‘The Kingdom Remembers’ — a reminiscing blog from the Danish National Hospital
The Danish National Hospital (Da. Rigshospitalet) became world famous outside the clinical research community with Danish instructor Lars von Trier’s creative and celebrated TV/video series The Kingdom (Da. Riget, 1994). Riget was a somewhat creepy but hilarious story that questioned the higher rationality in this Danish bastion of high-tech medical science. The ghosts that reigned in the labyrinthic basement hallways were guardians of reminiscences of the dark sides in the hospital’s history.
Now Lene Galsgaard who coordinates the hospital’s 250 years anniversary activities in 2007 has initiated a “memory blog” called ”Riget husker” (The Kingdom remembers). The aim of the blog — which is aired today, two weeks before the offical opening of the festivities — is to collect a spectrum of reminiscences from present and former staff, partners, and patients about how they experienced the hospital. Hopefully their reminiscences will be less uncanny than those displayed in von Trier’s version.
A great initiative — will be interesting to see how it will work out.
13 Mar 2007 Thomas
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Kære Thomas
Tak for de opmuntrende ord! Men faktisk er det endnu ikke besluttet, OM vi laver den … Rigshospitalets direktion og jubilæumsudvalg kender ikke så meget til blogs, så de er naturligvis usikre på mediet. Men de er heldigvis også modige mennesker, så jeg tillader mig at håbe … I så fald får den premiere i februar 2007!
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Lene
This is interesting. I just discussed with Søren yesterday that I had been thinking of using blogging as an alternative or supplement to witness seminars. A blog can have a wide scope like the one just opened in relation to Riget’s anniversary. It might also have a more narrow scope, eg inviting professionals and patients to share thoughts and experiences – from the quotidian to the curiosities – from a fertility clinic, ultrasound clinic, or any other more specific practice related to ongoing research and collection at Museion.
True, this will be really interesting to follow-up!
Sniff and Søren, it would be good to know more about how you’re conceiving bloglike complements to witness seminars. I believe it is worth to try and implement realistic Internet-based solutions for the creation/collection of sources although it is a bit scary… I will soon be participating in initial discussions for a Wiki-based solution for collecting autobiographies and other narratives in the project of documentation of the Swedish history of computing/ICT that KTH, Tekniska museet and Dataföreningen Sverige run together.
Interested in exhanging ideas and experiences as these projects keep taking shape?
/Isabelle