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Poster Short Abstract

The project aims to democratise knowledge production. With the poster we seek input on how to turn knowledge from the periphery into research questions, connect them with researchers, and foster fruitful collaborations.

Poster Abstract

With the project “’Spychere!’ – Knowledge from here from yesterday until tomorrow’, the Chüechlihus Regional Museum in Langnau (Switzerland) and Schweiz forscht as project partners aim to democratise the production of museum knowledge and investigate how existing museum knowledge can be expanded in a participatory manner. Langnau lies in the Emmental, a rural area on the periphery of Switzerland’s capital Bern. The project is in its early stages, and we want to gather opinions and experiences from the citizen science community using an interactive poster. Around ten people from the region will collaborate as co-researchers, representing different areas of knowledge – historical and contemporary, local and global, cultural and nature-related. Objects from the museum's collection, selected not only by specialists, serve as the starting point. They serve as inspiration for the public to share their knowledge, which will be gathered and analysed by the co-researchers. By valuing local knowledge in this way, we are also adopting a UNESCO Open Science recommendation. In order to make this knowledge, generated in the periphery, relevant for research, we are looking for inputs on how to develop research questions out of it, how to bring these to researchers and how to create fruitful collaboration out of them.