Call for Participants
Touching Past Lives: Immersive Heritage Performance Symposium
Friday September 14th 2018, 9:00 AM – 5:30 PM BST
Senate House, Courtroom, Malet Street, London, WC1 7HU, UK
Free Registration via Eventbrite:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/touching-past-lives-immersive-heritage-performance-symposium-tickets-49642696642
DESCRIPTION
Touching Past Lives is a one day symposium exploring all aspects of the use of Immersive techniques to engage audiences with local, regional, and national heritage. Sensorial interactions and reactions to heritage is opening a new field of interrogations into how immersive experience of heritage shapes our understanding of the modern world. This symposium will bring together academics and heritage industry professionals, from museum curators and archivists, to immersive experience and heritage practitioners, to investigate the growing importance of immersive techniques in the heritage industry.
Affective and immersive experiences are part of individual and communal acts of remembering, engaging, emulating, re-visioning, and refuting the past. Heritage England in 2017 identified heritage as a key part of the UK ‘brand’ and central to the UK economy.… read more. “Call: Touching Past Lives: Immersive Heritage Performance Symposium”