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Only a week left to register for the upcoming events. Looking forward to seeing many of you there! 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.
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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 Agehttps://www.routledge.com/Museum-Diplomacy-in-the-Digital-Age/Grincheva/p/book/9780815369998 (Routledge 2020) Global Trends in Museum Diplomacyhttps://www.routledge.com/Global-Trends-in-Museum-Diplomacy-Post-Guggenheim-Developments-1st-Edition/Grincheva/p/book/9780815370949 (Routledge 2019)