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Research Talk by Dr Alda Terracciano

The talk was delivered on 14th May 2025 by Dr Alda Terracciano, as part of the DIS research seminars series. In this brief presentation, Alda will discuss some of her work at UCL Information Studies department, focusing on a participatory research methodology developed over two decades of artistic practice research and archiving. She will focus on results from two projects: Mapping Memory Routes (2016-2017), developed with Moroccan communities living and working in Golborne Road, West London as part of her activities as co-leader of UCL Centre for Critical Heritage Studies; and Sloane Lab (2021-2024), A TaNC project led by Prof Nyhan, which employed computational and digital humanities approaches augmented by participatory co-design to reunite Sir Hans Sloane’s collection records online for the first time. Alda will discuss how the dialogical method employed in these projects advanced knowledge on digital heritage curation and management. Alda Terracciano is Honorary Senior Research Fellow at UCL Department of Information Studies. She received an MA in Art, Design and Visual Culture at Guildhall University (1996) followed by pioneering research on black and Asian British theatre as part of her PhD at Middlesex University (2002). As part of her practice research method, in 2001 she co-founded Future Histories, an independent archive of African, Asian, and Caribbean performing arts in the UK (www.futurehistories.org.uk), exploring the emergence of the archive as a key concept and object of critical heritage studies through exhibitions, live art, and online publications. In addition to being co-leader of UCL Centre for Critical Heritage Studies (2016-2022), she was Visiting Researcher at the University of Gothenburg (2016-2018) and held post-doctoral positions at Queen Mary, University of London (2015-2016), and University of Sussex (2020-2021). Between 2022 and 2024 she was Participatory Co-design consultant at Sloane Lab: Looking Back to Build Shared Collections (www.sloane.org). Her interdisciplinary method is explored in a chapter by Astrid von Rosen in the edited volume “Women Experimenting in Theatre” (2024). Alda is currently working on a paper on participatory research in digital cultural heritage. Further publications are available to view on Research Gate