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Digitisation offers many opportunities for institutions to share their knowledge with the communities they serve. However, trying to keep up with the different platforms and technologies is an expensive and never-ending process.
In this 2-day lab, the Übersee-Museum will share its journey of building a sustainable, digitally-enabled global network of experts to contribute their knowledge. This community includes journalists, scientists, artists and community activists. This approach enabled the museum to develop innovative prototypes that combine meta-data and storytelling as well as create original artwork. This work was carried over a 3.5 year period through the NEO Collections project funded by the Kulturstiftung des Bundes.
If you are interested in this approach we invite you to take part. This lab is free to attend, but participating organizations must first submit an expression of interest.
During the lab we offer both strategic and practical tips on how to apply this framework and make it work at an individual, team and organizational level. This is an hands-on programme in which you will explore different case studies of successful outcomes as well as dead-ends. It’s an opportunity to be playful, to be surprised and spend time with likeminded people to explore new ideas. The workshop will be conducted in English.
Across the two days we hope that you will be able to re-imagine digital co-production and create a realistic plan of action that you can take back to your organization. Our goal behind running this knowledge transfer lab is to build a network of forward thinking organizations.
After the lab, we will meet online three times with all participants to self-report on the progress of the experiments we developed in the lab. These three 2-hour sessions are a chance to give and offer feedback to your peers.
The lab is open to eight organizations internationally that have a collection and/or archive where they draw their stories from. This includes museums, culture, media, and local government organizations. It is free to attend, but you must first submit an expression of interest using this form. Once selected you will be asked to share details of individuals taking part. Every organization is encouraged to send three staff members who represent different departments or roles
| Time | Day 1: Thinking | Day 2: Doing |
|---|---|---|
| 9:30 | Arrival and Refreshments | Arrival and Refreshments |
| 10:00 | Welcome | Review of Day 1 |
| 10:30 | Part 1: Learning to take a step back when we don’t want to in order to build a genuine community Abhay Adhikari | Part 3:How to decentralize responsibilities and embrace true co-production, and what are the consequences Etta Grotrian |
| 12:00 | Lunch | Lunch |
| 13:00 | Part 2: Using storytelling as a medium to build trust with different communities of experts to increase representation Kajsa Hartig | Part 4: How do we build teams around shared values instead of job titles and hierarchies Dorothée King |
| 14:30 | Coffee Break | Coffee Break |
| 15:00 | Artist performance: Sarah Gillett | Artist performance: Stacey Kokaua-balfour |
| 16:00 | Day ends | Day ends |
The lab is facilitated by:
Abhay Adhikari is the founder/director of Digital Identities, a framework to develop new models of storytelling and social impact. The framework has been applied by organizations such as The Guardian, Nordiska museet (Sweden), Portland Art Museum (USA), VPRO (The Netherlands) and Google. Abhay also led the smart city lab for Leeds (population 800,000) which was named as one of UK’s 50 New Radical Projects by the Observer newspaper.
Dorothée King is an author, educator, artist, designer, and consultant. As a professor and head of the Arts and Design Education Institute at the University of Arts and Design Basel, she leads multidisciplinary transgenerational teams and innovates educational infrastructures. She taught at Rhode Island School of Design (USA), the Transart Institute (New York), the Banff Centre for the Arts (Canada) and UfG Linz (Austria). As consultant, she has worked globally, fostering creativity, well-being, and radical honesty across diverse educational and cultural institutions.
Etta Grotrian works at the intersection of data, emotion and storytelling. Currently at the Übersee-Museum (Bremen) she oversees several multidisciplinary collection-management projects. She has also set up innovation partnerships with cultural and academic organisations in Northern Europe and Asia-Pacific. Trained as a Historian, Etta has worked as a curator of multimedia and online content at the Jewish Museum (Berlin). She lectures on Public History at the Freie Universität and Universität Bremen and has been invited to present her work at conferences such as MuseumNext and smARTplaces co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme.
Kajsa Hartig has been working in the heritage sector for 30 years, with a strong focus on digital heritage and dissemination. She has led the international research project Collecting Social Photo, developing inclusive methods for heritage organisations collecting social digital photography, resulting in an anthology that has been downloaded almost 4 000 times. She has for the past 6 years worked as head of department at the regional Västernorrlands museum in Sweden, where she has helped develop new permanent exhibitions.
The lab will also feature original work based on museum collections by artists Sarah Gillett (UK) and Stacey Kokaua-balfour (New Zealand).
Funded by the Digital Culture Programme of the Kulturstiftung des Bundes (German Federal Cultural Foundation). Funded by the Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien (Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media).
