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 is involved differently as platform and service partner: 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 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.
