Publications – Living Archives

“Co-designing newcomers archives: discussing ethical challenges when establishing collaboration with vulnerable user groups” paper presented at Cumulus 2016

By Elisabet M Nilsson 29 November, 2016 20 October, 2017 Co-archiving, Conference Presentations, Publications

Elisabet M. Nilsson and Jody Barton presented the paper: “Co-designing newcomers archives: discussing ethical challenges when establishing collaboration with vulnerable user groups” at the conference Cumulus Hong Kong 2016 Open Design for E-very-thing– exploring new design purposes. ABSTRACT – Living Archives is a research project exploring the roles of archives in a… Continue reading

“Prototyping collaborative (co-)archiving practices” paper presented at VSMM 2016

By Elisabet M Nilsson 25 October, 2016 20 October, 2017 Co-archiving, Conference Presentations, Output, Publications

Last week Elisabet M. Nilsson presented the paper ”Prototyping collaborative (co-)archiving practices – From archival appraisal to co-archival facilitation” at The International Conference on Virtual Systems and Multimedia (VSMM), Sunway University in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. ABSTRACT – This paper presents a series of prototyped collaborative (co-)archiving practices developed within the interdisciplinary research… Continue reading

Women Making History Newsletter No. 1, 2015

By Richard 17 September, 2015 17 September, 2015 Publications

The 100 Years of Immigrant Women’s Life and Work in Malmö bilingual newsletter No. 1 (2015) – made by the Women 100 project, Living Archives and ABF – is now out. It can be downloaded below and at the Women Making History website. Text: Erling Björgvinsson The newsletter reports on the inauguration of… Continue reading

“Personal Recording and Archiving Practices” – Paper presented at ISEA

By Richard 4 September, 2015 4 September, 2015 Conference Presentations, Publications

In August, PhD student Jacek Smolicki presented the paper “De-totalizing Capture: On Personal Recording and Archiving Practices” at the 21st International Symposium on Electronic Art. Here’s the abstract. ABSTRACT – Today’s media-scape presents recording and archiving as one of the major media practices performed by an increasingly growing number of people. Practically… Continue reading

Gardening communities as urban archives and social resource in urban planning

By Richard 15 June, 2015 15 June, 2015 Publications

Elisabet M. Nilsson and Veronica Wiman’s paper “Gardening communities as urban archives and social resource in urban planning”, presented at the Nordes conference, is now available online. Continue reading

Blind Spots (A Traveller’s Tale): Notes on Cultural Citizenship, Power, Recognition and Diversity

By Richard 11 June, 2015 11 June, 2015 Publications

Living Archives post-doc Temi Odumosu recently contributed an article to the Danish Agency for Culture publication Museums – Citizens and Sustainable Solutions. Here’s an excerpt. EXCERPT – When I moved to Copenhagen from London for a postdoc in the summer of 2012, the first thing I did after absorbing the initial… Continue reading

“Somatic Archiving” paper presented at the Transvaluation Symposium

By Richard 10 June, 2015 10 June, 2015 Conference Presentations, Publications

In the end of May, Susan Kozel presented the paper “Somatic Archiving” at Transvaluation: Making the World Matter – International symposium searching for alternative making of values through and in research, Gothenburg, Sweden. Continue reading

Openness: Politics, Practices and Poetics

By Richard 29 April, 2015 17 November, 2015 Publications

A Call for Submissions – We seek to gather reflections and provocations from a diverse range of voices, inviting artists, computer programmers, activists, researchers, archivists, urban foragers or performers of all sorts, to join us in thinking critically about how openness is changing social values and influencing how information is shared. Continue reading

Stories of the past shape the future – new book

By Richard 14 April, 2015 21 May, 2015 Publications

Memory on Trial: Media, Citizenship and Social Justice is a new book about how we use stories of the past to shape the future. Governments, NGOs, major archives and monument builders – they are all constantly engaged in activities of retrospection, imagination and reinterpretation. They try to mediate and give authority to particular stories, while others are suppressed. Continue reading

Paper on ‘Affective and Rhythmic Engagement with Archival Material’ presented at NODEM 2014

By Richard 10 December, 2014 19 January, 2015 Conference Presentations, Publications

This is the abstract of a paper presented at the NODEM 2014 conference “Engaging Spaces – Interpretation, Design and Digital Strategies”, December 1-3, 2014. Affective and Rhythmic Engagement with Archival Material: Experiments with Augmented Reality Authors: Susan Kozel, Jacek Smolicki and Daniel Spikol Digital content in Augmented Reality platforms tends… Continue reading

Extract of “Somatic Archiving” by Susan Kozel

By 30 June, 2014 11 September, 2014 Conference Presentations, Publications

This is an extract from a paper presented at the Things to Remember Conference University of Nijmegan, Holland, 5-6- June 2014. A longer version of this article is being prepared for publication. This paper comes out of a particular configuration of philosophical enquiry, an artistic project and bodily somatic practices informed… Continue reading

Using Augmented Reality, Artistic Research, and Mobile Phones to Explore Practice-based Learning

By Richard 14 March, 2014 8 September, 2014 Conference Presentations, Publications

Living Archives affiliate Daniel Spikol presented a paper at Ideas in Mobile Learning 2014, an event that brought together practitioners, industry players, and researchers to exchange visions of how to use mobile technology to change the way we teach and learn. The paper Using Augmented Reality, Artistic Research, and Mobile… Continue reading