Wikimania 2024

Remixing Open Culture: Create your own Propaganda Poster
08-09, 15:30–16:10 (Poland), Lviv (21+22+23) (interpretation)
Language: English

Art is often meant to provoke and convince. In this workshop, we will use public domain art to create propaganda posters to share our favorite reasons to go Open in the Cultural Heritage Sector.


Public domain works give us a wealth of content that we can reuse, remix, and create new art and content.

With a supply of Public Domain art, some printed slogans, messages and words related to Open Access, and other crafting supplies we will help you to create your own Open Culture propaganda. During this workshop, we will talk about how to remix and properly credit public domain works, while also allowing you to use your own creativity to promote better sharing of GLAM collections.
You may use some suggested messages or create your own. Some themes you might think about promoting in your propaganda include:
Open Culture…
enriches research, education and learning to solve the world’s biggest problems
enlivens arts, culture and creativity to help us live richer lives
promotes diversity, inclusivity and equity to sustain democratic and resilient societies
propels institutions into the digital world to ensure their continued relevance, mission alignment and service orientation

Together we’ll brainstorm some catch-phrases to promote Open Culture and then use our favorites to create your own mini - poster. If you permit, these posters will be digitized and some shared on CC Social Media and Wiki Commons under the category “Open Culture Remix Posters”.

Session recording: https://youtu.be/y5rg4dIxH0A?list=PLhV3K_DS5YfJ1xyY0LNDNX3RKyRQEXOdB&t=22071


How does your session relate to the event themes: Collaboration of the Open?*

The workshop invites open advocates to join Creative Commons in promoting open culture through art. It is a great opportunity to chat with peers over a crafting project, and engage with remixing open culture as a way to support the promotion of open access to cultural heritage.

What is the experience level needed for the audience for your session?*

Everyone can participate in this session

How do you plan to deliver this session?*

Onsite in Katowice

What other themes or topics does your session fit into? Please choose from the list of tags below.

Collaboration, Storytelling

See also: Remixing Open Culture Slides

Jocelyn manages projects and programs related to the CC Global Community & License Stewardship. Prior to this role, she worked for over a year as CC’s Open Culture Manager.

Before CC, Jocelyn worked at The New York Public Library for over five years, first as a Special Projects Manager in the President’s Office, and later as a Program Manager for their Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Access team. This work helped her cultivate a passion for furthering equitable policies and practices, collaborative project management, and supporting the free exchange of knowledge and culture.

When not she’s not working, Jocelyn can be found in yoga class, reading about history, or dancing at one of her favorite concert venues. Jocelyn is based in Brooklyn, New York.

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