Social cohesion, Participation, and Inclusion through Cultural Engagement

Project description

Citizens produce and share their interpretations of culture and heritage

The EU-funded SPICE project aims to foster diverse participation in the cultural heritage domain via citizen curation, where citizen groups will share and compare their interpretations of cultural objects with other groups. Various tools will assist citizens in this process, helping them build a representation of themselves and appreciate variety and similarity across groups to enhance social cohesion. A linked data infrastructure will assist via social media platforms, giving heritage institutions control over rights-protected digital assets and access to citizens' responses. Finally, a series of citizen curation case studies with a diverse set of museums and citizen groups will demonstrate how this approach can promote inclusive participation and social cohesion in a variety of contexts.

Fields of science

• natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesknowledge engineeringontology
• humanitiesphilosophy, ethics and religionphilosophymetaphysicsteleology
• natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesdata sciencedata mining
• humanitiesartsmodern and contemporary art

Keywords

• citizen curation
• codesign
• community modelling
• multilingual
• distributed architecture
• privacy
• provenance
• accessible interfaces
• visualisation
• ontology
• excluded groups
• museum
• case studies

Programme(s)

• H2020-EU.3.6. - SOCIETAL CHALLENGES - Europe In A Changing World - Inclusive, Innovative And Reflective Societies Main Programme
• H2020-EU.3.6.3.1. - Study European heritage, memory, identity, integration and cultural interaction and translation, including its representations in cultural and scientific collections, archives and museums, to better inform and understand the present by richer interpretations of the past
• H2020-EU.3.6.3.2. - Research into European countries' and regions' history, literature, art, philosophy and religions and how these have informed contemporary European diversity

Topic(s)

• DT-TRANSFORMATIONS-11-2019 - Collaborative approaches to cultural heritage for social cohesion

Funding Scheme

Coordinator

Participants (13)