Second transnational meeting in Gdansk
On 20-22 September 2022, Bridging Digital team met at Gdansk to discuss the progress of each partner organisation and plan the future activities together. The second transnational meeting was hosted by our partner Instytut Kultury Miejskiej. During our travel to Poland, the Bridging Digital team visited the PAN Biblioteka Gdańska, where we saw Jan Heweliusz masterpieces and watched a presentation of the reconstruction of a telescope by Heweliusz in 3d printing technology, a project of Instytut Kultury Miejskiej together with [...]
A new transcription of a valuable book at Gdansk
An interesting project has been implemented in Medialab Gdańsk, which operates in City Culture Institute of Gdańsk (one of the Bridging Digital Partners). A group of experts, philologists, translators and historians jointly prepared a transcription of the first volume of journals from the journeys of Christian Fischer and Nathaneal Jakub Gerlach from 1727 - over 300 pages of the manuscript! As a result, this eighteenth-century text in German is much more accessible to a larger group of researchers. CCI already [...]
VR workshop at at Gothenburg Studios
Actors within the free performing arts can gain access to and learn to use Virtual Reality in their productions! Last week, Intercult organized a workshop in Gothenburg at Gothenburg Studios with our artistic director, film curator and immersive producer Jonas Myrstrand. During two days, 3 participants from a theater group got to explore and learn the possibilities that VR/360 design can bring to the field of performing arts. By the end of the workshop, the participants had recorded scenes from [...]
Augmented reality workshops – Renfrewshire Witch Hunt 1697
Fablevision, Trent Kim and students of University of the West of Scotland worked together on the Erasmus+ project, Bridging Digital, to produce augmented reality video content to tell the story of the Renfrewshire Witch Hunt in 1697. Here are the five steps of their work. Stop 1 Bargarran House https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29m5WLTukQ8 Stop 2 The Jail In 1697, following the strange events at Bargarran, the accusations of witchcraft and the naming of almost 30 people by 11 year old [...]
Case study video – Renfrewshire Witch Hunt 1697
Bridging Digital was between the 17th century and the 21st century through new media arts. The second case study, Renfrewshire Witch Hunt 1697 tells the story of the falsely accused Renfrewshire witches, through the use of interactive app technology. On June 10th 2022, Renfrewshire Witch Hunt 1697, working with StudioFV and UWS Creative hosted their Memorial Anniversary Event and showcased this next generation of their educational storytelling. You can see more in the featured video. Disclaimer "The European Commission's support [...]
HAEA Webinar : “Adapting the theatrical act to the digital medium: creative tools and educational applications”
Hellenic Adult Education Association held an online workshop with subject: "Adapting the theatrical act to the digital medium: creative tools and educational applications". Workshop content The visualization of the theatrical act (comparative study of theatrical and cinematographic writing, ways of audio-visual recording of the theatrical act, inclusion of cinematic elements in the theatrical text). Educational applications (creation of an original audio-visual work based on a theatrical action, utilization of the completed work in the educational process). Description of a good [...]
Creative Waves toolkit
After one year of creative workshops, webinars and a fantastic closing event in Gdansk, our international project Creative Waves - Baltic Sisterhood for Change came to an end. Now it is time to present you the toolkit that includes all our findings and experience of this exciting project. Creative Waves was about building a female community, a safe place that fosters bonds and joint work. Created by women and inspired by social and artistic activity of women, the project combined [...]
2023: The European Year of Skills!
Picture: Claudio Centonze 2023 is the European Year of Skills! When Sweden initiates its presidency in the European Council a new European Year also starts. For some years the EU decides on a theme that, among other things, is supposed to stimulate debates about and make the public as well as governments pay attention to a certain issue. The theme for next year is the education and upskilling of youths and adults to decrease unemployment and increase levels of competence [...]
Creative Waves closing event – Talk to empower – Presentations
The project “Creative Waves – Baltic Sisterhood for Change”, a cooperation between Intercult from Sweden, Euroregion Baltic and Baltic Sea Cultural Centre from Poland, Estonian Women’s Studies and Resource Centre (ENUT), and activists from Kaliningrad Oblast, has come to an end. With this project, we empowered women in the Baltic Sea Region by meeting traditional crafts, local traditions and customs etc. with the digital modern world and its demands for change. The project final powerful event was in Gdansk, [...]