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This seminar invites participants into a process for deeping their/our understanding of key concepts and practices in the digital mediation of culture, in the interests of a greater shared awarenes and agency within the overwhelming, epochal processes we refer to generally as digitalization. In lectures, readings, site visits and group discussion, the course offers useful theoretical bases for approaching digitalization as a/the process at work on culture today. It practices critical skills for exploring and evaluating digital mediations of cultural heritage (both on-site at Berlin museums and online). And it empowers scholars/thinkers/artists/designers as producers of digital culture mediations with practical tools for developing and pitching effective concepts. The course will take Berlin’s cultural landscape as a field and the newly completed Humboldt Forum as a special object of study, drawing on the teacher’s professional experiences from 2015 to 2020 in the development and implentation of the Humboldt Forum digital concept for offer on-site and behind-the-scenes perspectives. It will invite participants to identify the issues, questions or processes in culture that most concern them and support them in formalising and refining constructive proposals of their own. |