Identity, Culture & Heritage

Identity, Culture & Heritage

REVIVE

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REVIVE (Community-centred language REVItalisation powered by heritage-led storytellling and digital innoVation in Europe) is a €3M project funded by Horizon Europe, led by the StoryLab Research Institute at ARU. The project brings together an international consortium of European academic and industry partners from the UK, Italy, Germany, Portugal, Romania, Serbia and Estonia. The aim of ... Read more

Let’s Go Fly the Kite

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"Let’s Go Fly the Kite" is a National Heritage Lottery Fund project led by Together Culture, in partnership with the StoryLab Research Institute and the Cambridge Room.  This citizen science project explores the history of the Kite area in Cambridge and aims to create a roadmap for how its residents and visitors can build upon ... Read more

Heritage-led Resilience to Conflict, Scarcity and Climate Change With Syrian Refugees in Jordan

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Click here to explore the digital diagrams About Cultural heritage can enhance resilience and integration amongst displaced communities forced to flee from their own countries due to climate change, scarcity and conflict. These factors can, in combination, result in devastating consequences for communities and populations, including displacement, death and loss of cultural connection and identity, ... Read more

Italia Terremotata

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Italia Terremotata
This interactive documentary combines 3D visualisation and multi-modal storytelling to tell the story of Senerchia terremotata, that is, the earthquake that devastated the Irpinia region (South Italy) in 1980. Forty years after one of the most devastating earthquakes in Italian history, Italia Terremotata investigates its long-term impact on rural communities in Irpinia (South Italy). Italian ... Read more

Immersive Antarctica

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Immersive Antarctica is an InnovateUK funded project, enabling the UK Antarctic Heritage Trust (UKAHT) to make its unique Antarctic bases, heritage, climate, and archival stories available to a global audience through the use of immersive technologies and the integration of 3D visualisation, gaming, film and audio-visual archive. This collaboration between UKAHT and StoryLab aims to demonstrate ... Read more

Reviving Kusunda

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The Kusunda Project is a ground-breaking interdisciplinary collaboration between academic researchers and artistic expression, aimed at exploring the integrated use of multimodal storytelling and immersive visualisation for the revitalisation of the endangered heritage and language of the Kusunda Indigenous community in Nepal. By evaluating two works – an interactive virtual reality experience and a short ... Read more

Base E

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Base E
Collaboration between UK Antarctic Heritage Trust, British Antarctic Survey and StoryLab Base E is a proof of principle interactive Virtual Reality (VR) experience that combines 3D visualisation, gaming and film archive that enables users to explore and engage with the story of Base E, a British research station based on Stonington Island, in the south ... Read more

FoodCult

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Brewing
Food is more than itself…it is identity, and culture, and history. It is the most important matter in our lives… it is transcendent. ~ Bill Buford Food, Culture and Identity in Ireland circa 1550-1650 Exploring the period c.1550-1650, one of major economic development, unprecedented intercultural contact, but also of conquest, colonisation and war, it focuses ... Read more

The David Parr House Film Project

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david parr house
In 1886 a small house in Gwydir Street, Cambridge was bought by David Parr, a working-class decorative artist. So began his forty-year project to decorate his modest home in the style of the grand interiors he worked on every day. After Parr’s death in 1927, his granddaughter Elsie Palmer came to live in the house ... Read more

Havens East Online Exhibition

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Havens East
Telling the stories of the child refugees and those who helped them escape the Spanish Civil War Access the Online Storybook here. About New Routes, Old Roots at Anglia Ruskin University (ARU) is an arts-based research network focusing on contemporary and historical experiences of exile and migration. In 2020, they received a National Lottery Heritage ... Read more