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Lund, Sweden |
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18.05.2019 |
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| PALIMPSEST team member Maria Nikoli (PhD c. DUTH) represented the project at the Lund Urban Creativity Conference in Sweden. The conference was hosted by the Pufendorf Institute for Advanced Studies (Pufendorfinstitutet, Lunds universitet) in collaboration with the Division of Art History and Visual Studies at Lund University. The conference was an opportunity to initiate an interdisciplinary exchange of ideas between scholars, artists, activists, planners and others who work within the diverse field of urban creativity. The Palimpsest Team presentation was titled: Embedding Urban Legends: An interactive museum experience in public spaces. The presentations focused on how PALIMPSEST attempts a hybridization of the public space of the city, using cultural heritage assets; this hybridization webs together dipoles previously understood as opposite and creates a new condition where past and present coexist, where digital and physical coincide, where scientific truth and fiction intermingle, where spectators and protagonists can constantly interchange roles. It was highlighted that the palimpsest of the city is a metaphor for the layers of data of the pasts that have been buried and concealed. The people will be able to engage with the museum through participatory practices. All the data collected through these practices will be used in different interpretations of the city. These interpretations will undoubtedly be one-sided and biased, as in the post-alphabetic world no unique historic truth and no objective reality can be possible. |
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