Immersive Heritage for Languages and Cultures Revitalisation (Virtual)

About this event

This event takes place virtually. You can also join us in-person.

Join Prof Fabrizio Galeazzi as he explores how 'Immersive Heritage' innovation can support communities to reconnect with culture & language.

Immersive stories, when co-created with communities, can be a powerful way of fostering group identity and promoting the long-term legacy and custodianship of cultural heritage.

At a time of increasing demand for digital and immersive heritage experiences, there is an urgent need to ensure that technological innovation is sustainable, inclusive and accessible to all.

This inaugural lecture moves beyond technology to reposition ‘immersion’ as a broader cultural and community-centred process within endangered heritage and language revitalisation, preservation and governance.

It explores how emerging ‘Immersive Heritage’ approaches can support communities emotionally reconnect with their heritage, enabling them to ‘feel part’ of the stories, decision-making processes, and preservation efforts through participatory research, inclusive design, and responsible innovation.

About our speaker

Fabrizio Galeazzi is a Professor in Heritage and Creative Technologies at ARU and Director of StoryLab. His research lies at the intersection of cultural heritage, sustainability, and digital innovation. He is particularly interested in how 3D technologies, interactive/immersive visualisation, and multimodal narratives can foster heritage revitalisation, preservation, and access. His work combines rapid prototyping, speculative design, and agile creative practice methodologies to explore, reflect on, and evidence the connections between digitally reproduced tangible heritage and communities’ identities and values (ie, intangible heritage).

Fabrizio is the consortium lead of the €3m Horizon Europe REVIVE project. The project explores how citizen participation, multidisciplinarity, and the creative dimension of digital innovation can serve as effective means for consolidating and promoting multilingualism and EIHL in Europe.

With a track record in digital heritage and 3D technologies, Fabrizio has held academic posts at the University of California, the City University of Hong Kong, and the University of York, looking at the impact of 3D technologies and online participatory infrastructures on heritage research.

Fabrizio has developed several knowledge transfer partnerships, including the KTP-Innovate UK Immersive Antarctica project in collaboration with UK Antarctic Heritage Trust, which received an ‘Outstanding’ rating for the quality of its Knowledge Transfer Partnership.