Memoryscapes: re-imagining place through immersive and participatory experiences that re-contextualise memory assets

虚拟现实和增强现实等沉浸式技术的进步使人们能够创造出能够以新的方式在新的地方重现过去的体验。过去的景象、声音甚至气味都可以被重现，以帮助人们了解我们周围的世界。我们的项目将探索如何利用这些技术来解决两个关键挑战：首先，博物馆，画廊和档案馆等组织已经积累了大量重要的收藏品，这些收藏品保存了对我们历史的见解。在可能的情况下，这些资产可以在网上和博物馆中访问，但这些资产经常被脱离背景，在远离其原始使用或创作地点的地方展示，并且解释有限。这就限制了人们对它们的了解程度以及有多少人可以访问它们。我们希望探索通过沉浸式体验将我们的历史重新语境化的方法，以便在它们起源的地方理解它们。第二，城市重建经常被指责抹去过去，创造与现场几乎没有联系的平淡空间，因此限制了与地方的广泛接触。我们将探索沉浸式体验如何克服这些批评，提供探索那个地方的历史叙事的方法。与其抹去历史，不如通过投影、音景、气味和故事将其赋予生命。想象一下，当你站在桥上时，看着史蒂文森的火箭投影沿着铁路轨道飞行;当你沿着滨江散步时，倾听造船厂的声音;或者使用平板电脑透过建筑物的层数，看到300年前的居住者。但我们想做的不止这些，我们想探索人们如何将自己的历史加入这些经历中。也许能让某人上传在造船厂工作或住在那栋楼里的家庭成员的照片。或者添加一个以前闻所未闻的故事，一个亲戚帮助激发了一项重大发明，或者谁去看了一个事件的展开。通过这种方式，我们希望不为人知的历史可以被添加到过去的宏大叙事中。让那些没有被送进博物馆，但价值不低的日常故事变得触手可及。

Advances in immersive technologies such as virtual reality and augmented reality enable the creation of experiences that can bring the past to life in new ways and in new places. Sights, sounds and even smells from the past can be recreated to help people understand the world around us as it was or might be. Our project will explore how such technologies might be used to address two key challenges:First, organisations such as museums, galleries and archives have amassed large and important collections which preserve insights into our histories. Where possible these are accessible online and in museums, but these assets are frequently de-contextualised, displayed away from their original place of use or creation, and with limited interpretation. This restricts how much can be understood about them and how many people can access them. We want to explore ways in which our histories can be re-contextualised through immersive experiences so they can be understood within the places they originated.Second, urban redevelopments are frequently accused of erasing pasts, creating bland spaces with little connection to the locale and therefore limiting broad engagement with place. We will explore the ways in which immersive experiences can overcome these criticisms by providing ways to explore the historical narrative of that place. Rather than erasing history, bringing it to life through projections, soundscapes, smells and stories.Imagine watching a projection of Stevenson's Rocket flying along a railway track as you stand on a bridge; listening to the sounds of a shipyard as you walk along a riverside; or using a tablet to peer through layers of a building to see its occupants from 300 years ago. But we want to do more than this, we want to explore the ways in which people can add their own histories into these experiences. Perhaps enabling someone to upload photographs of family members who worked in that shipyard, or lived in that building. Or adding a previously unheard story of relative who helped inspire a major invention, or who went to see an event unfold. In this way we hope untold histories can be added to the grand narratives of the past. Making accessible the everyday stories which don't make it into museums, but which are no less valuable.