Identity, Culture & Heritage

Identity, Culture & Heritage

Heritage-led Resilience 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

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

RELOADED

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About Co-created with secondary-school students, RELOADED explores how immersive storytelling can foster stronger emotional connections and enhance understanding of knife crime among 14- and 15-year-olds.  The VR immersive film – RELOADED – leverages innovative creative practice workflows within an interdisciplinary landscape to maximise the creativity and efficiency of producing stories for meaningful, impactful, and attitude-changing ... 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

Arriving

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Arrival
Objects & Discoveries Portrait and soundscape driven project exploring migration Access the online storybook here ‘Arriving at a new place’ is a core aspect of migration, but stories of arrival are not limited to the migration experience. We all have stories of arrival (e.g. school, workplace, new home) to tell, reflecting commonalities of human perceptions, ... 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

The Crossing

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Human Trafficking
The Crossing is a multi-screen and 2D screen interactive exhibition, which provided new interpretations and understanding of the black-market economy of sex trafficking through the journey of a trafficked woman. The emotionally charged project investigates the exploitation of hope and the black market economy of human trafficking through the story of a young girl sex ... Read more

Could Try Harder

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Could Try Harder
An Audiovisual Investigation into Capturing and Creating a Shared Memory Experience Sophie Jackson’s research investigates ‘memory moments’ through the capture and creation of shared memory experience. It utilizes school reports as artefacts to trigger central memory, documented through a process of participant interviews forming the basis of a series of individual films. In doing so, ... Read more