Economythologies (EMLX) investigates the challenges 21st-century digital cultures currently face, specifically how they intersect with questions of environmental social justice and how place-based economies of cultural caretaking in Asia-Pacific and Oceania provide promising matrices through which to re-imagine future assemblages of cultural inheritance. EMLX codesigns digital infrastructure, ledgers and trade rituals.

Modelling forms of place-based cooperative heritage between makers and elders (industry experts) to reconsider how heritage can be brought into conversation with an emergent community exploring diverse economies as areas of alterity where distinctive forms of value, currency and exchange emerge within specific cultural, ecological and technological contexts. EMLX contests wider public perceptions of the use and value of their digital footprint, opening a distinctive space for other technological approaches by addressing the need for more decolonial and post-patriarchal cultural interventions into digital heritage paradigms. We consider how the colonial power structures embedded in computationalism and archiving can be disrupted through alternative ledgers that better grapple with situated and complex formations of ubiquitous digital cultures to advance digital literacy guided by a more proportionally informed society. Launched in 2020, EMLX emphasises creative voices from the Asia-Pacific region, where participants imagine aesthetic ways of (re)configuring art and the economy.