ABSTRACT

Increasingly, critical design methods offer heritage scholars new ways of exploring identities, experiences and relationships, extending a dialogic approach that supports the testing and realisation of heritage futures. This paper focuses upon a two-year national project that aimed to bring together curators, heritage professionals and Deaf communities to consider Deaf heritage as future-making.

Throughout four collaborative workshops, participants co-designed model museums, designed BSL infrastructures, formulated Deaf heritage professions and prototyped BSL souvenirs. By materialising heritage processes and ‘public things’ participants re-purposed their symbolic power to articulate prevailing inequalities and possible Deaf futures. We discuss the ways in which these playful future-making objects revealed hidden, oppressed, and contradictory heritage relations. We argue that a critical design approach to working with BSL users facilitated the disruption of conventional categories of heritage, Deafness and culture.

摘要

关键设计方法越来越多地为遗产学者提供了探索身份，经验和关系的新方法，并扩展了一种对话方法，以支持遗产期货的测试和实现。本文着重于一个为期两年的国家项目，该项目旨在将策展人，遗产专业人员和聋人社区聚集在一起，将聋人的遗产视为未来的创造。

在四个协作研讨会中，参与者共同设计了模型博物馆，设计了BSL基础设施，制定了聋人遗产专业，并制作了BSL纪念品原型。通过具体化遗产程序和“公共事物”，参与者重新利用了他们的象征能力，以表达普遍存在的不平等和可能的聋人未来。我们讨论了这些有趣的未来创造对象揭示隐藏，受压和矛盾的遗产关系的方式。我们认为，与BSL用户合作的关键设计方法促进了对传统类别的遗产，耳聋和文化的破坏。