Research

• Research Strands
• Research Strand: Performing Memory
• Research Strand: Open Data
• Research Methodologies

The archives and archiving practices the Living Archives project currently is exploring are:

Performing Memory

• AffeXity: Passages and Tunnels – Exploring affect, memory, and archives
• Close Contact – Bitter and Sweet, Finding Alberta, What Lies Unspoken
• Collaborative (co-)archiving – Exploring and prototyping co-archiving pratices for democratising the access to and participation in archives
• DansAR – Pushing the constraints of augmented reality
• Open Data & Cultural Archiving – Balancing the promises and hazards of open data
• Post-industrial Cities and Public Memory
• Re-enactments – 24 hour performance at the AHA festival
• Somatic Archiving – The memories of our bodies
• Urban Archiving – Exploring archives and archiving practices in urban contexts
• Women 100 Years – Rewriting the history of immigrant women in Malmö
• Reclusive Openness – Hidden histories of immigration and conflict

Open Data

• MyData Project
• Symposia – Open Data Day, Linked Open Data, Levande Minnen, RADiCAL.PiRATiCAL
• Performing Encryption – Improvisational Workshop
• Personal Archiving Practices – Exploring personal archives and life-logging technologies
• Openness: Politics, Practices, and Poetics – Publication on medium.com
• Shadow/Counter Archiving
• Error Network – Network programme in cooperation with University of Leeds

Research based teaching

Project research for Living Archives has occurred in a range of teaching contexts: in the Interaction Design Masters (Faculty of Culture and Society, MAH) and the Media Software Design Masters (Faculty of Technology and Society, MAH), and external workshops with students from regional, national and international educational institutions.

• Prototyping co-archiving practices for refugee documentation (Collaborative Media 2017, Interaction Design Master Programme)
• Newcomer archives – Prototyping urban co-archiving practices for capturing and sharing Malmö (Collaborative Media 2016, Interaction Design Master Programme)
• Embodied Interactions 2013–2015 (Interaction Design Master Programme)
• Collaborative Media 2015 (Interaction Design Master Programme)
• Open Data and Digital Archives in the Urban Gardening Context (Media Software Design Programme)
• Performing Archives: Artistic research, archives and augmented reality (DAMA, Dance and Media Arts, Nordic Baltic Educational Network)
• DansAR 01 and 02 workshops (Skånes Dansteater, Software Media Design Programme, Interaction Design Master Programme, Lunds Dans- och Musikalgymnasium

Project Deliverables

The project developed tools, methods, and best practices, structured through parallel and complementary research strands: Performing Memory and Open Data.

The project was carried out by a collaborative and multidisciplinary team of researchers, contributing knowledge and methods from the fields of History, Artistic Research, Interaction Design, Computer Science and Cultural and Critical Theory. View everyone involved in the project here.

The project was delivered in two modes: (1) theoretical, reflective and analytical, and (2) practical through the means of concrete online prototypes, mobile applications and embodied social practices. The theoretical deliverables included scholarly publications, and general interest publications, discussions, interviews and conference presentations. The practical output included refined workshop methodologies, performance practices using newly developed mobile applications and metadata applications. The practical deliverables included the technological platforms we developed or helped to refine, and the social movements we initiated.

An important contribution was the contribution to Openness; the politics practices and poetics of openness, the publication on medium.com

 

Next Steps The Living Archives project closed in 2017 but Prof. Susan Kozel will be initiating a new project soon.