Exploring how to repurpose marginalized heritage sites participatively: OpenHeritage
Contributors: Platoniq
Imagine a former industrial site now abandoned, that local residents want to convert into a community school!
Imagine a park that is used on a daily basis by local young people, local organic farmers and by a collective of elderly people. Imagine that these residents could participate in taking decisions about the future of the area!
Imagine a neighborhood once derelict and now upcoming, at risk of aggressive gentrification but with the presence of a strong grassroots... Read more
Platoniq hosting the Culture Labs ignition workshop: co-designing the journey together
Contributors: Platoniq
Last 3rd and 4th of July, in Barcelona, participants of the European project CultureLabs gathered in an intense and productive two day workshop at the huge ex-industrial-now-cultural “creation factory” Fabra i Coats. The two-day session helped CultureLabs to be shaped as an increasingly more coherent project, in which actors share a common language and know each other’s understandings and goals for this three years journey.
Platoniq, with its in-house expertise in co-creation and agile design... Read more
Sharing cultural heritage to promote participation: Culture Labs has taken off
Contributors: Platoniq
Can institutions, community members and culture go hand in hand to improve connections in society? Are public bodies capable of merging with civil organisations and cultural institutions to develop well-directed projects? How can communities, especially those at risk of exclusion, benefit from the interaction with and use of cultural heritage (and contribute to it)? What role can cultural heritage have in the inclusion programs of community organizations and authorities?
These are some of the... Read more
Colombia: Co-crear la memoria colectiva del país a través de 500 bibliotecas públicas.
Contributors: Platoniq
Conectar las historias de Colombia a través de la co-creación y del diálogo analógico-digital.
“Realizar procesos de recuperación de memoria con la comunidad se empieza con una sola tarea: Escuchando a la gente. No hay que ser historiadores. Sólo hay que tener una cualidad y es saber escuchar y proponer un tema. La gente va llegando. No hay que ponerlo en términos raros”. Hernando Alberto Gómez, Bibliotecario de la Biblioteca Pública Operación P.A.P.A (Quimbaya, Quindío)
El pasado 4... Read more
Co-creation made Agile Workshop at THE ARTS+ Lab. Frankfurt Book Fair
Contributors: Platoniq
Come to THE ARTS+ Fair at the Frankfurt Book Fair, the most prestigious in Europe which, between 19 and 23 October, will gather 270,000 professionals and 7,500 exhibitors from all over the world. Platoniq will be conducting a workshop to explore Co-creation Made #Agile methodology for co-designing and incubating designs of viable apps reusing Europe’s cultural heritage and business models for #culturalheritage. We will also be showing some of our new tools!
THE ARTS+ (an area especially designed and commissioned to explore markets for digital creative products) includes three different... Read more