SHELeadersVR – Life and environment of Women Leaders in Western Balkans History in Virtual Reality (2022–2025)
Institutе of Archaeology participants:
PhD Jelena Anđelković Grašar
Creative Europe funding (2022-2025)
Partner institutions:
The coordinator is the Association for Digitization of Cultural Heritage DIGI.BA (BIH)
NoHo production Ireland, Dublin (IR)
Institute of Archaeology, Belgrade (RS)
National Museum of Montenegro, Podgorica (MNE)
Sarajevo School of Science and Technology (BIH)
Expert historians North Macedonia and Albania
Experts computer scientists from Sarajevo Graphics Group research laboratory, University of Sarajevo — Faculty of Electrical Engineering
SHELeadersVR – Life and environment of Women Leaders in Western Balkans History in Virtual Reality (2022–2025)
SHELeadersVR is a project dedicated to the life and environment of Women Leaders in Western Balkans History in Virtual Reality. From the Creative Europe programme (2022-2025), this project unites and is co-financed by partners from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Ireland, Montenegro, and Serbia, together with experts from North Macedonia and Albania. The goal is to create a digital application, which will use virtual and augmented reality that will enable the reconstruction of the life, actions, living space, and objects related to five chosen women – medieval rulers from the Western Balkans.
Based on the research of historical sources and visual materials, screenplays, and costumes are made for the production of VR applications project aims to recreate the lives of five female rulers of the medieval Balkans.
During 2023 the team completed VR and AR applications by the digitisation partners (Digi.ba and Noho). These applications are now ready for testing. As part of the digitisation work, 3D objects and reconstructions were created,including the Don John Tower from Kruševac and a video game that allows users to travel through various countries of the WesternBalkans and recounts stories of their medieval female rulers. Following Initial testing, the public will have the opportunity to leave their comments and, by the end of 2024, we hope both applications will be available in museums and for use on mobile devices.
