Collections of Ghent unfolds - webinar
Tuesday 20 June - 13:30 - 15:30, English
We invite you and your network to this 2 hour English webinar on "Collections of Ghent”, the EU-funded innovation project at the intersection of heritage, social cohesion and technology.
Within Collections of Ghent, the city and its museums and archives have been collaborating for the past 3 years with partners from the corporate, cultural, and academic world to digitize an invaluable collection of more-or-less 75.000 objects, stories and documents. This collected heritage converges in an online platform and the CoGent box, an immersive, high tech and mobile experience room that went on tour in the neighbourhoods of Ghent. Visitors could participate by adding personal stories and assets about the cultural heritage displayed in the CoGent box and on the platform.
We explored how digitised cultural heritage could be used as a conversation starter within neighbourhoods, and didn't focus on current museum goers, but mainly on unserved audiences to tell their stories.
To stimulate re-use, we also started a co-creation fund, as mini grants to incentivize citizens and companies to build anything they wanted with the heritage, from podcasts to theatre pieces.
And we didn’t settle for just a fund. We established a cultural data lab, a place for experimentation, hackatons and workshops to show what is possible with these digitised assets.
Curious to know more about the process and the results of this project or want to ask questions to the key stakeholders? Join us on the 20th of June.
Programme
13.30
Welcome by Line Ostyn, Project Manager Collections of Ghent, Strategic Funding Service at City of Ghent
Welcome by Marie-Pierre Jouglain, Programme Manager EU policies at the European Commission Directorate-General for Regional and Urban Policy.
13.45
Collections of Ghent in 20 mins - Olivier Van D'huynslager, project lead CoGhent - Design Museum Gent
Results and impact of Collections of Ghent - Bas Baccarne, senior researcher imec-MICT-UGent.
External reflection and potential of the project in terms of transferability to other cities - François Jégou, Strategic Design Scenarios, UIA Expert
14.45
Q&A
Join us on Tuesday 20 June at 13:30 CET on Youtube using this streaming link .
Curious about the Collections of Ghent project and you can't wait till next week to find out what we have been up to the last three years?
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