Challenges, opportunities and future directions of participatory archives

As seen in the previous chapters, the term ‘participatory archives’ encom - passes a wide range of archival approaches, with some grounded in new technologies and others adaptations of more traditional approaches. While this volume is divided into distinct sections, the discussions therein highlight the often overlapping nature of participatory archives – innovative and traditional, expanding and reinforcing archival theory, digital and analogue, and sui generis and heterogeneous. Participatory archives cannot, therefore, be reduced to a single entity or type. They must be viewed in their totality as multiple dimensions of a broader movement of engagement.