“Inclusive Futures: social sustainability trends in Digital Cultural Heritage” – MCA publication
Michael Culture Association publishes a collection of short essays reflecting on initiatives and projects leveraging Digital Cultural Heritage as a vector for sustainable and inclusive futures. The first volume of this publication gathers voices from AvoinGLAM, Citizen Science Italia, ECCOM, DigitGLAM and University of Borås.
Across Europe, cultural heritage institutions face a challenge: how do we ensure that the digital transformation of heritage strengthens (and not weakens) our democratic, inclusive, and diverse societies? As more of our shared memory and heritage migrates into datafied, algorithmic, and online environments, questions of participation, representation and governance become central to the future of culture itself.
And yet, promising transformations and practices are emerging. Digital cultural heritage (DCH), when approached ethically with FAIR and CARE principles, can move us from a culture for people to a culture with people, everyone included, as active agents capable of reshaping cultural spaces and civic participation.
Cover of “Inclusive Futures” – MCA publication
In this framework, comes “Inclusive Futures – Social Sustainability Trends in Digital Cultural Heritage”: to showcase the initiatives active in Europe in the subject and give a space of reasoning to the people behind the scenes and connect the dots. By gathering insights from leading researchers, European projects, and practitioners, this publication highlights emerging trends in accessibility, diversity, and inclusion, use cases demonstrating how communities can co-create, co-manage, and reinterpret heritage, policy gaps and opportunities for stronger national and European action.
This publication is the first step in an annual series that will follow TRANSFORM’s journey as it cultivates a more socially sustainable digital heritage ecosystem. We invite institutions, researchers, policy makers, and cultural professionals to contribute, challenge, and collaborate.
We thank all the authors featured in this first volume of “Inclusive Futures”: this publication would have not be possible without their insightful contribution.
The volume 1 contains the following articles:
- Digital interfaces for negotiation: co-managing heritage in the age of inclusion (Sofie Taes, Fred Truyen, Zoë Vandenhende, KU Leuven DigitGLAM)
- Citizen Science and Digital Culture: When Citizens Become Protagonists of Culture (Chiara Manghetti – Citizen Science Italia, Cristina Da Milano – ECCOM)
- Towards a community cultural heritage stack (Susanna Ånäs, Sophea Lerner – AvoinGLAM)
- Multisensory Innovation for Inclusive Cultural Futures (Nasrine Olson- University of Borås)
For partnerships or submissions for future editions: contact@michael-culture.eu.
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