Leading up to the Virginia Tech Sesquicentennial in 2022, our team has worked with the Council on Virginia Tech History to explore how we could use emerging creative technologies to educate diverse audiences about the university’s complex history. Guided by the question "If this place could talk what would it tell us," our team continues to expand with faculty and students from computer science, history, creative technologies, visual arts, mining engineering, geosciences, education, and library sciences. Working together we experiment with immersive 3D environments, projection mapping and Extended Reality technologies alongside intensive archival research and oral history interviews to understand VT’s hidden and marginalized histories. Our goal is to build a series of place-based immersive experiences and exhibits for a wide range of audiences.
 
Visitors looking at the exhibits