Online Participatory Design of Heritage Projects

Eslam Nofal; Vivian van Saaze; Sally Wyatt

doi:10.1007/978-3-031-05694-9_7

Online Participatory Design of Heritage Projects

Eslam Nofal^*, Vivian van Saaze, Sally Wyatt

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Participatory Design (PD) can help to produce sustainable and user-oriented outputs by involving end users and other stakeholders in early design stages. In heritage projects, PD is considered a democratic process for designing with communities to address local issues and to give them a central role in generating insights about the presentation and accessibility of heritage. As part of the cross-border collaborative project “Terra Mosana,” several PD workshops were planned in 2020 in different cities of the Meuse-Rhine Euregion, to involve and engage residents in design activities about the investigation and communication of the shared history of the region. The outbreak of COVID-19 made it challenging to conduct face-to-face activities. Therefore, we developed a scenario to move the workshops online, facilitating both synchronous and asynchronous activities.

This chapter investigates how PD in heritage projects can be effectively organized and enacted in times of crisis when people cannot meet in person. Moving the workshops online provided us with an opportunity to learn about how different communication tools and infrastructures influenced individual and collective participation during the pandemic. We open up a discussion about the potential challenges and concerns that may be encountered by those designing participatory heritage projects in the future.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Participatory Practices in Art and Cultural Heritage: Learning Through and from Collaboration
Editors	Christoph Rausch, Ruth Benschop, Emilie Sitzia, Vivian van Saaze
Publisher	Springer
Pages	83-98
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-031-05694-9
ISBN (Print)	978-3-031-05693-2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-05694-9_7
Publication status	Published - 2022

Publication series

Series	Studies in Art, Heritage, Law and the Market
Volume	5

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Participatory Practices in Art and Cultural Heritage: Learning Through and from Collaboration
Rausch, C. (ed.), Benschop, R. (ed.), Sitzia, E. (ed.) & van Saaze, V. (ed.), 2022, Springer.
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Online Participatory Design of Heritage Projects. / Nofal, Eslam; van Saaze, Vivian ; Wyatt, Sally.
Participatory Practices in Art and Cultural Heritage: Learning Through and from Collaboration. ed. / Christoph Rausch; Ruth Benschop; Emilie Sitzia; Vivian van Saaze. Springer, 2022. p. 83-98 (Studies in Art, Heritage, Law and the Market, Vol. 5).

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