Re-presenting the Black Atlantic Through the Fitzwilliam Collection
Future Legacies is an online repository created as part of a multi-year program launched by the Fitzwilliam’s ‘Black Atlantic: Power, People and Resistance’ exhibition. Motivated by Laurillard’s Conversational Framework (2002, 2012), the repository provided an opportunity to prototype map-based narr...
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| Language: | English |
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Ubiquity Press
2025-03-01
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| Series: | Journal of Open Humanities Data |
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| Online Access: | https://account.openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com/index.php/up-j-johd/article/view/279 |
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| Summary: | Future Legacies is an online repository created as part of a multi-year program launched by the Fitzwilliam’s ‘Black Atlantic: Power, People and Resistance’ exhibition. Motivated by Laurillard’s Conversational Framework (2002, 2012), the repository provided an opportunity to prototype map-based narratives as ways of displaying objects and specimens from a range of digitised collections such as the Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, the Natural History Museum, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew and the Smithsonian Libraries. Not only could it contribute to a more dynamic understanding of the African diaspora and their presence in global GLAM archives, the re-use of multiple digital collections in this way was hypothesised to encourage an exploratory approach for users engaging with the concept of the Black Atlantic, whilst also maximising pedagogic effectiveness for marginalised communities. This paper will focus on the community centred design process that resulted in an interactive prototype using ArcGIS StoryMaps and the impact of the Conversational framework when creating online interactives based on physical exhibitions. It will also describe the process for evaluating the designed outputs, as well as indicative findings from feedback. The paper will conclude with a proposed solution architecture for how different collections can be combined for the next digital representation of the Black Atlantic. |
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| ISSN: | 2059-481X |