Obuda University in Budapest
1034 Budapest, Bécsi út 96/b
20 January 2023
10:00 – 17:00
- Timișoara’s heritage in the digital world
- Exhibition about Timisoara’s historical neighbourhoods
- Virtual guided tours around Timisoara
- Augmented and virtual reality applications to discover Timisoara’s heritage
- Mobile apps, videos of theatre and dance happenings, with the use of digital technology and AR elements
Spotlight Heritage Timișoara / Patrimoniul sub reflectoare is a digital cultural initiative of the Politehnica University of Timișoara, realised in partnership with the National Museum of Banat, part of the Cultural Programme Timișoara 2023 European Capital of Culture. Cultural project co-financed by the Center for Projects of the Municipality of Timișoara, Timiș County Council, Romania. The project is presented with the support of Obuda University Budapest.
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Spotlight Heritage Timișoara is a digital cultural initiative of the Politehnica University of Timișoara in partnership with the National Museum of Banat, part of the Timișoara European Capital of Culture 2023 Cultural Program, overlapping heritage in digital and physical formats. Spotlight Heritage Timisoara increases the interest of the wider public in Timișoara’s historical neighbourhoods, marginal and neglected, by using guided tours and digital storytelling to empower locals and tourists to see, hear, feel, act, co-create and internalize the city. It is also a model of digital culture heritage crowdsourced participatory city telling to empower citizens and tourists to turn their technological appetite into culture. The project mixes personal memories of people with historical and architectural data, by digitally overlaying an intangible heritage from books, oral stories, archives and art works. Iosefin (2019), Elisabetin (2020), Fabric (2021), Cetate (2022), all previous and Giroc (2023) neighbourhoods divulge their stories through multiple layers: a museum exhibition, streets exhibition, an online website, a mobile app, an augmented reality app, virtual reality demonstrations and Festival, street theatre, happenings and digital installations, guiding tours and virtual tours, as well as a final catalogue.
“International Festival Spotlight Heritage Timișoara XR Demonstrations in Budapest” is an international festival of extended reality and digital culture of the city of Timisoara, Romania, in which participants will be invited to learn about the culture and heritage of the city with the role of European Capital of Culture this year – Timișoara 2023, which has a multi-ethnic and multi-confessional tradition reflected in its heritage and in the harmonious coexistence of four cultural-linguistic communities: Romanian, Hungarian, German and Serbian.
Through this international festival, we want to increase the interest of the wider public in Timisoara’s historical neighbourhoods, by using digital storytelling to empower locals and tourists to see, hear, feel, act, co-create and internalize the city.
During this day, the participants will interact with augmented and virtual reality applications that showcase landmarks of Timisoara and virtually walk the streets of the city, visit and learn about the most famous monuments.
The event dedicated to the cultural and historical heritage of the city of Timișoara will take place in both English and Hungarian, and is organized by the Politehnica University of Timisoara, the Obuda University Budapest and the National Museum of Banat.
