RADICI: Prototyping Trans-sectoral Ecosystems in Digital Cultural Heritage

Abstract

As the cultural heritage sector intertwines with the computing industry and expands into the creative sector, the paper disseminates the preliminary findings of an applied industrial research project to contribute to the ongoing discussion on key challenges in Digital Cultural Heritage and outline potential future directions.

RADICI is a two-year ERDF-funded project, aiming to develop an aggregating platform of digital cultural assets coming from diverse cultural and creative industries sectors, ensuring their interoperability to unlock new value co-creation.  Stemming from a design-driven approach, RADICI aims to contribute to regional development by prototyping trans-sectoral value chains in matters of accessing, co-producing, experiencing, and leveraging Digital Cultural Heritage.

This paper explores RADICI’s theoretical framework, rooted in a rhizomatic interplay of perspectives, and introduces Advanced Design as the framework driving its development. Particularly, it illustrated how trans-sectoral conversations were carefully designed to fuel co-creation sessions and foster collaboration among stakeholders from academia, business, GLAMs, and CCSIs.  Data was collected through participant observations, workshop material, and post-event feedback. By conducting a thematic analysis, actionable insights were harvested and formulated according to a trans-sectoral lens, to inform further, rhizomatic developments of the project.