Special Session 1 DIHA: Archiving and Visualization of Intangible Heritage

The aim of this special session is to provide a platform for culture heritage researchers, museum curators, educators, digital media specialists, linguists, designers and others in these related industries to present the challenges in their respective fields with a view to promote opportunities for interdisciplinary collaboration. We believe that collaboration at this level will spark major breakthroughs in highlighting awareness of intangible heritage in Asia.

Project abstracts are invited on all aspects from the following sub-fields including, but not limited to:

  • cultural research and inquiries in intangible heritage
  • enviromental and ecological issues and intangible heritage
  • the role of language and cultural knowledge repositories in the conservation of intangible heritage
  • curating intangible heritage in museums
  • interface and design of digital media for the exhibition of intangible heritage
  • meaning-making and the interpretation of intangible heritage exhibitions
  • visual media and memory and intangible heritage
  • innovative ways of accessing intangible heritage resources

The participants of this special session also will be able to attend the entire program of NODEM 2012 Hong Kong

About DIHA

DIHA is an interdisciplinary research cluster involving several researchers across Schools and Colleges in Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU) as well as external partners. DIHA captures the vibrant cultural and linguistic fusion of the Asia Pacific region through interdisciplinary lenses.

Go to the DIHA website.

DIHA Co-founder

  • Assoc Prof. Ng Bee Chin | School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Division of Linguistics and Multilingual Studies. Email: mbcng@ntu.edu.sg
  • Visiting Assoc. Prof. Halina Gottlieb | School of Humanities and Social Sciences / The Interactive Institute, Sweden. Email: halina.gottlieb@tii.se

PROGRAM of the Special Theme Session 1 – DIHA:
Archiving and Visualization of Intangible Heritage on Wednesday 5 December

 

You can find the latest downloadable version of Conference Program below.

Opening Keynote by Halina Gottlieb and Ng Bee Chin

Opening of Session
08.45-9.00
Foreword by DIHA co-founders Dr. Ng Bee Chin & Dr. Halina Gottlieb

 

 

Panel 1: Visualization for museum environments / visualization and memory
Chair: Dr. Halina Gottlieb
Time Speaker Title
09.00-9.20 Nao Saito (Tokyo, Japan) Tactile map for Tokyo National Museum [Tokyo, JAPAN 2011]
09.20-9.40 Ryan Francis Reyes (University of the Philippines / San Beda College) Meaning-Making and Interpretation through the Intangible: Strategies in Art Exhibitions
09.40-10.00 Patrick Mok (The University of Hong Kong) Hong Kong Memory Project
10.00-10.20 Vivian Ngo (NBBJ, USA),
Emily Weidenhof (GSAPP Columbia University/ New York City Department of Transportation, USA)		 City as Museum: Maintaining Heritage Through Urban Fabric
10.20-10.40 Questions and answers – Panel 1
10.40-11.10 Coffee-break / poster presentations

 

 

Panel 2: Archiving of oral traditions – rituals – beliefs
Chair: Prof. Dagny Stuedahl
Time Speaker Title
11.10-11.30 Nayana Tadvalkar (SNDT Women’s University, Mumbai, India) Rangavali: An Ephemeral Floor Art of India
11.30-11.50 Wayan Windia (Udayana University, Bali) The Rule of Subak to Preserve Enviromental in Bali
11:50-12.10 Narayan Sharma (SOAS, University of London, UK) Digital technology and archiving challenges in the endangered language documentation
12.10-12.30 Marie Virginia Ramona E. Alfon (University of the Philippines in Diliman, Philippines) “Intangible Layered Identities” – Why the Filipina is Dressed that Way
12.30-12.50 Questions and answers – Panel 2
13.00-14.00 Lunch break / poster presentations

 

 

Panel 3: Archiving of oral traditions and language
Chair: Dr. Ng Bee Chin
Time Speaker Title
14.00-14.20 Klu rgyal ‘bum (Plateau Culture Heritage Protection Group, China) Oral Traditions and Digital Technology on the Tibetan Plateau: The Plateau Culture Heritage Protection Group
14.20-14.40 Tara Baoth-Mooney (SMARTlab Research Institute, University College Dublin, Ireland), Denise Doyle (University of Wolverhampton, UK) Digital Voices as Cultural Encounter: Intangible Folk Art Practices of West Bengal
14.40-15.00 Jesvin Yeo Puay Hwa (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) Recording verbal tradition through visual media
15.00-15.20 Anthony Jukes (La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia) ‘First, catch a bat’: documenting Minahasan language and culture for the diaspora and beyond
15.20-15.40 Questions and answers – Panel 3
15.40-16.00 Summing up DIHA session – free discussions

 

 

Poster presentations in alphabetical order

presenter Title
- Yussef Daibert Salomão de Campos (Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Brazil) Laws and acts about Intangible Heritage – Brazil and Argentina
- Magdalena Laine-Zamojska (University of Jyväskylä, Finland) Bridging tangible and intangible heritage through digital media

- Eleonora Lupo,
- Lucia Parrino
- Neva Pedrazzini
(Politecnico di Milano, Italy)

 Towards a digital repository of temporary exhibitions: documenting and visualizing the knowledge and relational dynamics of exhibition design as contemporary intangible heritage
- Tessa Morrison,
- Helen Giggins,
- Nicholas Foulcher
(School of Architecture and Built Environment, Newcastle, Australia)		 Evolving Architectural History and Digital Intangible Heritage
- Kenneth Paranada (University of the Philippines Diliman, Philippines) “Gold”, “Silver’, and “Shit”: The Problems of Curating Living Cultures In the Museo ng Kalinangang Pilipino
- Fatemeh Safaii Rad (London Metropolitan University, UK) Subjectivity and the Cultural Constraints of Academic Literature in Material Culture: An Investigation into the Discussion of Pattern and Symbol in Persian Carpets
- Stephen Schwartz (SoundTales, Denmark) Collecting audio cultural heritage
- Bantalem Tadese Tedla (University of Gondar, Ethiopia) Curating Intangible Heritage in Museums / Cultural Research and Inquiries in Intangible Heritage: Asian Legacies in Ethiopian Intangible Heritage
- Anna Titus (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain) Archiving and documenting women’s culture: The case of Catalonia
- Angelica Viceral (University of the Philippines Diliman, Philippines) Revisualizing Memories of the Folk and Ethnic in Marcos Administration Designer Hospitals
- Adriani Zulivan (Indonesian Heritage Inventory,Indonesia) Innovative ways of accessing intangible heritage resources: Indonesian Heritage Inventory, a New Way to Access Intangible Heritage

 SPECIAL SESSION 1 DIHA: ARCHIVING AND VISUALIZATION OF INTANGIBLE HERITAGE