On Curating and Meaning-Making: Anthropological Tools and Collective Knowledge Production
This lecture interrogates how curation, technology, and time shape cultural narratives and the collective production of anthropological knowledge.
This lecture explores the interplay of curation, meaning-making, and temporality in the collective production of anthropological knowledge. How do tools—both material and digital—mediate our understanding of time and shape cultural narratives? Exploring ethnographies, archives, digital platforms, and participatory research methods, we interrogate the ethical and epistemological implications of curating knowledge. By bringing together interdisciplinary perspectives and considering collaborative methodologies, this lectureinvites critical reflection on how knowledge is co-produced, negotiated, and transformed through curation, technology, and the temporal dimensions of human experience.
Event language: English with close-captions.
REGISTER HEREFarah Hallaba (she/her) is a social anthropologist and visual ethnographer. In 2019, she started Anthropology Bel3Araby انثروبولوجي بالعربي, aiming to publicize anthropology in an accessible way and in Arabic. Through online videos and collaborative workshops, her work addresses topics around social class and migration to the Gulf.
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It is part of the Unwired Currents—Imagining Technology Otherwise larger collaborative project between the think & do tank Dezentrum and Futuress, along with the transnational collective Dreaming Beyond AI, designer and researcher Franca López Barbera, and Matería Oscura.
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