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Rock Opera’s journey through time describes an episode of Scotland’s history as seen through the eyes of Sarah, a ten-year old girl. During her adventures she discovers the struggles between James Hutton and Robert Jamieson, encountering singing rocks, talking crows and a boxing match in her riotous exploits.
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Games & Interactive experiences
Roman cuijk is an 3D environment that anyone can visit as an individual, with friends or as a school class. It has been built accurately to the available archeological record. Besides an impressive, scale built model of a Roman fort and bridge, the environment offers historical information in the form of text and videos, and allows people to test their knowledge of what they have learnt.
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Games & Interactive experiences
RESTART is a game played at the Netherlands Open Air Museum in Arnhem (Netherlands) by secondary school students (aged 11 to 14). It allows these young people to experience for themselves what it is like to settle in a country with a strange culture and customs. They learn about the personal motivations that drive migration and what a huge step it is to leave your homeland behind. With an iPad as their guide, and supported by a carefully considered game structure, students make their way around the entire museum park. They put themselves in the shoes of migrants and undertake a number of tests that determine how well suited they are to being a citizen of Anderland [Otherland]. Restart was …
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Games & Interactive experiences
The 10th of July 1584 Stadholder-Prince William of Orange was assassinated in the Prinsenhof in Delft; two bullet holes in the wall are evidence of the attack. Every Dutch citizen knows the story and the murder scene is a veritable shrine to the Father of the nation.
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Games & Interactive experiences
The Battle for ‘Dondervoort’ is a 5-day transmedial, social school game that lets youngsters (12-15) experience an important part of Dutch history using live role-play, a digital game and urban game accompanied by classical lessons in school.
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Website
This digital project celebrates the historical legacy of textile merchant and social reformer Samuel Morley, through innovative and immersive technology. Created by an independent art gallery in the UK, Backlit has provided a visually and emotionally-led digital archive, allowing users to discover the heritage of long forgotten hero of Nottingham. Through a media-rich and interactive HTML 5 website www.morleythreads.com and an in-house virtual reality experience using the Oculus Rift VR headset, users are able to explore and reimagine the past in a pioneering way.
