Out of the museum and into the community (OMIC): digitalised heritage, widening engagement and inclusive dialogue in Uganda

这个项目建立在我们现有的遗产，记忆，和平与和解的工作基础上，我们认为，与冲突的过去进行创造性，创新性的接触可以为理解，对话和对和平未来的共同想象开辟空间。在乌干达这个经历了几十年冲突和暴力的国家，一种暂时的和平正在出现，人们正在寻找理解过去的方法，作为建设和平、可持续未来的一种方式。我们与在全国各地举办“巡回展览”的遗产从业者合作，与社区分享关于过去的手工艺品、叙述和证词，并向他们学习从他们的社区带走并在博物馆展出的物品，以及它们的意义和用途如何随着时间的推移而变化。我们的项目与这些从业者合作，考虑如何增加这项工作的影响力和参与度，他们已经确定下一步是开发数字应用程序。OMIC应用程序将允许更大程度地访问遗产文物和档案，并提供遗产从业者和用户之间的互动。特别是，该应用程序将使妇女、残疾人、农村人口和年轻人能够更多地参与。这些群体在社会、经济和文化上被排除在传统遗产空间之外-由于结构性不平等、地理距离以及日常责任和期望。通过数字应用程序提供访问，这些群体将有更大的机会参与遗产，有可能纳入各种声音和经验，并有机会让更多的人参与过去的叙述，同时参与目前的对话，以实现和平的未来。这项工作是国际合作的，建立在柬埔寨、联合王国和乌干达之间的现有关系基础上。它在乌干达的创意经济中提供了大量的能力建设机会，并通过国际合作，在遗产，IT和社区参与部门建立可持续的创新工作关系。这项工作的基础是，通过将OMIC应用程序引入社区和目标群体，并以一种建立乌干达可持续、包容与和平未来的方式，在OMIC应用程序的设计和制作中产生包容、多样的做法和参与。

This project builds on our existing work around heritage, memory, peace and reconciliation, where we argue that creative, innovative engagements with conflicted pasts can open up spaces for understanding, dialogue and shared imaginations of a peaceful future. In Uganda, a country that has endured decades of conflict and violence, a tentative peace is emerging and people are looking at ways to understand the past as a way of building a peaceful, sustainable future. We have worked with heritage practitioners who have taken 'travelling exhibitions' around the country, sharing artefacts, narratives and testimonies about the past with communities, and learning from them about objects that have been taken from their communities to be displayed in museums, and about how their meanings and uses have changed over time. Our project has worked with these practitioners to consider how we can increase the impact and engagement of this work, and they have identified the development of a digital app as the next step. The OMIC-app will allow greater accessibility to the heritage artefacts and archives, as well as offering interaction between heritage practitioners and users. In particular, this app would allow greater participation for women, people with disabilities, rural populations and young people. These groups are socially, financially and culturally excluded from traditional heritage spaces - through structural inequality, geographical distance and through everyday responsibilities and expectations. By offering access through a digital app, there will be a greater opportunity for these groups to engage with heritage, the possibility for a diversity of voices and experiences to be included and the chance for more people to participate with narratives of the past while engaging in present conversations towards peaceful futures. This work is internationally collaborative, building on existing relationships between Cambodia, the UK and Uganda. It offers substantial capacity building opportunities within the creative economy in Uganda, and through international collaboration, in ways that will build sustainable, innovative working relationships across the heritage, IT and community engagement sectors. This work is based on and will produce inclusive, diverse practices and engagements in the design and production of the OMIC-app, through its introduction into the community and with the targeted groups, and in a way that builds towards a sustainable, inclusive and peaceful future in Uganda.