Disclosing Futures Rethinking Heritage
The Living and Open Archive: Re-using Heritage, New User Groups, and Other Interfaces
Contemporary heritage practice is characterised by active rather than passive forms of engagement, in which creation, reinterpretation, sharing, imagination and speculation are essential concepts and practices. What are the implications of today’s technologies for users? Digital archives offer new, exciting possibilities, such as machine learning, virtual reality and data visualisation, that put users at the centre and approach them not as audience members, but as participants. Within this theme we focus on the democratization of heritage: on facilitating the (creative) reuse of archive material, collective research and crowd editing.
Reusing Heritage: The Living and Open Archive
Involving makers and designers, who actively and creatively work with and reuse the digital collection and metadata, keeps a collection alive and socially relevant. How open are collections, and how does creative reuse contribute to critical reflection on heritage and archive institutions?
Archiving Virtual Spaces
A round-table discussion on the challenges and opportunities related to the management of and access to archives through virtual spaces and the creation of digital infrastructures for virtual spaces.
From Visitors to Users
How can the heritage sector use behavioural profiles when designing new digital products?
The Other Interface
How do you design an interface that allows users to intuitively explore and experience a collection? With this question in mind, New York-based design agency Linked By Air set to work to design Het Nieuwe Instituut’s new collection platform. Linked By Air partner Dan Michaelson talks about the design process and how this new platform facilitates different behavioural profiles of online heritage users.