Costas Papadopoulos Awarded NWO Museum Grant

Together with Ania Molenda from Het Nieuwe Instituut, MACCH affiliated researcher Costas Papadopoulos has been awarded an NWO museum grant of €50,000 for the research project ‘Unfolding the Archive: New Dimensions of Access to Born-digital Architecture Collections’. They will develop new conceptual approaches and prototypes to explore how the National Collection of Dutch Architecture and Urban Planning managed by Het Nieuwe Instituut can use the digital values of its born-digital heritage to make the collection accessible in a dynamic, networked, multimodal and multivocal way.

The awarded research project entitled 'Unfolding the Archive: New Dimensions of Access to the Born-digital Architecture Collections’ will explore how to make the digitally born collection of Nieuwe Instituut more accessible. Ania Molenda is the lead researcher in this project. "This time, I will have the chance to work on developing new conceptual approaches and prototypes for the born-digital collection of Dutch architecture and urban planning. I will explore how to use digital properties of design files within the collection to provide new forms of access and insights into it.”Ania has been developing research addressing technical and cultural aspects of born-digital collections since 2017. The results of her work will be published in 2024. Museum Grant projects are collaborations between museum experts and university researchers. In this project Nieuwe Instituut partners up with Maastricht University. Dr. Costas Papadopoulos, Assistant Professor in Digital Humanities and Culture Studies is the academic partner on this project. Costas is the Principal Investigator of the PURE3D project (funded by PDI-SSH) that is developing a national research infrastructure for the publication and preservation of 3D Scholarship.