Tag Archives: heritage preservation

Wadi Al Helo — Presenting Cultural Heritage Site in VR | ICCROM Sharjah, Sharjah

This activity bridges creative practice and scholarship, translating complex material into accessible experiences through carefully designed media forms and public engagement. My approach integrates aesthetic exploration with research-based storytelling, positioning visual and immersive media as tools for communicating heritage, memory, and contemporary culture.

Each project aligns rigorous content development with clear audience pathways—onboarding, experience, and reflection—so that the resulting assets and insights extend beyond a single event. This process strengthens a reusable workflow of capture, modeling, narrative assembly, and dissemination that supports teaching, student capstones, and collaborative initiatives with partner institutions. By merging creative practice with research precision, the work sustains impact across academic, cultural, and community contexts.

In my teaching, these workflows and their documentation feed directly back into studios and seminars, offering students practical models for digital heritage and interactive media design. Within scholarship, peer and community feedback validate the methods and extend the discourse around immersive storytelling. Through partnerships with museums, festivals, and universities, the work expands equitable public access to cultural knowledge and reinforces the value of creative research in civic and educational life.

Learn more – ICCROM Sharjah

Wadi Al Helo VR — Visiting a Cultural Heritage Site | XVII ACM Culture & Computer Science, HTW / Konzerthaus Berlin

Wadi Al Helo VR — Visiting a Cultural Heritage Site was presented at the XVII ACM Culture & Computer Science conference in Berlin, combining a paper and live presentation. The project explores the immersive documentation of the historic Wadi al Helo valley in Sharjah, UAE, translating field capture and VR production into an interpretable framework for cultural‑heritage pedagogy.

Developed collaboratively with co-PIs, the work emphasizes reusable pipelines—from capturing and modeling to narrative assembly and dissemination—so that insights and methodologies can extend beyond the conference. These processes support curriculum development, student capstones, and collaborative partnerships, bridging teaching, scholarship, and practical application.

The project highlights how immersive technologies can enhance cultural heritage research, providing frameworks for peer review, cross-institution collaboration, and broader public access.

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