
Online Session 3: Webinar
Zooming in: Digital GLAM and Urban Soft Power
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Webinar: Urban Data Infrastructures and Digital Place-making
Date: 30 May 2022 (Monday)
Time: 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM UTC+1 | 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM SGT | 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM UTC+11

Professor Tim Winter
Professor of Anthropology and Sociology
The University of Western Australia
Keynote Speaker
The Digital Silk Road and Geocultural Diplomacy
China’s ‘revival’ of the Silk Roads for the 21st Century through its Belt and Road Initiative has brought about new modes of geocultural diplomacy spanning continents and oceans. This presentation explores such themes in relation to the forms of digital domain cooperation and cultural production that are now fast emerging, highlighting how Chinese universities, technology companies and cultural sector organisations collaborate in the making of new transcultural, transnational imaginaries of the past.
Interactive Practitioner Panel: Digital GLAM in City Branding and Diplomacy
The panel will explore 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.
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Jonathan Biz Medina
Senior XR Producer / Partner at ZOAN Oy

Lorenzo Kihlgren Grandi
Director, City Diplomacy Lab
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Matthew Davies
Director of the Layers of London Project

Morgan Currie
Principal Investigator of The Culture & Communities Mapping Project
Interactive Data Panel: GLAM Data in Smart City Ecologies
The panel will explore connections and synergies between urban GLAM actors’ programming and emerging smart city issues and dilemmas in a fast-paced urban environment marked with the processes of increasing digitalization and datafication. It will discuss how data generated by and around museums in the smart city context can contribute to, challenge or contest smart city governance.

David Batchelor
Planner & Urban Designer | Heritage Consultant

Michael Rigby
Data Science Support Team Lead,
Australian Urban Research Infrastructure Network

Steve Watson
Technical Lead
(New Museum) Museum of London
Interactive Discussion Forum
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Etta Grotrian
Digital Strategy Manager at Overseas Museum
(Übersee-Museum in Bremen)
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Janet Owen
Founder and Executive Director of The Earth Museum

Katy Canales
Online Exhibition Producer, Young V&A Museum

Megan Lawrence
Head of Digital at the Australian Museum