RecoVR Mosul: a collective reconstruction

co-creator
Date March 2016
Platforms
Mobile, VR, Web
Technologies
photogrammetry, Unity3D
Launch project

RecoVR Mosul is a virtual reality journalism piece by The Economist Media Lab, allowing us to visit the museum again and to find out what happened to some of it’s key pieces. While walking through the museum we see the destroyed artefacts, digitally reconstructed through crowd sourced imagery by Project Mosul. Project Mosul was founded by cyber archeologists Matthew Vincent and Chance Coughenour in response to the destruction with the goal of preserving the memory of lost cultural heritage and empowering the public to participate in the recovery. Apart from bringing the historical collection back to life, it also sheds a light on ISIL’s war on cultural heritage.

Credits

Co-directed with Laura Juo-Hsin Chen
Commissioned by The Economist Media Lab, in association with Rekrei
Lab director: Ron Diorio,
Lab associate director: Frank Andrejasich
Lab adviser: Kel O’Neill
Music: Matthew Dougherty
Sound design and mix: Quentin Chiappetta

Awards

Silver Lovie
Drum DADI Award for Best Use of VR
BIMA

Showcased at

IDFA Doc Lab