GLAMhack24 – Jubiläumsausgabe

This Year’s Theme: “On the Move”

Throughout history, people have left their homes for a variety of reasons and have found themselves in faraway places. This has led to encounters with foreign lands, their inhabitants, their customs, their flora and fauna. Cultural heritage collections are full of artifacts resulting from and bearing witness to those people “on the move”: archival records, travel reports, audiovisual documents, object collections, oral histories etc. These artifacts weave an invisible web between people and places, between events and stories being told about them, between heritage collections and scholars, and between the people of every generation making sense of them – through artistic creation, through the (de-)construction of collective memories, or by exploiting them in the pursuit of political or economic interests.

The thematic focus is intended as a source of inspiration; hackathon participants are free to work on other topics related to cultural heritage.

On Thursday before the hackathon, from 15:15 to 17:15 at Neubad, there's a workshop by DARIAH-CH to plan a new working group for cooperation in heritage, culture, public administration, and digital humanities. Following the workshop, there will be dinner at Neubad from 18:00 to 19:30 at participants' own expense. In the evening, the Open GLAM Night starts at 19:30, featuring contributions from Mexican artists, a performance by Afro-Cuban artist Ivonne Gonzalez, and a showcase of notable Lucerne locals. The event will be live-streamed to a cinema at the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla in Mexico. It is open to the public, free of charge, with consumption at Neubad at participants' own expense. No registration is required for the public event.