Valentina Nisi

Bio: Valentina Nisi is Associate Professor at the Instituto Superior Tecnico, University of Lisbon, Adjunct Faculty at the HCI Institute Carnegie Mellon and founding researcher at Interactive Technology Institute of Larsys. Lisbon. Her work focuses on designing and producing digitally mediated experiences (AR/VR/MR) that extend our realities bringing awareness to pressing social and environmental issues. 

Abstract: Promoting social cohesion through  Story driven Cultural Heritage interactive tools 

The MEMEX project promotes social cohesion through collaborative, heritage-related tools that provide inclusive access to tangible and intangible cultural heritage and, at the same time, facilitate encounters, discussions and interactions between communities at risk of social exclusion. These tools will empower communities of people with the possibility of welding together their fragmented experiences and memories into compelling and geolocalised storylines using new personalised digital content linked to the pre-existent European Cultural Heritage (CH). The tools of MEMEX will allow the communities to tell their stories and to claim their rights and equal participation in the European society. To this end, MEMEX will nurture actions that contribute to, rather than undermine, practices of recognition of differences by giving voice to individuals for promoting cultural diversity.

MEMEX project: https://memexproject.eu/en/