Every day, more people and organizations come to understand the importance of cultural heritage. By reconstructing a piece of nearby history, Expeditions allows you to relive the past through the minds of the people who made it happen. Where traditional historical research gives you only facts, we make them come to life. We find the people that where involved and join them on a journey through time.
The Expeditions method stands for a creative collaboration between informant and researcher. We apply a series of critical registration- and interview techniques to reconstruct the full scope of the past. Applied anthropology, psychology and historical research are combined to validate the data. We scrutinize short term memory and generation memory within the autobiographical story.
If you want to conduct an Oral History study in your company or organization, Expeditions offers you her expertise to research and publish a book, website or exhibition. Long forgotten pictures are dug up and put into context, significant objects and documents retrieved from attics and archives. You will own your unique publication on the vivid history of your organization as related by real people. It is far more than a perk or the ideal gift for your best friends and customers, it allows you to better understand what is happening today through the rediscovery of a dynamic history!
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I want to congratulate Expeditions with the publication of this book. It is indeed a very valuable research whereby many aspects of the nearby history of our city are revealed in a clear and original way. It is not about the mere differences between the past and the present, but about the way in which the former grew into the latter. Therefore by reading this oral history, the social and cultural processes which connect past and present are better understood.
Louis Tobback, Mayor of Leuven.
(foreword Listening to a city called Louvain, p. 3)
At this very moment, Expeditions is the author of 22 successful Oral History studies and projects. Our vast Oral History team provides the whole process of the creation of an Oral History book; from concept, interviews and photo’s to printing.