Remembering the City: Stumbling Stones, Memory Sites and Augmented Reality, is a Public History developed by Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, in collaboration with the Jewish Community of Venice and with the contribution of the Veneto Region.
The fundamental idea behind this project is to explore the urban memory of cities and their formation through the use of augmented reality (AR) as a visualisation tool, in order to develop digital historical narratives.
The mobile platform is aimed in particular at the younger generations, and uses geolocation and augmented reality to guide citizens to locate a significant selection of the stumbling stones and other memory sites of the city of Venice and to enjoy the associated content.
The aim is to increase the cognitive and emotional involvement of users, to promote a better understanding of the history of Nazi-fascist persecution and deportation.
Team members
Scientific project leader: Fabio Pittarello – Ca’ Foscari University of Venice
Software developer: Tommaso Pellegrini – Ca’ Foscari University of Venice
Digital Humanists: Alessandra Volo & Alessandro Carrieri – Ca’ Foscari University of Venice
Acknowledgements
We gratefully acknowledge all the contributors to the project:
Comunità Ebraica di Venezia
IVESER
CDEC
ANPI Venezia – Sezione 7 Martiri
Archivio storico di Ca’ Foscari
Yad Vashem
Fondazione Museo della Shoah Roma
Centro di Ricerche Storiche Rovigno
Massimo Demma
Elisabetta Ottolenghi
A special thanks goes to Ottavia Piccolo and Jenni Lea-Jones who have lent their narrative voices for the augmentations of the Venice memory sites.