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3D Stories. Telling stories about historical dress

22 November 2024

written by :
Kirill Mitsurov, Daniele Guido

3D Stories. Telling stories about historical dress

A new interface lets users explore and learn about historic garments via 3D models in interactive and narrative-driven ways.
Thinkering
How to handle testimonies of eyewitnesses during war?

19 November 2024

written by :
Inna Ganschow

How to handle testimonies of eyewitnesses during war?

The U-CORE project aims to design a workflow for the digital handling of interview data from an ongoing conflict.
Thinkering
Historesch Gesinn 2.0: a tool to identify and collect

23 October 2024

written by :
Joella van Donkersgoed, Véronique Faber, Andy O'Dwyer

Historesch Gesinn 2.0: a tool to identify and collect

Historesch Gesinn is a platform that aims to build a bridge between researchers and the general public. It has now been enriched with an “Identify” feature.
Thinkering
Ball of Hoehl residents, Esch-sur-Alzette, circa 1985, Alfred Bisenius

2 September 2024

written by :
Laura Steil

Feieren! Popular balls of the Luxembourgish mining bassin, 1920-1980.

The “Dancing Esch” research project studies the festive sociabilities of the Luxembourgish mining basin during the 1920-1980. It focuses on popular balls in Esch-sur-Alzette, a town shaped by the mining and steel industry.
Thinkering
Kaputt © Volker Schlecht 2016

7 June 2024

written by :
Ira Yeroshko

Forced labor at GDR prison - animated in award-winning “Kaputt” animation

How does one visualize the tragic past of the Hoheneck imprisoned forced laborers, a reality that remained unseen for years? Three German directors, Volker Schlecht, Max Mönch, and Alexander Lahl, took on this daunting task by conducting extensive oral history research and transforming their findings into the award-winning animation “Kaputt.”
Thinkering
Mariupol. A Hunder Nights

7 June 2024

written by :
Ira Yeroshko

Mariupol. A Hundred Nights - A Story Not Yet Forgotten

Thoughts about the animation film "Mariupol. A Hundred Nights" by Sofiia Melnyk and Andrii Palatnyi portraying a young girl who loses her family and home in Mariupol following the Russian invasion in 2022.
Thinkering
Thinkering grant winners 2024

29 April 2024

written by :
Joé Voncken, Zoé Konsbruck, Masha Meleshko-Sudina, Nicolas Arendt

Winners of the 2024 Thinkering Grant

Time travelling on the Belval campus through an innovative new card game.
Thinkering
LOVÓ project

8 April 2024

written by :
Myriam Dalal

LOVÓ! Connecting with grandmothers to learn about the past.

The ‘lovó’ project aims to use oral history and art to put forward several voices of Portuguese speaking grandmothers who live in the city of Esch sur Alzette and have made this place their home.
Thinkering
Guide on how to do public history in urban spaces

27 March 2024

written by :
Thomas Cauvin, Joella van Donkersgoed

Guide on how to do public history in urban spaces

This guide offers a method to develop more collaborative public projects on the history of cities, towns, neighborhoods, with local communities.
Thinkering
Decoding Fairground Newspapers: Analysing History with Large Language Models

20 March 2024

written by :
Véronique Faber, Lars Wieneke

Decoding Fairground Newspapers: Analysing History with Large Language Models

Can large language models (LLMs) and artificial intelligence (AI) unlock the secrets hidden within historical documents, such as showpeople periodicals? This question propelled researchers from the universities of Antwerp, Luxembourg, and Marburg to explore the potential of LLM/AI in a one-day workshop.
Thinkering
AI generated embroideries for Ukrainian dancing costumes

22 February 2024

written by :
Inna Ganschow

AI generated embroideries for Ukrainian dancing costumes

The VYSH project uses various artificial intelligence technologies to create embroidery designs for the stage costumes of the Luxembourg dance group Berehyni, which popularizes historical Ukrainian dances.
Thinkering
Cartavox sound postcard recorder

31 October 2023

written by :
Tim van der Heijden

Doing Experimental Media Archaeology dataset published on Europeana

Dataset from the research project Doing Experimental Media Archaeology (DEMA) was recently published on Europeana, the online platform of cultural heritage.
Thinkering
Memories of Ambassadors: A history of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Luxembourg diplomacy

27 April 2023

written by :
François Klein, Marco Gabellini, Cécile Duval

Memories of Ambassadors: A history of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Luxembourg diplomacy

The aim of the oral history programme about Luxembourg diplomacy, conducted by the C²DH with the support of the Luxembourg Ministry of Foreign Affairs, is to document the development of the Luxembourg Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Luxembourg’s foreign policy since the end of the Second World War.
Thinkering
Tropy

11 April 2023

written by :
Anita Lucchesi, Sean Takats

Manage your research photos with ease and consistency: The latest Tropy release is here

Tropy is a digital tool designed specifically for managing and annotating digital images.
Thinkering
Thinkering

23 March 2023

written by :
Aida Horaniet Ibanez, Daniel Richter, Joella van Donkersgoed

From The Historical Archive To The Citizens: Visualizing Census Data From Brill Street in 1922

This Thinkering project draws upon Daniel Richter’s knowledge about the local history of Esch-sur-Alzette, Aida Horaniet Ibanez’s expertise in data visualization, and Joëlla van Donkersgoed’s experience in public engagement.
Thinkering
Recording memories at the fair. Oral history and the “Schueberfouer”

20 February 2023

written by :
Véronique Faber

Recording memories at the fair. Oral history and the “Schueberfouer”

Memory has its own pitfalls, and to provide a more tangible environment for remembering, it was decided to perform oral history interviews for the ongoing research about the “Schueberfouer” funfair on site at the fairground. The assumption was that the space of the “Schueberfouer” could trigger memories and reflections that would otherwise not emerge. However, navigating through a noisy present can prove challenging.
Thinkering
Escher Kaffi

10 January 2023

written by :
Laura Steil, Joella van Donkersgoed

Escher Kaffi: taking the pulse of the city

Escher Kaffi is an experimental public history project funded by the C²DH’s Thinkering Grant to study ordinary sociality in a (post)industrial city undergoing fast infrastructural, urbanistic, demographic, and cultural transformations.
Thinkering
From 9 to 5

21 December 2022

“For folks like me on the job from 9 to 5”

A contribution on office culture by BUREU team member Marco Ninno.
Thinkering
BUREU: A new transnational research project crossing the border between architectural history and European integration history

24 October 2022

written by :
Jens van de Maele

BUREU: A new transnational research project crossing the border between architectural history and European integration history

The newly started research project BUREU has the purpose to develop a transnational and multidisciplinary framework for the analysis of EU administrative buildings.
Thinkering
THINKERING: Playful experimentation with digital tools

5 May 2022

written by :
Isabelle Voegeli

THINKERING: Playful experimentation with digital tools

Five years C²DH – Five ways of innovating and sharing history.

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