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Research paper thumbnail of Recasting witnessing in museums: digital interactive displays for dialogic remembering

Recasting witnessing in museums: digital interactive displays for dialogic remembering, 2020

Recently, the role of personal memories in the exhibition space has evolved synergistically with ... more Recently, the role of personal memories in the exhibition space has evolved synergistically with the creation of digital exhibits that provide opportunities for encounter between visitors and ordinary others remembering their difficult histories. The article contextualises the use of dialogic museum displays in relation to the concept of mediated witnessing by focusing on the use of digital interactivity. Grounded on the analysis of three case studies from museums in Poland, UK and Italy, the article illustrates how dialogic features supported by digital technology frame processes of partaking other peoples’ memories, enriching and reworking the idea of dialogic remembering. Our key findings concern the role of dialogue in enhancing the liveness and the experiential dimension of mediated witnessing. Further, the article notes a shift in the use of the testimony in museums from evidencing past events to a stronger emphasis in supporting listening attitudes and reflective processes during the museum visit. The article observes an expanded use of digital interactivity, to contributes, through dialogicality, to the framing of affective and performative approaches to both knowledge and identity production in museums.

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Research paper thumbnail of Framing collaborative processes of digital transformation in cultural organisations: from literary archives to augmented reality

Museum Management and Curatorship, 2019

At a time when it is particularly urgent to identify models of intersection across the digital an... more At a time when it is particularly urgent to identify models of intersection across the digital and cultural sector to respond to an emergent funding and policy environment, this article contributes to a body of scholarly work around designing digital interventions for museums by identifying the role of cultural content in shaping design spaces for collaboration. The context of the article is a research project that brought together magical realist literature and the development of an Augmented Reality smartphone application realised through a public programme held at a museum of children’s literature. This process created an open-ended design space within the organisation embedded into the development of public engagement workshops around magical realism and place making. It investigates how the cultural content (from archival material) occupied a key role in shaping technological development and suggests strategies that could grant autonomy and sustainability to cultural organisations in engaging in digital transformation.

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Research paper thumbnail of Epistemologies of prototyping: knowing in artistic research

Increasingly material artefacts are attributed a key role in research in the arts and design. Iss... more Increasingly material artefacts are attributed a key role in research in the arts and design. Issues of dissemination and legitimacy of knowledge are however heavily disputed, often through redefinitions of the concept of knowledge itself. This
article contributes to these debates by focusing on artistic prototypes, identified here as one of the prevailing outcomes in technologically engaged art research projects. In contrast with a common conceptualisation of knowledge emerging from inside the world of artistic research as subjective, ineffable and emotional, I discuss four examples to highlight how artistic
prototypes can support transferable and generative contributions to knowledge, grounded in ad hoc but innovative methodologies. Furthermore, the examples offer insightful considerations that help to identify artistic research when conducted outside official institutions, as opposed to simply process-oriented art practices.

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Research paper thumbnail of Fiction and curatorial practice: developing alternative experiences for digital artistic prototypes

Increasingly, digital artworks are developed as part of research endeavours, and respond to a cul... more Increasingly, digital artworks are developed as part of research endeavours, and respond to a cultural climate which values co-creation, practices of tinkering, re-cycling or re-purposing and innovation. As a consequence, these works tend to be unstable, constantly open to change and to the intervention of possible collaborators. Because of such openness to transformation and their involvement in knowledge production and sharing, they can be considered as prototypes, and generate ne'w opportunities for curatorial practice. This article introduces a curatorial project developed around one such artistic prototype, the Eye Resonator, and based on the idea that audience experience can be structured or transformed by speculatively relating the piece to alternative uses and everyday life contexts, different from its role as an interactive artwork. Our strategy is inspired by design methodologies based on the use of fiction, and imagines scenarios where the technological specificities of the piece can be repurposed. This intervention was partially intended to respond to a series of problems encountered in previous showings of the piece, and aims at scaffolding the participant experience by providing, through the scenarios, additional cultural references and entry keys to approach the prototype.

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Research paper thumbnail of From Place-Memories to Active Citizenship: The Potential of Geotagged User-Generated Content for Memory Scholarship

Doing Memory Research, 2018

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Research paper thumbnail of Subjective Epistemologies: Inconsistent Artefacts in the Redesign of Medical Devices

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Research paper thumbnail of Understanding Artistic Prototypes between Activism and Research

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Research paper thumbnail of Innovation , Collaboration , Education : Histories and Perspectives on Living Labs

This paper suggests a genealogy of Living Laboratories (LL) by comparing similarities in their de... more This paper suggests a genealogy of Living Laboratories (LL) by comparing similarities in their development with media labs and experimental art schools. These histories all share an interest in concepts of innovation, collaboration, interdisciplinarity, and in the subversion of traditional forms of governance and knowledge production. Originally conceived as a research environment in the field of computer science, and subsequently applied as a curatorial strategy for exhibiting and evaluating interactive art, the idea of the LL can be expanded and enriched with new potential. Looking at the models of media lab and the educational turn in contemporary art can not only add a chapter in media histories, but can also indicate a possible trajectory for LL towards the establishment of temporary communities engaged in forms of knowledge exchange. By ascribing new responsibilities to the public and addressing issues relevant to them, this can bring new perspectives on audience development a...

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Research paper thumbnail of 2 The Prototype : What Is It ?

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Research paper thumbnail of Online Visual Dialogues about Place: Using the Geostream Tools to Identify Heritage Practices on Photo-sharing Social Media

CoHERE explores the ways in which identities in Europe are constructed through heritage represent... more CoHERE explores the ways in which identities in Europe are constructed through heritage representations and performances that connect to ideas of place, history, tradition and belonging. The research identifies existing heritage practices and discourses in Europe. It also identifies means to sustain and transmit European heritages that are likely to contribute to the evolution of inclusive, communitarian identities and counteract disaffection with, and division within, the EU. A number of modes of representation and performance are explored in the project, from cultural policy, museum display, heritage interpretation, school curricula and political discourse to music and dance performances, food and cuisine, rituals and protest.

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Research paper thumbnail of Prototyping Heritage: Collections, Materials and Emerging Approaches to Engagement

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Research paper thumbnail of Artistic prototypes : from laboratory practices to curatorial strategies

.................................................................................................... more .............................................................................................................................................. ii Acknowledgments .............................................................................................................................. iv Publications ......................................................................................................................................... v Declaration about collaborative work ................................................................................................. vi Chapter

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Research paper thumbnail of The pointless chat-room? Coping with absence in online performances

This paper addresses the role of chat functionality when included in online performances that do ... more This paper addresses the role of chat functionality when included in online performances that do not fundamentally require it. The explanation that chats are included to reintegrate forms of co-presence is supported by a series of interviews but immediately challenged by the author. This papers argues that the need for co-presence is not a universal one, but is rather rooted in theatre practice. Online performers with a background in the visual arts tend instead to emphasise a purely visual relationship between audience and artwork. This study also elaborates on the use of chat logs as a form of documentation.

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Research paper thumbnail of Recasting witnessing in museums: digital interactive displays for dialogic remembering

International Journal of Heritage Studies, 2020

ABSTRACT Recently, the role of personal memories in the exhibition space has evolved synergistica... more ABSTRACT Recently, the role of personal memories in the exhibition space has evolved synergistically with the creation of digital exhibits that provide opportunities for encounter between visitors and ordinary others remembering their difficult histories. The article contextualises the use of dialogic museum displays in relation to the concept of mediated witnessing by focusing on the use of digital interactivity. Grounded on the analysis of three case studies from museums in Poland, UK and Italy, the article illustrates how dialogic features supported by digital technology frame processes of partaking other peoples’ memories, enriching and reworking the idea of dialogic remembering. Our key findings concern the role of dialogue in enhancing the liveness and the experiential dimension of mediated witnessing. Further, the article notes a shift in the use of the testimony in museums from evidencing past events to a stronger emphasis in supporting listening attitudes and reflective processes during the museum visit. The article observes an expanded use of digital interactivity, to contributes, through dialogicality, to the framing of affective and performative approaches to both knowledge and identity production in museums.

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Research paper thumbnail of Magical Realism and Augmented Reality

Proceedings of the 2019 on Designing Interactive Systems Conference, 2019

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Research paper thumbnail of European Heritage, Dialogue and Digital Practices

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Research paper thumbnail of Framing collaborative processes of digital transformation in cultural organisations: from literary archives to augmented reality

Museum Management and Curatorship, 2019

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Research paper thumbnail of Epistemologies of prototyping: knowing in artistic research

Digital Creativity, 2016

ABSTRACT Increasingly material artefacts are attributed a key role in research in the arts and de... more ABSTRACT Increasingly material artefacts are attributed a key role in research in the arts and design. Issues of dissemination and legitimacy of knowledge are however heavily disputed, often through redefinitions of the concept of knowledge itself. This article contributes to these debates by focusing on artistic prototypes, identified here as one of the prevailing outcomes in technologically engaged art research projects. In contrast with a common conceptualisation of knowledge emerging from inside the world of artistic research as subjective, ineffable and emotional, I discuss four examples to highlight how artistic prototypes can support transferable and generative contributions to knowledge, grounded in ad hoc but innovative methodologies. Furthermore, the examples offer insightful considerations that help to identify artistic research when conducted outside official institutions, as opposed to simply process-oriented art practices.

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Research paper thumbnail of Fiction and curatorial practice: developing alternative experiences for digital artistic prototypes

International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media, 2016

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Research paper thumbnail of Network Time Where it Counts. Temporality and Critical Approaches to Infrastructure

The Design Journal, 2017

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Research paper thumbnail of Recasting witnessing in museums: digital interactive displays for dialogic remembering

Recasting witnessing in museums: digital interactive displays for dialogic remembering, 2020

Recently, the role of personal memories in the exhibition space has evolved synergistically with ... more Recently, the role of personal memories in the exhibition space has evolved synergistically with the creation of digital exhibits that provide opportunities for encounter between visitors and ordinary others remembering their difficult histories. The article contextualises the use of dialogic museum displays in relation to the concept of mediated witnessing by focusing on the use of digital interactivity. Grounded on the analysis of three case studies from museums in Poland, UK and Italy, the article illustrates how dialogic features supported by digital technology frame processes of partaking other peoples’ memories, enriching and reworking the idea of dialogic remembering. Our key findings concern the role of dialogue in enhancing the liveness and the experiential dimension of mediated witnessing. Further, the article notes a shift in the use of the testimony in museums from evidencing past events to a stronger emphasis in supporting listening attitudes and reflective processes during the museum visit. The article observes an expanded use of digital interactivity, to contributes, through dialogicality, to the framing of affective and performative approaches to both knowledge and identity production in museums.

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Research paper thumbnail of Framing collaborative processes of digital transformation in cultural organisations: from literary archives to augmented reality

Museum Management and Curatorship, 2019

At a time when it is particularly urgent to identify models of intersection across the digital an... more At a time when it is particularly urgent to identify models of intersection across the digital and cultural sector to respond to an emergent funding and policy environment, this article contributes to a body of scholarly work around designing digital interventions for museums by identifying the role of cultural content in shaping design spaces for collaboration. The context of the article is a research project that brought together magical realist literature and the development of an Augmented Reality smartphone application realised through a public programme held at a museum of children’s literature. This process created an open-ended design space within the organisation embedded into the development of public engagement workshops around magical realism and place making. It investigates how the cultural content (from archival material) occupied a key role in shaping technological development and suggests strategies that could grant autonomy and sustainability to cultural organisations in engaging in digital transformation.

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Research paper thumbnail of Epistemologies of prototyping: knowing in artistic research

Increasingly material artefacts are attributed a key role in research in the arts and design. Iss... more Increasingly material artefacts are attributed a key role in research in the arts and design. Issues of dissemination and legitimacy of knowledge are however heavily disputed, often through redefinitions of the concept of knowledge itself. This
article contributes to these debates by focusing on artistic prototypes, identified here as one of the prevailing outcomes in technologically engaged art research projects. In contrast with a common conceptualisation of knowledge emerging from inside the world of artistic research as subjective, ineffable and emotional, I discuss four examples to highlight how artistic
prototypes can support transferable and generative contributions to knowledge, grounded in ad hoc but innovative methodologies. Furthermore, the examples offer insightful considerations that help to identify artistic research when conducted outside official institutions, as opposed to simply process-oriented art practices.

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Research paper thumbnail of Fiction and curatorial practice: developing alternative experiences for digital artistic prototypes

Increasingly, digital artworks are developed as part of research endeavours, and respond to a cul... more Increasingly, digital artworks are developed as part of research endeavours, and respond to a cultural climate which values co-creation, practices of tinkering, re-cycling or re-purposing and innovation. As a consequence, these works tend to be unstable, constantly open to change and to the intervention of possible collaborators. Because of such openness to transformation and their involvement in knowledge production and sharing, they can be considered as prototypes, and generate ne'w opportunities for curatorial practice. This article introduces a curatorial project developed around one such artistic prototype, the Eye Resonator, and based on the idea that audience experience can be structured or transformed by speculatively relating the piece to alternative uses and everyday life contexts, different from its role as an interactive artwork. Our strategy is inspired by design methodologies based on the use of fiction, and imagines scenarios where the technological specificities of the piece can be repurposed. This intervention was partially intended to respond to a series of problems encountered in previous showings of the piece, and aims at scaffolding the participant experience by providing, through the scenarios, additional cultural references and entry keys to approach the prototype.

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Research paper thumbnail of From Place-Memories to Active Citizenship: The Potential of Geotagged User-Generated Content for Memory Scholarship

Doing Memory Research, 2018

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Research paper thumbnail of Subjective Epistemologies: Inconsistent Artefacts in the Redesign of Medical Devices

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Research paper thumbnail of Understanding Artistic Prototypes between Activism and Research

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Research paper thumbnail of Innovation , Collaboration , Education : Histories and Perspectives on Living Labs

This paper suggests a genealogy of Living Laboratories (LL) by comparing similarities in their de... more This paper suggests a genealogy of Living Laboratories (LL) by comparing similarities in their development with media labs and experimental art schools. These histories all share an interest in concepts of innovation, collaboration, interdisciplinarity, and in the subversion of traditional forms of governance and knowledge production. Originally conceived as a research environment in the field of computer science, and subsequently applied as a curatorial strategy for exhibiting and evaluating interactive art, the idea of the LL can be expanded and enriched with new potential. Looking at the models of media lab and the educational turn in contemporary art can not only add a chapter in media histories, but can also indicate a possible trajectory for LL towards the establishment of temporary communities engaged in forms of knowledge exchange. By ascribing new responsibilities to the public and addressing issues relevant to them, this can bring new perspectives on audience development a...

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Research paper thumbnail of 2 The Prototype : What Is It ?

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Research paper thumbnail of Online Visual Dialogues about Place: Using the Geostream Tools to Identify Heritage Practices on Photo-sharing Social Media

CoHERE explores the ways in which identities in Europe are constructed through heritage represent... more CoHERE explores the ways in which identities in Europe are constructed through heritage representations and performances that connect to ideas of place, history, tradition and belonging. The research identifies existing heritage practices and discourses in Europe. It also identifies means to sustain and transmit European heritages that are likely to contribute to the evolution of inclusive, communitarian identities and counteract disaffection with, and division within, the EU. A number of modes of representation and performance are explored in the project, from cultural policy, museum display, heritage interpretation, school curricula and political discourse to music and dance performances, food and cuisine, rituals and protest.

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Research paper thumbnail of Prototyping Heritage: Collections, Materials and Emerging Approaches to Engagement

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Research paper thumbnail of Artistic prototypes : from laboratory practices to curatorial strategies

.................................................................................................... more .............................................................................................................................................. ii Acknowledgments .............................................................................................................................. iv Publications ......................................................................................................................................... v Declaration about collaborative work ................................................................................................. vi Chapter

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Research paper thumbnail of The pointless chat-room? Coping with absence in online performances

This paper addresses the role of chat functionality when included in online performances that do ... more This paper addresses the role of chat functionality when included in online performances that do not fundamentally require it. The explanation that chats are included to reintegrate forms of co-presence is supported by a series of interviews but immediately challenged by the author. This papers argues that the need for co-presence is not a universal one, but is rather rooted in theatre practice. Online performers with a background in the visual arts tend instead to emphasise a purely visual relationship between audience and artwork. This study also elaborates on the use of chat logs as a form of documentation.

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Research paper thumbnail of Recasting witnessing in museums: digital interactive displays for dialogic remembering

International Journal of Heritage Studies, 2020

ABSTRACT Recently, the role of personal memories in the exhibition space has evolved synergistica... more ABSTRACT Recently, the role of personal memories in the exhibition space has evolved synergistically with the creation of digital exhibits that provide opportunities for encounter between visitors and ordinary others remembering their difficult histories. The article contextualises the use of dialogic museum displays in relation to the concept of mediated witnessing by focusing on the use of digital interactivity. Grounded on the analysis of three case studies from museums in Poland, UK and Italy, the article illustrates how dialogic features supported by digital technology frame processes of partaking other peoples’ memories, enriching and reworking the idea of dialogic remembering. Our key findings concern the role of dialogue in enhancing the liveness and the experiential dimension of mediated witnessing. Further, the article notes a shift in the use of the testimony in museums from evidencing past events to a stronger emphasis in supporting listening attitudes and reflective processes during the museum visit. The article observes an expanded use of digital interactivity, to contributes, through dialogicality, to the framing of affective and performative approaches to both knowledge and identity production in museums.

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Research paper thumbnail of Magical Realism and Augmented Reality

Proceedings of the 2019 on Designing Interactive Systems Conference, 2019

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Research paper thumbnail of European Heritage, Dialogue and Digital Practices

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Research paper thumbnail of Framing collaborative processes of digital transformation in cultural organisations: from literary archives to augmented reality

Museum Management and Curatorship, 2019

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Research paper thumbnail of Epistemologies of prototyping: knowing in artistic research

Digital Creativity, 2016

ABSTRACT Increasingly material artefacts are attributed a key role in research in the arts and de... more ABSTRACT Increasingly material artefacts are attributed a key role in research in the arts and design. Issues of dissemination and legitimacy of knowledge are however heavily disputed, often through redefinitions of the concept of knowledge itself. This article contributes to these debates by focusing on artistic prototypes, identified here as one of the prevailing outcomes in technologically engaged art research projects. In contrast with a common conceptualisation of knowledge emerging from inside the world of artistic research as subjective, ineffable and emotional, I discuss four examples to highlight how artistic prototypes can support transferable and generative contributions to knowledge, grounded in ad hoc but innovative methodologies. Furthermore, the examples offer insightful considerations that help to identify artistic research when conducted outside official institutions, as opposed to simply process-oriented art practices.

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Research paper thumbnail of Fiction and curatorial practice: developing alternative experiences for digital artistic prototypes

International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media, 2016

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Research paper thumbnail of Network Time Where it Counts. Temporality and Critical Approaches to Infrastructure

The Design Journal, 2017

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Research paper thumbnail of Digitally enhanced polyvocality and reflective spaces

European Heritage, Dialogue and Digital Practices

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Research paper thumbnail of Digitally enhanced polyvocality and reflective spaces

European Heritage, Dialogue and Digital Practices

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Research paper thumbnail of Heritage and digital cultures: sustaining criticality through prototypical thinking

Methodological shifts can not only open up new research possibilities but also redefine, expand ... more Methodological shifts can not only open up new research possibilities but also redefine, expand and destabilise a disciplinary field. In recent years, heritage scholars begun to engage with a set of practice-based, digitally-grounded methods and tools, contributing to a shift towards a stronger interdisciplinarity in Heritage Studies. These include: co-design, prototyping, speculative approaches, workshop-based activities, digital making, data visualisation, as well as investigations on social media. Part of these tendencies, particularly those focusing on creative reuse of archives and collections, are often developed within a Digital Humanities perspective. Others converge with now established participatory approaches but also with a more recent critical rethinking of Heritage Studies. Here, digital media and creative practice can contribute to challenge existing power relations, make room for unofficial, bottom-up discourses, and question institutional authority and expert knowledge. Besides introducing new methodologies to heritage research, this emerging interdisciplinary dimension goes alongside a transformation of principles and perspectives in
the field. These can be summarised as follow: i) a less reverential attitude to cultural heritage and archival material, now increasingly open to generative and creative reuse (as opposed to principles of preservation); ii) a stronger awareness of the changeability through time of heritage values and meanings; iii) the idea that heritage discourses are increasingly developed outside the institutional framework, for instance embedded in practices of everyday creativity and self-expression on social media.
The paper makes the argument for the reciprocity between digital and design-based methods, interdisciplinarity, and criticality within heritage research. It illustrates these emerging tendencies by discussing two brief examples. The first one presents the methodology adopted in the study of serendipitous, unofficial understandings of heritage and place by analysing images gathered from photo-sharing platforms. The second one addresses the use of collections as raw material for creative reuse and participatory making in the gallery space.Methodological shifts can not only open up new research possibilities but also redefine,
expand and destabilise a disciplinary field. In recent years, heritage scholars begun to engage with a set of practice-based, digitally-grounded methods and tools, contributing to a shift towards a stronger interdisciplinarity in Heritage Studies. These include: co-design, prototyping, speculative approaches, workshop-based activities, digital making, data visualisation, as well as investigations on social media. Part of these tendencies, particularly those focusing on creative reuse of archives and collections, are often developed within a Digital Humanities perspective. Others converge with now established participatory approaches but also with a more recent critical rethinking of Heritage Studies. Here, digita media and creative practice can contribute to challenge existing power relations, make room for unofficial, bottom-up discourses, and question institutional authority and expert knowledge. Besides introducing new methodologies to heritage research, this emerging interdisciplinary dimension goes alongside transformation of principles and perspectives in the field. These can be summarised as follow: i) a less reverential attitude to cultural heritage and archival material, now increasingly open to generative and creative reuse (as opposed to principles of preservation); ii) a stronger awareness of the changeability through time of heritage values and meanings; iii) the idea that heritage discourses are increasingly developed outside the institutional framework, for instance embedded in practices of everyday creativity and self-expression on social media.
The paper makes the argument for the reciprocity between digital and design-based methods, interdisciplinarity, and criticality within heritage research. It illustrates these emerging tendencies by discussing two brief examples. The first one presents the methodology adopted in the study of serendipitous, unofficial understandings of heritage and place by analysing images gathered from photo-sharing platforms. The second one addresses the use of collection s as raw material for creative reuse and participatory making in the gallery space.

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Research paper thumbnail of Fiction and curatorial practice: developing alternative experiences for digital artistic prototypes

International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media, 2016

Increasingly, digital artworks are developed as part of research endeavours, and respond to a cul... more Increasingly, digital artworks are developed as part of research endeavours, and respond to a cultural climate which values co-creation, practices of tinkering, re-cycling or re-purposing and innovation. As a consequence, these works tend to be unstable, constantly open to change and to the intervention of possible collaborators. Because of such openness to transformation and their involvement in knowledge production and sharing, they can be considered as prototypes, and generate ne'w opportunities for curatorial practice. This article introduces a curatorial project developed around one such artistic prototype, the Eye Resonator, and based on the idea that audience experience can be structured or transformed by speculatively relating the piece to alternative uses and everyday life contexts, different from its role as an interactive artwork. Our strategy is inspired by design methodologies based on the use of fiction, and imagines scenarios where the technological specificities of the piece can be repurposed. This intervention was partially intended to respond to a series of problems encountered in previous showings of the piece, and aims at scaffolding the participant experience by providing, through the scenarios, additional cultural references and entry keys to approach the prototype.

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Research paper thumbnail of From Place-Memories to Active Citizenship: The Potential of Geotagged User-Generated Content for Memory Scholarship

Doing Memory Research, 2019

The unprecedented circulation of user-generated images of public spaces on social media offers me... more The unprecedented circulation of user-generated images of public spaces on social media offers memory scholars the opportunity to reconsider the role of place as a catalyst for transmitting memory. Drawing on the study of a large data set of geotagged images (including text-based metadata) from three European public squares posted on Flickr, this chapter discusses how online practices are reconfiguring the interrelations between memory, identity, and citizenship. To do so, it explores how the relationship between personal memory and historical memory of place is articulated on geosocial platforms. In this context, we propose a set of methodological insights focusing on the role of the geotag to develop understandings around the circulation and solidification of place-memory in the digital realm.

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When billboards and advertising screens are the first to be unplugged after earthquakes, it again... more When billboards and advertising screens are the first to be unplugged after earthquakes, it again becomes evident, how those are only being used for commercial content. How can screens and media façades then become platforms for artistic and cultural interventions in urban space? And how can they generate relevant content instead of being reduced to oversized transitsurfaces?

The workshop offers artists from the open call 2014 the context “participatory city” as a discussion forum. There, the results from the Artists’ Camp (Vorspiel) will be discussed, again with focus on strategies and DIY-­practices in the context of participation through mobile units and media façades after the “total breakdown”. As the workshop is about working with categories and evaluating them, the artists also become scientists. The ambition is to carve out types of urban interventions in order to critically reflect the thinking of media façades in a suggested discourse of the post‐digital.

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Research paper thumbnail of Galani, Arrigoni, Galani, Halkia, Kassaveti & Kakampoura (2017). Online Visual Dialogues about Place: Using the Geostream Tools to Identify Heritage Practices on Photo-sharing Social Media (WP4 Report)

CoHERE explores the ways in which identities in Europe are constructed through heritage represent... more CoHERE explores the ways in which identities in Europe are constructed through heritage representations and performances that connect to ideas of place, history, tradition and belonging. The research identifies existing heritage practices and discourses in Europe. It also identifies means to sustain and transmit European heritages that are likely to contribute to the evolution of inclusive, communitarian identities and counteract disaffection with, and division within, the EU. A number of modes of representation and performance are explored in the project, from cultural policy, museum display, heritage interpretation, school curricula and political discourse to music and dance performances, food and cuisine, rituals and protest. Work Package 4, Digital Heritage Dialogue[s] engages with digital design methodologies to investigate heritage conversations online and on-site, and to craft opportunities for talk/dialogue within exhibition and heritage settings to develop intercultural dialogue. The WP explores the potential of existing and future digital technologies to provide deeper understandings of European heritage alongside reflexive identities and inclusive senses of belonging. This report relates to a key objective of the WP to 'investigate the role and cultural currency of serendipitous online heritage dialogues as manifested in social media platforms'. It presents the analysis of geotagged user-generated content aggregated from photo-sharing platforms to identify emerging approaches to heritage and identity building in reference to three European public squares. It discusses how notions of Europe and heritage are implicitly addressed in photo-sharing practices, and how official heritage discourses are both challenged and complemented by online, participatory accounts of place. The report analyses visual dialogues around the nexus place-heritage-identity, highlighting affective, curatorial and experiential approaches in negotiating past and present, online and offline representations of place and how they are intertwined in processes of identity-building.

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