Conference Agenda
Overview and details of the sessions of this conference. Please select a date or location to show only sessions at that day or location. Please select a single session for detailed view (with abstracts and downloads if available).
|
Daily Overview |
| Session | |
|
PAPERS: Futuring Principles: Ethics, Agency, and More-than-Human Heritage Location: Appleton Tower, LT2 Zoom Link Accessibility: https://www.accessable.co.uk/the-university-of-edinburgh/central-area/access-guides/appleton-lecture-theatre-2-edinburgh Session Chair: Marco Mason, Northumbria University Session Chair: Raffaella Trocchianesi, Politecnico di MIlano | |
    | |
The Memory Loom: Reweaving Curatorial Power Relations with Source Communities in Virtual Reality Cultural Heritage Exhibitions Beijing Institute of Technology, China This paper examines how to redistribute curatorial power in VR heritage exhibitions by designing actionable governance mechanisms. We conceptualize VR heritage exhibitions as political curatorial infrastructures rather than neutral storytelling media. We employ a two-stage RtD framework: first building a baseline VR stage, then embedding two mechanisms: Parallel Weave (narrative authorship) and Asynchronous Governance Lock (publishing/veto rights). With N=32 participants, analysis reveals four tensions: (1) community narratives increased affective engagement and epistemic recognition, yet (2) parallel inclusion also risked narrative segregation; (3) a visible veto established accountable workflows, but (4) this power redistribution also transferred sociopolitical risk onto community representatives, creating a burden of power. We consolidate these insights into the Memory Loom principles: Structural Weaving and Protected Accountability. Our contributions include a mechanism-oriented RtD method and transferable design principles for equitable governance in post-digital museum contexts. View Paper: https://doi.org/10.21606/drs.2026.1938
| |
