What forms can the communication of history take in the digital medium? How do interfaces impact access to historical sources on the Web? and how can online environments be designed in order to encourage public involvement in the consumption and production of historical narratives?
OPEN HISTORY explores emerging practices aimed at exploring the World Wide Web as a space for popularising history. It questions the role of communication design in digital history projects by addresing issues concerning historical data access, visualisation, and interactive narration. Through a selection of history websites - ranging from online exhibitions to virtual museum tours, from temporal maps to interactive documentaries - the assay inquiries how design-led, and challlenge conventional public history activities.
Giving a sense to the architectural legacy of the second half of the XX century in today’s cities is one of the most complex urban planning and heritage protection issues.
The year 1961 saw the establishment of the Design department, then called the Department of Artistic Construction of Industrial Products, at the Vilnius Academy of Art. Marking this occasion, one of the 2011 issues of Acta Academiae Artium Vilnensis is dedicated to texts on design, which span both Lithuanian and international contexts.