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Abstract

Ghosts of Solid Air is an innovative augmented reality (AR) experience designed for smartphones and based in and around Trafalgar Square in London which launched in October 2023 as part of the BFI London Film Festival for Black History Month. Co-developed with a group of young people who identify as Londoners of colour, it responds to and engages with debates regarding colonial monuments and dominant historical narratives and how these might be contested and protested in the public sphere. In this talk, Rodney Harrison, one of two academic co-leads on the project (with Colin Sterling, UVA), which has been co-developed with the award-winning immersive design specialists We Are Anagram, reflects on the process of developing the app, and the potential for such immersive augmented reality experiences to transform engagements with contestsed heritages globally.

Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê Institute of Archaeology Research Seminars Programme | Term I, 2023-24

The Term I seminar series will again highlight current Institute of Archaeology research.ÌýThese are scheduled toÌýbe in-person events; where speakers have agreed, a recording may be made available afterwards.

Mondays, 5pmÌý

• 9 October:ÌýVictoria LucasÌý(Archaeological Sciences):Ìý"Everything Old is New Again" early medieval glass recycling: technology, change, and resourcefulness
• 16Ìý°¿³¦³Ù´Ç²ú±ð°ù:ÌýJan KolarÌý(Archaeological Sciences):ÌýPrehistoric demography, social transformations and woodland in Central Europe
• 23 October:ÌýGiacomo FontanaÌý(World Archaeology):ÌýComputational and landscape approaches to non-urban political centralisation in the 1st millennium BCE Mediterranean: the SamnitesÌý
• 30 October:ÌýUlrike SommerÌý(World Archaeology):ÌýVarna, Bodrogkeresztúr and the development of formal cemeteries in the Carpathian Basin

[6ÌýNovember: Reading Week - no seminar]

• 13Ìý±·´Ç±¹±ð³¾²ú±ð°ù:ÌýJohanna Zetterstrom SharpÌý(Heritage Studies):ÌýMid-century Museum ‘Best’ Practice and Self-Defined Anti-Racism
• 20Ìý±·´Ç±¹±ð³¾²ú±ð°ù:ÌýCristina CastilloÌý&²¹³¾±è;ÌýDorian FullerÌý(Archaeological Sciences):ÌýEvolutionary Dynamics of Enset Vegeculture in Ethiopia
• 27ÌýNovember:ÌýRafie CeciliaÌý&²¹³¾±è;ÌýTheano MoussouriÌý(Heritage Studies):ÌýInclusive Digital Museum InnovationÌý
• 4 December:ÌýÌýVeronica OccariÌý(Archaeological Sciences/World Archaeology):ÌýThe Technology of Medieval Venetian Glass and the Levantine ConnectionÌý
• 11ÌýDecember:ÌýRodney HarrisonÌý(Heritage Studies):ÌýGhosts of Solid Air: Using Augmented Reality to Engage with Debates Regarding Contested Monuments in LondonÌýÌý- this seminar will take place in Archaeology LT (G6)