In response to one of WEAVE’s central research questions, ‘What open and reusable digital tools can be developed for working with Cultural Heritage content?’, the Coventry University team has been tasked with building up the capacity of CHIs to work with digital intangible heritage and with cultural communities.
Best practice and guidelines:
We will produce resources for CHIs concerning community engagement and management, materials for training, considering the available tools for social transformation and negotiation strategies.
WEAVE methodological framework:
This specifies hands-on methodologies, building on the LabDay methodology used in the CultureMoves Europeana Generic Service project for communities to engage with project activities and to select the content and collections to be aggregated.
Communicative Methodology:
The LabDay framework is underpinned by Communicative Methodology (CM), a sociological method that aims to cross social, cultural and linguistic boundaries. This framework enables an open, egalitarian dialogue between researchers and participants; it is a collaboratively-held space where all voices are acknowledged and valued and stakeholders can reflect together on their needs, desires and various forms of participation.
This bottom-up approach will enable cultural communities to themselves become a driver for the WEAVE Toolkit, developing from their bespoke needs concerning the management of their intangible and tangible heritage.
The programme of LabDays is coordinated by the C-DARE team at Coventry University and included a first series with a range of diverse and engaging events held between September and December 2021. They were organized by WEAVE partners, either online, live on location and with streaming. Recordings are available in this Youtube playlist or at the links below:
| Event | Date | Organized by |
|---|---|---|
| Digital Innovation of Cultural Heritage [3D Modelling of Cultural Heritage] | 1st October 2021 recordings available >>> | ARCTUR, University of Lisbon, IN2, COVUNI |
| Roma Self-representation in the history of Venice Biennale | 11th October 2021 recordings available >>> | ERIAC |
| Presenting Europeana | 18th October 2021 recordings available >>> | Europeana, with Photoconsortium and KU Leuven |
| Second International Conference “Safeguarding Our Romani Language” | 5th November 2021 recordings available >>> | ERIAC |
| Mastros Tradicionais, a cultural practice from Odemira | 15th November 2021 view event >>> | PédeXumbo |
| Poetry and Photography | 17th November 2021 recordings available >>> | TopFoto |
| The Role of Artist Residencies in the promotion of Roma Contemporary Art | 19th November 2021 recordings available >>> | ERIAC |
| Castellers in the World | 24th November 2021 recordings available >>> | CRDI – Ajuntament de Girona |
| Workshop of Portuguese Dances at Festival Desdobra-te’21 | 27th November 2021 recordings available >>> | PédeXumbo |
| Early Dance LabDay | 3rd December 2022 recordings available >>> | Coventry University, Centre for Dance Research, C-DaRE and the Early Dance Circle (EDC) |