Description:
Key Words:
Indigenous knowledge,Digital Archiving,Inclusive Archiving,Memory archiving
Required Skills:
Research methods, Interests in mental mapping.
Required Software:
N/A
Required Hardware:
Access to the internet, Access to archives of any kind.
Maximum number of participating students:
10
Inheritance, Archive or habit?
“Just because you don’t know about it, does not mean it’s not documented.
The design is the document”- Linda Mvosi, South African Architect, Actor, Designer.
Archives ask questions.
Archives tell stories.
Archives are warnings.
Archives are memories.
In this workshop, we will explore knowledge at the margins.
We will dive into well known archives and relate the influence of this past knowledge to present day making ; in so doing we aim to identify the hierarchies in knowledge collection,archiving and legitimisation.
Participants are encouraged to have collective imagination of new ways of life around indigenous knowledge they may have inherited or interacted with. What knowledge do you have that is not in museums and archives, who does it belong to, and what ways can this knowledge be passed on, outside appropriation?
An analysis of techniques, material systems, social structure, culture, climatic conditions that influence the various forms of knowledge in architecture, craft and design will be discussed. We will utilise the wealth of diverse contributions from participants to formulate our customised archival space.
Revolutionising the way we design means revolutionising the way we archive, what novel methods, digital or otherwise do you think we can use in unforgetting indigenous knowledge? Museums and archive institutions are after all acquiescent to the systems of domination that manage them, can digital tools subvert this to create space for all forms of knowledge?
We will explore how methods like Mixed Reality have changed architectural archiving and how these and other digital tools can be used to legitimize Traditional Ecological Knowledge.
At the end of the workshop participants will acknowledge the knowledge they wish to unforget and how best digital tools can create space for them for collective imagination and sharing.