Genealogies of Place: Engaging the future by connecting with the past through story, archive and new technology
Lead Research Organisation:
University of South Wales
Department Name: Creative and Cultural Industries
Abstract
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| Title | Exhibition of Community Art |
| Description | Paintings Digital story Digital archive |
| Type Of Art | Artistic/Creative Exhibition |
| Year Produced | 2011 |
| Impact | Establishment of new community groups in Sunderland, Bute Town, Cardiff and Bradford. |
| Description | The project utilized three kinds of collaboration, firstly between academics and community participants in their locations. Secondly, between broad disciplinary areas, Arts, social sciences and Computer Science, where academics, community members and practitioners will be invited to meet in the network to develop the larger proposal. Second, the project required close collaboration between the investigators and the participatory technology projects they have identified - i.e. Teeside, Butetown (Cardiff) Cornwall. The network events took place in community contexts to allow for maximum consultation and collaboration with community participants. A total of thirteen people were involved in this project. In order to manage the project sustainably, the project team met 4 times during the period. We discovered a complex process of support and pro activity was required to sustain such a complex partnership. |
| Exploitation Route | Community organizations in the locations of the five contributing partners benefited from interaction with each other and collaborative public events. |
| Sectors | Communities and Social Services/Policy,Creative Economy,Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software),Leisure Activities, including Sports, Recreation and Tourism |
| Description | This proposal has added value to existing work in the field by linking researchers in the arts and humanities with computer scientists and communities of place. This network sits within the Creative Economy stream of the Connected Communities programme. It links across various disciplinary areas, and grows out of at least three RC-funded projects: it extends Frohlich's project 'Storybank' - the aim of which is to allow village communities in the developing world to create and share audiovisual information easily. It links with Hackney's 'Connecting Craft and Communities' project which explores how local, often rural, communities of practice underpin a strong sense of community and builds upon Fyfe's 'Cardiff and its Hinterland' project examining the place of personal story in building new meta-narratives of community of place in the 21st Century Museum. And 'Linking the Chain' - Digital Heritage in Wales initiated by Wilson, Whittle's 'Voice your View' project promotes 'community-ism' through new technology and has undergone trials in Derry and Lancaster. |
| First Year Of Impact | 2011 |
| Sector | Creative Economy,Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software),Leisure Activities, including Sports, Recreation and Tourism |
| Impact Types | Cultural,Societal,Policy & public services |
| Description | Genealogies of Place |
| Organisation | British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Research leadership Collaborative creation of follow on funding bid Exhibition material and events Digital archive Enhanced partnerships with academics, non-academic partners and Communities. Research data, report, and substantial grant submission to Connected Communities programme. The project investigated how digital technologies/digital archives/digital storytelling could be used to connect heard/unheard voices within, between and across diverse communities under stress. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Venue opportunities Community access Technological support |
| Impact | Larger grant application to AHRC Community media Public Exhibitions |
| Start Year | 2011 |