Future Memory Practices

Gertraud Koch is Professor of Anthropological Studies in Culture and History at the University of Hamburg. Her research focus is on digital anthropology, cultural heritage and memory making, anthropology of work, and digital methods. Rachel Charlotte Smith is Associate Professor of Human-Centred Design at Aarhus University. Her research focus is on digital and sustainable transformations, future heritage and memory making, through design anthropology and participatory design.

1. Future Memory Work: A relational approach to social inclusion in digitalised media ecologies; I: Memory institutions: (shifting professional memory practices); 2. Shifting from ‘inside-out’ to ‘outside in’: Envisioning ways of structurally integrating participatory principles in museums; 3. Situating participation in the backstage: Infrastructural settings impacting museum work; 4. Ethical practices in participatory memory work - Examples from the Museum Europäischer Kulturen in Berlin; II: People and groups: (digital memory making at the margins); 5. Pluriversal Futures: Design Anthropology for Contested Memory Making at the Margins; 6. Conducting Bereavement Interviews: Methodological Reflections on Talking About Death, Grief, and Mem; III: Memory modalities: (socio-material assemblages of memory formation); 7. Memory modalities: explorations into the socio-material arrangements of the past at the present for the future; 8. Memory loss: Youth and the fragility of personal digital remembering; IV: Future Memory work: (toolbox and approaches); 9. Towards a relational approach to social impact measurement of Participatory Memory Work: New concepts for future memory work; 10. Towards a toolbox for future envisioning memory practices; 11. Epilogue: Future Memory Work