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How do you believe Curationist’s editorial platform makes an impact in the exploration of representation and multicultural contexts within digital archives and cultural curation?
Curationist’s editorial features and collections activate our collected archives of open access cultural heritage. The editorial content provides a range of opportunities for readers to encounter narratives that link together cultural objects across institutions and across cultures, while asking critical questions about the ways that history is constructed, and by whom. In crafting each article, we aim to surface and contextualize cultural heritage in a way that responsibly and respectfully updates and revises the historical record. The editorial features provide a diverse primer to decolonizing and recontextualizing culture held in institutionalized archives.
Our guiding principle is to help people expand and connect worldviews through dynamic conversations that hold open access and shared knowledge as avenues for liberation.
In what ways can the insights from Curationist’s features and collections inspire further dialogue and action within the community, both locally and globally?
Our editorial features and collections act as examples for anyone who wishes to engage in a dialogue about art and cultural heritage that is geared towards expanding worldviews and sharing knowledge openly. It is important to the content team that we address an aspirational audience that is global, multilingual, and arriving at our site with a broad range of expertise—both beginning art enthusiasts and professionals in the GLAM and open access field.
We hope that the editorial features and collections inspire visitors to engage with the Curationist archives through a critical lens, looking at both what is there, and what is missing. I am excited about the Collections that users can create on our site, and the opportunity to share their discoveries with their communities, inspiring more engagement with open access digital culture outside of the walls of the institutions.
How does the editorial process empower our writers?
I have deep appreciation for the benefits of editing! We have an in-depth editorial process that involves two editors, at least, working on every piece we publish. We endeavor this process in collaboration with our content writers, resident critics and fellows with the goal of supporting each writer to bring out their best work. This is a deeply collaborative process that comes from a place of respect and excitement for our mission. We hope that writers feel empowered by this support and critical engagement in each step of their process.
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