Abstract
One of the challenges associated with highlighting critical and community-centred perspectives through GLAM collections is the distributed nature of the evidence. Divided by taxonomy and infrastructure, artefacts and data that would bear witness to colonial legacies or the lived experiences of marginalised communities can require multiple intersections of access and knowledge, all enabled to varying extents by the digital infrastructure provided by the respective GLAM institution. How might we counter these problematics? What are audience-centred ways to develop requirements for connecting collections? By evaluating a series of experiments and workshops conducted within a range of contexts from the museum-based to the online-first, this paper explores the use of user centred and speculative design methodologies not only to generate and counter-architect data sets from critical perspectives, but as a means of simultaneously creating knowledge communities with the confidence to interpret and transmit these perspectives beyond the institution. The ensuing insights provide an opportunity to evaluate the techno-social requirements for communicating intersectional narratives across varying GLAM collections.
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Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
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User Centred Design, Speculative Design, Informaion Architecture, Collections Based Narratives
