Elisa Giaccardi is Professor of Interactive Media Design at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. She is the editor of Heritage and Social Media at Routledge. Her work on metadesign has provided a framework to weave digital technology in daily life by allowing people to participate in the process of invention of the world (i.e., an approach manifested today in social software, web 2.0, and localized manufacturing). Her current exploration of the connected everyday expands this vision, and breaks new ground in how to meaningfully weave digital networks in everyday life by allowing people to bring them in flow with ordinary objects and practices. Her interest in matters of heritage, and broadly ‘the things we value’ find place within this line of inquiry.
TALK ABSTRACT
New Heritage Frontiers in the Emerging Digital Landscape
From private memorabilia and scrapbooks to family inheritance and traditions, from the collective storytelling of historical events to the performative reification of a living connection to land—heritage is today about far more than museum artifacts and historic buildings, and how they are to be preserved and communicated. It is about making sense of our memories and developing a sense of identity through shared and repeated interactions with the tangible remains and lived traces of a common past.
This talk will discuss how social technologies impact on heritage discourse and practice, and more in general how new digital technologies alter and transform the complex set of practices through which we give meaning and significance in the present to our past.
TALK ABSTRACT
New Heritage Frontiers in the Emerging Digital Landscape
From private memorabilia and scrapbooks to family inheritance and traditions, from the collective storytelling of historical events to the performative reification of a living connection to land—heritage is today about far more than museum artifacts and historic buildings, and how they are to be preserved and communicated. It is about making sense of our memories and developing a sense of identity through shared and repeated interactions with the tangible remains and lived traces of a common past.
This talk will discuss how social technologies impact on heritage discourse and practice, and more in general how new digital technologies alter and transform the complex set of practices through which we give meaning and significance in the present to our past.