Creative Archives
Flickr can do things in ways traditional archives can’t: discuss.
Please note: This program ceased in December 2025.
About the program
The whole Flickr corpus is simply massive—tens of billions of digital objects, and growing every day. It’s one of the biggest image collections humans have ever created. Its huge scale makes it difficult to look after, let alone preserve.
Creative Archives investigates accessible tactics around ethics of care, decentralization, social or local archives, explorable formats, and machine-based support.
We’re interested in archiving the foundation itself too, from the start.
Current Project: Digital Day Book
Our work these days is so diffuse. Lots of different digital services. The Digital Day Book is a project to record our work at the Foundation so it can be explored long after we have left. Read more
