Kawarla: How to Make a Coolamon is the result of extensive language documentation work conducted in the Gurindji community in the Northern Territory. Dr Felicity Meakins, from UQ’s School of Languages and Cultures, worked with Gurindji elders Biddy Wavehill and Violet Wadrill to create the book. “The audio is linked […]
2015 • Australia • culture | preservation • Gurindji • QR code • talking bookCoded Stories: weaving bar codes, Mapuche textiles, and digital identities
About Coded Stories From the Coded Stories website: “An indigenous people, struggling to preserve their traditions. An artist, looking to merge the oldest creative traditions and the newest technologies, while calling attention to the indigenous of his native country. The Coded Stories Project will use an artist’s unique work to […]
Chile • identity • Mapuche • QR code • storytelling • textiles • weavingOrganization Highlight: Living Cultural Storybases (LCS)
Nurturing the oral heritage of minority cultures in a digital world The following text is from the Living Cultural Storybases website: http://storybases.org/ Misson LCS seeks to nurture the oral heritage of minority cultures by developing respectful methodologies accompanied by appropriate technological solutions. We aim to enable indigenous communities to share and […]
cultural heritage • culture | preservation • elder • identity • indigenous communities • oral tradition • participatory • QR code • Quechua • revitalizationLiving Cultural Storybases (LCS)
Nurturing the oral heritage of minority cultures in a digital world The following text is from the Living Cultural Storybases website: http://storybases.org/ Misson LCS seeks to nurture the oral heritage of minority cultures by developing respectful methodologies accompanied by appropriate technological solutions. We aim to enable indigenous communities to share and […]
cultural heritage • culture | preservation • elder • identity • indigenous communities • oral tradition • participatory • QR code • Quechua • revitalizationTechnology Snapshot: Indigenous Language & Cultural Preservation
How is the web impacting aboriginal communities? Phillip Djwa’s work focuses on the key components of social responsibility through technology. He’s worked for a wide variety of technology companies in senior positions for many years. Now, through Agentic Communications, which is a web development company that works with progressive organizations […]
aboriginal • archive • endangered language • First Nations • FirstVoices • indigenous communities • indigenous language • language | preservation • QR code • Quechua • video game