Transnational Memory Practices in the UK and South Korea - Ethics, Evaluation and Learning in Digital Exhibitions

该项目涉及博物馆和文化遗产领域观众用户体验的数字化进步所产生的理论和实践的讨论和方法。具体地说，它试图就文化遗产组织利用数字技术开发学习和参与应用程序时产生的困难遗产、复杂记忆以及相关的伦理和方法方面的问题展开进一步的国际和跨学科辩论。然而，新技术越来越常见，需要更多地探索，以了解这些技术开辟的多样化和复杂的学习空间，并探索如何评估这些空间和互动。该项目批判性地探索了博物馆/画廊的物理和虚拟空间(S)及其物品、叙事和预期(和意想不到的)用途的紧急变化，以便在国际范围内推广最佳做法和促进新的研究议程。该网络将使用来自英国和韩国的最近、正在进行和计划中的具体例子和倡议作为案例研究进行讨论。例如，它将参与NML国际奴隶制博物馆正在进行的和未来的活动，探索向在线学习和数字展览的转变，以及与韩国相关的藏品。在韩国，案例研究将探索在艺术先知中心举办的与韩国非军事区有关的数字展览，以及探索复杂记忆表征的其他例子，例如合作举办一个关于日本占领下的强迫劳动的虚拟现实展览。在所有这些方面，将通过分享围绕学习和参与的当前实践，对(重新)呈现、策划和叙述复杂记忆和身份的实践的跨文化方面进行关键的探索。因此，这个由资金资助的网络对于确保采取多方面的合作方法，了解对地方、国家和全球范围的影响至关重要。该网络建立在利物浦大学、利物浦约翰摩尔大学和首尔的利物浦大学约翰·摩尔大学和首尔的首尔大学三所大学及其文化合作伙伴之间现有关系的基础上，并显著扩展了现有的关系。通过利用和加强这些领域的专家，该网络的主要影响和独特性在于，它将围绕国际学术专家、利益攸关方、遗址和重要的文化组织，扩大和塑造记忆研究、博物馆学习和参与领域的创新做法，探索跨部门和学科的评估框架的潜力，形成能够对困难记忆、民族身份、特性和归属感的(重新)介绍和关键辩论产生积极影响的方法。

This project addresses theoretical and practical discussions and approaches emergent from digitally enabled advances in audience user experience in the field of museums and cultural heritage. Specifically, it seeks to engage in and further international and interdisciplinary debate around difficult heritage, complex memory and associated ethical and methodological considerations arising when digital technologies are utilised by cultural heritage organisations to develop learning and participation applications. New technologies are increasingly commonplace, however, more needs to be explored in terms of understanding the diverse and complex learning spaces that these open up and by exploring how those spaces and interactions are evaluated. The project critically explores both the physical and virtual space(s) of the museum/ gallery and its objects, narratives, and emergent shifts in expected (and unexpected) usage in order to further best practices and foster new research agendas on an international scale. The network will use specific recent, ongoing and planned examples and initiatives from across the UK and S.Korea as case studies for discussion. For example, it will engage with ongoing and future initiatives at NML's International Slavery Museum, exploring the shift to online learning and digital exhibitions, as well as the collections relevance to S.Korea. In the case of South Korea, case studies will explore digital exhibitions at Art Sonje Center relating to the Demilitarised Zone in Korea, as well as other examples which explore the representation of complex memory, for example collaborative work on a virtual reality exhibition around forced labour under the Japenese occupation. Across all of these, there will be a critical exploration of inter- and transcultural aspects of practices of (re) presenting, curating, and narrating complex memory and identities by sharing current practices framed around learning and participation. This funded network is therefore crucial to ensure a multi-faceted collaborative approach that understands impacts on both the local, national and the global scale.The network builds on and significantly expands existing relationships across the three institutions of the Universities of Liverpool, Liverpool John Moores and Sogang, Seoul, and their cultural partners. By capitalizing on and strengthening these with the inclusion of experts in the field, the key impact and uniqueness of this network is that it will revolve around international academic experts, stakeholders, sites and key cultural organizations, to scope and shape innovative practices in the area of memory studies, museum learning and participation, and explore the potential of evaluation frameworks which cut across sectors and disciplines, shaping approaches that can positively impact the (re) presentation of, and critical debate around, difficult memory, nationhood, identity and belonging.