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PAPERS: Futuring Infrastructures: From Objects to Relational Systems 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 | |
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Exploring Everyday Heritage Futures: Co-creating Urban Narratives through Cultural Probes Loughborough University, United Kingdom Narrative has long been used in cultural heritage for interpretation and communication, primarily within institutions and historic sites. Everyday heritage, however, foregrounds seemingly modest places and is constituted through routine interactions and practices, emphasising a continuing narrative between place and everyday life. Ubiquitous digital technologies make multi-layered narratives possible and bring underrepresented stories to light in situ. This pilot study in Loughborough’s Market Place, UK, explores narratives rooted in lived experiences that convey cultural-heritage significance. We designed and deployed cultural probes (a set of creative and speculative tasks) to prompt and record place-based stories. The analysis identified four themes: spatiality, temporality, sensoriality and social context. These findings inform a narrative framework for the next stage of the research: AI-assisted co-design of locative media for everyday heritage and, ultimately, a distributed and inclusive heritage experience in urban environments, fostering a sense of place and community connection. View Paper: https://doi.org/10.21606/drs.2026.2037
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