In Summer 2019, Mike Jones, Susan Pywell and their colleagues in Research IT produced a poster on the work we have been doing in Building Shared Futures and presented it at Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School. The poster won the The Sebastian Rahtz poster prize! You can get the poster here (9 MB).
Seeking out the past in Nairobi’s present
What is more interesting than the permanence itself, is the lack of it. Everywhere you look, the signs of change glare at you. The vibrance, the matatus, the exhibition stalls, the billboards, the students, the hawkers the street preachers, you name it… In June 2019, the Building Shared Futures team commissioned Chao Tayiana from African Read More…
What could Bristol have to tell me about Kenya?
This second account of surprising finds at a Building Shared Futures workshop was originally posted on Bristol Museums blog. Lydia Muthuma, from the Technical University of Kenya is one of the Building Shared Futures project team. She recently visited Bristol Archives as part of a workshop group looking at Kenyan items from the British Empire Read More…
Points on a map of Nairobi: Building Shared Futures
And how can we tie historical images to the places they depict? Mike Jones presents an experiment – reposted from his own blog fairlypositive.com Another task I need to complete for the next Building Shared Futures workshop is to use the metadata received from Bristol Archives to populate a map with points of interest. In Read More…
IIIF server: Building Shared Futures
Here Mike Jones introduces some of the technology we began experimenting with after the first Building Shared Futures workshop – reposted from his own blog – fairlypositive.com
Digital Humanities and Repatriating the Archives
Mike Jones is a member of the Building Shared Futures project team based in Research IT at the Universityof Bristol. Here he reflects on his experience at the first Building Shared Futures workshop in April 2019. It is reposted from his own blog – fairlypositive.com I was recently involved in a brilliant three-day workshop called Read More…