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Re-shaping the past, preserving the future. Libraries as cultural heritage holders: the case of the Biblioteca Lazzerini in Prato
14th CIRN (Community Informatics Research Network) Prato Conference 2017, 25-27 October 2017
Monash University Centre, Prato, Italy
Special Stream: Art as Archive: Archive as Art & The Imagined Archive
I assisted with the preparation of the conference, presented a paper and co-authored another presentation.
Abstract
Background to the Conference
Since the founding colloquium in 2003, the Community Informatics Research Network (CIRN) has been marked by informality, collegiality and interdisciplinary thinking, bringing together people from many different countries in an ideal Italian setting. Themes have ranged across issues such as privilege, gender and sexual identities, forms of knowledge, documentation, participation and community-based research, power, ideals and reality, and measurement. For this edition, we chose a theme that traverses new spaces and boundaries and provokes thinking (and action) between different communities of interest. Thus, those focussed in more conventional activity in community, development and archival informatics may be provoked by what those in the art and archives space have to show and tell, and the reverse also applies.
2017 special theme: Art as Archive: Archive as Art & The Imagined Archive
There has long been discussion about the relationship between art and archives, not just in the sense that archives may represent curated collections relating to specific artists or forms of art, but that art may be used to provide new ways of conceiving what is in archival collections, and new ways of thinking about the nature and meaning of those collections. These themes were explored by a number of papers discussing radical archives at Prato 2016, but in 2017 we went further exploring the relationship from multiple perspectives.
Funding
Monash University - Faculty of Information Technology
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Biblioteca LazzeriniCampolmiLazzerini LibraryPratocommunity benefitsCommunity informaticsempowering communityCommunity-centricmemoryself-knowledgearchitectural recoveryCultural Heritage Preservationfabric productionTextile factoryculture factoryindustrial spaceculture machineLibrary and Information Studies not elsewhere classifiedLibrary and Information StudiesLibrarianshipCultural Studies not elsewhere classifiedHeritage and Cultural ConservationHistorical Archaeology (incl. Industrial Archaeology)Industrial DesignMuseum Studies