Workshops

The Who Owns Memory? workshop programme brings together an international community of participants to explore how difficult, contested and marginalised histories can be researched, interpreted and communicated responsibly in digital public spaces.

The workshops are designed as a connected learning and production pathway. Participants move from questions of democratic participation and public memory to storytelling, source interpretation, ethics and digital production, gradually developing their own small-scale digital public history projects.

Across the programme, participants explore key questions at the heart of Who Owns Memory?: Who gets to tell history? 

Whose memories become visible? 

How do digital environments shape historical narratives? 

What responsibilities arise when personal and collective memories enter public space? 

And how can digital public history support meaningful democratic participation?

Through interactive workshops, collaborative exercises, case studies and practical experimentation, the programme addresses:

• democratic participation, visibility and representation in digital public history;

• transforming historical research into accessible public narratives;

• digital storytelling and the selection of appropriate formats and tools;

• working critically with archives, photographs, oral testimonies and other historical sources;

• ethical approaches to difficult and traumatic histories;

• questions of consent, copyright, privacy, representation and historical responsibility;

• digital platforms, AI-generated historical content and the challenges they pose for historical knowledge and democratic culture.

The programme combines closed workshops for the selected international cohort with open sessions accessible to wider audiences, creating opportunities for exchange between researchers, educators, heritage professionals, students, civil society and members of the public.

Each workshop contributes to the development of participants’ final projects. Selected stories will become part of the Who Owns Memory? digital exhibition, bringing together different histories, places, sources and perspectives within a shared space for public engagement with the past.

Explore the workshops to learn more about each session, its facilitator and its focus.