Two projects with the European Academy Berlin — both focused on enabling partners to populate virtual learning spaces for remembrance work: once remote and content-driven, once as a guided VR tour on site.
Both projects connect historical archives, youth participation and immersive presentation. They show how memory culture becomes digitally experienceable and how Splexit works with partners: with Onboarding Memories mainly on the content layer of virtual learning spaces, with Hybrid Pathways // Shared Histories on guided VR presentations with didactically prepared sites.
Digital memory spaces on Nazi forced labour — accessible remotely, developed from multiple perspectives and freely available.
Archive material — eyewitness conversations, photographs, documents — is woven into connected digital memory spaces. 360-degree photography forms the rooms in which stories and people are anchored. At its core, the project was about designing and populating remote learning spaces — based on Mozilla Hubs, with a focus on content and its spatial embedding. For Splexit, this was primarily a content-driven custom experience project.
Project lead: European Academy Berlin · Cooperation incl. Kreisau Foundation, Centre Européen Robert Schuman, Istituto Comprensivo Treviso · Funded under the Education Agenda on Nazi Injustice (2021–2022)
Remembrance work faces the same tension: eyewitness conversations are becoming rarer, young audiences need new access — sensitive, multi-perspective and without mixing fiction with fact.
At the same time, complex historical connections must be translated into formats that work on site, remotely and in groups — without technology dominating the presentation.
Photos: © Nikolai Krasnopevcev
Guided VR tours on Jewish family biographies in Berlin and Riga — sites prepared didactically, made accessible with 360° imagery.
Young people from Germany and Latvia researched the life paths of the Bütow (Berlin) and Levin (Riga) families with historians and media experts. This became city tours with AR/VR elements: historical sites on location, supplemented by distant scenes across Europe — with documents, background information and multimedia content.
Through Splexit, a didactically prepared module is available that portrays both families — for guided presentations, especially by professional tour guides. Here the Splexit connection was on guided VR presentation synchronised in the XR-Headset, not content production alone.
Realised by EAB with Jewish Museum Latvia, Riga Jewish Community, Goral association and Blickwinkel Tour as technical partner · Funded by EVZ Foundation and Federal Foreign Office in the JUGEND erinnert programme (2023–2024)
We support educational partners, museums and institutions with custom experiences in remembrance work — from virtual learning spaces to guided presentations on Splexit infrastructure.
