Rethinking Industrial Heritage: Digital Tools, Community Engagement, Transregional Cooperation
17.8.2023; 18:30
Conference Room of the Center for Urban History
We invite you to the ceremony of awarding the project "Un/Archiving Post/Industry" with the Europa Nostra Cultural Heritage Award and a discussion about rethinking industrial heritage.
The project "Un/Archiving Post/Industry", dedicated to the rescue of threatened archives of the industrial era, was an attempt to define the heritage that has long been marginalized: as mass and typical, Soviet and propaganda, vernacular and amateur. However, it is this heritage that is common not only to different regions of Ukraine but also in the global context. It has excellent great for self-critical public dialogue, for the participation of different groups and generations, and for rethinking the very concept of heritage.
This year, our project received the European Heritage Award / Europa Nostra Award 2023 in the field of community engagement and awareness raising. It is a special honor that we owe primarily to our partners-museum institutions, collectors, local historians, and archive owners who generously shared their materials with us. We invite you not only to celebrate the award with us, but also to join the conversation about the importance of archives, digitization, sharing and open access, and possible new lives for industrial-era photography and film. Among the participants of the event are representatives of the Mariupol Museum of Local Lore, the Pokrovsk Historical Museum, the University of St. Andrews (UK), the Center for Urban History, and the Vice President of Europa Nostra.
The award ceremony will be followed by a discussion on working with and rethinking industrial heritage; digital tools; community engagement and interregional cooperation. The panelists will be: Iryna Sklokina (Center for Urban History), Oleksandr Hore (Mariupol Local History Museum), independent researcher Kateryna Filonova and Victoria Donovan (University of St. Andrews).
Un/Archiving Post/Industry
A project of the Center for Urban History and the University of St. Andrews in partnership with the Mariupol Museum of Local Lore, the Pokrovsk Historical Museum, and the Donetsk Regional Museum of Local Lore, with the support of House of Europe and the GCRF. The project digitized about 30,000 photographic negatives and 82 films, including press photo collections from the 1940s to the 1990s, company archives, family albums, home videos, and amateur films.
The project takes place in the context of Russia’s war against Ukraine and aims to capture unique evidence of community life in Donbas, to counteract the use of the past as a weapon, and to combat the spread of disinformation. Despite the fact that part of this archive was destroyed in 2022 due to the war, digital copies remain available on the website of the Urban Media Archive of the Center for Urban History.
The event is a part of the public program of the workshop "Public History in Wartime: Rethinking Approaches and Formats" organized by the Center for Urban History and the University of St. Andrews. This project has been made possible by a Research England grant administered by Universities UK International.
Award ceremony for the project "Un/Archiving Post/Industry"
Award ceremony for the project "Un/Archiving Post/Industry"
Director of the Center Sofia Dyak
Award ceremony for the project "Un/Archiving Post/Industry"
Natalia Moussienko and Sofia Dyak
Natalia Moussiyenko, Sofia Dyak, Iryna Sklokina and Kateryna Filonova
Victoria Donovan (University of St. Andrews) during the discussion in the shelter
Oleksandr Hore (Mariupol Museum of Local History) during a discussion at the shelter
Discussion about industrial heritage in the shelter
Credits
Cover Image: at the Metalurg stadium in Zhdanov, 1954 / Pavlo Kashkel / Mariupol Local History Museum / Urban Media Archive of Center for Urban History
Gallery: Olya Shakhnyk
