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Co-designing Digital Engagements with Cultural Heritage Sites in Africa: A Research Road Map for the Brandberg National Monument Area, Namibia

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Digital Heritage. Progress in Cultural Heritage: Documentation, Preservation, and Protection (EuroMed 2020)

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This paper outlines the design of a research that would focus on the Brandberg National Monument Area, in Namibia, Southern Africa. The project seeks to find solutions by use of co-design action research with the local communities within the vicinity of the site and in the country. While an open online database is already available, with an extensive collection of archeological materials found within the site, the project will explore how to re-use and re-purpose such materials to present them not only to researchers and experts, but also to locals and to (international) tourists. In order to do so, local voices are to be fully integrated within the presentation(s), and locals’ involvement will be of the utmost importance to manage communication practices as well as travelers’ flows. The ultimate goal is not only to come up with different digital engagement tools, but also to end up with a digital engagement and governance framework for heritage sites, which could work in the African context.

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  1. University of Namibia, 340 Mandume Ndemufayo Avenue, Windhoek, Namibia

    Martha Mosha

  2. USI – Università della Svizzera italiana, UNESCO Chair in ICT to Develop and Promote Sustainable Tourism in World Heritage Sites, via Buffi 13, 6900, Lugano, Switzerland

    Lorenzo Cantoni

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Mosha, M., Cantoni, L. (2021). Co-designing Digital Engagements with Cultural Heritage Sites in Africa: A Research Road Map for the Brandberg National Monument Area, Namibia. In: Ioannides, M., Fink, E., Cantoni, L., Champion, E. (eds) Digital Heritage. Progress in Cultural Heritage: Documentation, Preservation, and Protection. EuroMed 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12642. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-73043-7_58

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