Playing Games with Tito:Designing Hybrid Museum Experiences for Critical Play

This article brings together two distinct, but related perspectives on playful museum experiences: Critical play and hybrid design. The article explores the challenges involved in combining these two perspectives, through the design of two hybrid museum experiences that aimed to facilitate critical play with/in the collections of the Museum of Yugoslavia and the highly contested heritage they represent. Based on reflections from the design process as well as feedback from test users, we describe a series of challenges: Challenging the norms of visitor behaviour, challenging the role of the artefact, and challenging the curatorial authority. In conclusion, we outline some possible design strategies to address these challenges

Cultural Heritage: Opportunities and Conundrums

In this issue, Professor Helaine Silverman critically examines UNESCO and World Heritage Sites. She argues that a permanent Working Group on World Heritage Sites, and a series of workshops and symposia involving scholars and heritage practitioners (from developed and developing countries, and including representatives from public as well as private heritage organizations) would be extremely beneficial to begin a long-term assessment, discussion, and reformulation of cultural heritage policy globally.Title VI National Resource Center Grant (P015A060066)International Programs and Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaignpublished or submitted for publicationnot peer reviewe

Monumentos y monumentalidad

Helaine Silverman muestra en este artículo las complejas implicancias que tiene para la perspectiva arqueológica las relaciones entre las construcciones monumentales y la organización político-social. Tal temática la desarrolla para el caso de la cultura Nasca y en especial, el sitio monumental de Cahuachi