Design for Living Memory

Cultural heritage is to a large extent "materialized" in artefacts of many different types: physical objects, scripts, stories, archives, traditions, collections. Cultures, however, will only live if communities of aware people maintain, cherish, relive, and contribute to the heritage. Current IT and the availability of social media provide potential support for stimulating and maintaining living heritage. We show how teaching interaction design can be specialized to focus on the integration of artefacts with IT support to develop an attitude as well as a supporting environment to better safeguard a shared living memory.