Workshop

Digital4Culture - Understanding the Relationship between Digital Technologies and Cultural Heritage

Join Digital4Culture, a joint workshop hosted by the United Nations University – Operating Unit on Policy-driven Electronic Governance (UNU-EGOV) and the Observatory on Science, Communication and Culture Policies (PolObs).

Time
- Europe/Lisbon
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Open to public
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Workshop Overview

The United Nations University - Operating Unit on Policy-driven Electronic Governance (UNU-EGOV) and the Observatory on Science, Communication and Culture Policies (PolObs) are pleased to announce Digital4Culture, a joint in-person workshop dedicated to exploring the relationship between digital technologies and cultural heritage.

The workshop will take place on 17 September 2025, at Museu Martins Sarmento, in Guimarães, Portugal.

Digital4Culture aims to bring together cultural practitioners, policymakers, and researchers to foster dialogue and exchange on the opportunities and challenges that digital transformation presents for the study, protection, safeguarding, monitoring, and accessibility of cultural heritage across different contexts.

Agenda

09:00

Registration

09:30

Welcome Remarks

10:00

Roundtable 1: Platforming Digital Culture in the Margins

11:15

Wellness Break

11:30

Roundtable 2: Digital Tools for Co-Creation in Arts & Culture

12:45

Buffet Lunch

14:00

Roundtable 3: Safeguarding (Digital) Cultural Heritage in Crises

15:15

Strategic Foresight Workshop Part 1: Stargazing  

16:00

Wellness Break

16:15

Strategic Foresight Workshop Part 2: The Gardens We Grow

16:45

Closing Plenary

Formal launch of the NOCUI index and pilot projects 
Announcement of the Safeguarding (Digital) Cultural Heritage in Crises initiative

18:00

Closing Reception


Key goals of the workshop include:
 

  • Fostering discussion and the sharing of case studies and good practices among cultural practitioners and scholars, identifying both risks and opportunities for digital technologies to support the study, protection, safeguarding, monitoring, and accessibility of cultural heritage and experiences in a diversity of contexts;
  • Launching NOCUI, an online universal index for culture that measures the scope and quality of culture’s digital presence and its impact on people and communities, with the announcement of pilot projects;
  • Identifying opportunities for and catalyzing advanced research on four key areas of inquiry:
     
  1. Opportunities and risks: How are digital technologies and digital transformation being used as tools to safeguard and support or destroy and undermine arts and cultural heritage?
  2. Monitoring: How do we monitor and/or measure the presence, scope, quality, and status of digital culture and culture’s digital presence, as well as its impact on people and communities using a universal index?   
  3. Just Futures for Cultural Heritage: Are there emergent and novel uses of digital technologies to support the preservation of cultural heritage? How can we co-design and co-create values-driven and based (digital) interventions to safeguard culture?
  4. Governance: What policies, governance frameworks, and regulations would support the safeguarding and enjoyment of arts, culture, and heritage as it relates to digital technologies?


Registration

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Event Details

17 September 2025 | 9H00 - 18H00 | Museu Martins Sarmento

 

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