The aim of this collaboration is to capture the vibrant cultural and linguistic fusion of Singapore through interdisciplinary lenses. This is a R&D cluster which aims to bring together linguists, historians, interactive media specialists, computer engineers, scientists and museum curators from different parts of the university as well as relevant external collaborators.
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Categories: Universities
- An Intuitive Way of Discovering Old Master Paintings
The Old Master’s Paintbrushes is part of the Creative Wonder Cabinet series, which is a group of interpretive and pedagogical exhibits that aims to stimulate curiosity and engagement about museum pieces and environments through interactive discovery.
Categories: EU
– An Intuitive Way of Discovering Old Master Paintings
The Old Master’s Paintbrushes is part of the Creative Wonder Cabinet series, which is a group of interpretive and pedagogical exhibits that aims to stimulate curiosity and engagement about museum pieces and environments through interactive discovery.
Continue Reading »Creative Wonder Cabinet – Old Master’s Paintbrushes
Categories: Museums/Heritage sites
The Interactive Institute has made substantial contributions – in organizing and presenting research – at the 3rd Nordic Design Research conference! NORDES 2009 ‘Engaging Artifacts’ was held in Oslo, Norway, hosted by the Oslo School of Architecture and Design, between August 30 and September 1, 2009.
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Categories: Universities
In January – April 2009 a collaboration sponsored by Digital Heritage Center at The Interactive Institute, Stockholm and School of Art, Design and Media at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore was established.
The aim of the collaboration was to establish a long-term program in Digital Cultural Heritage in Singapore.
Download the report here.
Categories: ICT/Creative Industry, Museums/Heritage sites
The Creative Wonder Cabinets are a series of interactive installations for museums and heritage sites, inspired by the 17th century cabinets of curiosities. The Digital Cultural Heritage Centre of Expertise and Evoking Spaces are happy to introduce this series of interpretive and pedagogical tools that aims to stimulate curiosity about museum objects and environments through interactive discovery.
Continue Reading »Creative Wonder Cabinets – New museum installations
Categories: ICT/Creative Industry, Museums/Heritage sites
As part of the Swedish museums’ annual spring meeting a seminar was arranged for the participants at Swedish Forum for Cultural Heritage/Interactive Institute. Under the theme “Knowledge Transfer”, the visitors were invited to a series of presentations, lunch and to a show room with products and prototypes from the Interactive Institute and companies in the forefront of Sweden’s digital cultural heritage sector. We also gave away our new publication – KNOWHOW Books – and instructional and inspirational book which guides you, step by step, through the design, development and realization of digital installations and applications for the museum sector.
Download the report from the seminar here
Categories: ICT/Creative Industry, Museums/Heritage sites
MEV – Meaning Making in a New Area for Learning & Communication. MEV’s aim is to scrutinize the role and impact of new policies, new technologies and new ways of understanding visitors’ engagement in exhibitions from the perspective of museology, designs for learning and multimodal communication. The project is a collaboration among LHS, Umeå University, European University Institute and University of Arts in Philadelphia.
Continue Reading »The Museum, the Exhibition & the Visitors Project
Categories: Museums/Heritage sites, Universities
The post-incubator is a greenhouse for small companies working with digital media for cultural heritage. It is the first of its kind in Sweden, offering a flexible and creative workspace where the incubator’s SMEs can grow and develop their business and have the opportunity to work in projects initiated by the incubator or external assigners.
David Nilsson from Forum for Cultural Heritage has started the company Evoking Spaces. It is an experience-based company working with design and implementation of interactive cultural experiences.
More info at www.evokingspaces.se
Categories: ICT/Creative Industry
Interactive Salon is a touring exhibition about new technologies and concepts for communication with visitors, in the context of cultural heritage. After the first edition of Interactive Salon that was held at the Stockholm City Museum during October 2006 – March 2007, several institutions showed great interest in hosting the exhibition.
Categories: EU, Museums/Heritage sites
