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Digital Unforgetting; an exercise towards inclusive archiving.
Theory | Online Workshop | English | Europe-Mideast-Africa
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.
Schedule:
Jun 27 - Jun 30
  • Day 1 / Jun 27

    11:00 - 13:00 (GMT+2:00) Vienna

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    05:00 - 07:00 (EST)

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    11:00 - 13:00 (CET)

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    17:00 - 19:00 (China)

    An examination of existing archives; Indigenous knowledge passing
  • Day 2 / Jun 28

    11:00 - 13:00 (GMT+2:00) Vienna

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    05:00 - 07:00 (EST)

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    11:00 - 13:00 (CET)

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    17:00 - 19:00 (China)

    Why do/should we archive? A call to unforget knowledge you may have inherited, interacted with or repurposed.
  • Day 3 / Jun 29

    11:00 - 13:00 (GMT+2:00) Vienna

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    05:00 - 07:00 (EST)

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    11:00 - 13:00 (CET)

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    17:00 - 19:00 (China)

    Collective imagination and discussion around participants´´ memory archiving
  • Day 4 / Jun 30

    11:00 - 13:00 (GMT+2:00) Vienna

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    05:00 - 07:00 (EST)

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    11:00 - 13:00 (CET)

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    17:00 - 19:00 (China)

    Digital showcase of memory archiving explorations.
Instructors:
  • Neady Oduor Canadian Centre of Architecture,Curational and Research Intern
    Neady Oduor is a Kenyan-borne Architect, designer, feminist, researcher and budding systems thinker with an MA in Architecture from DIA- Bauhaus. She is passionate about the work that the marginalised do; organising, collaborating and creating for and within their communities. Her interests include design thinking, social systems theory, conversation design and the impact of design and technology upon them.She also delves in imaginative futures design, researching alternative approaches to wicked problems through methods such as clowning and the politics of radical care
  • Sadia Humayra Mounata ALT-TOPIA,Founder
    Sadia Humayra Mounata is a researcher and speculative designer practicing her alternative realities shaped in different approaches from detail to speculative world building where in every alternate that is gaining towards a new Utopian horizon that can generate innovations for global sustainability in the face of converging crises. Referring to Lebbeus Woods and his radical reconstruction approach, the lasting year of Bauhaus where the question was ‘radical architecture’ and its vision of design that can make social change, and ‘how will we live together?’- is the core of her research and design. She is a recent graduate from DIA (Dessau International Architecture) in University of Anhalt Applied Sciences, Germany. She completed her B.Arch. from Bangladesh University of Engineering and technology. After completing her Bachelor, she was involved in the practice field in collaboration with native architecture consultancy firms and in academic sector. ​