Framing collaborative processes of digital transformation in cultural organisations: from literary archives to augmented reality. (3rd July 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Arrigoni, Gabriella; Schofield, Tom; Trujillo Pisanty, Diego
• Is Part Of: Museum management and curatorship. Volume 35:Number 4(2020)
• Page Start: 424
• Page End: 445
• Publication Date: 2020-07-03
• Subjects: Digital heritage -- innovation -- augmented reality -- collaboration -- design space; Museum techniques -- Periodicals; Museums -- Management -- Periodicals; 069.05
• DOI: 10.1080/09647775.2019.1683880
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0964-7775

Abstract

ABSTRACT: At a time when it is particularly urgent to identify models of intersection across the digital and cultural sector to respond to an emergent funding and policy environment, this article contributes to a body of scholarly work around designing digital interventions for museums by identifying the role of cultural content in shaping design spaces for collaboration. The context of the article is a research project that brought together magical realist literature and the development of an Augmented Reality smartphone application realised through a public programme held at a museum of children's literature. This process created an open-ended design space within the organisation embedded into the development of public engagement workshops around magical realism and place making. It investigates how the cultural content (from archival material) occupied a key role in shaping technological development and suggests strategies that could grant autonomy and sustainability to cultural organisations in engaging in digital transformation.