Do you want to help keep important knowledge accessible and reliable for everyone?Join our Wiki edit-a-thon! MU and the Network Archives Design and Digital Culture are teaming up to ensure that knowledge remains open, trustworthy, and completely free from corporate influence.
During the afternoon, we’ll work together on Wikipedia and Wikidata entries highlighting artists and designers from the MU ArcHive, as well as key figures in Dutch digital culture and art. In doing so, we’ll make knowledge accessible to all, preserve cultural heritage, and ensure that unique stories can be discovered worldwide.
Whether you’re an experienced Wikipedian or you’ve never clicked that edit button before, you’re welcome to join. Bring your writing skills, cultural knowledge, or data expertise, and connect with fellow editors, archivists, researchers, free knowledge activists, and art lovers. Along the way, you’ll pick up handy tips from experts and maybe even discover a new passion for opening up knowledge.
In the evening, the program dives deeper into the idea of archives. Because almost every museum has one: sometimes tucked away in dusty boxes in a storage room, sometimes stored digitally in the Cloud. But what do you actually do with an archive? How can you make it interactive for the public? And is it possible to make an archive truly come alive?
To explore these questions, we’ve invited Cream on Chrome. They know better than anyone how to transform an archive into an interactive experience. For MU, they developed the MU Hybrid ArcHive: a living archive where you can rediscover everything that has happened in and around MU over the years. You can wander through it freely, or follow suggested routes or “tracks.”
And if anyone knows how to make an archive burst out of its seams almost beyond recognition, it’s Arthur Roeloffzen and Alice Wong. They created the MU Magic Mirror, a playful extension of our living archive. It generates a new kind of mirror image of yourself, built entirely from MU’s own archival material.
Want to join?The day program is limited to 10 participants. Bring your own laptop and dive in with us! At the end of the afternoon, we’ll serve soup and a small bite. Participation costs €7.50, including food.
The evening program is free and open to everyone.
Program14:30 | Walk-in15:00 | Introduction15:45 | Start edit-a-thon18:00 | Soup and a bite20:00 | Evening program starts
