Bringing cultural heritage and people together in a changing Europe and finding new ways of engaging with heritage in a digital world.
The RICHES project is about change. For many in 21st century Europe, Cultural Heritage (CH) is more about what it is than who we are: though enormously rich, this treasure is often locked away, or crumbling, or in a foreign language, or about a past which to many people - young , old, newcomers to Europe and settled inhabitants - seems of little relevance.
But this is changing.
As digital technologies permeate all of society, compelling us to rethink how we do everything, we ask questions:
How can CH institutions renew and remake themselves?
How should an increasingly diverse society use our CH?
How may the move from analogue to digital represent a shift from traditional hierarchies of CH to more fluid, decentred practices?
How, then, can the EU citizen, alone or as part of a community, play a vital co-creative role?
What are the limitations of new technologies in representing and promoting CH?
How can CH become closer to its audiences of innovators, skilled makers, curators, artists, economic actors?
How can CH be a force in the new EU economy?
