This edited book brings together best examples and practices of digital and interactive approaches and platforms from a number of projects based in European countries to foster social inclusion and participation in heritage and culture. It engages with ongoing debates on the role of culture and heritage in contemporary society relating to inclusion and exclusion, openness, access, and bottom-up participation.
The contributions address key themes such as the engagement of marginalised communities, the opening of debates and new interpretations around socially and historically contested heritages, and the way in which digital technologies may foster more inclusive cultural heritage practices. They will also showcase examples of work that can inspire reflection, further research, and also practice for readers such as practice-focused researchers in both HCI and design. Indeed, as well as consolidating the achievements of researchers, the contributions also represent concrete approaches to digital heritage innovation for social inclusion purposes.
The book’s primary audience is academics, researchers, and students in the fields of cultural heritage, digital heritage, human-computer interaction, digital humanities, and digital media, as well as practitioners in the cultural sector.
Author(s): Danilo Giglitto, Luigina Ciolfi, Eleanor Lockley, Eirini Kaldeli
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2023
Language: English
Pages: 262
City: London
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Figures
Tables
Contributors
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction: digital approaches to inclusion and participation in cultural heritage
References
2. Digital storytelling, cultural heritage, and social inclusion: the MEMEX project
Culture and social inclusion in the EU perspective and policies
The MEMEX project: digital storytelling for social and cultural inclusion
Audience development: definitions and strategies
Storytelling for cultural heritage
From storytelling to digital and interactive storytelling
Digital storytelling for audience development
Conclusion
Notes
References
3. Digital pathways for enriched communities and futures: plantation heritage in São Tomé and Príncipe
Introduction
Architectural framework: plantation heritage in São Tomé and Príncipe
Brief description and literature review on architectural design of the roças
What is needed? Integrated heritage preservation actions: critical analysis of polyvocal memories on the roças and rethinking on how to preserve them
Decolonisation in practice
From Atlantic trade routes to decentring decolonisation discourse
Challenges in decolonising the roças in STP: coexistence of multiple views and values
Potential digital technologies applied to shared cultural heritage
Multi-format representations
Core dichotomies in cultural heritage experiences with advanced technologies
New frontiers of shared digital technologies in education about architecture and avenues of inquiry
Concluding remarks
Notes
References
4. The #iziTRAVELSicilia project: participatory digital storytelling for inclusive and co-creative processes regarding cultural heritage
Introduction
Participatory culture and digital storytelling: a literature review
Storytelling as a didactic practice in approaching culture
Digital storytelling platforms as a tool for participation and inclusion
The #iziTRAVELSicilia participatory project
The #iziTRAVELSicilia case: the participatory teaching methodology
The #iziTRAVELSicilia case: examples of an inclusive approach and benefits
izi.TRAVEL: a participatory tool for digital storytelling
Conclusion
Notes
References
5. CultureLabs: Recipes for social innovation
Introduction
The CultureLabs approach
Researching intersecting fields
Requirements for digital technologies
Identifying needs at the intersection of cultural heritage, institutions, and civic society
Communities' needs
Understanding needs and translating them into requirements for the CultureLabs platform
The CultureLabs platform
Main functionalities offered by the CultureLabs platform
Services for systematisation
Search and navigation services
Collaboration services
Adaptability and reusability services
Recipes and ingredients for social innovation in cultural heritage
Platform architecture overview
Uptake of the platform in pilot participatory projects and user evaluation
Evaluation in the framework of the pilots and beyond
Conclusions
Acknowledgements
Notes
References
6. Civic museums, social need, and inclusive digital practices
The work of civic museums
The programme of work
Optimising technology choices
The benefits of inclusive content
Organisational implications
Conclusions
References
7. Participatory polyvocal performative and playful interpreting Resnik's 4 for creative placemaking with digital tools
Introduction
Literature informing this chapter
Resnick's 4Ps for digital creativity
Projects
Passion
Peers
Play
Digital storytelling and social inclusion
Critical heritage
Creative placemaking
Synthesising the literature
Digi-Mapping Wester Hailes
WHALE arts approach
Week one
Week two
Week three
Week four
Week five
Week six
Development of a new 4Ps framework
Participatory
Polyvocal
Performative
Playful
Evidence of inclusion in the Digi-Mapping workshop
Conclusion
Acknowledgements
References
8. Uncovering the colonial legacy in a British digital archive: The Pitt Rivers Museum case
Introduction
Archives and polyvocality
Anthropology and colonialism
The Pitt Rivers Museum
The museum
The digitised film collection
Methodology
Analysed films and anthropologists
"A stone age people?": Beatrice Blackwood
The "Naga Queen": Ursula graham bower
"Mission' to Lhasa": Spencer Chapman's Tibet
The colonial legacy in anthropological archives: A framework
The five postulates
Feeding the framework
Postulate #1: Anthropological subjectivity
Postulate #2: External perception
Postulate #3: State of exception
Postulate #4: Authenticity and filmcraft
Postulate #5: Use and reuse
Digital archives and colonialism: A way forward
Conclusions
Notes
References
9. Reframing ephemera: digitisation, community music-making, and archival value(s)
Introduction: the internet of musical events
Amateurism and expertise in collaborative community archiving
Archiving the local
Anatomy of a music archive: valued collections and community values
Negotiating the politics of co-production
From crowdsourcing to co-ownership
Storytelling and enacted curation
Conclusion: properties of an open and scholarly archive of music ephemera
Notes
References
10. Sami traces: Diversity and curatorial workarounds in image archives
Introduction: Cultural heritage in motion
Theoretical perspective: Democracy, visuality, and identity formation
Material and methodology: Metadata extraction and close reading
Results: Biases, workarounds, and interventions
Image tags in the SNHB archive on Flickr Commons
Sami traces in the SNHB archive on Flickr Commons
Sami traces in the SNHB archive in Kulturmiljöbild
Conclusion: Working around curatorial workarounds
Summary
Acknowledgement
References
11. Reading, play, and critical engagement with cultural heritage: Associating children with Orientalist paintings through an interactive picturebook
Introduction
Previous works
Interactive technologies and children's engagements in museums: A critical stance
Picturebook affordances for imagining new interactions
Children's material experiences with interactive picturebooks
Children's narrative experiences with picturebooks on museums
Designing a picturebook enhanced with paper circuitry for Pera Museum's Orientalist Painting Collection
Designing the picturebook prototype
Testing the picturebook prototype with the children
Discussion
Plural heritages and polyvocal imagination across time and space
Embodied and material assemblage of criticality
Conclusion
References
12. Afterword: Code-switching: Feeling the "emotional turn" in digital cultural heritage
Introduction
Sensing the postdigital
Nurturing the affective and emotional turn
Feeling emotion in cultural technology
Conclusion: "Code switching"
References
Index
