illuminations : Exploring Community Engagement with Intangible Heritage Through Multiple Making

Interactive media and technology has the potential to make intangible, hidden, and ‘lost’ aspects of heritage sites engaging and present for visitors. The design of such media and technology should also consider communities as producers of their heritage sites, yet communities may be unfamiliar with the creative and technological possibilities. We describe ongoing creative work with a community group seeking to increase cultural and social use of the medieval Church of St Andrew, and the artworks that enabled us to collectively explore how interactive media and technology could bring the site’s heritage to life. We discuss the value of this multiple making as a productive means for exploring situated and embodied experiences of intangible cultural heritage.