The Pararchive Project

Pararchive has been featured in the latest Communities & Culture Network+ Newsletter (Jan/Feb 2014). With a core membership of over 90 academics and practitioners, this network facilitates research, knowledge exchange and innovative connections in one of four challenge areas identified by the EPSRC. It explores digital transformations, bringing them together with a wider public through direct…

“…all writers are mapmakers and that all writing is like a map. For Turchi, the map is more than metaphor: it is an organizing principle of narrative.”  The Allure Of The Map Throughout our deliberations on Pararchive, the team has always understood that the articulation of place would be intrinsic to the storytelling tools we…

Last week saw the release of Storehouse for iPad, a visual storytelling app created by former Apple and Adobe staffers, including members of the iPhoto and Aperture teams. The app reinforces the notion of tablets as more than just consumption devices, but as flourishing creative tools. Storehouse draws on an iPad’s internal photo library as…

Mary Brydon-Miller is director of the University of Cincinnati’s Action Research Center, and Professor of educational and community-based action research within the university’s Education Studies Program. In the summer of 2013, she gave a presentation at the Connected Communities 2013 summit, to talk about community engagement and action research from an international perspective. In this…

“Coventry University Centre for Dance Research (C-DaRE) and the Faculty of Arts at the University of Brighton hosted the fourth in a series of Digital Echoes Symposium’s This event was part funded by ERDF and supported by Creative Enterprise. This year the Digital Echoes Symposium took place on Wednesday 8th January 2014; 10:00-17:00 at The Institute for…

“Curator Space is a project management toolkit for curators, organisers, galleries, and artists. It is designed to take the hassle out of managing exhibitions, competitions, fairs, and a whole lot more.” Curator Space is the brainchild of Louise Atkinson, a post-graduate researcher at the University’s Faculty of Performance, Visual Arts & Communications. The service looks as though it…

New REACT working paper published – all about supporting collaboration between creative businesses and academics. Researching Community Heritage – a University of Sheffield group with expertise in oral history, archaeology and archival research.

Kickstarter’s rapidly become the crowdfunding platform of choice, with well produced video content noted by veterans as the key to a successful fundraising campaign. Every January, the company publishes a beautifully illustrated but very static infographic to summarise the previous year’s achievements. This year they’ve chosen to publish this summary, along with some headline projects, as…

A new AHRC publication has been launched to publicise the Research for Community Heritage initiative. Part of the cross-Council Connected Communities programme, the initiative began in 2012 with funding awarded to 21 universities to explore partnerships with community groups interested in applying to the Heritage Fund’s ‘All Our Stories’ programme… Download the full report from……

“Digital activity is forcing us to rethink our creative practice. For over a hundred years our activity has been grounded in collections displayed in buildings.The affordances of digital means we are rethinking this.” Native’s report on where digital technologies is disrupting practices and creating opportunities for innovation in the arts and culture economy identifies preservation and archiving as…