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Eric Ketelaar<br />

Archives into the future<br />

Abstracts<br />

«The future has already always begun; it is the<br />

present. The past is what we are because we are<br />

what we have been. More exactly, we are what<br />

we remember we were.» (Francis Ferrarotti). By<br />

cultivating archives through successive activations<br />

people and communities <strong>de</strong>fine i<strong>de</strong>ntities.<br />

In these activations the meanings of archives are<br />

constructed and reconstructed. This meaning<br />

making can be beneficial or injurious, turning<br />

records into instruments of liberation or of oppression.<br />

Archives are thus not a static artefact<br />

imbued with the record creator’s voice only, but<br />

a dynamic process involving an infinite number<br />

of stakehol<strong>de</strong>rs in time-space. That is why<br />

archives are never closed, but always open into<br />

the future. Digital archives will always be in a<br />

state of becoming, being created and recreated<br />

by technologies of migration and reconstruction,<br />

and by the use of social media applications. The<br />

future of that archival heritage (whose heritage?)<br />

has already begun.<br />

Keywords: archives, memory, meaning<br />

making, i<strong>de</strong>ntities, social media<br />

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