5Dculture @ EFHA International Conference (27-28 November 2023)

Our project partners Centraal Museum Utrecht (CMU) and European Fashion Heritage Association (EFHA) jointly organised this year's international conference of the Association under the title "Future Heritage". The conference wants to look at new technologies and how these are being used to make fashion heritage future-proof.

Many virtual techniques and digital crafts are being developed in the cultural heritage sector, to transition from a hierarchical model – the traditional way of managing and interpreting collections – to more inclusive, enjoyable and shared experiences. But these techniques also raise institutional and ethical issues when applied to historical artefacts and stories. The encounter of new museological and curatorial stances with digital humanities is reshaping the fashion heritage sector and institutions that are different in size, typology of objects, agendas are coming to terms with the necessity to innovate not only to remain relevant, but also to expand their reach and tune their voice to the present and to the future.

Future Heritage will explore these dynamics, looking at both reflections on the criteria of acquisition and conceptualising of a futurable past and the imminent discourse on new technologies in heritage practices and activation.

As part of the panel "Exhibit, Represent, Transform New Experiences for New Spaces" Ms Marta Franceschini (EFHA) will present our common project.