核心概念
Mixed Reality Heritage Performances (MRHP) can serve as a powerful tool to critically engage the public with under-represented narratives and challenge dominant colonial power structures embedded in heritage sites.
摘要
The content introduces two world-first Mixed Reality (MR) experiences, "Sancho's Journey" and "Jin's Dream," that fuse smart AR glasses and live theatre to reveal the hidden and difficult histories about slavery at heritage sites in London, UK and Deerfield, Massachusetts, US.
The key highlights and insights are:
The heritage industry has been struggling with the legacy of colonialism, and decolonization efforts aim to challenge the dominant colonial power structures embedded in heritage sites.
The project brought together smart glass Augmented Reality and immersive heritage performance to create a new medium for critical engagement with the site's history in the context of decolonization.
The two MRHP experiences were designed to give voice to the experiences and cultures of enslaved people, while also revealing how slavery was embedded and justified within the society of the time.
The experiences were a collaborative effort involving various disciplines, including interaction design, public history, theatre direction, and curation, with input from a youth panel with experience in exhibitions and projects related to enslavement and colonialism.
The evaluation of the performances showed a heightened sense of engagement, with the "magic moments" created by the seamless interplay between the acting and the MR content being particularly impactful.
The experiences provided an affective and experiential learning component, allowing participants to discover new information about the sites' connections to slavery and the transatlantic slave trade.
The project also led to the development of a design toolkit that offers guidelines for professionals across creative, administrative, and production departments in heritage organizations and theatre companies on how to collaborate with immersive media specialists to design and produce similar experiences.
統計資料
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