Digital Approaches to Inclusion and Participation in Cultural Heritage

Danilo Giglitto is a researcher working at Sheffield Hallam University, UK. His work falls in the areas of heritage studies, sociology, and human-computer interaction, with a particular focus on digitally mediated and social-innovation compatible community-led cultural heritage projects. Luigina Ciolfi is Professor of Human-Computer Interaction in the School of Applied Psychology, University College Cork, Ireland. She researches the human experience of and practices around digital technologies, with a particular focus on the cultural heritage domain and on participatory and co-design methodologies. Eleanor Lockley is a Research Fellow at the Culture and Creativity Research Institute at Sheffield Hallam University, UK. She works across and within sociology, media, human-computer interaction, and cultural studies. Her research focuses on digital media and the sociology of communication as well as aspects of digital inclusion, and digital and media literacy. Eirini Kaldeli is a senior researcher at the Artificial Intelligence and Learning Systems Laboratory of the National Technical University of Athens. Her most recent work focuses on the development of frameworks and tools that make use of cutting-edge digital technologies for data management, creative reuse, crowdsourcing, and engagement in the field of cultural heritage.

1. Introduction: digital approaches to inclusion and participation in cultural heritage; 2. Digital storytelling, cultural heritage, and social inclusion: the MEMEX project; 3. Digital pathways for enriched communities and futures: plantation heritage in São Tomé and Príncipe; 4. The #iziTRAVELSicilia project: participatory digital storytelling for inclusive and co-creative processes regarding cultural heritage; 5. CultureLabs: recipes for social innovation; 6. Civic museums, social need, and inclusive digital practices; 7. Participatory polyvocal performative and playful interpreting Resnik’s 4 for creative placemaking with digital tools; 8. Uncovering the colonial legacy in a British digital archive: The Pitt Rivers Museum case; 9. Reframing ephemera: digitisation, community music-making, and archival value(s); 10. Sami traces: Diversity and curatorial workarounds in image archives; 11. Reading, play, and critical engagement with cultural heritage: Associating children with Orientalist paintings through an interactive picturebook; 12. Afterword: Code-switching: Feeling the "emotional turn" in digital cultural heritage