Daily challenge with Finna
Daily challenge with Finna
Description: Challenges in social media have been popular for a while. From crafting to arts and even to sports there is vast amount of different 30-day challenges, and some have already become a tradition. These social challenges make it easy to practice and learn something new every day.
How could Finna’s materials be used to challenge different groups of people to learn something new every day? How could for example photographs prompt to write, or old art sketches encourage to complete the drawing? Or maybe the challenge could be related to history: make people use their detective skills to learn the history behind old objects. The challenges could be also related to natural science, music or old advertisements.
Materials: Finna.fi / Finna API
Let’s Bring Old Pori (or Vyborg) Back to Life!
Let’s Bring Old Pori (or Vyborg) Back to Life!
Contact: Tomi Ahoranta (tomi.ahoranta@arkisto.fi)
Description: What did homes in old Pori and Vyborg look like? What has changed and what is still there today? How did people live in different neighbourhoods and social classes?
Materials: We have lots of material (maps and technical drawings) regarding both cities (see Buildings in Pori/Vyborg and Old Maps of Pori/Vyborg in datasets). You can also find a lot of additional material on both cities in Finna (such as old photographs from Pori by Satakunta Museum).
Track: Home
Ideas, suggestions for hacking: Combine maps with photos and technical drawings and recreate a neighbourhood or building in Pori or Vyborg. Collaboration with other challenges is also an option.
Future smart homes by Yle
Future smart homes by Yle
What does the Finnish home anno 2050 look like? Can you decorate your smartwalls with exhibitions from all museums in the world? Can you start a virtual game where you save Akseli Gallén-Kallela’s Aino from Väinämöinen? Can you sit down on your sofa and discuss the news with your personal holographic reporter?
We are looking for the media experiences of the future. Ideas about how the media can create direct interaction with our collective cultural heritage. And how we can create social interaction and meaningful encounters from the comfort of our homes. Take your thoughts about the future and combine them with open digital materials available on hackathon to make a wild guess about what the future culture products look like.
Ideas, suggestions for hacking: Suggest ways in which the challenge could be approached.
Place, time and change – Rephotography
Place, time and change – Rephotography
Contact: Sandra Lindblom sandra.lindblom [a]wikimedia.fi, Kimmo Virtanen kimmo.virtanen[a]wikimedia.fi
Description: Rephotography is about photographing a site, often from the same angle, that can be seen in an older photograph. The act of repeating a photograph creates a pair of images, which visualize the passing time. The Helsinki Rephotography project encourages people to experience the city and its history through old photographs.
The project has been going on since 2018 resulting in hundreds of rephotographs. What ways are there to use these “then and now” images? What inspiring, fascinating and captivating ways are there to depict the passing of time by the means of rephotography?
We are looking for examples of how to use rephotographs in an exciting way. To get you acquainted with the act of rephotography we invite you to experience and rephotograph old photographs of the Helsinki Ateneum building at the actual spots where they were taken. The photographs bear witness of art education, exhibitions and architectural changes.
Materials: Rephotographs from Helsinki, Rephotographs from the Wiki Loves Monuments competition 2019 (rephotographs from Finland), Photographs of Ateneum to rephotograph
Ideas, suggestions for hacking: The Ajapaik app for Android phones helps you to find the spot where the old photo once was taken. Download the app here and watch this video to learn how it works! Note that there are some restrictions on photographing inside the Ateneum due to copyrights of artworks.