A not-for-profit research initiative

Exploring digital possibilities for living cultural practices.

We explore how culture bearers and digital practitioners can work together to safeguard, share, teach, and extend living cultural practices through digital media.

Explore possibilities Our starting point

Practice firstTechnology is not the starting point.

Explore togetherDecisions grow from shared understanding.

Appropriate by designWhat matters shapes what is possible.

Explore together

We do not start with the technology.

We start with the practitioner and their practice. Digital possibilities are considered together, not chosen from a technology menu.

01Understandpractice · priorities

02Explorepossibilities · limits

03Createtogether · carefully

04Reviewadapt · continue

A conversation, not a fixed workflow.

Digital possibilities

What could digital media make possible?

Examples to explore. The right direction depends on the practice and the practitioner.

Document and preserve

Photo · video · audio · 3D capture

Teach and learn

Demonstrations · guides · learning tools

Tell and experience

Stories · web · animation · immersive media

Create and extend

Digital objects · interpretation · fabrication

Support livelihood

Presentation · provenance · licensing

What matters

A digital possibility also needs to be appropriate.

Before choosing technology, ask what is wanted, appropriate, and realistic to continue.

A digital
possibility

PrioritiesOwnershipAppropriate sharingAccessSkillsPrivacyAttributionSustainability

Priorities and control

What does the practitioner want?

Appropriate sharing

Not everything should be public.

Access and sustainability

Can people use it and keep it going?

Contact

Want to learn more?

Contact us to learn more about Studio2Solutions and its research into ethical digital possibilities for living cultural practices.

Reach us at [email protected].