The Landecker Digital Memory Lab
Ensuring a sustainable future for Holocaust memory in the digital age.
The Landecker Digital Memory Lab is an interdisciplinary hub for worldwide digital initiatives that educate about or commemorate the Holocaust. It creates in-person and digital opportunities for international, cross-sector dialogue, produces new research and policy guidance, and offers training and consultancy programmes.
The Lab works with Holocaust memory and education organisations, academics, tech and digital creative professionals, funders and policymakers to solve the pressing issues concerning digital interventions in this field. We are funded by the Alfred Landecker Foundation.
Our Vision
We see a future in which global Holocaust memory and education is shaped by fitting digital strategies, informed by digital literacies, and supported by appropriate digital capacities.
What We Aim to Achieve
- Produce world-leading research focused on digital Holocaust memory as an entangled, global phenomenon involving human and non-human actors, including a worldwide survey of practice
- Create the Digital Memory Database, capturing digital projects from across the world, complemented with interviews by those involved in creating them
- Lead the interdisciplinary, cross-sector publishing platform Digital Memory Dialogues, igniting discussion between heritage professionals, academics, policymakers and creative and tech industries
- Run a series of week-long design sprints, co-hosted with our international partners, bringing together our stakeholder groups to find design solutions to the sector’s big issues
- Host three in-person international expo events in the UK, Germany and Serbia to share, learn and connect with those passionate about developing digital Holocaust memory initiatives
- Train heritage professionals through a series of free online courses, building digital capacities and literacies
- Offer a free advisory and consultancy service to those embarking on digital Holocaust memory projects
- Engage with policymakers to encourage change at the national and intergovernmental level
For more information, see the Landecker Digital Memory Lab website.
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