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The House that Speaks

Year: 2026

Type: article

Abstract: How can digital and analogue methods be combined to produce new, low-threshold forms of mediating architectural heritage? This proof of concept examines the question through a single case: a historic farmhouse from Adelboden, relocated to the Ballenberg open-air museum, configured as a conversational partner for its visitors. A 450-page doctoral thesis on the building constitutes the sole knowledge base for its responses. A persona layer supplies register and narrative stance — playful about the relocation, nostalgic about former inhabitants — while retrieval constrains that voice to the source material. Scholarship that remains largely inaccessible to museum audiences is thereby reframed as a brief, situated exchange with the exhibit itself.

Source: Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.24012708

Authors: Amruthalingam, Ludovic, Grabmaier, Nadine, Kunz, Stefan, Lauper, Boris, Matter, Tobias, Pinto, Riva, Schneider, Christoph, Schnellmann, Christian

Institution: Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts

Language: English

Topic: Museums and Cultural Heritage

Subfield: Museology

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W7225403490

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