Data Society Project
This is a continuation of the Malmö museums thesis project that you can find here
In this project, we focused on the interactions the museum had with its visitors both in digital and in real-life forms. Taking space during the Covid-19 pandemic meant that we had to find a balance of how to make use of technologies for the benefit of both visitors and the museum.
Our attempt to do this involved remediating heritage spaces - in particular a collection of sailors’ souvenir objects that has been collected by the museum through the years. By using the digitised replicas of museum objects we held several digital workshops with participants that were tasked with making up stories of what certain objects could mean. Where did these objects originate from? Why did someone bring them all the way to Malmö and Sweden? What use could they have had in daily life at that time? All questions that rarely get answered with such, seemingly, anonymous objects.
The project has also been part of a wider project by the Swedish National Heritage Board in collaboration with several Norwegian and Swedish museums based on a new museum method called “Tingenes Metode” = The method of the thing
The focus of this method is to not only focus on the “thing” (aka the object) but to also build up an assembly (ting also means assembly in Nordic languages) around the objects to discuss freely about them.
The project has resulted in several co-authored academic articles to be released during 2022.
For more info on the project’s different parts please refer to the links below:
- Journal Article:Reuse and Appropriation: Remediating Digital Museum Collections and Digital Tools for a Participatory Culture in Transition (in English)
- Malmö museums Sailor souvenirs exhibition page (in Swedish)
- Tingenes Metode information (in Norwegian)
- Swedish National Heritage Board hub of Tingens Metod (in Swedish)
- Malmö University Data Society Research Node (in English)
- Articles links to be updated as they get published
Below you will find the presentation that I and my colleagues presented during the Nordmedia Conference 2021.