Crafting AR Lanterns: Future Practice to Preserve the Past
DescriptionIntangible cultural heritage is being threatened by forces of aggressive urbanization and globalization, particularly in developing nations like Vietnam. UNESCO defines intangible cultural heritage as encompassing oral traditions, social practices, rituals, festive events, traditional craft skills, childhood play, and food-making traditions.
This workshop is based on “Play to Preserve the Past”, a series of mobile games, created by the researcher, that investigate Augment Reality (AR) technology as a potential future solution to safeguarding intangible cultural heritage. The series investigates the potentials creative practitioners can harness when preserving ICH with AR, and the appropriateness of using advanced tools to preserve heritage, exposing any impacts they might have on the preserved content.
In this workshop “Crafting AR Lanterns: Future Practice to Preserve the Past” the Vietnamese Mid-Autumn Lantern Festival serves as a provocation for ICH preservation of the future, asking “How do we preserve physical lantern crafting practices in a digitally dominated future?”.
The workshop will guide participants through an exploratory lantern decoration practice, bridging contemporary 3D digital art and hand-craft practices. Attendees will learn to integrate their lanterns into an AR system using SparkAR, design simple games to play with their lanterns, and take part in a mixed-reality lantern parade.
By fostering a creative dialogue between tradition, technological innovation, and contemporary creative practice, the workshop will provoke discussions on the preservation of cultural practices in the age of digital transformation. Participants will not only gain practical skills in crafting AR experiences, but also consider the broader implications of using technology to connect the past and the future. The workshop is an opportunity to engage with critical discussion about intangible cultural heritage whilst creating interactive pieces of art that preserve and celebrate our collective past.
This workshop is based on “Play to Preserve the Past”, a series of mobile games, created by the researcher, that investigate Augment Reality (AR) technology as a potential future solution to safeguarding intangible cultural heritage. The series investigates the potentials creative practitioners can harness when preserving ICH with AR, and the appropriateness of using advanced tools to preserve heritage, exposing any impacts they might have on the preserved content.
In this workshop “Crafting AR Lanterns: Future Practice to Preserve the Past” the Vietnamese Mid-Autumn Lantern Festival serves as a provocation for ICH preservation of the future, asking “How do we preserve physical lantern crafting practices in a digitally dominated future?”.
The workshop will guide participants through an exploratory lantern decoration practice, bridging contemporary 3D digital art and hand-craft practices. Attendees will learn to integrate their lanterns into an AR system using SparkAR, design simple games to play with their lanterns, and take part in a mixed-reality lantern parade.
By fostering a creative dialogue between tradition, technological innovation, and contemporary creative practice, the workshop will provoke discussions on the preservation of cultural practices in the age of digital transformation. Participants will not only gain practical skills in crafting AR experiences, but also consider the broader implications of using technology to connect the past and the future. The workshop is an opportunity to engage with critical discussion about intangible cultural heritage whilst creating interactive pieces of art that preserve and celebrate our collective past.
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TimeWednesday, 4 December 202411:00am - 12:45pm JST
LocationG610, G Block, Level 6
