2024:Program/Key Partner session: Participate & Innovate: Unleashing Collective Creativity in GLAM Organizations

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Session title: Key Partner session: Participate & Innovate: Unleashing Collective Creativity in GLAM Organizations

Session type: Workshop

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Language: en

With a structured agenda spanning three parts, this event, centred around participatory content and program building in GLAM organisations, aims to delve into the benefits and challenges of participation while providing practical solutions and facilitating active involvement.

Description

The first segment kicks off with an open debate featuring panellists renowned for their utilisation of participatory strategies in their endeavours. Representatives from The Hunt Museum, Platoniq LAB, and Centrum Cyfrowe Foundation take the floor to initiate discussions on the merits and hurdles of participation in institutional practices. Their diverse experiences pave the way for an inclusive dialogue, encouraging exchange of ideas, values, and obstacles, while also amplifying the voices of the broader audience. Transitioning into the second phase, the event adopts a presentation-oriented tone as participants delve into the RECHARGE Playbook. Developed as a methodological tool, the playbook offers clear and user-friendly instructions for facilitating co-creation within institutions. Collaborating with the playbook's co-authors, attendees explore practical solutions cultivated through the RECHARGE project. Presentations by the authors and institutional representatives provide firsthand insights, inviting participants to actively engage in testing these proposed solutions. The final workshop component is characterised by active and critical utilisation of the RECHARGE Playbook. Guided by facilitators, participants delve into the possibilities of implementing participatory strategies within their own initiatives.

Session recording: https://www.youtube.com/live/EYYQ-zBqY8s?si=QpvKnJcOCmU8OqNY&t=449

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Speakers

• Maja Drabczyk

Chair of the board and head of policy and advocacy at the Centrum Cyfrowe Foundation, sociologist, researcher, project manager interested in the impact of technology and copyright on culture, education and access to knowledge.

• Natalia Cetera

Head of Open Culture Studio at Centrum Cyfrowe Foundation. Art Historian and project manager in the field of digital transformation of cultural institutions, trainer in the field of new technologies.

For the past 11 years, she has been supporting digitisation of museum collections, creating online collections and exhibitions and development of IT tools for creative sharing of cultural heritage. She co-created the digital collections of the National Museum in Warsaw, the National Museum in Krakow, the National Museum in Slovakia and the National Gallery in Bulgaria on the international Google Arts & Culture platform. One of the coordinators of the "Open Zachęta" project - one of the largest digitization projects in Poland. Co-author of the publication “Digital heritage of culture. How to prepare for digitization and making your collection available online”.

• Úna Hussey

Úna Hussey is a project manager at the Hunt Museum in Limerick, Ireland, specialising in cross-institutional collaboration and community-driven projects. Úna is the project manager of a pivotal work package for the RECHARGE project. This RECHARGE work package is testing participatory business models in ‘Living Labs’ to learn about diversifying funding streams for the cultural heritage sector. Úna has worked in the education area tying collection objects from multiple cultural heritage institutions to educational resources. Her professional background includes extensive experience in healthcare and nonprofit project management. She holds an MA in Fashion and the Environment from the London College of Fashion."

• Nadia Nadesan

Nadia is a writer, researcher and designer whose work is at the intersection of tech, the urban, and design justice. She has been working with open source software such as Decidim to push for a more ethical tech and public digital spaces. She is currently working with Platoniq on participation and governance on and offline. She is a collaborator at AIxD on how to create and conceptualize small AI through an ethical and situated framework. Through the Open Future grant she has developed a series of articles and a handbook for artists and creatives to develop AI literacy in English and Spanish. Her upcoming research supports artists and creatives in developing a sense and systems for reclaiming agency in AI governance.