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… is at stake, where citizens (in this case, artists) were called to participate in the configuration of the futures of art through “collaboration” and “making”. The Harddisk Museum proceeds from art and curatorship with the goal to produce a way to keep and show digital art in the future as a precious achievement of the work together. This paper aims to contribute to the discussion on how creative preservation practices related to co-creation and social innovation open a crack for new … and how it contribute to shape its imaginaries and its very material practicalities. What we have denominated as co-archiving and performing (Osthoff, 2008) were detected as two creative strategies —we understand creativity in a more relational way, here as social, generative, temporal and relational process (Ingold & hallam, 2007) — implemented in order to rethink and react digital art and digital heritage in the framing of The Harddisk Museum project. These two strategies allow an emergent way of participation and collaboration in the space produced by the project, they trigger situated discussions on the now classical digital conservation questions “what should be preserved, how it should be accomplished and for whom it should be saved …