The Routledge international handbook of new digital practices in galleries, libraries, archives, museums and heritage sites / edited by Hannah Lewi, Wally Smith, Dirk vom Lehn and Steven Cooke.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lewi, Helen, 1927- editor.

Smith, Wally (Professor of computing), editor.

Vom Lehn, Dirk, editor.

Cooke, Steven, editor.

Series:

Routledge international handbooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Museum exhibits--Technological innovations.

Museum exhibits.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (521 pages) : illustrations (black and white)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.

Summary:

The Routledge International Handbook of New Digital Practices in Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums and Heritage Sites presents a fascinating picture of the ways in which today's cultural institutions are undergoing a transformation through innovative applications of digital technology. With a strong focus on digital design practice, the volume captures the vital discourse between curators, exhibition designers, historians, heritage practitioners, technologists and interaction designers from around the world. Contributors interrogate how their projects are extending the traditional reach and engagement of institutions through digital designs that reconfigure the interplay between collections, public knowledge and civic society. Bringing together the experiences of some of today's most innovative cultural institutions and thinkers, the Handbook provides refreshingly new ideas and directions for the exciting digital challenges and opportunities that lie ahead. As such, it should be essential reading for academics, students, designers and professionals interested in the production of culture in the post-digital age.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Series Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Table of Contents

List of contributors

Introduction

Part I: the emerging global digital GLAM sector

Part II: animating the archive

Part III: designing engaged experiences

Part IV: locating in place

Note

References

Framing interviews

1. Interview with Seb Chan

Interviewed by Hannah Lewi and Wally Smith

Notes

2. Interview with Dave Patten

Interviewed by Wally Smith and Dirk vom Lehn

The Sketchbot, the Science Museum, 2013

3. Interview with Rory Hyde

Interviewed by Dirk vom Lehn and Wally Smith

The Future Starts Here exhibition 2018, V&amp

A

4. Interview with Keir Winesmith

PART I: The emerging global digital GLAM sector

5. Theorising heritage collection digitisations in global computational infrastructures

Breaking the material, immaterial binary: the first theoretical move

The parent and the digitisation as related, overlapping, non-identical assemblages: thesecond theoretical move

Digitisations as ecological compositions in global computational infrastructures: the third theoretical move

Users and curatorial agency as more-than- and other-than-human ecological alliances

Conclusions

6. The networked image: the flight of cultural authority and the multiple times and spaces of the art museum

What happens in the space of the museum?

The digital as tool

The digital as medium

The academy and the condition of knowledge

The networked image and the digital condition

The post-digital perspective

The museum's audience and the paradoxical present

Contemporaneity, modernism and heritage

Technological obsolescence.

What is at stake: the art museum in the age of the Anthropocene

7. The distributed museum is already here: it's just not very evenly distributed

Three descriptions of the distributed museum

Five further digital dialectics

Change v.transformation

Tradition v.design

Hierarchy v.network (or arborescence v.rhizome)

Literacy v.fluency

Values v.culture

Conclusion

8. Speculative collections and the emancipatory library

9. Digital heritage profile in China's museums: an evaluation of digital technology adoption in cultural heritage institutions

What is the point of the augmented experience in cultural heritage institutions?

The development of AR and VR technologies in Westerncultural institutions

Technological enhancement in the Chinese museum

Categories of digital technologies mentioned in the questions

Findings

10. Hacking heritage: understanding the limits of online access

The promise of online access

The limits of online access

Search engines lie

Not everything is digitised

Access is not always open

Hacking access

11. From planned oblivion to digital exposition: the digital museum of Afro-Brazilian heritage

Background: Brazilian cultural politics

Preserving African and Afro-Brazilian memory

A museum without owners

Documents in the digital museum

Challenges

12. Shared digital experiences supporting collaborative meaning-making at heritage sites

The museum as asocial space

Issues with group experiences

Previous work in designing group experiences with digital technology in cultural sites

An emotive shared digital experience at Çatalhöyük

Overview of the experience.

Evaluation process and participants

Summary of findings

Sharing emotive experiences

Acknowledgements

PART II: Animating the archive

13. Neither a beginning nor an end: applying an ethics of care to digital archival collections

Introduction: the impossible ethics of digitisation

Feminist care ethics and archival relationships

The case of the South Asian American digital archive's Documenting Islamophobia project

The case of visual AIDS

Conclusion: centering webs of relationships in the digital

14. Digital archives in Africa and the Endangered Archives Programme

Guinea: forward into the past

The Endangered Archives Programme and Guinea's national sound archives

15. The Alan Vaughan-Richards archive: recovering tropical modernism in Lagos

Context and setting

Funding the Alan Vaughan-Richards archive

The process

Digitisation

The product

The challenges

16. Museum crowdsourcing-detecting the limits: eMunch.no and the digitisation of letters addressed to Edvard Munch

eMunch.no

The letters

The editors

The wiki workplace

The crowd

17. Digital and hybrid archives: a case study of the William J. Mitchell collection

William J.Mitchell, digital pioneer

The Mitchell collection

The slide collection

The manuscript collection

Film/video collection

Personal library-books, collected journals and other work

Born digital collection: the need for digital forensics

18. Preserving Chinese shadow puppetry culture through digitisation

Introduction.

New digital practices at the Kaohsiung Museum of Shadow Puppet

Stage 1: Digital archives of puppetry culture

Stage 2: Development of digital shadow puppetry

Stage 3: Promotion of digital puppetry

Discussion

19. Be engaged: facilitating creative re-use at the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision

Open media art

More than opening up the collection

RE:VIVE

Promotion of results

Pivoting for new audiences and collaborations

Lessons learnt and conclusion

20. Cultural antinomies, creative complicities: Agan Harahap's digital hoaxes

Against the documentary grain

Through the glass of popular culture, darkly

Reinventing the colonial archive

PART III: Designing engaged experience

21. On virtual auras: the cultural heritage object in the age of 3D digital reproduction

3D models as digital surrogates

The digital surrogate in public-facing applications

The museum's dual remit

The purpose of museum objects

Aura and affectual power

The cultural heritage object in the age of digital reproduction

Case study: the science museum's shipping gallery scan

Conclusions and recommendations

22. Configuring slow technology through social and embodied interaction: making time for reflection in augmented reality museum experiences with young visitors

The Borrowers display

Methodology: designing for and understanding slow interactions

Facilitation for intermittent and anticipatory interaction

Embodied curiosity and co-constructed imagination

Discussion-designing for dwelling and reflective augmentation

References.

23. Exhibition design and professional theories: the development of an astronomy exhibition

Methods and data

From audience research to exhibition design

Informing exhibition design through audience research

The design team and design approach

Interpreting concepts, designing exhibits: deploying professional theories

People want interactivity

Interaction and collaboration enhance participation and learning

People want to connect with experts

24. Meeting the challenge of the immoveable: experiencing Mogao Grottoes Cave 45 with immersive technology

Overview of exhibition

Replication

The virtual immersive experience

Cave 45 selection

The GRI lecture hall foyer experience

Cave 45 development

Cave 45 content

Cave 45 installation

Cave 45 visitor response

25. Immersive engagement: designing and testing a virtual Indian Residential School exhibition

Canadian settler-colonialism and the museum

Indian Residential Schools

Empathy and virtuality

Methodology and ethics protocols

Research questions

26. Hemispheres: transdisciplinary architectures and museum-university collaboration

Collaboration

Domelab

Case study 1

Case study 2

27. Human-centred design in digital media

Digital media and the visitor experience

Novelty and technology

Human-centred exhibition design

28. Unlocking the glass case

A starting point: the Playzone, Millennium Dome 2000

Navigational device

Analogue/digital interface

Kinesthetics

Projected augmentation.

Gaming paradigm.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-429-01530-5

0-429-01529-1

0-429-50676-7

9780429506765

OCLC:

1126284704