Participatory Practices in Art and Cultural Heritage

Christoph Rausch is Associate Professor of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University College Maastricht. He is also co-founding steering committee member of the Maastricht Centre for Arts and Culture, Conservation and Heritage (MACCH) and the Maastricht Experimental Research in and through the Arts Network (MERIAN).Ruth Benschop is a reader at the Research Centre Autonomy and the Public Sphere in the Arts and head of the Maastricht Experimental Research in and through the Arts Network (MERIAN) steering committee.Emilie Sitzia is an associate professor at the Department of History at Maastricht University. She also holds a special chair Word/Image at the University of Amsterdam (UvA).Dr. Vivian van Saaze is an associate professor in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Maastricht University. She is also the director of the Maastricht Centre for Arts and Culture, Conservation and Heritage (MACCH).

• Introduction.- Crowdsourcing cultural heritage as democratic practice.- Participatory and Discursive Place Making in Augmented Reality (AR) Public Art.- Documenting the Participants Point of View: Rethinking the Epistemology of Participation.- Displaying Co-Creation: An Enquiry into Participatory Engagement at the University Museum.- Affirming Change in Participatory Practice of Cultural Conservation.- Getting out of the Groove: On Calibrating Roles in Collaborative Artistic Research.- The Social Potential of Interactive Walking.- Beethoven as Dialogue: Doing Participation Differently in Symphonic Music.- Online Participatory Design of Heritage Projects.- Effecting Social Change Through Participative Mediation.- The People’s Salon: A Pragmatist Approach to Audience Participation in Symphonic Music.- Performing Collaboration: Lecturing on the Lecture