Logos Open Culture
Logos Open Culture is at the intersection of computational technology, and the arts and cultural heritage. Its strategic intent is to allow discussions on Malawi to have appropriate depth, enhance access to the country’s history/heritage, and to facilitate digitalization of memory institutions for preservation and future access of knowledge & records.
Muti leads a collective including researchers, technologists, writers and thinkers to bring new and otherwise unseen insights to the Malawi story. Projects include the open repository ‘Malawian (Hi)Stories and the Medical Humanities’ archiving digital arts and humanities research in medicine and health sciences in Malawi
Carried out scoping for digitisation of National Archives of Malawi manuscripts
Book publications include ‘Malawi, A Place Apart‘ (Asbjorn Eidhammer, 2017) and ‘Lomathinda: Rose Chibambo Speaks‘ (Timwa Lipenga Ph.D, 2019), Making Music in Malawi (John Lwanda, Ph.D, 2021), non-fiction texts on #Malawi
Malawian (Hi)Stories and the Medical Humanities: A Digital Repository for Arts, Humanities and Health Resources
Project led by Dr Chisomo Kalinga, a Wellcome Trust Medical Humanities Fellow at the Centre of African Studies at the University of Edinburgh. The goal is to build an archive that supports the development of the digital arts and humanities as they relate to medicine and the health sciences in Malawi. It officially launched on 26 August 2017 at the inaugural medical humanities conference, which was hosted by Chancellor College, University of Malawi.
The resources indexed and housed on the Malawian (Hi)Stories and the Medical Humanities archive cover a broad spectrum of research of materials relating to health, wellbeing and the human experience. As we develop, we intend to expand our classifications to include specifics such as regional settings, geographical locations, healthcare identifiers in addition to genres, forms and aesthetics pertaining to the arts and humanities.
Entrepreneurship and Technology Innovation Workshops Seasonal
Muti is guest presenter on a module he calls “Contextualising Tech Innovations: The Social Shaping of the Malawi Ecosystem”. The programme under the auspices of the Rice 360˚ Institute for Global Health, Malawi Polytechnic and Malawi University of Science and Technology (MUST) partnership’s Invention Learning Program.