What is conservation?

The Ethics of Caring is an exploratory project hosted by WhatIsConservation.com where the Creative Team interviews laborers across the heritage sector about how they are leveraging their agency and positions of power to affect positive change within their communities. The first season explores how the concept of collective success embeds itself into collection care activities, what it can be for groups of laborers, and how it can be a guide for developing community sustainably.

• The value of caring

  https://whatisconservation.com/the-ethics-of-caring-podcast/#ethics-1Wednesday, Nov 30, 2022

  In this episode you'll hear highlights from some of the conversations we'll feature throughout the season, learning more about the motivation to create the podcast and the central themes including: what it means to center compassion and relationships in our practice, how to devalue competition and instead promote collaboration, pathways for sustainably cultivating community, and what it means to approach collection care work from a place of holism.  Please follow along with our social media account @theethicsofcaringpod and WhatIsConservation.com This podcast is generously supported by funds provided by the Winterthur/University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation and the Society of Winterthur Fellows.

• Season one trailer

  https://whatisconservation.com/the-ethics-of-caring-podcast/#ethics-2Sunday, Nov 06, 2022

  The Ethics of Caring is a new podcast that explores ethical decision making in the context of heritage labor. The creator work in museums, archives, private businesses, and academia. They are conservators and preservationists, community organizers, and educators who acknowledge their biases, preferences, and values openly. By interviewing fellow laborers in various fields within the heritage sector, they gather information and perspectives on what it means to care professionally, how to intentionally embed values into their decisions, and how to cultivate community sustainably. Since the hosts are actively having conversations, their perspectives are actively expanding. 

  The first season is intended as a pilot project to determine format and understand listenership and the creators feel emboldened by the freedom this open-ended format affords them. It is generously hosted on WhatIsConservation.com and funded by grants awarded through the Winterthur/University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation and the Society of Winterthur Fellows.