Description
Key Learnings
- Learn about updating heritage aesthetics in 3D design, involving modeling, texturing, and animating.
- Learn how designing value-oriented game mechanics affords the transmission of intangible cultural heritage.
- Learn about physically involving the body in ritual movements, reconfiguring home space into ritual space, and value-based game mechanics.
Speakers
- NBNhu BuiNhu Bui is a designer, researcher and educator "living between cultures" with a deep sense of responsibility towards preserving and celebrating her heritage. She was born in Saigon (HCMC), Vietnam, and is based in Naarm (Melbourne, Australia). Nhu graduated Master's in Interactivity Design (RMIT) with the honourable Dean's Award for Excellence. She received a Scholarship for her BA in Digital Media and a Research Stipend Scholarship for her PhD study in the School of Design at RMIT University. Her research focuses on Safeguarding Vietnamese Heritage through Extended Reality Practice. Alongside her research and study, she also works as a community researcher at RMIT PlaceLab, and teaches in the Master of Animation, Games & Interactivity program at RMIT. Her series of AR apps is accessible to download on the App Store and was featured at Vietnam's Festival of Creativity and Design 2023 (hosted by UNESCO), where she also did a workshop and an artist talk to share her research journey. She also mentored in the "Future Ancestors" Study program (RMIT Melbourne x Hanoi.) Most recently, she published her research in a conference paper at ISEA 2024 (Meanjin, Brisbane), presented an artist talk and hosted an AR Lantern Workshop at the State Library of Queensland.