Riches Project First International Conference

Pisa, 4 December (3 pm - 7 pm) - 5 December (9 am - 5:30 pm) 2014

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement n° 612789.

Programme
Photo Rudy Pessina

Programme

4 December 2014

15.00 Registration and welcome coffee

16.00 Conference opening:

  • Welcome speeches by local authorities: Dario Danti, Assessor for Culture of Municipality of Pisa; Alessandro Tosi, Scientific Director of the Museum of Graphics
  • Welcome speech by Mauro Fazio, Italian Ministry of Economic Development
  • Presentations by associate projects’ representatives
    • Francesca Lanz, Politecnico di Milano – MeLa Project, European Museums in an age of migrations
    • José María Martín Civantos, Universidad de Granada – MEMOLA Project, Mediterranean Mountainous Landscapes
  • Presentation of RICHES (Renewal, Innovation and Change: Heritage and European Society) EU-funded research project, within the 7th Framework Programme for Socio-economic Sciences and Humanities

18.00 Socio-cultural activity:

20.00 Social dinner, reserved to the partners, invited speakers and local authorities.

5 December 2014

8.45 – 9.00 Registration

9.00 – 13.00 Key-notes. Moderated by Antonella Fresa of Promoter Srl

9.00 – 9.40 Neil Forbes, Coventry University – Assessing “value” in Cultural Heritage

9.40 – 9.55 Question & Answers

9.55 – 10.35 Xiao Chun Situ, Beijing Youth Daily – Digital Art and Digital Cultural Heritage in China

10.35 – 10.50 Question & Answers

10.50 – 11.10 Coffee break

11.10 – 11.50 Bill Thompson, BBC – Broadcast archives as Cultural Heritage: can the BBC engage as well as it informs, educates and entertains?

11.50 – 12.05 Question & Answers

12.05 – 12.45 Karol Jan Borowiecki, Syddansk Universitet – Personal relationships and the formation of cultural heritage: The case of music composers in history

12.45 – 13.00 Question & Answers

13.00 – 15.00 Catering lunch and visit to the poster session

15.00 – 17.00 Presentations of the project’s outcomes: co-creation sessions. Moderated by Dick van Dijk of Waag Society:

15.00 – 15.15 Janine Prins, Waag Society – “The power of diversity”

15.15 – 15.30 Douwe-Sjoerd Boschman – “The co-creative process”

15.30 – 15.45 Co-creation sessions: video presentation

15.45 – 16.05 Ilias Zian (National Museum of World Cultures, Leiden) and Emma Waslander (Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam) – “In search of identity”

16.05 – 16.25 Hodan Warsame and Tirza Balk, collective Redmond Amsterdam – “Decolonising the Museum”

16.25 – 16.40 Laura van Broekhoven, Stichting Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde, Leiden – “Impact at the Museum”

16.40 – 17.00 Discussion

17.00 – 17.30 Conclusions

For more information on 5 December’s programme see the page KEYNOTES and PRESENTATION OF CO-CREATION ACTIVITIES, containing biographies and speech abstracts of the speakers.

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