A collaborative digital art-making and skills-building workshop series — completed in 2026
In early 2026, ARCH Jerusalem completed its first series of five digital heritage workshops in partnership with the Yabous Cultural Centre in Jerusalem. The workshops introduced fourteen young Palestinians to digital tools for art-making and cultural heritage documentation, empowering them to become active custodians of Jerusalem’s layered histories.
Over the course of three months, participants received instruction in:
Photogrammetry — capturing three-dimensional data from physical objects and architectural surfaces
Lidar mapping — generating high-resolution spatial scans of interior and exterior environments
3D annotation — embedding historical and contextual information within digital models
Story mapping — combining geographic data with narrative content to create interactive, location-based presentations
Outcomes
Participants completed interactive story maps documenting sites and narratives across the Old City and surrounding neighborhoods. The workshops demonstrated that meaningful cultural heritage documentation is achievable when participants learn cutting-edge digital skills.
Participant Voices
“I am so excited to be making history in Jerusalem.”
Looking Ahead: SENSING JERUSALEM II
ARCH Jerusalem is currently developing a successor program — SENSING JERUSALEM II — designed as a five-day intensive training course for twelve Palestinian archival professionals. The curriculum builds on lessons learned from the pilot series and aims to deepen technical competencies in digital documentation, preservation standards, and archival management. The program is structured to include two travel days and will be delivered through a combination of on-site and remote instruction by a team of digital humanities experts. A grant application is currently in preparation.
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Further explore how we are working to digitize vulnerable cultural heritage in order to extend access to scholars, students and the general public through our 2026-27 pitch deck.