ʔeləw’k’ w – Belongings: A Tangible Interface for Intangible Cultural Heritage

ʔeləw’k’ w – Belongings is an interactive tabletop using a tangible user interface to explore intangible cultural heritage. The table was designed for the c’əsnaʔəm, the city before the city exhibition. This exhibition is a partnership of three major institutions in Vancouver, BC, exploring the significant ancient village site on which part of Vancouver was built, as well as Musqueam culture and community today. The tabletop uses replicas of Musqueam belongings excavated from c’əsnaʔəm, as well as contemporary objects that are a part of everyday Musqueam life to access information about the long history of salmon fishing and the continuity of related knowledge at c’əsnaʔəm. The design of ʔeləw’k’ w – Belongings highlights the tensions between fragmentation and continuity that are central to discussions of access and preservation of intangible cultural heritage in the digital age. In this paper we discuss the tangible tabletop interface as a response to the desire to reconnect fragmented collections and physical belongings from c’əsnaʔəm with Musqueam intangible cultural knowledge.

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Reese Muntean

Kate Hennessy

Alissa Antle

Susan Rowley

Jordan Wilson

Brendan Matkin

Rachael Eckersley

Perry Tan

Ron Wakkary

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Publication date: July 2015

Publication date (Print): July 2015

Pages: 360-366

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[0001]Simon Fraser University

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[0002]University of British Columbia

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DOI: 10.14236/ewic/eva2015.41

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Conference name: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts (EVA 2015)

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Conference location: London, UK

Conference date: 7 & 9 July 2015

Conference sponsor: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)

Conference theme: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts

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[1] D. A BasballeK Halskov 2010 Projections on museum exhibits – engaging visitors in the museum setting. OZCHI Brisbane, Australia 22– 26 11 2010 ACM Digital Library

[2] S. A Brewster Impact of haptic ‘touching’ technology on cultural applications J HemsleyV CappelliniG Stanke Digital Applications for Cultural Heritage Institutions Ashgate Aldershot, England

[3] Council of Canadian Academies 2015 Leading in the Digital World: Opportunities for Canada’s Memory Institutions The Expert Panel on Memory Institutions and the Digital Revolution Council of Canadian Academies Ottawa, Canada

[4] K HennessyN LyonsS LoringC ArnoldM JoeA EliasJ Pokiak 2013 The Inuvialuit Living History Project: Digital Return as the Forging of Relationships Between Institutions, People, and Data Museum Anthropology Review 7 1–2 44 73

[5] R. E HollingerJ EdwellH JacobsL Moran-CollinsC ThomeJ ZastrowA MetalloG WaibelV Rossi 2013 Tlingit-Smithsonian Collaborations with 3D Digitization of Cultural Objects Museum Anthropology Review 7 1–2 201 253

[6] R Kurin 2004 Museums and Intangible Heritage: Culture Dead or Alive? ICOM News 4 7 9

[7] R Phillips 2011 Museum Pieces: Toward the Indigenization of Canadian Museums McGill-Queen’s University Press Montreal & Kingston, Canada

[8] R PhillipsE Johnson 2003 Negotiating New Relationships: Canadian Museums, First Nations, and Cultural Property J Torpey Politics and the Past: On Repairing Historical Injusticesp149 167 Rowman & Littlefield Lanham/Boulder/New York/Oxford

[9] S Rowley 2010 Building an On-Line Research Community: The Reciprocal Research Network Museums and the Web Denver, Colorado 13–17 04 2010 Archives & Museum Informatics Toronto

[10] S Rowley 2013 The Reciprocal Research Network: The Development Process Museum Anthropology Review 7 1–2 22 43

[11] S Roy 2010 These Mysterious People: Shaping History and Archaeology in a Northwest Coast Community McGill-Queen’s University Press Montreal & Kingston, Canada

[12] R SrinivasanR BoastJ FurnerK. M Becvar 2009 Digital Museums and Diverse Cultural Knowledges: Moving Past the Traditional Catalog The Information Society 25 4 265 278

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