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Wednesday, December 21, 2005
We hope everybody has a great Christmas and a happy New Year!
Have fun at all the crazy Christmas parties out there...
LOVE Kris & Metz
Monday, December 19, 2005
Virtual Spaces of Identity
A project about virtual preservation. The idea behind this project is to create a prototype for a virtual platform that aids the Historic Districts Council’s work in preserving communities and neighbourhoods. The project aims at examining how virtuality can be used to map and document tangible and intangible cultural heritage.
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The thesis
Fields:
Preservation
Urban cultural development
Problem:
Preservation of cultural heritage is mostly done through preservation of physical objects, as intangible culture is obviously more difficult to preserve. According to UNESCO’s ‘Safeguarding Heritage’-statement (2003) the preservation of cultural heritage must include both tangible and intangible values. One of the problems concerning neighbourhood preservation is to document those intangible values, which strengthen the community’s sense of belonging to their physical surroundings.
Can virtuality be used to map and document intangible values? And how?
Purpose:
The answer to this can help develop the work with preservation and provide a concrete suggestion to how virtuality can play a role in this work.
Formulation of problem:
We will examine how virtual representation of a specific New York neighbourhood can map and document its tangible and intangible culture, in ways that create value to the neighbourhood community.
Preservation
Urban cultural development
Problem:
Preservation of cultural heritage is mostly done through preservation of physical objects, as intangible culture is obviously more difficult to preserve. According to UNESCO’s ‘Safeguarding Heritage’-statement (2003) the preservation of cultural heritage must include both tangible and intangible values. One of the problems concerning neighbourhood preservation is to document those intangible values, which strengthen the community’s sense of belonging to their physical surroundings.
Can virtuality be used to map and document intangible values? And how?
Purpose:
The answer to this can help develop the work with preservation and provide a concrete suggestion to how virtuality can play a role in this work.
Formulation of problem:
We will examine how virtual representation of a specific New York neighbourhood can map and document its tangible and intangible culture, in ways that create value to the neighbourhood community.
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The production
The purpose of the production is to build a virtual prototype for Historic Districts Council, which through physical and virtual interaction educates and involves a community in preserving their neighbourhood.
The HDC will chose one specific New York neighbourhood, which will act as base for the prototype. The Cultural Production and New Media Design students will provide suggestions concerning the production of the virtual platform.
To raise awareness and interest in the virtual preservation platform, we need to involve the community – not just as end-users, but as participants in the production process.
To create a valuable and useful platform we need to locate specific areas of tangible/intangible culture (language/slang, fashion, meeting places, etc), which are representative for the essence of the community; and from that derive general assumptions on the neighbourhood culture as a whole.
To map everything is impossible, and unnecessary – in mapping and documentation it is crucial to be selective in order to be significant. The HDC’s knowledge and competences are tremendously important in this.
The HDC will chose one specific New York neighbourhood, which will act as base for the prototype. The Cultural Production and New Media Design students will provide suggestions concerning the production of the virtual platform.
To raise awareness and interest in the virtual preservation platform, we need to involve the community – not just as end-users, but as participants in the production process.
To create a valuable and useful platform we need to locate specific areas of tangible/intangible culture (language/slang, fashion, meeting places, etc), which are representative for the essence of the community; and from that derive general assumptions on the neighbourhood culture as a whole.
To map everything is impossible, and unnecessary – in mapping and documentation it is crucial to be selective in order to be significant. The HDC’s knowledge and competences are tremendously important in this.
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The collaboration
Historic Districts Council is a non-profit preservation organization founded in 1971. The core belief of the Historic Districts Council is that preservation and enhancement of these material resources contribute to the city’s health and success and can enable an ever richer future. Preserving our city’s cultural and architectural heritage guides the Historic Districts Council in all its actions. http://www.hdc.org
WISE/Workshop for Innovation Studies and Entrepreneurship is an EU-founded project, which team up students from various educations and links them to concrete projects in the private and public sectors. http://www.iworkshop.dk
Cultural Production, Malmö University, is an advanced level two years program, which provides a theoretical background, and practical tools for analyzing, creating and producing. Cultural Production is a relatively new interdisciplinary field of study, combing theories of culture and integrating them in the practical work. http://www.mah.se
The School of TV is an experimenting developmental- and educational environment which has specialized in education within visualization, video streaming for the Internet and multimedia- and interactive video productions. The TV School is established in a creative education- and project compound – right in the middle of the TV- and movie business. http://www.tvskolen.dk
New Media Designer Study, Media- & Trade School, is one of the official Danish short-cycle non-university higher education programmes, dealing with digital media. The study is certified by the Ministry of Education and is a two-year programme, which contains communication, business related subjects, multimedia design, interaction development and digital live pictures. http://www.multimediedesigneruddannelsen.dk/
WISE/Workshop for Innovation Studies and Entrepreneurship is an EU-founded project, which team up students from various educations and links them to concrete projects in the private and public sectors. http://www.iworkshop.dk
Cultural Production, Malmö University, is an advanced level two years program, which provides a theoretical background, and practical tools for analyzing, creating and producing. Cultural Production is a relatively new interdisciplinary field of study, combing theories of culture and integrating them in the practical work. http://www.mah.se
The School of TV is an experimenting developmental- and educational environment which has specialized in education within visualization, video streaming for the Internet and multimedia- and interactive video productions. The TV School is established in a creative education- and project compound – right in the middle of the TV- and movie business. http://www.tvskolen.dk
New Media Designer Study, Media- & Trade School, is one of the official Danish short-cycle non-university higher education programmes, dealing with digital media. The study is certified by the Ministry of Education and is a two-year programme, which contains communication, business related subjects, multimedia design, interaction development and digital live pictures. http://www.multimediedesigneruddannelsen.dk/
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