Landecker Digital Memory Lab

09/21/2026

Three words. Many different experiences.

We asked participants from our latest design sprint to sum up the week in just three words. Here’s what they said.

Want to experience it for yourself? Applications are now open for our next design sprint, taking place at the Falstad Centre in Norway from 14–18 June 2027.

Find out more and apply: https://www.digitalmemorylab.com/call-for-participation-data-visualisation-design-sprint-2027/

09/18/2026

What does Holocaust remembrance look like when the last survivors are no longer here to tell their stories? How can the changing streetscape preserve historical memories? What role can, should or should not digital media play in this?

We're delighted to invite you to a discussion on these questions at the opening conference of These Streets Remember - Budapest, Kraków, Novi Sad, Riga, supported by the EU's CERV programme. This full day event will focus on ethical and participatory approaches to Holocaust remembrance in the digital age, bringing together heritage and education professionals, researchers, policymakers, and creative and technology practitioners.

📅 13 October 2026
📍 Holocaust Memorial Center, Páva Street 39, Budapest

On the programme:

On the Future of Holocaust Remembrance - chaired by Prof. Victoria Grace Richardson-Walden (Landecker Digital Memory Lab, UK), with panelists:
● Prof. Dr. Anja Ballis - LMU Munich, Germany
● Dr. Anikó Félix - Haver Foundation, Hungary
● Miljenko Hajdarović - Public Open University Čakovec, Croatia
● Dr. Stefania Manca - Italian National Research Council, Italy
● Prof. Andy Pearce - Centre for Holocaust Education, University College London, UK
● Paweł Sawicki - Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum, Poland

On the Medium of AR - chaired by Barna Szász (Stanford University, US), with panelists:
● Dr. Robert Eagle - AR creator and researcher, University of Leeds, UK
● Prof. William Uricchio - founder, MIT Open Documentary Lab, US
● (more to be confirmed soon)

Partner presentations
● Dr. Sylwia Papier, Dr. Katarzyna Suszkiewicz - Galicia Jewish Museum, Poland
● Miško Stanišić, Nevena Bajalica - Terraforming, Serbia
● Maija Meiere-Oša, Raivis Sīmansons, Līga Vēliņa - Žanis Lipke Memorial, Latvia

Building on the Budapest AR experience If These Streets Could Talk, the conference launches the first scientifically and ethically validated methodology for location-based immersive Holocaust education and community-based remembrance. A limited number of places to test the AR prototype are available on 12 and 14 October - indicate your interest on the registration form.

Register here: https://shorturl.at/6n6P7

09/17/2026

Three words. Many different experiences.

We asked participants from our recent design sprint in Babelsberg to sum up the week in just three words. Their answers reflect the ideas, challenges, connections and unexpected moments that emerged from working across disciplines.

Now it could be your turn. Applications for our next design sprint are officially open!

Bring your perspective, meet people working in different fields and explore new approaches to digital Holocaust memory with us.

Find out more and apply now: https://www.digitalmemorylab.com/call-for-participation-data-visualisation-design-sprint-2027/

09/17/2026

Whilst we're still soaking up the excitment and enthusiasm from our two summer design sprints, we're pleased to announce the next in the series: join us at the Falstad Centre (Falstadsenteret), Norway, 14th-17th June 2027 to focus on telling compelling visual stories with prisoner data.

The Landecker Digital Memory Lab and the Falstad Centre are Pleased to Announce our Next Design Sprint to be Hosted at the Falstad Centre, Norway in 2027. Fill in the application form here. This 4-day intensive programme will bring together c. 20 professionals to create prototypes

09/16/2026

Do you have experience in transforming research findings into compelling stories for the public? Do you have experience in bringing together diverse audiences around sensitive and difficult topics? Come and work with us at the Landecker Digital Memory Lab:

Communications and Events Officer Ref: 43652 (Fixed Term) Apply for this job Location Brighton, UK Hours Full time, 36.5 hours per week Requests for flexible working options will be considered (subject to business need) Salary Grade 5 starting at £30,378 to £34,610 per annum, pro rata if part time...

09/15/2026

If you're in Washington, DC, our Lab Director will speaking at: "AR & Holocaust Memory: Inside the Museum and Out on the Street" — Wed, Sept 23, 2–3:30 PM at Kossuth House.

This event explores two innovative uses of augmented reality in Holocaust remembrance: one inside the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum's Tower of Faces exhibit, and one on the streets of Budapest's former Jewish ghetto through the "If These Streets Could Talk" project.

Speakers include Dr. Katrina Lantos Swett (President of the Lantos Foundation for Human Rights and Justice), Nancy Gillette (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum), Barna Szász (Director, If These Streets Could Talk), Prof. Victoria Grace Richardson-Walden (Landecker Digital Memory Lab) moderated by Anna Smith Lacey, Executive Director of the Hungary Foundation.

A timely, thoughtful conversation on how technology can help carry these stories forward.

Click here to reserve a spot: 👉 https://tinyurl.com/2y96fdp9

09/11/2026

As our participants begin their journeys home, we are reflecting on an intensive and thought-provoking week at the National Holocaust Museum.

Over the course of the design sprint, groups moved from individual position statements and early project ideas to shared problem definitions, user journeys, design principles, solution sketches, storyboards and collaborative prototypes.

The week brought together people from very different disciplines and expertise. Participants were encouraged to listen to unfamiliar perspectives, question their assumptions and work through disagreement with curiosity and respect.

Together, they explored how digital technologies might create meaningful and sustainable connections between museums, collections and the Holocaust across different places. They also considered the responsibilities of the work: preserving historical specificity, responding to the needs of audiences and ensuring that technology serves a educational and commemorative purpose whilst telling captivating and compelling stories.

We leave with new knowledge, professional connections and concepts that we hope provide foundations for future partnerships and collaborative projects.

Thank you again to all our participants, the National Holocaust Museum and the Alfred Landecker Foundation for making this week possible. Special thanks to our guests who joined us online. Shana Tova, and safe travels to everyone.

09/10/2026

It is the final day of our design sprint at the National Holocaust Museum.

This morning, participants continued to develop their prototypes, drawing together the user journeys, pedagogical values, solution sketches and storyboards produced throughout the week.

The concepts had already evolved considerably since Monday’s opening position statements. Ideas had been combined, assumptions had been challenged and perspectives from different fields had helped reveal questions that might be overlooked.

Following a final period of preparation and rehearsal in the afternoon, participants presented the prototypes they had developed together to funders online. These pitches explained the challenge each concept sought to address, the audiences it hoped to reach and how digital technologies could be used to connect museums, collections and histories across different places, times or journeys.

The presentations were not intended to mark the end of the ideas. Instead, they created an opportunity to test whether the projects can be communicated clearly to people outside the working group and to identify the questions that would need to be considered if to move forward.

Thank you to everyone who has contributed their knowledge, creativity and openness to the process, and to the National Holocaust Museum for its partnership, expertise and generous welcome throughout the week. And A special thank you to our guests who joined us on Zoom to give invaluable feedback to project teams.

The prototypes remain at an early stage, but they have opened up important possibilities for future collaboration and new approaches to connecting Holocaust histories and memory across physical and digital spaces.

09/09/2026

Today, our design sprint at the National Holocaust Museum moved into prototyping stage.

The day began with reviewing the solution sketches developed yesterday, followed by storyboard development which allowed the groups to think through their project from an audience’s perspective: what users see first, how they could move between histories and locations, which choices they would make and how the experience comes to a meaningful conclusion.

Participants chose whether to 'stick' or 'twist' - to stay in their current group or form new teams to take their ideas further.

In the afternoon, participants worked in groups to transform their concept into an initial prototype. Drawing on the different expertise represented in the room, they began to build the content, structure and interactions needed to demonstrate how the experience would work. From AI models to balloons and cardboard - they transformed ideas into visible and tangible artefacts.

A prototype is not a final product: it gives groups something concrete to test and discuss, making it easier to identify unclear assumptions, missing points or practical challenges that were not visible during earlier conversations.

At the end of the afternoon, participants presented their work in progress and received feedback from their peers. This process of making, presenting, questioning and revising is central to our design sprints. Feedback is not a judgement, but an opportunity to strengthen concepts.

09/08/2026

Day two of our design sprint began with an exploration of the National Holocaust Museum's ecosystem. Together with Prof. Maiken Umbach, participants were reflecting on the opportunities and challenges of working “interspatially”. How can digital technologies help audiences make connections between places that may be separated by geography and time? How can these connections reveal relationships between histories? These questions require more than a technical response. They ask us to consider how digital projects shapes the way audiences encounter history, move between stories and understand relationships between people, events and places.

The groups then began mapping potential user journeys. Participants would need to consider who might engage with the project, what knowledge or expectations those audiences may bring and how they might move through a digital experience from their first impression to their final reflection.

We started the afternoon by identifying the design principles and pedagogical values that can be guidelines of the project. Before choosing a platform, technology or media format, the group must agree on the purpose and responsibilities of the whole experience.

The group then moved into a series of rapid sketching exercises, which encouraged them to explore multiple possible solutions before becoming too wedded to a single idea. Working quickly can help make assumptions visible, open up new possibilities and give everyone a way to contributed from their fields of expertise.

The resulting solution sketches would not be finished designs. Instead, they would provide a range of possible directions that the group can review, compare and develop collaboratively tomorrow.