Medea: Living Archives receives SEK 18 million

Medea (at Malmö University) has received SEK 18 million over 5 years from the Swedish Research Council to work with the research project Living Archives, a project that will explore the digitized society’s challenges by examining how our shared digital cultural archives can be significant as a social resource, create social change and contribute to cultural awareness where users can collaborate to create a shared future.

Karin Johansson-Mex, director of Medea:

“This project contains so many exciting subsections that we at Medea are really passionate about. We will blow the digital dust off the shelves and embrace contemporary methodologies such as open data, social networking, mobile media, storytelling, games, and physical design. We see that a democratized access to our cultural heritage is of paramount importance today where we all need to communicate across borders of age, class, culture and politics.”

Among the researchers involved in the project is our Ørecomm colleague Anders Høg Hansen. A PhD grant is being announced. For more information, see the Living Archives webpages here.