Third Datathon & Webinar

Zooming in: Digital GLAM and Urban Soft Power

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.

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Paul Owens Paul Owens

Founder
World Cities Culture Forum
UK

Virtual Co-Host

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.

Chris Harris Chris Harris

Director of Exhibitions and Touring
Australian Centre for the Moving Image
Australia

Samuele De Stefani Samuele De Stefani

Head of Audience Insights
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
New Zealand

Tim Heptner Tim Heptner

Museum and Exhibition Project Manager
Deutsches Filmmuseum
Germany

Vera Thomas Vera Thomas

Exhibition Coordinator
Deutsche Kinemathek
Germany

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Mapping Superbugs Exhibition
Science Museum Group

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.

Guadalupe Díaz Costanzo Guadalupe Díaz Costanzo

Director of Museums and Exhibitions
Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation
Argentina

Helen Jones Helen Jones

Director of Global Engagement and Strategy
Science Museum Group
UK

Samarendra Kumar Samarendra Kumar

Director
National Council of Science Museums
India

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Interactive Discussion Forum

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.

Corrado Canonici Corrado Canonici

CEO and Founder
World Touring Exhibitions
UK

Dana Andrew Dana Andrew

Museum Consultant
Touring exhibitions & International Programs
Ireland

Michelle Newton Michelle Newton

Deputy Director
Artspace
Australia

Olivia Welch Olivia Welch

Exhibitions Manager
Museums & Galleries of NSW
Australia

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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.

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Professor Tim Winter Professor Tim Winter

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.

Jonathan Biz Medina Jonathan Biz Medina

Senior XR Producer
Partner at ZOAN Oy
Finland

Lorenzo Kihlgren Grandi Lorenzo Kihlgren Grandi

Director
City Diplomacy Lab
France

Matthew Davies

Matthew Davies
Director
The Layers of London
UK

Morgan Currie

Morgan Currie
Principal Investigator
The Culture & Communities Mapping Project
UK

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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.

David Batchelor David Batchelor

Planner & Urban Designer
The Urbanery
New Zealand

Michael Rigby Michael Rigby

Data Science Support Team
Australian Urban Research Infrastructure Network
Australia

Steve Watson Steve Watson

Technical Lead
(New Museum) Museum of London
UK

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Interactive Discussion Forum

Etta Grotrian Etta Grotrian

Digital Strategy Manager
Übersee-Museum
Germany

Janet Owen Janet Owen

Founder and Director
The Earth Museum
UK

Katy Canales Katy Canales

Online Exhibition Producer
Young V&A Museum
UK

Megan Lawrence Megan Lawrence

Head of Digital
Australian Museum
Australia

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