DCDC16 | Feminist Archiving, Digital Curation & Grassroots Cyberfeminism - Jenna Ashton, DWAN
Channel: ResearchLibrariesUK
Date: 2016-11-18

Feminist Archiving, Digital Curation & Grassroots Cyberfeminism - Jenna Ashton, DWAN
 
Digital Women’s Archive North is an arts and heritage organisation, delivering a programme of community-based projects and research relating to gender (culture, heritage, spaces, equality, social participation, wellbeing). DWAN unlocks women’s histories in archives and collects cultural memories. We use feminist curatorial practices (material and digital) to support women’s services in Manchester (UK) – encouraging women’s active citizenship and self-empowerment.  

We're in the early process of crafting a future Digital Women's Archive, as we explore new models for creative online curation and digital archive experience. DWAN’s current research and development (supported by Arts Council England and the Ida Carroll Trust, UK) involves a series of hack events, bringing together artists, curators and archivists, digital technologists form MadLab, and women’s community groups and activists to explore new approaches for digitally curating collections and digital spaces for women’s cultural production. This is the first stage of creating an innovative online archive space built on a model of collaborative practice and Feminist Archiving.

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