How are difficult histories remembered, forgotten and made visible in the digital age?
How are difficult histories remembered, forgotten and made visible in the digital age?
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Who Owns Memory? is a participatory public history project exploring how democratic societies remember, forget, interpret, and negotiate difficult pasts in the digital age.
Through online workshops, collaborative research, and digital storytelling, participants engage with oral testimonies, archival documents, photographs, and local historical narratives.
Together, we investigate how historical knowledge is created, communicated, and debated
in contemporary public life and across digital spaces.
The project asks whose stories become part of public history, whose experiences remain overlooked, and how digital media shape collective memory, historical understanding, and democratic culture.
Explore
the past
Explore
the past
Discover stories through oral testimonies, photographs, maps, archival documents, and local histories.
Question
the narrative
Question
the narrative
Ask who is remembered, who is excluded, and how different versions of the past are created.
Make history
visible
Make history
visible
Turn research and memory into digital stories, maps, exhibitions, and creative public-history content.
Why memory matters?
Why memory matters?
Memory is not simply a record of the past. It is shaped by individuals, communities, institutions, political choices, cultural practices,
and digital platforms.
The stories that societies preserve, and the stories they overlook, affect how people understand identity, responsibility, diversity, and democracy.
Who Owns Memory? creates a space in which participants can critically examine these processes while learning practical methods from public history, oral history, and digital storytelling.
Who can participate?
Who can participate?
The project welcomes university students, educators, young reseachersas, museum, archive, and cultural heritage professionals, members of civil society and community organisations.
Bring your curiosity, your questions, and your perspective.
Join an international community exploring how history is remembered, shared, and shaped in the digital age.
Applications are open until 31 July 2026
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