interactive documentary in VR
Those from Below
THOSE FROM BELOW is an interactive VR documentary about the Le Bois du Cazier mining disaster in Belgium, 1956. Explore the everyday lives of coal miners and delve 1000m below the ground to uncover the events that lead up to the disaster and what its aftermath meant for Europe.
In 1956, one of the largest mining accidents in Europe occurred in Marcinelle, a small town in Belgium, in the Le Bois du Cazier coal mine. 262 miners died. THOSE FROM BELOW takes a documentary approach to the event.
Francesco Cicora, father of Michele Cicora, lost his life in the accident and was one of 13 miners who could not be identified in the accident. THOSE FROM BELOW is told by Michele, who only got to know his father through letters. An experience shared by many Italians at the time. Today, decades later, Michele Cicora is responsible for identifying two more of the 13 unknowns. On his path to shedding more light on the events of 1956, Michele was able to find out a lot about the families and those who lost someone that day.
MEMENTOES
is a Horizon Europe funded project building immersive video games for museums engaged in the topics of memorialisation and transitional justice.
Education and History in VR
The MEMENTOES project aims to utilize video games as a tool for educating audiences about historical injustices, bridging the gap between history and the modern audience in an oversaturated media landscape. By partnering museums focusing on past atrocities with independent game developers, they intend to create immersive experiences that cultivate empathy and foster understanding of the past, with specific emphasis on the experiences of marginalized groups. The initiative also plans to publish guidelines for future collaborations between museums and game developers, merging traditional historiography and museum curation with emerging technologies.
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe Research and Innovation programme under Grant Agreement No 101061496.
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