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This interdisciplinary course addresses how principles of textual, visual, oral, and place-based storytelling challenge and enhance the conceptualisation, construction and experience of digitally-created worlds connecting to real-world places, locations, and landscapes.

Emilie Sitzia holds a special chair at the University of Amsterdam and is an associate professor Cultural Education in the department of Art and Literature at the University of Maastricht. Professor Sitzia specialises in the impact of art on audiences and word/image interdisciplinary studies. In 2020 she was a resident at the IMéRA research centre in Marseille to work with MuCEM on matters of identity, narrative and multimodal exhibition strategies. In 2019 she was a co-editor for the Stedelijk Studies issue 'Towards a Museum of Mutuality'.

Eslam Nofal is a Postdoctoral Researcher in Digital Heritage at Maastricht University (Netherlands). He is also affiliated to the Department of Architecture at Assiut University (Egypt). His research interests fit in the intersection of Human-Computer interaction and digital heritage, by designing, implementing and evaluating interactive systems, aiming for better communication and engagement of heritage in museums and beyond. He received his PhD degree from KU Leuven (Belgium), where he introduced the approach of 'Phygital Heritage', which entails how heritage information can be disclosed via simultaneous and integrated physical and digital means, as a potential medium for engaging and meaningful communication of heritage to the broader public.

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Storytelling for Digital Narratives and Blended Spaces

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This course introduces the theories, tools, and methods behind Design Thinking and Maker Culture. It provides an overview of the history of Design Thinking, exploring its various schools of thought and practice, as well as providing an introduction to the more recently theorised space of Maker Culture. This course also explores how those in the arts, humanities, and creative and cultural industries can use the twin pillars of Design Thinking and Maker Culture in their everyday practice.

Introduction to Design Thinking and Maker Culture

The course presents Sound Studies (5 ECTS) in five units involving theoretical, analytical and practical competences.

Marianne Huang

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Storytelling for Digital Narratives and Blended Spaces

Introduction to Design Thinking and Maker Culture

Sound Studies