Dr Kate Marrison
On Tuesday 15 April, the Landecker Digital Memory Lab launched its digital map of global Holocaust memory – an open-access resource which seeks to capture digital Holocaust memory projects on a global scale.
Directed by Media and Film's Prof Victoria Grace Richardson Walden, the Lab is an interdisciplinary hub for worldwide digital initiatives that educate about or commemorate the Holocaust. They create in-person and digital opportunities for international, cross-sector dialogue, produce new research and policy guidance, and offer training and consultancy programmes. The Lab works with Holocaust memory and education organisations, academics, tech and creative professionals, funders and policymakers to solve the pressing issues concerning digital interventions in this field.
Launched to coincide with the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Bergen-Belsen, the digital map of global Holocaust memory identifies projects that integrate a range of new media technologies – from augmented and virtual reality, computer games, 360-degree photography and 3D modelling, to social media and interactive survivor testimony.
Hosted on Padlet, the map is designed to be a simple tool for use by researchers, educators, funders, creators and individuals – serving as a launch pad to further resources.
In a new blog to promote the launch of the digital map, Dr Kate Marrison, Research Fellow at the Landecker Digital Memory Lab, says: “This moment offers an opportunity to look ahead and think critically about the possibilities of our digital futures.
“The map is the precursor to a much larger resource that the Lab is currently developing – the living database-archive. More to come on this soon.”
Read Part 1: Building a Living Database by Dr Kate Marrison on the Landecker Lab blog.