Excavating The Folder
Exercise
What are the goals:
- To learn about how borderline archaeological interpretations can assist in understanding the site(s) of a project
- To consider how to deal with the material data (files, media etc) which reflects previous experiences/events which one _did_ witness and were involved with
- To reflect upon how one of your projects have been documented to reflect complexity/different perspectives, and/or how future ones can be.
Social matrix:
- eg. Individual
Timespan:
30mins
Preparation
- Recall/do the following exercises:
- 'My last project and me' exercise: http://orgcult.wikidot.com/my-last-project-and-me
- 'Site-specific memories aka The Place' exercise: http://orgcult.wikidot.com/site-specific-memories
- 'Probing The Place' exercise: http://orgcult.wikidot.com/probing-the-place
- 'Excavating the Place' exercise: http://orgcult.wikidot.com/excavating-the-place
- Find your project files (on harddisk, physical folder, in archive)
Introduction (2 mins)
- Explain the process
Activity (30 mins)
- Recall the project chosen for 'My last project and me'
- Look at your archived project file on the project
- List the contents, considering some or all of the the following:
- the types of files contained such as images, media, text, tables etc.
- the role they were used, for example planning, communications, documentation
- file formats accessible or obsolete
- folder structures
- completeness of the project record
- Write up some of the things you found and interpreted
Discussion (10 mins)
If group discussion is desired, consider the question: How might the archive record and it's representation affect how your project is interpreteted?
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