Playing conservatively with a radical legacy: Digital heritage and institutional tension at Prospect Cottage

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McGown, K., Cooper, C. and Meades, A. 2025. Playing conservatively with a radical legacy: Digital heritage and institutional tension at Prospect Cottage.
AuthorsMcGown, K., Cooper, C. and Meades, A.
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How do we navigate institutional conservatism and contrasting stakeholder views when creating digital heritage work with a radical cultural context? Our project to create a digital version of Derek Jarman's Prospect Cottage reveals how the adoption of game technologies, and indeed the language of videogames and play, generates discourses that simultaneously complement and challenge heritage interpretation.

KeywordsGames studies; Digital heritage; Derek Jarman; Prospect Cottage
Year2025
ConferenceCAA 2025 Digital Horizons: Embracing Heritage in an Evolving World
Related URLhttps://2025.caaconference.org/
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