Workshop: "Museum Futures: Emerging Technological and Social Paradigms"
22/8/10 .- LAP&T Siena
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
8-13 November 2010, Lemesos, Cyprus
Submission deadline: September 15th, 2010 Notification of acceptance:
September 30th, 2010
http://www.euromed2010.eu/
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WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION
This workshop brings together researchers and professionals interested in
exploring how emerging technological and social paradigms can be expected to
change the way in which we experience museums and communicate heritage.
How will technological paradigms such as the Internet of Things and cloud
computing change the museum?s consumption? Internet of Things and cloud
computing are transforming software, contents, and shared resources in a
public utility radically decentralized and ?on-demand?.
Can we think of a museum ?on demand?? Can we imagine all the artefacts of
the world equipped with chips able to re-contextualize and re- generate
ontologies and metadata in response to their changing social and
environmental settings? In this scenario, what happens to cultural
transmission? What about cultural identity and authenticity? What additional
opportunities and challenges can the social web offer to this future
scenario?
RFID tags, agile architectures, device and location independence, virtual
communities and open social networks are creating socio- technical
infrastructures that redefine our encounter with heritage and potentially
act as places of cultural production and lasting values at the service of
heritage practice. Museums in this sense are new ?places? which are
co-evolving and migrating to digital territories not yet coded and analyzed.
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TOPICS
- Theoretical considerations on the long-term impact of emerging paradigms
with respect to museums and heritage interpretation and communication
- Innovative applications of emerging paradigms to museums and heritage
practice
- Aspects of social, economic and cultural sustainability of emerging
paradigms
In particular, the workshop will explore the idea of Museum Futures in
relation to:
- New forms of cultural embodiment, experience, and engagement
- Virtual communities, collaborative environments, and global mechanisms
- Geo-localization, decentralized narratives, and local interactions
- Social web and emerging forms of socio-cultural interaction
- Internet of Things and emerging cultural paradigms
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IMPORTANT DATES
Submission deadline: September 15th, 2010 Notification of acceptance:
September 30th, 2010
Workshop participants will be selected on the basis of a submitted 2 to 4
page position paper.
The position paper must outline the submitter's view on the workshop theme
and the reasons for interest in the topic.
Selected papers will be published by Springer Verlag.
Email submissions to:
elisa.giaccardi@uc3m.es,
mforte@ucmerced.edu with the subject heading
"Museum Futures Workshop Submission".
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WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS
Maurizio Forte, University of California at Merced, USA Elisa Giaccardi,
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
8-13 November 2010, Lemesos, Cyprus
Submission deadline: September 15th, 2010 Notification of acceptance:
September 30th, 2010
http://www.euromed2010.eu/
-------------------------------------
WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION
This workshop brings together researchers and professionals interested in
exploring how emerging technological and social paradigms can be expected to
change the way in which we experience museums and communicate heritage.
How will technological paradigms such as the Internet of Things and cloud
computing change the museum?s consumption? Internet of Things and cloud
computing are transforming software, contents, and shared resources in a
public utility radically decentralized and ?on-demand?.
Can we think of a museum ?on demand?? Can we imagine all the artefacts of
the world equipped with chips able to re-contextualize and re- generate
ontologies and metadata in response to their changing social and
environmental settings? In this scenario, what happens to cultural
transmission? What about cultural identity and authenticity? What additional
opportunities and challenges can the social web offer to this future
scenario?
RFID tags, agile architectures, device and location independence, virtual
communities and open social networks are creating socio- technical
infrastructures that redefine our encounter with heritage and potentially
act as places of cultural production and lasting values at the service of
heritage practice. Museums in this sense are new ?places? which are
co-evolving and migrating to digital territories not yet coded and analyzed.
-----------
TOPICS
- Theoretical considerations on the long-term impact of emerging paradigms
with respect to museums and heritage interpretation and communication
- Innovative applications of emerging paradigms to museums and heritage
practice
- Aspects of social, economic and cultural sustainability of emerging
paradigms
In particular, the workshop will explore the idea of Museum Futures in
relation to:
- New forms of cultural embodiment, experience, and engagement
- Virtual communities, collaborative environments, and global mechanisms
- Geo-localization, decentralized narratives, and local interactions
- Social web and emerging forms of socio-cultural interaction
- Internet of Things and emerging cultural paradigms
---------------------------
IMPORTANT DATES
Submission deadline: September 15th, 2010 Notification of acceptance:
September 30th, 2010
Workshop participants will be selected on the basis of a submitted 2 to 4
page position paper.
The position paper must outline the submitter's view on the workshop theme
and the reasons for interest in the topic.
Selected papers will be published by Springer Verlag.
Email submissions to:
"Museum Futures Workshop Submission".
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WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS
Maurizio Forte, University of California at Merced, USA Elisa Giaccardi,
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain