Imagining Futures Projects

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The Legacy of Permanent Temporariness
The Ndanda Abbey archive today, built around 1999
Ndanda Archive Project
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Nursing Nostalgia: Archival traces and the social lives of Zimbabweans in Britain
Fragile Map of Hope by Dubián Monsalve. Exhibition Three views of confinement, CDCM, 2020.
Archivo Vivo [Living archive]: weaving gender (hi)stories of urban reclamation in Moravia
Connecting UK museum collection items with home and diasporic communities through virtual visits and art practices. Handling visit to Pitt Rivers Museum, ©PoL Project Team
Prisoners of Love: Affect, containment and alternative futures
Traditional Luo Homestead, Kisumu Museum Kenya ©George Juma Ondeng 2022
Archiving performances, dances and oral traditions of Luo community
An INGEMMET scientist in front of the stratigraphic section that the project will immortalize. ©J. Morin/ ERC Imagine
Archiving 30,000 years of eruptive history to raise volcanic risk awareness in Arequipa, Peru
History Closer to the People
History Closer to the Ngoni People
©Manu Luksch
Archiving Resistance: Artefacts of Transnational Occupation
Photographic exhibit by Prisciliano Diego, Pamatácuaro, Los Reyes, Michoacán, México. April 2017 ©Gabriela Zamorano
Restoring territory and memory: displays of visual archives in Michoacán
Herbarium cabinets with doors opened showing the stored specimens [Left] and well-mounted specimen on acidic mounting sheet [Right] Copyright © Mweka College
Digitization of Herbarium Collections from the College of African Wildlife Management to Enhance Learning and Research
Photographs including a letter showing personal information from BIAA archive. ©BIAA_PH15368
Connecting Archives, Connecting People
Living Biocultural Archives: “Collective Archivism” Ingredients of Santo Domingo ©Daniela Sclavo
Living Biocultural Archives: “Collective Archivism”
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Seeing Berlin Anew
Woman sharing the medical recipe book she wrote of effective remedies and the people she has cured. © Olin Moctezuma-Burns
Living and archiving Sotuta’s foodways
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Reviving the Nubian language
Analogue Video Digitization 2
Ghana’s Analogue Video Film Digitization, Archiving and Repository Project.
6.Local women working in rice fields on Lateritic plateau at Sogamwadi, Devache Gothane PC Neha Rane & Saili K Palande Datar
Creative Archiving of Socio-ecological and Socio-cultural knowledge & practices of Lateritic Landscapes of Central Konkan (Bio-cultural documentation of Konkan Sadas)
A makeshift roadblock functions as a cordon sanitaire during the fourth wave of COVID-19 in district 5, Ho Chi Minh City. Cordons sanitaires isolate spaces rather than bodies associated with infection for as long as the social body inside is deemed infectious (Bashford 2004). ©Minh Triet Lam
Archiving COVID-19 Heritage in Ho Chi Minh City
El Calvario, one of Mitla’s heritage sites with ‘muchas historias’ (many histories) Hilary Morgan V. Leathem © 2018
Este Lugar Tiene Muchas Historias / Lajtre Yuduxh Rextiixni
Jen Crawford and Paul Collis at the overflow of the Barka / Darling River, North Bourke, September 15, 2022 ©Paul Magee
We Come from the Past: Orality, Indigeneity and the Flow of Culture
Accounts book 1615-1770, Chipao Parish, Sondondo Valley, Ayacucho, Peru. ©French Institute of Andean Studies (IFEA)
Producing a manageable historical archive for Andean communities
Visualization of the past, present, and current events/crisis in Lebanon: the never-ending, corrupted, violent, and self-destructive history magnified by the Beirut Port explosion on August 4th 2021. Events/crisis are linked to characters representing a life path of lived experience.
Lebanese Yawmiyat (diaries): Archiving unfinished stories of spatial violence
Salvaging Remnants of Ghana's Osofa Dadzie Television Drama Series © Rebecca Ohene-Asah 2021
Salvaging Remnants of Ghana’s Osofo Dadzie Television Drama Series
Mikindani Town & Focus Group Discussion with a women's group in Mikindani
Multivocality and Egalitarian Representation of Slavery Heritage in Mikindani and Pangani Towns in Tanzania
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In Search of LA
Discussing with community elders in Tanga Region
Tanzanian Dressing Traditions: Documentation and Digitization of disappearing legacies and emerging patterns
A mural in Tahrir Square in Baghdad depicting two Assyrian lamassus protecting the ‘Turkish Restaurant’ building that had been taken over by protests in 2019. Ammar al Jazaeri (Photographer)
Iraqi Protest Art and Alternative Visions of the Past
From left to right: Assistant PI (Valence Silayo), PI (Nicholaus Kavishe) and participants from MMEKU Arts Group (Peter Mushi and Zuhura Ali) during a recent group discussion in Rombo district
Chagga Traditional Songs as Archives of African Traditional Knowledge
Focus group discussion on the Sanga ya nzelu dam after the disappearance of a mythical snake at kimagai village Mpwapwa Dodoma. Source: Field data 2021
The Role of Tanzanian Myths in Conservation of Natural Resources
Aerial view of Fort Patiko showing the architectural structures that included the grain and ammunition stores
The un-archived horrors of slavery at Fort Patiko: Rethinking the historical narratives of slavery and slave trade in post-conflict northern Uganda
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Archiving the endangered traditional herbal medicinal knowledge and practices among multi-ethnic groups in Songea district, southern Tanzania
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Traditional storytelling as an archive under threat
Maji Maji War zone in Tanzania
Mental Map: A way to access information from the Maji Maji war victims in southern Tanzania
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Tracing Nubian Archives through time in Kenya & in the U.K.
Ilgın Deniz Can (middle) & Barış Uğurman (left) working on specimens cleaning and mounting. Cleaned specimen before & after (top right) Copyright © British Institute at Ankara
Digitalising Turkey’s Botanical Heritage
Food, Hospitality, and the Micro-cultures of Syria-5
Food, Hospitality, and the Micro-cultures of Syria
This 2014 image of Palestinians queueing for food pushed Yarmouk to the centre of global attention- Credits_ UNRWA
Yarmouk Camp: A Story Unfolded
Pupils at Kalenga during a talk on Kalenga site
Embracing the past: Professionals and Indigenous People Dialogue on Historical Sites in Southern Tanzania
© Kodzo Gavua
Vernacular Songs as Archives and Modes of Social Redress in Jamestown, Accra
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The Righteous Revolutionary
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Survival and Legacy of Trans-generational Memories of Colonialism In Mgao, Mtwara-Tanzania
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Futures Through Underwater Pasts: the Search for Mongalo
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Personal Practices of Archiving ‘Time’: a Case Study in Lebanon
workshop participants enjoying a light moment during breakup session
Network Training Workshop; Tumaini University Dar es Salaam College, Tanzania