Successful Awards 2021-22
Creating accessible digital images for visually impaired audiences and researchers
Dr Rafie Cecilia, °×С½ãÂÛ̳ Institute of Archaeology & ProfÌýTheano Moussouri, °×С½ãÂÛ̳ Institute of Archaeology
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Award : £2168.79
Image: A visitor handling a marble owl sculpture in the V&A Cast CourtsÌýÌý©ÌýRafie Cecilia
Counter mapping diaspora and queer communities’ living heritage in SheffieldÌý
Dr Catalina Ortiz, °×С½ãÂÛ̳ Development Planning Unit, Prof Kalliopi Fouseki, °×С½ãÂÛ̳ Institute for Sustainable HeritageÌý and Dr Natalia Villamizar Duarte, °×С½ãÂÛ̳ Development Planning UnitÌý
Team:
Dr Giorgio TalocciL & aia Garcia Fernandez, °×С½ãÂÛ̳ Development Planning Unit
Akil Scafe-Smith & Seth Scafe-Smith, Resolve CollectiveÌý
Rob J Cotterell, SADACCAÌý
Katie Mathews, Gut LevelÌý
Official heritage sites, narratives and archives often reproduce and reinforce heteropatriarchal and racist assumptions. As we reckon with racial justice and gendered oppressions, this project will use a counter mapping approach to reveal the living heritage of diaspora and queer communities in Sheffield. We use counter mapping to expose broader relations of power and collaboration within, and between, communities as well as with other urban actors. We seek to challenge logics of ordering and fixed geographies by documenting experiences, practices, and relations that are at the centre of the production of space. Ìý
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To display the cultural richness and contributions of diaspora and queer communities to the city, we will produce a digital atlas of living heritage and a mobile analogue artifact to display the counter mapping proposals. We will also document the project’s methodological strategy to contribute to examining the traditional roles of experts in identifying and defining heritage and the use of creative and participatory processes to trace living heritage practices.Ìý
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- Visit BUDD program,Ìý orÌý
- Look up the following Twitter accounts: , ,Ìý,Ìý, Ìý,Ìý,Ìý,ÌýÌý
- Check the profiles ofÌýDr. Catalina Ortiz, Prof Kalliopi Fouseki
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Award : £2700.44
Photo: ©ÌýResolve Collective
Crafting Subversion: an exhibition at the SOAS Brunei Gallery from 21 April-25 June 2022
Jagjeet Lally, °×С½ãÂÛ̳ History &ÌýPragya Dhital,ÌýFormer IAS-°×С½ãÂÛ̳ Visiting Fellow
Crafting subversion, a two-month exhibition in SOAS’s Brunei Gallery celebrating Indian radical print and the London émigré ‘origins’ and global spread of the cyclostyle technology used to produce it (the ‘Gestetner’ – as the best-known example of this technology in Britain is known, after its Tottenham-based Hungarian-Jewish inventor). ÌýOriginally invented as a bureaucratic technology, to facilitate office work, the potentialities of this simple handheld duplicating technology were quickly grasped by those involved in underground print production across the world (from zines to samizdat).Ìý
Pragya has been planning this exhibition since 2018, when she first approached the Brunei Gallery with ideas based on her research on the Indian emergency and proscribed publications in colonial India. The latter was the focus of a previous IAS-°×С½ãÂÛ̳ conference, Insurgency in the Archives (2018), proceedings of which were published in a special section of History Workshop Journal (2020).Ìý
The project will encourage more imaginative forms of engagement with a wider range of archival material, inspired by the craft of Indian writers and media artists.Ìý
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- Go toÌýÌýat the Brunei Gallery
- RevisitÌýInsurgency in the Archives cconference
- Look up the Reading Group
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Award : £4000
Photo: ©Ìýa selection of cyclostyled magazines from °×С½ãÂÛ̳'s Small Press collectionÌý
Decolonising °×С½ãÂÛ̳: what to do about Phineas?Ìý
Emilia Kingham, °×С½ãÂÛ̳ Culture & Jill Saunders, °×С½ãÂÛ̳ Institute of Archaeology
Co-convener: Yee Hang Merry Chow,ÌýAparna Dhole,ÌýHadas Misgav,ÌýDean Sully & Freya Sackville West,°×С½ãÂÛ̳ Institute of Archaeology
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Check out the following websites:
- Statue must fall movement in and
- History about Phineas from &
- Contested histories/decolonising heritage in , and
- Decolonising °×С½ãÂÛ̳ :ÌýInquiry into the History of Eugenics at °×С½ãÂÛ̳ and
Award : £2193
Image: Ìý©ÌýStudents'Union °×С½ãÂÛ̳
Tracing the everyday sensory heritage of Kolkata streetsÌý
Raktim Ray, PI, Lecturer, Bartlett Development Planning Unit, °×С½ãÂÛ̳, UK
Rishika Mukhopadhyay, Co I, Teaching Fellow, Department of Geography, Durham University
Sayantan Das, Co I, Assistant Professor, Dum Dum Motijheel College, Kolkata, India
Nilanjan Das, Co I, Independent Artist and Trustee Hamdasti Artist Collective, Kolkata, India
The project speaks directly to the larger research theme of ‘Curating the city’ in the Centre for Critical Heritage Studies. It decentres the idea of urban heritage production from built heritage sites to people’s everyday sensory attachment with the city. Creative modes of engagement and participatory mapping with a wide range of communities from Kolkata place this project within the cutting-edge research frontiers of critical heritage studies. Ìý ÌýÌý
Outcomes
•ÌýÌý ÌýCreation of a generative open-ended web-based archive of the smell and sound of the urban ordinaryÌý
•ÌýÌý ÌýA walking tour of the street-based exhibitionÌý
•ÌýÌý ÌýMaking of pamphlets and brochures involving the public to rethink the multi-layered urban heritageÌý
•ÌýÌý ÌýA collaborative research article on the methodology of creating an open-ended archiveÌý
•ÌýÌý ÌýThe project will be a pilot study for the preparation of an AHRC grant application on urban living heritage in the postcolonial context
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- Follow the leaders of this project onÌýTwitter: ; ;
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Award : £2168.79
Photo: A Traditional Brass Utensils Shop in Chitpur RoadÌý©ÌýRishika Mukhopadhyay
Guarani and Kaiowá Virtual Museum: Collaborative Approaches to Critical Heritage
Raffaella Fryer-Moreira | PhD Researcher at °×С½ãÂÛ̳ Anthropology / Cofounder and Director of °×С½ãÂÛ̳ Multimedia Anthropology Lab
Jaqueline Aranduhá | Member of Kuñangue Aty Guasu - The Great Assembly of Guarani and Kaiowá Women
Doriano Morales Arce | Member of Retomada Aty Jovem - The Guarani and Kaiowá Youth Council
Luan Iturve | Member of Retomada Aty Jovem - The Guarani and Kaiowá Youth Council
Fabiana Assis Fernandes | President of the Institute for the Development of Art and CultureÌý
This global collaboration draws together members of Guarani and Kaiowá communities - both shamans/elders and local youth - with the interdisciplinary team of postgraduate students that make up the °×С½ãÂÛ̳ Multimedia Anthropology Lab (°×С½ãÂÛ̳ MAL), including anthropologists, artists, computer scientists, geographers, historians, translators, among others. The project builds on an 18 month period of research and development which took place through a series of pilot projects in 2021, supported by the British Museum’s Endangered Material Knowledge Programme, °×С½ãÂÛ̳ Grand Challenges, and °×С½ãÂÛ̳ Global Engagement.ÌýÌýThanks to support from the Centre for Critical Heritage Studies Small Grants, this year the project aims to finalise the VR production process and present the Guarani and Kaiowá Virtual Museum to a global audience. Over the next few months, the interdisciplinary team at °×С½ãÂÛ̳ MAL will work closely with Guarani and Kaiowá community members to incorporate community feedback and include additional content into the VR space, experimenting with AI and interactive coding, in order to finalise a VR experience which will be made available to the public both through an online website and on VR streaming platforms. We aim to present a summary of project findings through the publication of a photo book, a mini-doc/ project video, and an online panel event with the participation of distinguished academic speakers and members of the community.
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Project Videos:Ìý
°×С½ãÂÛ̳ MAL Website:Ìý
Article about the project:Ìý
British Museum's EMKP Project Page:Ìý
°×С½ãÂÛ̳ MAL Instagram:Ìý
Kuñangue Aty Guasu Website:Ìý
Kuñangue Aty Guasu Instagram:Ìý
Award : £3750
Photo: Shamans Dona Ivone and Dona Neuza watch VR MuseumÌý©ÌýRaffaellaÌýFryer-Moreira