After-Life: the digital future of visual history archives

ACAHUCH provides an international perspective on research and teaching in architectural history and heritage with a particular emphasis on Australia and the Asia-Pacific. It fosters a collaborative approach to the critical study of architectural history, heritage conservation and digital, cultural, landscape and urban heritage and design.

ACAHUCH

ACAHUCH's symposium invites national and international experts to discuss preservation and management of born-digital records and archives.

Japanese Room, Level 4, Glyn Davis Building (Melbourne School of Design),

ACAHUCH Collection

The Australian Centre for Architectural History, Urban and Cultural Heritage (ACAHUCH) collection provides an insight into the research, teaching and learning avenues the Centre takes across Australia and the Asia-Pacific region.

<ul><li>09.30-09.45 | Welcome </li><li>09.45-11.00 | Museums and Archives</li><li>11.00-11.30 | Morning Tea</li><li>11.30-12.30 | Australian Architecture Archives</li><li>12.30-13.15 | Lunch</li><li>13.15-14.00 | <a href="https://nvite.com/externalrelations/d14d7" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Keynote : Martien de Vletter</a></li><li>14.00-14.45 | International Architecture Archives</li><li>14.45-15.15 | Afternoon Tea</li><li>15.15-16.45 | Innovations in the After-Life of the Archive</li><li>17.00-19.00 | Drinks and <a href="https://nvite.com/externalrelations/f068e" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Book Launch</a></li></ul>Museums and ArchivesThis session explores themes of innovation led by museums, institutions and governments using new platforms and applications to re-think how visual archives are accessed and <ul><li>Asa Letourneau, Public Record Office Victoria</li><li>Deb Tout-Smith, Museum of Melbourne</li><li>Sarah May Ryan, Transport Project NSW</li><li>Chantalle Yarrow, Yuncken Freeman Archives</li></ul>Australian Architecture ArchivesThis session analyses community engagement strategies by Australian archivists, institutions, academics and practitioners that engage and enlist local and State Governments to broaden scope and establish protocols for aid a more holistic approach to historical and heritage records and archives. <ul><li>John Macarthur, University of Queensland</li><li>Noni Boyd and Matthew Devine, Australian Institute of Architects, NSW</li><li>Harriet Edquist, RMIT Design Archives, Jenny Grigg, RMIT School of Design, Paul Mylecharane, Public Office</li><li>Chris Burns, University of South Australia</li></ul>International Architecture ArchivesThis session discusses the approach taken by cultural institutions and architecture firms internationally, across a continuum from the 1980s pre-digital era to now, as well as methodological interventions by historians, historical ethnographic tools, and the influence that the uprising of ‘archival secrecy’ and classification of information has had on digital records generally.<ul><li>Scott Woods, University of Melbourne</li><li>Aaron Cayer, University of New Mexico</li></ul>Innovations in the After-Life of the ArchiveThis session explores the role of innovative technologies in the realm of the digital archive, discussing issues of archaeology, Indigenous heritage and history, and the creative role of cultural institutions in the changing landscape of visual archival collections.<ul><li>Fran Edmonds, Richard Clenhall, University of Melbourne, Maree Clarke, Mitch Mahoney</li><li>Heather Mitcheltree and Mitchell Ransome, University of Melbourne=</li><li>Andrew Yip, University of New South Wales</li><li>Ben Waters, Siii Lab and University of Melbourne</li><li>Meher Bahl, University of Melbourne</li></ul>Keynote: Don’t be afraid of the DigitalThe Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) in Montreal received born digital material in the late 1990s, not knowing what to do with it. Since 2012, the CCA started a program to investigate, acquire, preserve, exhibit and publish born digital material. We asked ourselves how the digital technology has changed and shaped architecture. The curatorial approach led to success: the CCA is now able to preserve its born digital collections, to access nearly all files, and to make it accessible for research. Martien de Vletter will talk about the successes and the failures, as well as the context.Keynote speaker:Martien de Vletter, Associate Director of the Collection at the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA), Montreal, where she is responsible for the digital preservation and access program. Prior to this she was a curator at the Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAI), Rotterdam, and has also published widely on architecture and urbanism in the Netherlands and Indonesia.Book LaunchThe Routledge International Handbook of New Digital Practices in Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums and Heritage Sites presents a fascinating picture of the ways in which today's cultural institutions are undergoing a fundamental and creative shifts through innovative applications of digital technology. Containing first-hand accounts and critical reflections from leading thinkers, curators, exhibition designers, historians, heritage practitioners, technologists and interaction designers from around the world, the Handbook illustrates the scope and significance of this transformation.

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