Project description
Making cultural heritage accessible in the digital age
The preservation of cultural heritage in the digital age requires innovative solutions, collaborative efforts, and mindful approaches to ensure the safeguarding and enjoyment of our shared human legacy. With the support of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, the DISCULTHER project will explore the process of digitalising cultural heritage (DCH) in both institutional (museums) and activist (citizens-led initiatives) settings. Exploring the innovativeness, discrepancies, and tensions that arise, the project offers insights into the potential of DCH to mobilise citizens and foster intercultural dialogue. Additionally, DISCULTHER examines both institutional and non-institutional practices of DCH in Novi Sad (Serbia) and Graz (Austria). Through transcending disciplinary boundaries, it sheds light on overlooked aspects of the digitalisation of cultural heritage.
Objective
Digitalization of Cultural Heritage as Discursive Practice: Mapping the Museums and Citizens-led Initiatives in Graz and Novi Sad (DISCULTHER) examine how the process of digitalization of cultural heritage (DCH), identified on a discursive level, manifests in two kinds of settings: institutional (museums) and activist (citizens-led initiatives). The main objective of the project is to investigate the plurality of discursive practices of DCH within mentioned settings, the innovativeness, discrepancies and tensions in these practices, as well as the capacity of DCH to make accessible, mobilize and critically engage citizens in opening the space for intercultural dialogue. It is a project with comparative dimension on two levels: it compares the institutional with non-institutional practices of DCH, but also the processes in two cities, Novi Sad (Serbia) and Graz (Austria). They share in part the common history, culture and heritage. In contemporary framework, comparison aims to highlight social and cultural experience of the cities of which one belongs to the state member of European Union and one is in the process of Europeanization. It is also interdisciplinary research that transcends the boundaries in Social Sciences between Sociology, Heritage Studies and Digital Humanities and foregrounds hitherto neglected aspects of the process of digitalization of cultural heritage.
Fields of science
Programme(s)
- HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Main Programme
Funding Scheme
HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-PF-EF - HORIZON TMA MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships - European FellowshipsCoordinator
8010 Graz
Austria