Mutibwa, DH, Hess, A and Jackson, T orcid.org/0000-0002-1340-1888 (2020) Strokes of serendipity: Community co-curation and engagement with digital heritage. Convergence, 26 (1). pp. 157-177. ISSN 1354-8565
Abstract
This article explores the potential that community-led digital engagement with heritage holds for stimulating active citizenship through taking responsibility for shared cultural heritage and for fostering long-lasting relationships between local community heritage groups and national museums. Through the lens of a pilot project titled Science Museum: Community-in-Residence, we discovered that – despite working with community groups that were already loyal to and enjoyed existing working ties with the Science Museum in London, United Kingdom – this undertaking proved challenging owing to a range of structural and logistical issues even before the application of digital devices and tools had been considered. These challenges notwithstanding, the pilot found that the creation of time and space for face-to-face dialogue and interactions between the Science Museum and the participating community heritage groups helped to establish the parameters within which digital co-curation can effectively occur. This, in turn, informed the development of a digital prototype with huge potential to enable remote, virtual connectivity to, and interactivity with, conversations about shared heritage. The ultimate goal was twofold: (a) to help facilitate collaborative sense-making of our shared past and (b) to aid the building of sustainable institutional and community/public working ties around emerging affinities, agendas and research questions in relation to public history and heritage.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © The Author(s) 2018. This is an author produced version of a paper published in Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies. Reprinted by permission of SAGE Publications. |
Keywords: | Access, active citizenship, Bute Island Heritage, Ceramic City Stories, community-in-residence, community–institutional partnerships, Science Museum, social history, virtual collections, 3D modelling |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of Media & Communication (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 04 May 2018 09:27 |
Last Modified: | 21 Feb 2020 16:24 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | SAGE Publications |
Identification Number: | 10.1177/1354856518772030 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:130412 |