Description
This edited book brings together best examples and practices of digital and interactive approaches and platforms from a number of projects based in European countries to foster social inclusion and participation in heritage and culture. It engages with ongoing debates on the role of culture and heritage in contemporary society relating to inclusion and exclusion, openness, access, and bottom-up participation.
The contributions address key themes such as the engagement of marginalised communities, the opening of debates and new interpretations around socially and historically contested heritages, and the way in which digital technologies may foster more inclusive cultural heritage practices. They will also showcase examples of work that can inspire reflection, further research, and also practice for readers such as practice-focused researchers in both HCI and design. Indeed, as well as consolidating the achievements of researchers, the contributions also represent concrete approaches to digital heritage innovation for social inclusion purposes.
The book’s primary audience is academics, researchers, and students in the fields of cultural heritage, digital heritage, human-computer interaction, digital humanities, and digital media, as well as practitioners in the cultural sector.
Table of Contents
- Introduction: digital approaches to inclusion and participation in cultural heritage
- Digital storytelling, cultural heritage, and social inclusion: the MEMEX project
- Digital pathways for enriched communities and futures: plantation heritage in São Tomé and Príncipe
- The #iziTRAVELSicilia project: participatory digital storytelling for inclusive and co-creative processes regarding cultural heritage
- CultureLabs: Recipes for social innovation
- Civic museums, social need, and inclusive digital practices
- Participatory polyvocal performative and playful interpreting Resnik’s 4 for creative placemaking with digital tools
- Uncovering the colonial legacy in a British digital archive: The Pitt Rivers Museum case
- Reframing ephemera: digitisation, community music-making, and archival value(s)
- Sami traces: Diversity and curatorial workarounds in image archives
- Reading, play, and critical engagement with cultural heritage: Associating children with Orientalist paintings through an interactive picturebook
- Afterword: Code-switching: Feeling the "emotional turn" in digital cultural heritage
Ross Parry
Danilo Giglitto, Luigina Ciolfi, and Eleanor Lockley
Cristina Da Milano, Elisabetta Falchetti, Pascuala Migone, and Valentina Nisi
Stefania Stellacci and Sara Eloy
Elisa Bonacini
Eirini Kaldeli, Danilo Giglitto, Eleanor Lockley and Luigina Ciolfi
Lara Perry
Tanis Grandison, Tom Flint, and Kirstie Jamieson
Rinella Cere, Danilo Giglitto, and Daniela Petrelli
Charlotte Armstrong, Rachel Cowgill, Alan Dix, Christina Bashford, Rupert Ridgewell, Maureen Reagan, Michael Twidale, and J. Stephen Downie
Vendela Grundell Gachoud, Anna Näslund Dahlgren, and Karin Hansson
Betül Gaye Dinç, Özge Subaşı and Ilgım Veryeri Alaca



