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
Workshop “Co-museums, Co-design, Archiving and Participation”
Contributors: Platoniq
Platoniq and the Europeana Foundation, with support from ICUB (Barcelona City Council), have prepared a workshop for the co-creation of new cultural prototypes at the Design Museum of Barcelona, to be held on 30 June and 1 July.
And we’ll be working with well-known pieces from the Museum of Design, including Rafael Marquina’s Setrilleres (cruet or condiment vessels), silicone steam roasters (bowls or vessels) by Compeixalaigua Designstudio and the legendary BKF chair by Grupo Austral
We will apply Platoniq’s methodologies, with different principles, methods and... Read more