Librarium

Economies of the Commons (eCommons) believe that technology brings fundamental change to the way cultural heritage institutes work and the expectations their audiences have of them. Institutes are no longer the exclusive ‘holders and curators of culture’ while their audiences have become accustomed to their active roles as co-producers of culture––they want to create, curate and co-produce cultural artefacts. Through Economies of the Commons 3: Sustainable Futures for Digital Archives we encourage re-thinking and re-imagining and create a platform to discuss the challenges and future of archives.

For Heather, the metalogue seemed to provide a way to think through how knowledge is structured, as ‘the creation and interaction of ideas must necessarily exemplify evolutionary process’ (Bateson 1972, 21)