Participatory exploration of digitalizing cultural content

Rodil, Kasper; Winschiers‐Theophilus, Heike; Kapuire, Gereon Koch; Stanley, Colin; Chivuno-Kuria, Shilumbe

doi:10.1145/2662155.2662185

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“…This material served the purpose of a variety of instances of endangered Bedouin ICH from their perspectives from which to select suitable ICH themes to base the functionalities of the prototypes on. As suggested by other scholars [53], the translation of cultural heritage into digitised forms could never entirely and holistically cover the complexity of it. Both students and Bedouins developed, to a certain extent, such awareness throughout the school.…”

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confidence: 99%

A Participatory Approach for Digital Documentation of Egyptian Bedouins' Intangible Cultural Heritage

Giglitto¹,

Lazem²,

Preston³

2019

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The Bedouins of Egypt hold a unique intangible cultural heritage (ICH), with distinct cultural values and social practices that are rapidly changing as a consequence of having settled after having been nomadic for centuries. We present our attempt to develop a bottom-up approach to document Bedouin ICH. Grounded in participatory design practices, the project purpose was two-fold: engaging Egyptian Engineering undergraduates with culturally-distant technology users and introducing digital self-documentation of ICH to the Bedouin community. We report the design of a didactic model that deployed the students as research partners to co-design four prototypes of ICH documentation mobile applications with the community. The prototypes reflected an advanced understanding for the values to the Bedouins brought by digital documentation practices. Drawing from our experience, three recommendations were elicited for similar ICH projects. Namely, focusing on the community benefits; promoting motivation ownership, and authenticity; and pursuing a shared identity between designers and community members. These guidelines hold a strong value as they have been tested against local challenges that could have been detrimental to the project.

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Section: Research Activitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Participatory Approach for Digital Documentation of Egyptian Bedouins' Intangible Cultural Heritage

Giglitto¹,

Lazem²,

Preston³

2019

IxD&A

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“…Since 2008, our research team consisting of local academics (many with indigenous roots), international collaborators and partnerships with NGOs and governmental bodies have been engaged in digitization of indigenous knowledge as well as practices and technology design with the OvaHerero (an indigenous group in Namibia) [8,9,10]. The research approach is based on principles of mutual respect and learning and participatory actions.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Storytelling is itself a medium; in digitization efforts it is adapted into other means of representation. This observation necessitates that any attempts to represent concepts and practices to be evaluated for embodied biases -both those of designers and technologies [10].…”

Section: Previous Digitization Effortsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…For instance, traditional outsider accounts of OvaHerero weddings have not succeeded in explaining the patterns of moving people throughout the traditional wedding ceremony, because the chosen media and focus has been unable to capture it [10]. We have embraced an atomistic perspective where we acknowledge that for instance video recordings of cultural practices can only provide partial insights into the rationalities of these practices and from certain privileged perspectives.…”

Section: Previous Digitization Effortsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Prior to 'any-shoe-fits-all' and pre-selection of digital capture technology we deconstruct local concepts followed by re-constructing a digital platform for representation with indigenous members to ensure that tacit values are incorporated. As we come from a certain privileged and biased technological vantage point we actively seek collaborations with indigenous groups to promote the representation from an embodied insight into their own practices and consequent desire of digital manifestations [10].…”

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confidence: 99%

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Indigenous Storytelling in Namibia: Sketching Concepts for Digitization

Rodil

Winschiers‐Theophilus

2015

2015 International Conference on Culture and Computing (Culture Computing)

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Oral storytelling predates the written word and computer code by millennia which has been part of all pasts of contemporary communities. While narratives and plots can take place in the metaphysical world, be presented with humor and seem like fairytales to outsiders with little relevance to the physical world, they are very functional and foundational for communities where storytelling is enacted. This paper debates concepts related to indigenous storytelling and its relevance to knowledge and learning for indigenous youths. In an attempt to understand indigenous youths' own conception of storytelling the paper presents empirical data from a study with indigenous Khoisan children in Namibia. This is followed by a discussion of an effort of digitizing indigenous intangible cultural heritage in relation to technologies' embodied bias and perspectives.

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