Citizen Heritage: Digital and Community-based Histories of Place

Grant number: DP140101188 | Funding period: 2014 - 2018

Completed

Abstract

This interdisciplinary project investigates the potential for the citizens of local areas to generate new collective interpretations of their shared heritage and identity. A longitudinal case study will be conducted into the design and deployment of a digital and mobile tool for a particular urban precinct. Findings will reveal the viability of collaborative digital technologies to shape the experience of built places, and their capacity to balance expert and community knowledge. The study is significant for understanding grass-roots forms of history-making, and new forms of architectural heritage interpretation that capture social and intangible aspects of urban history.

Related publications (8)

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Teaching Memory: Digital Interpretation at the Shrine of Remembrance, Melbourne

S Cooke, H Lewi

2020-01-01

With the inclusion of the digital in the suite of on-site interpretation experiences now available at many war memorials, long-sta..

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The experience of using digital walking tours to explore urban histories

Wally Smith, Dirk vom Lehn, Hannah Lewi, Dora Constantinidis, Katie Best

2020-01-01

This chapter aims to report a study of people’s experiences of digital history tours in Melbourne and London, and examines whether..

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The Routledge International Handbook of New Digital Practices in Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums and Heritage Sites

2019-01-01

The Routledge International Handbook of New Digital Practices in Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums and Heritage Sites presen..

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'PastPort': Reflections on the Design of a Mobile App for Citizen Heritage in Port Melbourne

Wally Smith, Hannah Lewi, David Nichols

2018-01-01

This article reports the authors’ design and evaluation of a web-based app called PastPort for the locality of Port Melbourne. Cre..

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Citizen Heritage: provoking participation in place through digital technologies

H Lewi, M Smith

2016-01-01

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“The Home of the Borough” The use and value of Port Melbourne Football Ground in the 21st century

D Nichols, H Lewi

2016-01-01

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Visitor, Contributor and Conversationalist: multiple digital identities of the heritage citizen

H Lewi, M Smith, A Murray, S Cooke

2016-01-01

In this paper we analyse modes of connecting to and interacting with heritage through a range of selected digital applications and..

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Some Implications of Digital Social Media for Heritage Practice

H LEWI, A Murray, null Smith, S Webber

2015-01-01