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 |
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 culture universal index to measure the scope and quality of culture digital presence and its impact on people and communities and announcing application pilot projects;
- Identifying opportunities for and catalyzing advanced research on four key areas of inquiry:
- Opportunities and risks: How are digital technologies and digital transformation being used as tools to safeguard and support or destroy and undermine cultural heritage?
- 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?
- 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?
- 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
Please register using this hyperlink, or click above on "Register".
Event Details
17 September 2025 | 9H00 - 18H00 | Museu Martins Sarmento
