Oulu Löyly/Program
Program
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Talks
[edit]Heritage at Risk
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Mikael Hiltunen
Mikael works as a Programme Manager at Hanaholmen - Swedish-Finnish Cultural Centre. He is in charge of Hanaholmen Heritage - a Nordic-Baltic programme for cultural heritage preparedness funded by the Nordic Council of Ministers.
Hosted by
Culture as a Public Good
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Brigitte Vézina
Brigitte is Creative Commons' Director of Policy and Open Culture. She leads the Open Heritage Coalition for more equitable access to public domain heritage in the digital environment.
Matti Hakamäki
Matti is the Director of the Finnish Folk Music Institute, Chairperson of the Executive Board of the ICH NGO Forum, and a UNESCO-trained facilitator for the 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage. He has initiated the Culture 2030 Goal Campaign Finland and has been actively involved in the international Culture 2030 Goal campaign.
Hosted by
Sanna Marttila
Panel discussion
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Connor Benedict
Connor is a cultural producer with a background in visual arts, design, and cultural heritage. He has been active in the open movement since 2019 through Creative Commons and Wikimedia projects. Currently he supports the GLAM Wiki Community via the Content Partnerships Hub as a Community Coordinator.
Open Culture Fair
[edit]8 June 2026, Central Library Saari, Finland
Share your superpower or talk about your project with peers and the public. It is an opportunity to advocate for policies and practices, showcase projects and programs, and run mini workshops introducing your work.
There are 20 tables to occupy. Each can seat 4 people. You can also combine several tables if they are available. You can also host sessions of any suitable length from 30 minutes to the whole day. Read more about Laituri equipment.
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Table 9: Demo table
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Niemi Room
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Jouni Tuominen
ECHOLOT and ECHOES projects
ECHOLOT and ECHOES projects
Jouni Tuominen
ECHOLOT and ECHOES projects
Project
ECHOLOT will develop a next-generation, interoperable system for collaborative cultural heritage data curation, enrichment and reuse, validated through real-world case studies. ECHOES is developing the core of the Cultural Heritage Cloud (ECCCH), a shared platform designed to provide heritage professionals and researchers with access to data, scientific resources, training, and advanced digital tools tailored to suit their needs. Come to hear more and discuss the projects!
Hanna Sipos
What makes AI Art valuable? And what takes away from it?
What makes AI Art valuable? And what takes away from it?
Hanna Sipos
What makes AI Art valuable? And what takes away from it?
Workshop
The workshop is about the valuation of AI art as a collaborative discourse. Using a list of 40 identified characteristics that can make an AI assisted artwork considered valuable, participants can vote on them, arrange them in importance, add to or take away from them. No prior skills are needed, just an open mind and a will to contribute constructively to a developing discourse!
Johan Kylander
Kansalliset pitkäaikaissäilytyspalvelut
Kansalliset pitkäaikaissäilytyspalvelut
Johan Kylander
Kansalliset pitkäaikaissäilytyspalvelut
Organization
Pitkäaikaissäilytys tarkoittaa digitaalisen informaation luotettavaa säilyttämistä eheinä, autenttisina ja käyttökelpoisina vuosikymmenien tai jopa satojen vuosien ajan. Pitkäaikaissäilytyspalveluita (PAS-palveluita) tarjotaan ensisijaisesti opetus- ja kulttuuriministeriön hallinnonalalla toimiville, henkisen ja aineellisen kulttuuriperinnön säilyttämisestä vastaaville organisaatiolle sekä tutkimusaineistojen säilyttämiseksi korkeakouluille ja muille tutkimusorganisaatioille.
Lù Chén
"Something that Connects People": Pluralising the Nokia Design Archive through Social Remembering
"Something that Connects People": Pluralising the Nokia Design Archive through Social Remembering
Lù Chén
"Something that Connects People": Pluralising the Nokia Design Archive through Social Remembering
Project
This workshop will present my MA thesis work (New Media), exploring the opportunities and tensions in trans-mediating a nostalgia-charged audiovisual archive to reach a wider public beyond academia. It is open to everyone, and no specific skills are required for participation.
From 2023 to 2025, I worked at the Nokia Design Archive project at Aalto University to visualise the relations among records, curated collections, and designers' working stories. Created as a design research project, the team purposefully focused on stories of design work beyond phones and the "legend" or "fall" of Nokia. However, as an archive containing "nostalgia"-charged objects, popular media tended to portray the archive around the remembrance of the company (and phones).
In this thesis, I interviewed 6 "social rememberers" across different generations and cultures. I designed a set of object-elicitation interview probes, "Souvenirs from Your Memories", and invited the rememberers to explore the connections between their stories and the archival records.
Daniel Antal
Dataspace
Dataspace
Daniel Antal
Dataspace
Project
Discover how dispersed cultural heritage can be reconnected through knowledge graphs, semantic browsers, and virtual exhibitions. The Finno-Ugric Data Sharing Space showcases examples from Livonian, Seto, Mari, and Udmurt heritage and demonstrates practical solutions for multilingual metadata, rights management, copyright clearance, and GDPR-compliant data governance (example: Soviet censored Liv folk songs from archive to Spotify, Wikibase, and Wikidata). Learn how cultural collections from multiple countries (such as our Udmurt or Mari collections) can be prepared for research, education, Wikimedia projects, decolonisation, endangered language preservation, Europeana, and even wider public dissemination through platforms such as YouTube and Spotify. Suitable for GLAM professionals, Wikimedians, researchers, students, and community curators. No prior technical knowledge is required.
Vertti Luostarinen
Open Data and AI in The Layers in The Peace Machine
Open Data and AI in The Layers in The Peace Machine
Vertti Luostarinen
Open Data and AI in The Layers in The Peace Machine
Project
Layers in The Peace Machine is an immersive installation based on the book "Peace Machine" by the late AI researcher Timo Honkela. It is exhibited in Oulu City Hall during the cultural capital year 2026. Visitors can participate in the work by contributing their own peace-related memories online: https://peacemachine.eu/. The memories are processed by several AI models, and influence the sights and sounds experienced by the visitors of the installation.
In Oulu Löyly, we will present the data we have collected and the AI models we trained for the artwork. We also wish to discuss the unique challenges and questions we faced when building a fully open-source, local architecture for the installation. Because we wanted to ensure participation in the Finnish, English, Swedish and North Sámi langugages, we had to develop a lot of technology ourselves.
Jouni Tuominen
ECHOLOT project presentation
ECHOLOT project presentation
Jouni Tuominen
ECHOLOT project presentation
Project
ECHOLOT will develop a next-generation, interoperable system for collaborative cultural heritage data curation, enrichment and reuse, validated through real-world case studies.
Connor Benedict
Content Partnerships Hub
Content Partnerships Hub
Connor Benedict
Content Partnerships Hub
Organization
The Wikimedia Content Partnerships Hub is a consortium of Wikimedia Affiliates that support other affiliates and members of the wikimedia movement and wider community with any stage of content partnerships with cultural heritage organisations and collections holders. In 2025-26 the hub has received funding from the Wikimedia Foundation for a Pilot phase project to implement services that support these efforts including a help desk for direct and tailored support, capacity building activities related to process and setting up Wikimedian in Residence, and making existing resources and information more accessible and useful to the community. In this activity I will present some developments in each of these areas and offer 1) matchmaking as needed for content partners and the wikimedia movement partners, 2) demo and testing of Metabase and MEOW tools, and 3) brainstorming about soft skills capacity building methods for Wikimedian in Residence programs. Come join me!
Matti Hakamäki
Kulttuuritavoite 2030 – tarpeesta todellisuudeksi: SDG 18:n mahdollisuudet ja käyttö kentällä
Kulttuuritavoite 2030 – tarpeesta todellisuudeksi: SDG 18:n mahdollisuudet ja käyttö kentällä
Matti Hakamäki
Kulttuuritavoite 2030 – tarpeesta todellisuudeksi: SDG 18:n mahdollisuudet ja käyttö kentällä
Workshop
Työpaja, 60 min — Matti Hakamäki, johtaja, Kansanmusiikki-instituutti
Työpajassa tutustutaan Culture 2030 Goal -kampanjaan ja testataan käytännössä, miten Mondiacult 2025 -konferenssissa julkaistua kulttuurin SDG-tavoitetta voi hyödyntää jo nyt — omassa organisaatiossa, kunnassa tai yhteisössä.
Kulttuurille haetaan omaa kestävän kehityksen tavoitetta vuoden 2030 jälkeiseen kestävyyskehykseen. Poliittinen tilanne on haastava — mutta ehkä juuri siksi kulttuurin rakenteellinen sisällyttäminen kestävään kehitykseen on entistä kiireellisempää. Kulttuuritavoite sisältää 10 alatavoitetta sekä indikaattorit ja tietolähteet, jotka tarjoavat konkreettisen kehyksen kulttuuritoimijoille.
Työpajassa ei jäädä teorian tasolle: osallistujat etsivät yhdessä vinkkejä ja käytännön ymmärrystä siitä, miten tavoitetta voi soveltaa omaan työhön. Samalla kentän ääntä ja kokemuksia kerätään vietäväksi takaisin kansainvälisen kampanjan toimijoille — jotta kulttuurikentän ääni kuuluisi myös globaaleilla areenoilla.
Andrew Paterson
Open Latitudes network meeting
Open Latitudes network meeting
Andrew Paterson
Open Latitudes network meeting
Workshop
Open Latitudes: Science, heritage, and future arts in relation to the Nordic Solstice
Network for knowledge & experience exchange with trans-disciplinary focus on solar-human relations. Science, heritage & speculative fiction all combine to offer perspective on our most endearing, consistent planetary influence: The sun & it's role in our sustainable futures.
This is the 1st in-person meeting of the network.
We will use the occasion to identify different motivations and resources related to open solar-related culture, heritage and scientific knowledge.
If this interests you, welcome to join us!
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The network in 2026-2027 gathers in Oulu Löyly (June 2026) and Liepāja (December 2026), connecting European Capitals of Culture in the Nordic region, online & in presence, to offer guidance in future-orientations for Liepāja & South Kurzeme in 2027 & beyond.
Confirmed network partners: Foundation Liepaja 2027, Liepāja, Latvia; Pikene på brøn, Kirkenes, Norway; Imagining Godzilla (MEET Factory oy), Espoo, Finland. Associated partners: AvoinGLAM, Helsinki, Finland; Makery, Paris, France; ZIIC, The Science and Education Innovation Center, Latvia; Kerolaina Bula, handicraft knitter, Jelgava, Latvia; Piret Päär, storyteller, Viljandi, Estonia.
Jan Ainali
Demo of CommonsDB
Demo of CommonsDB
Jan Ainali
Demo of CommonsDB
Demo
This will be a continuous demo of what CommonsDB already can do and an opportunity to ask questions about how it can be used for your organization. Suited for people or institutions with archives containing media in the public domain. No prior skills needed.
Think & do
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Tuesday
- Making groups – The participants already know a lot about each other based on the previous day's program. With a little more push the likeminded ones will form groups to work on a joint mission.
- Drafting – Before lunch the planning will be in full thrust!
- Group work – And after lunch everyone will be fully focused on their work! There are many other spaces around the library where it is possible to work, as well as outside.
- Check-in – We return to the Laituri space for the situation check-in.
- Nightless night shift – Light snacks, hanging together, exchanging ideas.
Wednesday
- Finalizing group work – There will be a little time to finalize and prepare the presentations
- Presentations – The results are presented in the Laituri space, and the session is streamed. No pressure!
- Discussion – After the presentations we will wrap up the work and envision next steps.
Pre-events
[edit]There will be a Nordic get-together on the evening of Sunday 7 June, bridging Oulu Löyly with the Wikimedia Northern Europe Meeting 2026