Last winter the OpenHeritage partners came together to collaborative write a manifesto that captured the motivations, organizational ethics, and values that move the project forward. Using the title of the project OpenHeritage: Organizing, Promoting and Enabling HEritage Reuse through Inclusion, Technology, Access, Governance and Empowerment partners together defined each term bringing together their individual contexts and values and bridging them with the wider project. Throughout the collabor…

Check out what's been happening over at Prädikow! We chatted within them to get an overview of where the project's been and where it's going:Over the past two years, Prädikow, a lab near Berlin within the OpenHeritage project has had the inspired objective of creating housing through heritage reuse. Prädikow, an bucolic village 40 minutes from Berlin has been home to an old estate where there was once a distillery, smithy, barns, stables, and space for agricultural production. The project was sp…

All partners have done it! They completed the survey: How Participatory Can You Get? With their answers the work to improve and strive towards a more efficient collaboration continues. Out of 16 OH partners involved in this project, 15 partners took part in this survey. The total number of individual participants who answered questions is 30. It was great to see our partners so engaged! Keep it up!1.Question: Describe what in your opinion is a participatory platform, what are its main funct…

FunctionalityInterested in researching an important topic? The OH Participatory Platform has several tools that you can opt for and this way facilitate decision making on important issues. Survey is just one of few participatory tools which is easy to create and easy to complete.Why opt for it?“Surveys are expensive, time-consuming and they lead to nothing.” Sounds familiar? Following are only few advantages of online surveys and reasons why it is such an important research tool.Lower Cost…