08-07, 10:30–10:55 (Poland), Tbilisi (7)
Language: English
What came out of the AI Sauna co-creation event in Helsinki in May?
AI Sauna event was hosted in Helsinki 6–7 May by AvoinGLAM. It gathered Open Culture advocates and creators of the open ecosystem to join the Finnish GLAMs, research projects and companies to envision the future of Open Culture in the age of AI. The event set out to bump different actors together for exchanging their thoughts and making concrete outputs based on the ideas.
The two day event consisted of inspire talks and brainstorming at the Finnish National Archives, sauna and sea pool, and a hack day at Maria01.
This presentation surfaces ideas explored in the event and recorded by the participants.
- Löyly is the steam and heat that is formed when sauna bathers throw water on the hot stones of the stove in sauna making the bathers sweat. This old Finno-Ugric word is thought to have originally meant spirit or soul. (Sauna culture in Finland was also the first Intangible Cultural Heritage element inscribed in the UNESCO Lists of Intangible Cultural Heritage
from Finland https://ich.unesco.org/en/RL/sauna-culture-in-finland-01596)
Session recording: https://www.youtube.com/live/kBr9tNEMA0k?feature=shared&t=2824
The participants of the event represented a wide array of actors. Open Culture was represented by Wikimedia developers, GLAM coordinators, representatives of the Wikimedia Foundation (Culture & Heritage, Future Audiences), Open Knowledge, Creative Commons, other organizations such as Open Future and meemoo. Finnish memory institutions such as the National Archives and the National Library and the Finnish Broadcasting Company partnered in creating the event, and participants from research projects and companies around AI joined.
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Susanna is on Open Culture advocate based in Helsinki. She leads the AvoinGLAM working group and works as interim ED of Open Knowledge Finland. She has initiated the development of Wikimaps Warper to georeference old maps, Wikidocumentaries for exploring the cultural commons, Wiki Loves Living Heritage to spark collaborations for documenting living heritage around the world and organized events such as Hack4OpenGLAM and AI Sauna for the contributors of the cultural commons to come together.