Immersive Gaming x Cultural Heritage Summit

New Technologies in Cultural Education

A joint summit hosted by the Cologne Game Lab and the Prussian Palaces and Gardens Foundation Berlin-Brandenburg

In recent years, cultural institutions across all sectors have been working on integrated concepts to drive the digital transformation of their educational outreach. In the process, digital game-based learning has established itself as a successful and sustainable technique that particularly engages younger target groups.

While in the beginning, stationary display arrangements made up the majority of technological platforms, today immersive technologies such as virtual reality goggles and also AR-ready smartphones are increasingly gaining popularity to engage visitors on a new level. Will the technological possibility to project spatial and explorable virtual worlds into our physical reality bring cultural heritage (back) to life, thus offering visitors participatory experiences they can truly relate with? How can we fully exploit the unique affordances of the interactive immersive medium while at the same time taking into account the specific context and circumstances of cultural institutions?

The Immersive Gaming X Cultural Heritage Online Summit on November 17, 2021 will feature an array of best cases to discuss chances and challenges for institutions, audiences and game developers.

SPEAKERS

Jussi Ängeslevä
Patrick Blümel
Maike Groen
Christian Stein
Nicole Steng
André Weßel
Jonas Zimmer

TEAM

Katharina Tillmanns
Sara Oslislo