Cultural heritage information design in the post-digital era

Abstract

Cultural Heritage Information Design (CHID) has known, in the last two decades, important mutations and it has been admitted as an open and constantly evolving process. CHI Designers as well as curators are invited to consider new approaches of information perceiving and practicing that have allowed the emergence of various unpredictable cultural heritage information experiences. CHID has to deal with a complex phenomenon: information design is a continuous process and every information consumer can become, somewhere and sometime, information broadcaster. This paper proposes some observations issued from some exploratory and collaborative experiences newly realized during the “HyperHeritage” workshop (organized within the Master Program Net and sponsored by Idefi-Creatic) and animated by two staff members of the Digital Humanities Department and 15 master program students. The aim of this workshop is to rethink the cultural heritage in the Post-Digital era, i.e. taking into account the non stop appropriation of ICT (information and communication technology) as well as their socio-cultural impacts. In this paper, we present and analyze four experience designs that have considered advanced digital technologies, mainly the Internet of Things and the Contactless Communication, to explore and experience new communication forms and strategies between human and cultural-heritage information.