen museum partners (including the Wiener Holocaust Library in London, the Exile Archive in Frankfurt, the Exile Museum in Berlin, the Volkskundemuseum in Vienna, the State Library of NSW) to create an exciting exhibition and research project.
Dunera Tribute Museum, Darling Harbour Sydney.
Remembering Energy Transitions
In this project, Jenny is collaborating with geologist Kate Moore (Exeter University), science historian Hiroki Shin (Birmingham University), and several museums (Ingenium Canada, Science Museum London, Peak District Mining Museum etc.) to think about how past energy transitions can inform what must be done to tackle climate change.
Magpie Mine heritage site, Peak District, UK.