NDLI: Designing Heritage for a Digital Culture

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Designing Heritage for a Digital Culture

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Author	Smith, Rachel Charlotte
Copyright Year	2020
Description	Emerging landscapes of digital media and technologies provide an opportunity for museums to involve audiences as active coproducers of expressions and experiences of cultural heritage. This chapter argues that the real challenge of integrating technologies into museum practice is to understand how digital cultures of communication affect the emergence, creation, and conceptualization of cultural heritage itself. It presents experiences from a design anthropological research and exhibition experiment, Digital Natives. Contemporary museums and heritage institutions are under pressure in terms of attracting and engaging audiences. Digital Natives was an exhibition project exploring possible futures of cultural heritage communication. The project involved collaboration between a group of seven teenagers, two anthropologists, and twelve interaction designers. Prompted by the inquiry of the project, the teenagers were surprised and often shocked upon realizing their own level of involvement with the digital media and devices. Digital Natives was an ongoing performance through which we actively created heritage with the natives and audiences inside the exhibition. Book Name: Design Anthropology
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Ending Page	135
Page Count	19
Starting Page	117
DOI	10.4324/9781003085195-9
Language	English
Publisher	Informa UK Limited
Publisher Date	2020-05-26
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	Book Name: Design Anthropology Cultural Studies Teenagers Heritage Technologies Natives Audiences Museums Digital Media Cultural
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Chapter

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1	Ministry of Education (GoI), Department of Higher Education	Sanctioning Authority	https://www.education.gov.in/ict-initiatives
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