(IN)TANGIBLE HERITAGE(S)
Abstract
This paper intends to answer the research question about which curation strategy will be necessary to use in hybrid online and physical events and artefacts in the future?It presents the Portuguese Designer Daciano da Costa legacy as a case study, considering the practice of Digital Humanities and collaborative curation strategy on building Digital Heritage as sustainable solution to preserve their integrity, to retrieve their meaning and to recognize their path, in the fragmentation of archive collections circumstance: his personal legacy (1959-2005) is dispersed among public and private memory institutions, customers and Daciano da Costa family places. Described and preserved in a very irregular system, includes an archival collection (Architectural and Design technical drawings, sketches, carnet des voyages, photographs, personal manuscripts, and letters) concerning his professional and academic creation, his public and private life. It is closely connected with a Design collection (furniture, decoration, graphic design) and a studio collection (office furniture and objects). All ultimately interlinked with a bibliographic collection (personal editions and a library collection), related to his professional and academic creation. The legacy´s fragmentation springs from deliberate decision-making, as well as circumstantial resolutions, following both the producer and his family actions. The Daciano da Costa family archive collection (2005-2021) includes mainly editorial and prototype production projects documents, regarding his trademark and has been carefully and symbiotically shaped, around Daciano da Costa personal legacy. As a doctoral project in Archival Sciences, from the Social Sciences and Humanities Faculty of Nova University of Lisbon, it involves mapping, connecting and curating his several archive collections systems, on behalf of rebuilding, understanding, and projecting Daciano da Costa heritage in a digital setting.
Maria de Aires Carmo is a Ph.D. student in Archival Sciences, with a Master Degree in Heritage Archive Collections. She´s an Art Historian, Archivist and Librarian, which has developed collaborative curation projects in libraries, archives and museums, in the context of Artists archive collections. In her professional path, she has been contributing to the building of specialized content in the academic context, specifically on the Portuguese History of Art, Architecture and Design subjects. As well as having worked in several memory institutions, she highlights her collaboration in Open Access, Open Sciences and Digital Humanities projects, such as the Google Books, at the British Library, and the ROSSIO project, at Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Art Library, which integrates and feeds the Europeana platform. A the present, she works as an academic archivist and information curator at Social Sciences and Humanities Faculty of Nova University of Lisbon, being responsible, among other projects, by the management and curation of personal archives collections, kept by this institution.
9:00 pm - 10:30 pm
Friday 17th June, 2022