ColorColab as a project was inspired by a set of guiding questions about the larger world of technology, art, and cultural heritage institutions in the preservation, re-appropriation and utilization of cultural heritage objects.
What does the re-appropriation of cultural heritage (CH) mean?
Whose property is in in the first place?
Who gets to be considered as a rightful owner?
What does it mean for traditions (like sculptural polychromy) to be re-invented and re-discovered by each new generation?
How can we combine cognitive, sensorial, artistic and historical aspects into new technologies to re-appropriate CH?
To engage visitors in emotive discoveries and interpretations?
How do you delineate and design for co-authorship and not just consumption of CH?
How do you inspire users to care?
What is the role of technology in the museum of the future?
How can technology increase (and not decrease) tangibility of objects and ideas?
How does users’ knowledge of day-to-day tech (ex., smartphones) offer an opportunity to tap into the power of focus?