Inclusive Digital Museum Innovation

Abstract

This seminar will present the Inclusive Digital Museum Innovation project and focus on the use of inclusive technology as a means to facilitate the social inclusion of people with visual impairment. 

Led by UCL Institute of Archaeology (IoA) in the UK and KAIST Game & Life Lab in South Korea, Inclusive Digital Museum Innovation is one of the ESRC-AHRC Opportunity: UK and South Korea social science, arts and humanities connections awards made as part of collaborative research networks aiming to develop long-term relationships between researchers in the two countries. Created during the second year of the pandemic, the Inclusive Digital Museum Innovation project was developed as an interdisciplinary response to a process of an accelerated shift towards digital technology and the digital divide that was exacerbated, but also exposed by COVID-19. Bringing together a cross-disciplinary team of researchers and professional practitioners, this project addressed the challenges that UK- and South Korean-based museums and libraries face when dealing with digital inclusion/exclusion. For more information about the project see: https://inclusivedigitalmuseum.org/

Project report

• UK-South Korea Inclusive Digital Museum Innovation (2023) - Rafie Cecilia, Karam Eum, Pooseung Koh, Juhee Park, Rebecca Mileham, Theano Moussouri

UCL Institute of Archaeology Research Seminars Programme | Term I, 2023-24

The Term I seminar series will again highlight current Institute of Archaeology research. These are scheduled to be in-person events; where speakers have agreed, a recording may be made available afterwards.

Mondays, 5pm 

• 9 October: Victoria Lucas (Archaeological Sciences): "Everything Old is New Again" early medieval glass recycling: technology, change, and resourcefulness
• 16 October: Jan Kolar (Archaeological Sciences): Prehistoric demography, social transformations and woodland in Central Europe
• 23 October: Giacomo Fontana (World Archaeology): Computational and landscape approaches to non-urban political centralisation in the 1st millennium BCE Mediterranean: the Samnites 
• 30 October: Ulrike Sommer (World Archaeology): Varna, Bodrogkeresztúr and the development of formal cemeteries in the Carpathian Basin

[6 November: Reading Week - no seminar]

• 13 November: Johanna Zetterstrom Sharp (Heritage Studies): Mid-century Museum ‘Best’ Practice and Self-Defined Anti-Racism
• 20 November: Cristina Castillo & Dorian Fuller (Archaeological Sciences): Evolutionary Dynamics of Enset Vegeculture in Ethiopia
• 27 November: Rafie Cecilia & Theano Moussouri (Heritage Studies): Inclusive Digital Museum Innovation - this seminar will take place in Archaeology LT (G6) and will not be recorded
• 4 December:  Veronica Occari (Archaeological Sciences/World Archaeology): The Technology of Medieval Venetian Glass and the Levantine Connection 
• 11 December: Rodney Harrison (Heritage Studies): Ghosts of Solid Air: Using Augmented Reality to Engage with Debates Regarding Contested Monuments in London