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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

Presentation 5

Co-Designing Academic Archives: Design-Led Frameworks for Post-Digital Cultural Heritage

Ana Luísa Marques¹, Juliana F. Duque², Filipe Figueiredo³

1: UNIDCOM/IADE, Unidade de Investigação em Design e Comunicação, Jardim António Augusto Simenta Mordido, 2 - 1885 Moscavide, Portugal; 2: UNIDCOM/IADE, Unidade de Investigação em Design e Comunicação, Jardim António Augusto Simenta Mordido, 2 - 1885 Moscavide, Portugal; Centro de Investigação e de Estudos em Belas-Artes (CIEBA); 3: UNIDCOM/IADE, Unidade de Investigação em Design e Comunicação, Jardim António Augusto Simenta Mordido, 2 - 1885 Moscavide, Portugal; Centro de Estudos de Teatro (CET-FLUL)

Building an information legacy requires method: identifying, selecting, and cataloguing information that can anchor future research demands a thorough archiving process, with accurate information access and rigorous preservation practice. Yet academic archives today must also respond to a broader cultural condition shaped by digital transformation and interdisciplinary collaboration.

This paper discusses the development of an academic design archive as part of the wider GLAM ecosystem, where preservation, innovation and digital transformation coexist. It proposes a design-led framework that approaches archiving as a cultural and participatory process.

Through literature review and institutional reflection, the study highlights the archive’s dual role: collecting and curating pedagogical outputs while activating them for new purposes such as exhibitions, partnerships, and critical discourse.

The archive thus becomes a living system, sustaining academic memory, fostering creative renewal, and positioning design education within the post-digital landscape as a platform for continuity, participation, and ethical reflection.

View Paper: https://doi.org/10.21606/drs.2026.2433