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You are invited to attend a series of free public online sessions in the framework of the project: GLAM and Digital Soft Power in the Post-Pandemic World. Please, read more about the project here: datatopower.net   

Upcoming events:

Webinar: Urban Data Infrastructures and Digital Place-making
Date: May 30, 2022
Time: 8:00AM - 10:00AM UTC | 3:00PM - 5:00PM SGT | 5:00PM - 7:00PM UTC+11

Keynote: Professor Tim Winter, “The Digital Silk Road and Geocultural Diplomacy”
To register follow the link: https://www.datatopower.net/webinar3

The webinar will discuss the concept of digital soft power from the perspective of digital place-making, urban diplomacy and city branding. Interrogating  phenomena such as digital tourism, digital cultural heritage and its virtual cultural consumption, it will investigate the role of digital representations, narratives and images constructed by GLAM institutions  in the development and circulation of urban identities in the global media spaces.

Datathon: Forecasting local impacts of travelling exhibitions
Date: June 1, 2022
Time: 8:00AM - 10:00AM UTC | 3:00PM - 5:00PM SGT | 5:00PM - 7:00PM UTC+11

Keynote: Paul Owens, Founder of the World Cities Culture Forum
To register follow the link: https://www.datatopower.net/datathon3

The Datathon will discuss challenges and opportunities of urban cultural infrastructure mapping as well as its value and implications for designing touring exhibitions and predicting their local engagement power. It will present the Local Engagement Layer of the Data To Power prototype, designed by aggregating and mapping data generated by travelling exhibitions toured around the world  by the Science Museum Group in London and Australian Centre for the Moving Image in Melbourne.

To stay in the loop of current and future activities:

Subscribe to our Google group https://groups.google.com/g/datatopower

Dr Natalia Grincheva

Programme Leader, BA(Hons) Arts Management, School of Creative Industries, LASALLE College of the Arts
Senior Research Fellow (Hon), Digital Studio, the University of Melbourne

Recent Books:
Museum Diplomacy in the Digital Age (Routledge  2020)

Global Trends in Museum Diplomacy (Routledge 2019)