A presentation by Professor Eric Cross and Dr Martyn Hudson, Newcastle University. Invited talk at a workshop for the 'Scotland's Collections and the Digital Humanities' project, hosted at the University of Edinburgh. 12 September 2014. http://www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk/archives-now/

1. Co-Curate North East: Some
challenges around co-production and
knowledge exchange
Prof Eric Cross & Dr Martyn Hudson
12 September 2014
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2. The origins of Co-Curate
• Knowledge exchange in rural Northumberland
• Medical education and open educational
resources
• Creating educational digital platforms
• Challenging digital exclusions
• Thinking about circulations of knowledge:
archives, heritages and identities
• Identifying excluded communities
• Multi-disciplinary research and practice
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3. Co-Curate North East:
creating sustainable routes for North East
communities to digitally transform and co-produce
open cultural resources
• Funded as part of the AHRC Digital Transformations in
Community Research Co-Production Programme
• Trans-disciplinary project to open up 'official' museum and
'un-official' co-created community-based collections and
archives through innovative collaborative approaches.
Challenge conventional taxonomies
• Create a rich mix of openly licenced and other data from
arts and humanities, science, and medical health contexts,
placing 'authoritative museums' data from professional
curators alongside data from more informal contexts
compiled in collaboration with communities
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4. Co-Curate North East
• Co-curate knowledge about collections and archives working with
c.20 schools and community groups (both rural & urban)
• Develop innovative research and learning strategies, drawing on
proven methods and focusing especially on intergenerational
models
• Working across disciplines: International Centre for Cultural and
Heritage Studies, the Digital Institute, Medical Education, and the
School of Education, Communication & Language Sciences
• Create engaging and self-sustaining online spaces for schools and
communities; intergenerational and international collaboration
• Promote the notion of ‘citizen researchers’ and participatory
research
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5. Northumbrian Exchanges
• From transfer, to exchange to multiple
circulations of knowledge
• What does co-production mean in arts
practice and research?
• Developing third space models and actual
spaces
• History, identity, lineage, landscape
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6. Challenges of co-production in the North East
• Geographical challenges: borders, localities,
communication
• Multiple borders of the North East: class,
history, identity
• Excluded digital communities
• Analogue and digital heritage
• Extra-territoriality of materials, dispersed
archives
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7. The microscopics of co-production
• Engaging communities, conversing with
communities
• Making sense and meaning through materials
• Collage, collision and distribution of materials
• Translating cultures
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8. Co-curation: 3 case studies
• George Stephenson High School and the
coordination of identity materials
• West End Young Digital and uncovering
histories
• West Newcastle Picture Collection, ownership
and institutions
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9. Questions, contributions
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10. Eric.Cross@ncl.ac.uk
Martyn.Hudson@ncl.ac.uk
https://co-curate.ncl.ac.uk/
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