This Sense of Place/ this Living Archive: Cocreative Digitization and First Nations Peoples Remembering
In 2016, we organized digital storytelling workshops with First Nations 1 participants in Melbourne (Australia) to cocreatively “map” sites of historical significance through locative technologies. These digital memory maps allowed participants to share their oral stories about their relationships t...
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crsagepubl:10.1177/155019061701300212 2023-05-15T16:14:26+02:00 This Sense of Place/ this Living Archive: Cocreative Digitization and First Nations Peoples Remembering Ridgeway, Benjamin Guntarik, Olivia 2017 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/155019061701300212 http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/155019061701300212 en eng SAGE Publications http://journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license Collections: A Journal for Museum and Archives Professionals volume 13, issue 2, page 185-198 ISSN 1550-1906 General Medicine journal-article 2017 crsagepubl https://doi.org/10.1177/155019061701300212 2022-08-12T11:29:58Z In 2016, we organized digital storytelling workshops with First Nations 1 participants in Melbourne (Australia) to cocreatively “map” sites of historical significance through locative technologies. These digital memory maps allowed participants to share their oral stories about their relationships to different places with broader audiences through a cultural walking trail mobile app from both their individual and their collective perspectives. Functioning much like a museum tour guide in an outdoor setting, we named this app “Memory-scapes,” as it would feature First Nations people's memories of different places, allowing interested members of the public (tourists, students, and educators) to listen to and watch the digital stories as they physically walked the trail. We found that a cocreative archival framework for digitizing these oral histories supported our work with community. Through this project, we illustrate how First Nations people's knowledges are populating the archive in forms that place the control of content back in their hands. These community-driven archives reveal how new archival practices are shifting the media landscape of representational possibilities. While calling attention to the politics of representing place, we also question the emancipatory potential of digital technologies for First Nations people. Article in Journal/Newspaper First Nations SAGE Publications (via Crossref) Collections: A Journal for Museum and Archives Professionals 13 2 185 198 |
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In 2016, we organized digital storytelling workshops with First Nations 1 participants in Melbourne (Australia) to cocreatively “map” sites of historical significance through locative technologies. These digital memory maps allowed participants to share their oral stories about their relationships to different places with broader audiences through a cultural walking trail mobile app from both their individual and their collective perspectives. Functioning much like a museum tour guide in an outdoor setting, we named this app “Memory-scapes,” as it would feature First Nations people's memories of different places, allowing interested members of the public (tourists, students, and educators) to listen to and watch the digital stories as they physically walked the trail. We found that a cocreative archival framework for digitizing these oral histories supported our work with community. Through this project, we illustrate how First Nations people's knowledges are populating the archive in forms that place the control of content back in their hands. These community-driven archives reveal how new archival practices are shifting the media landscape of representational possibilities. While calling attention to the politics of representing place, we also question the emancipatory potential of digital technologies for First Nations people. |
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