Nunalleq Educational Resource
- Submitting institution
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University of Dundee
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 42233856
- Type
- T - Other
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- Brief description of type
- University of Dundee
- Open access status
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- Month
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- Year
- 2020
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- Yes
- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- Nunalleq: Stories from the Village of our Ancestors
is an interactive educational resource for children
aged 7-15. It tells the story of the archaeological
excavations of a pre-contact Yup’ik sod house
in Quinhagak, Alaska. The digital resource was
co-designed by the local community in Quinhagak
with archaeologists from the Universities of
Aberdeen (UoAb) and Dundee (UoD).
Watterson led evaluation community sessions,
devised and designed the user interfaces and
artwork components of the resource, also directing
and filming short films about the project’s
methodologies.
The project creatively unites science and history with
traditional Yup’ik ways of knowing and contemporary
oral storytelling. Where interpretive outreach material
traditionally adopts the lone voice of the specialist,
this project makes a practice-based methodological
contribution to the fields of indigenous and
community archaeology through a multi-vocal
approach to science communication.
This research led design process enhanced
engagement and participation in the design of the
resource, Watterson’s underpinning research, curation
and production of the project beginning to negotiate
a space that historically has been solely occupied by
colonisers and academics.
The resource was distributed to 29 schools in the
Yukon-Kuskokwim School District in the Yup’ik
region of Alaska, where it is directly being integrated
into the curriculum, in addition to 15 schools and
5 museums and culture centres across the wider
state. It is available free for anyone to download
at www.seriousanimation.com/Nunalleq.
The resource was presented at the Museums Alaska
conference (September 2019), has two peer-reviewed
publications and has been covered in both UK and
USA press. The work was funded by two AHRC grants
(totalling £5.5K to UoAb), a UoAb IKEC Award (£10K)
and a UoD internal award (£3.5K).
The project is awarded the Archaeological Institute of
America: 2021 Award for Outstanding Work in Digital
Archaeology.
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- Non-English
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