Future Culture: [ln]tangible Heritage | Design | Cross Media

2 December 2012:  Opening reception & exhibition
3-5 December 2012: Symposium

“NODEM 2012 Hong Kong will bring together leading theorists, practitioners and artists in conversation about the future of digital heritage, creative practices, design and emerging technologies. Pioneers from diverse countries and cross-disciplinary fields will focus on a range of issues covering new forms of heritage interpretation and the future of new media at the forefront of museum design. Emphasis will be placed on cutting edge research and practice from around the world, with a focus on tangible and intangible heritage in Asian contexts. The three-day programme will include day-long special sessions on Digital Intangible Heritage of Asia (DIHA) and the inaugural Museums and the Web Asia. The three-day event will stimulate research networks for those in pursuit of excellence in the digital work of museums, galleries, archives and libraries.”

Website – Programme – Link to register for NODEM 2012 Hong Kong. (This conference is free of charge.)

By Sacha Kagan

Research Associate at the ISCO - Institute of Sociology and Cultural Organization (ISKO - Institut für Soziologie und Kulturorganisation), Leuphana University Lueneburg, Sacha Kagan founded the International level of Cultura21, Network for Cultures of Sustainability, as well as the International Summer School of Arts and Sciences for Sustainability in Social Transformation (ASSiST). The focus of his research and cultural work lies in the trans-disciplinary field of arts and (un-)sustainability. Doctor in Philosophy (Leuphana University Lueneburg) with a thesis on the subject of culture, the arts and sustainability under the perspective of complexity ; M.A. in Cultural Economics (Erasmus University Rotterdam) ; and Graduate of Sciences Po Bordeaux (political sciences). For Cultura21, Sacha is also coordinating the eBooks series, the regular updates on our multi-lingual website, the English section of our webmagazine and the work of our Lueneburg-based interns.