Engaging Communities in Cultural Heritage

Tuuli Lähdesmäki is a professor of art history at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. She specialises in critical heritage studies, heritage policies and politics, cultural memory, identities, and narratives of Europe.Johanna Turunen is a senior researcher of contemporary culture studies at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. Her work is focused on the intersections of critical heritage studies and post- and decolonial theory.Andrei Terian is a professor of Romanian literature at the Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Romania. He researches intangible cultural heritage, specialising in the textual heritage, cultural memory, canonisation, and digitisation.Renaud Garcia-Bardidia is a professor of cultural studies at the University of Lorraine and an associate researcher at the University of Burgundy, France. His research addresses the digitalisation of cultural consumption practices and the evolution of cultural institutions in this context.

• Section I: Heritage participation and social inclusion; 1. Looking beyond recited truths of heritage participation Inclusive perspectives on institutions, epistemologies, and representation; 2. Examining public perceptions of Roma representation in cultural festivals in Sibiu. 3. Local cultural festivals as spaces of inclusion – The festival organisers’ perspective. 4. Branding Germanness in Transylvania. Combined and uneven heritagisation; 5. Sauna Dialogues – The methodological potential of sauna as a site for making heritage futures; 6. History and heritage in Sagunt, Spain: An opportunity for social innovation through university culture; Section II: Digital tools in heritage participation; 7. Digitizing literary heritage: Some lessons from the Digital Museum of the Romanian Novel; 8. Technological and cultural challenges in the collaborative design of participatory heritage platforms between the Global North and Global South: Toward decolonial computing.9. Playing with history: Engagement and mediations through Assassin’s Creed – An ethnographic perspective; 10. Digital media and safeguarding intangible cultural heritage of minority groups in China: A case study of animated short films Orochen Tale of Nisan Shaman and Orochen Creation Story; Section III: Managing heritage participation; 11. Opportunities and challenges of participatory heritage governance: Developing the Seminaarinmäki Campus as a European Heritage Label site in Finland; 12. Engaging communities of practice in cultural heritage. A multi-site study of private partners within French cultural ecosystems; 13. Reframing knowledge in cultural heritage: Promoting openness and public engagement in museums through organic management; 14. Civic engagement in cultural heritage. The Transylvanian Saxon case over the last century; 15. Revisiting the darkness: Participatory approaches for engaging with difficult and ‘dark’ heritage places;