Cultural organisations are making available online an important part of our cultural heritage. The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam has released 100,000 images in high resolution available as public domain. In order to encourage other cultural organisation to follow the example, it is important that the public in general makes use of that material. In this workshop participants are invited to develop possible application on what to do with this material and how to present to the general public.
Are you interested in creating a public space installation? Are you interested in rethinking what online exhibitions should look like? Join the workshop and discover with us what our digital cultural heritage has to offer.
What knowledge and skills can be gained from the workshop?
Interactive design, graphic design, web programming, content strategy, marketing strategy.
How will the workshop be run?
In small groups of 3 or 4 persons, the participants define a creative approach to present digital cultural heritage. Participants are encouraged to use agile development methodologies. The moderators will help the participants organise their work and present tools and examples from which to draw inspiration. The results of the workshop are to be presented by participants.
Who can apply? What kind of experience or skills are required? How to prepare for the project?
Graphic designers (How would you design an online exhibition?). Software developers (Request access to the Rijksmuseum API – https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/api). Creative minds (What would you do with the Rijksmuseum collection? https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/explore-the-collection).
Rui Guerra
Rui Guerra is co-founder of INTK, a creative studio specialised in developing online strategies for cultural organisations. He is involved in open culture with a critical view on communities. Being a critical open cultures advocate, Rui Guerra has developed a number of models, self-organising principles and strategies for shifting culture online, and what to do with it once it’s there. His work questions and challenges the norms and hierarchies of ‘high-end’ cultural institutions and suggests that the time has come to reflect the true economic and political value of online culture within governmental policy. Rui presents regularly at international conferences, most recently at Culture 2.0 (Warsaw, Poland), ARCO Fair (Madrid, Spain), Museums and the Web (San Diego, USA), Digital Strategies for Cultural Heritage (Rotterdam, the Netherlands), Public Interfaces (Aarhus. Denmark) and the Association of Art Museum Curators’s conference (New York, USA).
André Gonçalves
André is an Informatics Engineering student at University of Coimbra, Portugal and currently he leads the Software Engineering team at INESC. Together with INTK, André created an interactive ‘Google Streatview’ that allows visitors to interact with maps from 18 century and see illustration from Amsterdam as if they were Streetview images. André is enthusiastic about the web and promotes open source and open data in general.