Landecker Digital Memory Lab

Survivor artwork is both object and testimony in a memorial museum context. Find out how KZ-Gedenkstätte Dachau / Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Site, Germany created an app located such images into their memorial landscape on our open access site: database.digitalmemorylab.com

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How are digital technologies used at a Human Rights Centre focused on the history of N**i Persecution? What practical and ethical issues do they face?

Find out more about the experiences of staff at the Falstadsenteret via our open access database of digital Holocaust memory work: database.digitalmemorylab.com

What role can play in the future of museums and memorials? Our working paper for the United Nations explores this and more themes focused on creating sustainable futures for the sector: https://www.digitalmemorylab.com/sustainable-digital-futures-for-holocaust-memory-and-education-recommendations-for-funders-and-policymakers/.

For Today's Museum Week theme , we share our key recommendations for using for memory in museums, memorial sites and beyond. These recommendations were originally prepared as a policy briefing for the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance - IHRA:

Policy Briefing: Does AI have a Place in the Future of Holocaust Memory? This policy briefing was presented to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance at events held in November/December 2024. You can download the original briefing here. Summary This briefing offers research-informed recommendations to support policymakers and those working in Holocaust memory a...

Digital Holocaust memory work is expanding, but the support systems behind it are not keeping pace.

In our latest blog, our Research Associate Ariel Li reflects on findings from the world’s first survey of global digital Holocaust memory practice. The survey shows that while most organisations are active online, many are facing serious challenges around staffing, online hate, AI policy, and project sustainability.

Read the blog to learn more about the urgent need for coordinated digital strategies, ethical AI policies, and sustainable investment in the field: https://www.digitalmemorylab.com/ai-is-not-the-answer-digital-policies-and-wellbeing-support-are-lacking-and-staffing-levels-are-insufficient/

What's it like to be a visiting fellow with the Lab team at the University of Sussex? This is what previous fellows Dr Stefania Manca thought.

There's still time to apply to join us this autumn, find out more: https://www.digitalmemorylab.com/visiting-researchers/

In case you missed it, Dr Ben Pelling's latest blog reflects on our first Landecker Digital Memory Lab design sprint in Serbia.

Working with our project partners Terraforming NGO, we explored how digital tools can help connect and make visible sites of non-commemoration, bringing together local history, creative practice, education, and technology.

Read the full blog: https://www.digitalmemorylab.com/design-sprint-1-connecting-and-making-visible-sites-of-non-commemoration/

How can we use computational methods to study the complex global phenomenon that is Digital Holocaust Memory? Join us for an international workshop with digital humanities expert Dr. Ben Pelling on 1st July: https://www.digitalmemorylab.com/free-online-workshops-focus-on-digital-holocaust-memory-research-and-education/