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A collaborative digital art making and skills building series of workshops

Our team, along with outside experts in digital humanities, will offer digital training sessions for selected Palestinian students at the Yabous Cultural Centre in Jerusalem over a period of three months. 

During the workshops, students will: 

• Learn how to use free mobile applications to make 3D models through photogrammetry and lidar mapping. 
• Explore the basic steps of traditional studio photogrammetry workflow before making their first models.
• Practice techniques for capturing interior and exterior environments.
• Present 3D artefacts with annotations – contextualizing objects in situ or remotely.
• Proceed to upload, configure, and annotate their models using the Virtual Illés Initiative app (on STEAM) to collate and build participant stories. 
• Participate in educational experiences – online or on-site learning activities, quizzes, or lessons. 
• Engage in collaborative or participatory projects–citizen science, community storytelling, or co-creation of cultural memory.
• Build interactive tours and 4D, map-based explorations of the model via our workshops, which will be developing contemporary storylines that will be mapped to a the app version of the software.
• Undertake field work in Jerusalem to implement the training. 
• Create a shared interactive digital exhibition.
• Produce documentation that will be used to further annotate the The Virtual Illés Initiative app (on STEAM).

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Sponsor our training

Your sponsorship of our training program will directly empower the next generation of cultural stewards to contribute to the protection, valorization and dissemination of Jerusalem’s cultural heritage in a rapidly evolving digital landscape. 

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