On Pause and Dura,on, or: The Design of Heritage Experience
Elisa Giaccardi, PhD Ins%tute of Culture and Technology
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid HCI 2011, July 6-‐8
Heritage ‘in prac,ce’
• Unofficial and lived heritage prac%ces ‘in the wild’ • Heritage value and social significance of everyday ar%facts and places
• Heritage as cultural process unfolding through mul%ple interac%ons and shared engagements
On heritage ma@ers: Elisa Giaccardi (2011) Things we value, Interac(ons, 18:1, 17-‐21.
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Dura,on as
experien,al construct
• Historical events and experiences are reconstructed and recomposed, mobilized in always changing ‘orders of meaning’ See: Gaston Bachelard, Dialec(cs of Dura(on See also: Kevin Lynch, Nigel ThriX, Brian Massumi
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Pause as
point of cumula,on
• Memories and hopes precipitate in the moment, concurring to shape our immediate experience of the heritage
See: McCarthy, J. & Wright, P.C. (2005) Time, place and technology in museums: A dialogical approach to the experience. Re-‐thinking Technology in Museums. University of Limerick, 29-‐30 June 2005.
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Considers a person’s interac%on with the natural environment at a specific %me and in a specific place
I enjoyed the way it called my a=en(on to sounds I might not have a=ended to otherwise. I have enjoyed those trails more when I
walked them a@er recording there (Fogli & Giaccardi, AVI 2008)
Considers how mul%ple experiences come together on very different levels to give resonance, meaning and value to a shared sense of heritage
I learned from their trials. For example, there are not many animal sounds in the heat of the day, I no(ced, so I planned to walk later in the day (Fogli & Giaccardi, AVI 2008)
Designing for Meaningful experiences
[Pause] Facilitate designs that enable people to connect to the heritage on a personal and in%mate level.
[Dura,on] Facilitate designs that enable people to par%cipate in the grounding and changing of heritage value and social significance.
Designing for Shared engagements
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Situated and extended
temporality
Understanding how personal experience develops over %me. See: Friedman & Nathan CHI 2010; Karapanos et al. CHI 2009; Khalid & Dix PUC 2010; Halloran et al. 2006; Iversen et al. 2010; McCarthy & Wright 2005)
Understanding how the significance of experience grounds and changes across a mul%tude of personal engagements.
Dislocated and mul,ple
temporali,es
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