Marije Miedema
marijemiedema.bsky.social
Marije Miedema
@marijemiedema.bsky.social
Visual artist by training, accidental anthropologist by trade. PhD candidate at @unigroningen.bsky.social researching a liveable future for our personal digital past 💾🌱
We ask:
📍Where is our archive?
📍Whose heritage are we preserving?
📍Who cares for it?
Our guiding statements—Take it down, Take it slow, Take it back—connect critical archival studies with ecological justice to imagine an archival ecosystem beyond Big Tech.
📄 link.springer.com/article/10.1...
An ecologically just future for personal digital heritage: three guiding statements - Archival Science
Archival and cultural heritage institutions should take control of our personal digital past in our current global ecological crisis. To develop this argument, this position paper moves beyond the dis...
link.springer.com
April 8, 2025 at 9:23 AM
We develop the concept of personal digital heritage through an ecomaterial lens that attends to where preservation takes place, what informs it, and how it's practiced. This moves beyond disciplinary divides and critiques the archival desire shaped by technological solutionism.
April 8, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Yes! I start with the idea of collective shared accountability from a heritage perspective to look at the personal to go beyond the personal as something inherently individual :)
April 3, 2025 at 9:53 AM