The Partner-Finding Tool
With our project we want to promote community-driven archiving activities among youth.
Aim and objectives
With our project we want to promote community-driven archiving activities among youth. By providing the training and technical know-how on how to conduct oral history interviews, assembling photographs, letters, documents and other meaningful artifacts as well as how to manage digital archives we aim to support youth grassroots efforts to record and preserve local history as a way to explore and celebrate young people’s own identities, encourage a sense of belonging to a community and stimulate them to become active agents of change.
We have outlined the following objectives:
- to support the professional development of youth workers and improve the quality of youth work across Europe through innovation. We'll introduce methods, tools and activities of community‐centered digital collecting for counteracting the effects of symbolic annihilation, facilitating intercultural learning, inclusion and active participation, thus bringing new, creative approach to their work and equipping youth workers with the set of efficient learning tools.
- To enable young people to be architects of their own lives, support their personal development and growth to autonomy, build their resilience and equip them with life skills (such as digital skills, critical thinking) to cope with a changing world.
- To increase the capacities and international dimension of the partners and enable them to offer services that better respond to the needs of their target groups.
Background and research
In his influential book Archive Fever, Jacques Derrida asserts, “There is no political power without control of the archive, if not memory. Effective democratization can always be measured by this essential criterion: the participation in and access to the archive, its constitution, and its interpretation”. While notions of identity and community are constantly shifting, it is essential to enabled different facets of societal memory to be collected, preserved and remembered. Much recent work on memory and remembrance has assumed that independent, grassroots initiatives better directly address the archival priorities and needs of local communities than government repositories (Cook, 2013; Crooke 2010). So-called "community archives" are often positioned as alternative venues for groups that have been marginalized, ignored, or shut out of mainstream institutions to seize the means by which to document their own pasts and engage in self‐representation, identity construction, and empowerment (Flinn and Stevens, 2009). They are unique, because decisions about what materials to collect, how to describe those materials, and who should have access to them are made directly by community members. Moreover, modern digital technologies have been held out as particularly productive venues for encouraging community participation in the archival endeavor (Krause and Yakel, 2007; Shilton and Srinivasan, 2007).
Becoming partner
With this call I invite you to become a potential partner in the project. If you are interested please send me a filled PIF and I will contact you back.
Author, contact and responsible for the project is:
Karolina Ufa, karolinaufa@op.pl
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Short URL to this project:
http://otlas-project.salto-youth.net/11699