The role of photographic heritage in empowering communities’ participation in cultural heritage

Share

image: Piazza dei Miracoli a Pisa, photo offred by Lucia Tomasi Tongiorgi in Promoter Digital Gallery CC-BY-NC-ND.

Organized by Photoconsortium in cooperation with the Museo della Grafica and University of Pisa and hosted at the Palazzo Lanfranchi, in the very city center on the banks of the river Arno, this 1-day conference invited leading speakers from the Citizen Heritage consortium partners and other experts in digital cultural heritage, in Social Sciences and Humanities research and in the use of participatory approaches in a cultural and/or educational context.

The main outcome of the event was to offer insights about successful stories of citizen participation in Cultural Heritage Institutions and Higher Education Institutions. An panel discussion complemented the conference programme.

All the presentations by the speakers are available in the conference’s webpage: https://www.citizenheritage.eu/multiplier-events/Pisa/

In addition to the conference, a citizen collection and digitization action wasorganized to digitize family album photos from the participants, and offer them for publication in Europeana, the European digital library. Finally, a preview visit to the exhibition about golf in the Museo della Grafica happily concluded the day.

 

 

Leave a Reply


Related Articles

TWA cultural heritage Digitisation Grant 2023 for UK-based digitisation projects
Stemming from a conversation around the impact of funding on the heritage sector, the TWA Digitisation Grant has adapted and evolved over the years, responding directly to the real and current needs of the heritage organisations it seeks to support. This year, the fund offers three grants of up to £3000 for the winners, and Up to £1,000 in match funding for all other eligible applicants. The fundings can be spent on any UK-based digitisation project, provided in the form of TownsWeb Archi...
Postgraduate course in Management, Preservation and Dissemination of Photographic Archives
On November 2023, FUAB Formació School - Archival Studies and Records Management at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, the Centre for Image Research and Dissemination (CRDI), and the Institute of Photographic Studies of Catalonia (IEFC) will start a new edition of the online Postgraduate in Management, Preservation and Dissemination of Photographic Archives, an universitary training that offers a specialisation within archival and photography studies. This programme has a double purpose:...
EUreka3D project: latest updates on 3D digitisation of heritage collections
all images in this post courtesy of CRDI/Ajuntament de Girona via the EUreka3D Twitter profile. The EUreka3D project coordinated by Photoconsortium has just started the action on high-quality 3D digitisation, which will make great collections of cultural heritage 3D digitised objects accessible to everyone in the Europeana website. The content provided by project partners is very diverse, and ranges from monuments at risk to archaeological objects, early cinema items and filigree paper moulds....
EUreka3D website launched today
We are enthusiast to announce the launch of the official website of EUreka3D, a project co-funded by the Digital Europe Programme of the European Union, that aims to support the digital transformation of the cultural heritage sector, by offering capacity building, training and new services to Cultural Heritage institutions, facing the challenge of advancing in the digitization effort, especially in the field of 3D access, storage and sharing. EUreka3D is a project coordinated by Photoconsorti...