Datathon Forecasting local impacts of travelling exhibitions
The datathon will discuss challenges and opportunities of urban cultural infrastructure mapping as well as its value and implications for designing touring exhibitions and predicting their local engagement power. It will present the Local Engagement Layer of the Data To Power prototype, designed by aggregating and mapping data generated by travelling exhibitions toured around the world by the Science Museum Group in London and Australian Centre for the Moving Image in Melbourne.
World Cities Culture Forum The World Cities Culture Forum (WCCF), which BOP convenes, provides a way for policy makers in 38 key cities to share research and intelligence, and explore the vital role of culture in their future prosperity. Forum partners collaborate via a programme of events including themed symposia, regional summits and workshops. These events feed into the annual World Cities Culture Summit. Hosted on a rotating basis by partner cities, this unique gathering allows city leaders to share ideas and knowledge about the role of culture as an organising principle for the sustainable city of the future.
Mapping Wonderland Exhibition Australian Center for the Moving Image
The panel will present the mapping framework and results of measuring and predicting impacts of the Wonderland exhibition, created by the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI). It will share insights from ACMI and hosting museums in New Zealand and Singapore to complement data mapping with some illuminating stories about Wonderland's audiences, reception, and impact in different countries.
The panel will present the Local Engagement Layer of Data To Power prototype, designed in collaboration with Science Museum Group by mapping its Superbugs exhibition, that traveled before and during the pandemic crisis to many countries, including Argentina, India, and China. It will bring some of the hosting museums' representatives together to discuss the results of the mapping and share their stories behind the exhibition impacts in local contexts.
The discussion forum will focus on current institutional strategies and practices to explore how different museums determine hosting places and institutions for their international exhibitions, what factors they consider in their decision-making process and how AI and machine learning or data-intensive approaches could automate and aid the processes.
Webinar Urban Data Infrastructures and Digital Place-making
The webinar will discuss the concept of digital soft power from the perspective of digital place-making, urban diplomacy and city branding. Interrogating phenomena such as digital tourism, digital cultural heritage and its virtual cultural consumption, it will investigate the role of digital representations, narratives and images constructed by GLAM institutions in the development and circulation of urban identities in the global media spaces.
Professor of Critical Heritage Studies The University of Western Australia Australia
Keynote Speaker
The Digital Silk Road and Geocultural Diplomacy China’s ‘revival’ of the Silk Roads for the 21st Century through its Belt and Road Initiative has brought about new modes of geocultural diplomacy spanning continents and oceans. This presentation explores such themes in relation to the forms of digital domain cooperation and cultural production that are now fast emerging, highlighting how Chinese universities, technology companies and cultural sector organisations collaborate in the making of new transcultural, transnational imaginaries of the past.
Interactive Practitioner Panel Digital GLAM in City Branding and Diplomacy
The panel will explore the concept of digital soft power from the perspective of digital place-making, urban diplomacy and city branding. Interrogating phenomena such as digital tourism, digital cultural heritage and its virtual cultural consumption, it will investigate the role of digital representations, narratives and images constructed by GLAM institutions in the development and circulation of urban identities in the global media spaces.
Interactive Data Panel GLAM Data in Smart City Ecologies
The panel will explore connections and synergies between urban GLAM actors’ programming and emerging smart city issues and dilemmas in a fast-paced urban environment marked with the processes of increasing digitalization and datafication. It will discuss how data generated by and around museums in the smart city context can contribute to, challenge or contest smart city governance.
