StećakLand (2023 - 2025)
- Project Type
- Heritage
- Title
- StećakLand (2023 - 2025)
- Release Date
- 2023
- Irish Partner
- NOHO, Dublin
- Co-Partners
- Lead Partner: UDRUZENJE ZA DIGITALIZACIJU I INFORMATIZACIJU KULTURNE BASTINE DIGI.BA, Bosnia & Herzegovina
- ARHEOLOSKI INSTITUT, Serbia
- DUBROVACKI MUZEJI, Croatia
- FONDACIJA MAK DIZDAR, Bosnia & Herzegovina
- JANVA USTANOVA KAMERNI TEATAR 55 SARAJEVO, Bosnia & Herzegovina
- JAVNA USTANOVA NARODNI MUZEJ CRNE GORE, Montenegro
- Funding Strand
- Cooperation Projects
- Year Funded
- 2023
- Funding Amount
- €200,000
StećakLand: Interpreting Art of Mysterious Medieval Stećak Tombstones through Virtual Reality project will apply Information Technologies to the Cultural Heritage of Stećak tombstones in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro, and Croatia.
Monumental medieval tombstones called stećaks or stećci represent a Western Balkans regional phenomenon dated between the 12th and 16th centuries. These monuments feature a wide range of decorative motifs, scenes and inscriptions that represent iconographic continuities from antiquity as well as locally distinctive traditions of medieval peoples. UNESCO has recognised the "extraordinary universal value" of these unique cultural heritage objects and in 2016 included them in the World Protected Heritage List.
StecakLand: Interpreting Art of Mysterious Medieval Stećak Tombstones through Virtual Reality project aims to reach a wider audience by reproducing the symbols on the monuments through digital media. Heritage experts from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Serbia and Montenegro will choose the most representative stećaks to be included in a digital environment called StećakLand.
StećakLand will be a virtual reality application that can be installed in museums. Through this application, museum visitors will learn the history and meanings of the symbols from the stećaks.
Project Actions
- Virtual Reality applications with digitised creative content will be introduced in museums that partner on the project.
- A collaborative team of historians, visual artists, performance artists, VR producers and software developers will, through new creative processes, design and develop digital content.
- Augmented Reality applications will be established in relevant historical sites and necropolis
- An interactive theatre play will be produced and set up with digital replicas of Stećci and performed by actors, while one of them will wear a VR headset visiting the StecakLand.
Irish Partner
Noho, Dublin are specialist producers of digital experiences for museum, corporate, and broadcast clients. From evocative audio to rich, interactive video, web and 3D, Noho content informs, educates and inspires audiences, young and old alike. Their experienced team is made up of award-winning animators, designers, video editors, writers and developers who create beautiful and engaging visualisations using animation, realtime 3D or immersive, interactive applications and environments.