Abstract
One of the preconditions for genuine sustainability is a heritage that is present anywhere and anytime in everyday life. We present PLUGGY, a Pluggable Social Platform for Heritage Awareness and Participation. PLUGGY will address the need of society to be actively involved in cultural heritage activities, not only as an observer but also as a creator and a major influencing factor. With PLUGGY, we aim to bridge this gap by providing the tools needed to allow users to share their local knowledge and everyday experience with others, together with the contribution of cultural institutions. Users will be able to build extensive networks around a common area of interest, connecting the past, the present and the future. It will be powered by its users and puts people’s values, aspirations and needs first. Users of PLUGGY will be the providers of information about cultural heritage in the everyday and ordinary, real life. Through its social platform and by using its innovative curation tools, designed to solely focus on a niche area in social media, citizens will be able to act as skilled storytellers by creating fascinating personalised stories and share them through social networking with friends, associates and professionals. In this paper, we describe a structured formative and summative evaluative approach of PLUGGY’s core concepts, which results will be used to inform and improve its design.
Highlights
PLUGGY has been inspired and built around the Convention on the Value of Cultural Heritage for Society (Faro Convention, 2005) and expresses its notions and principles in most of its developments
The Faro Convention outlines a framework for considering the role of citizens in the definition, decision-making and management processes related to the cultural environment in which communities operate and evolve
Current social platforms have demonstrated their potential to build networks through the individual and distributed contributions of users. Their possibilities have not been fully exploited with regards to cultural heritage promotion and integration in people's everyday life
Summary
PLUGGY has been inspired and built around the Convention on the Value of Cultural Heritage for Society (Faro Convention, 2005) and expresses its notions and principles in most of its developments. The Faro Convention, born out of the desire of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe to create a framework that would show what kind of economic, social and cultural possibilities and resources cultural heritage can offer, argues that a heritage that is everywhere, and relevant to everyday life, is likely to be one of the preconditions for genuine sustainability. This is certainly the case at the social and cultural levels, and at the economic and environmental ones [1]. It uses the concept of landscape that is promoted by the European Landscape Convention (which is increasingly popular in academia and policy) as a global frame for heritage, recognising that heritage assets and objects offer fundamental social and economic values and benefits far beyond those traditionally recognised [3]
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