European projects SO-CLOSE and TRACTION present their digital and artistic tools to fight against social exclusion
The research and innovation projects SO-CLOSE (coordinated by the UAB) and TRACTION (led by the Catalan firm Vicomtech with the involvement of the UAB) will present their main results on Wednesday 30 November at 10 a.m. at the European Commission in Barcelona.
For the past three years, research teams working on the European projects SO-CLOSE and TRACTION have been focusing on the creation of tools to help consolidate museums and cultural institutions as inclusive spaces for digital cultural co-creation with the contributions of society.
The teams from each of the projects will present the tools they have developed on Wednesday 30 November at 10 a.m. at the European Commission in Barcelona (Passeig de Gràcia 90). The presentation will be done by Javier Rodrigo, lecturer in the Department of Modern and Early Modern History at the UAB and coordinator of the project SO-CLOSE, and by Mikel Zorrilla, director of the company Vicomtech, coordinator of the project TRACTION.
SO-CLOSE, based on the experience of two refugees, has developed open access cultural digital tools that can be used for educational and/or documentary purposes. The tools can be used to create exhibition halls, documentary websites and story maps. the tools were used with genuine migratory information and experiecens and were co.created by professionals from the academic and digital field, and refugees and migrants who detailed their personal needs, expectations and possibilities.
TRACTION explores the use of technology as a critical element in the co-creation of operas between different professionals and communities by developing technological tools to help foster participation, interaction and debate during the creation process, as well as allow for real-time opera performances to be shown anywhere around the world.