EdTechReview.in recently featured the launch of the ‘MovingMemory’ app, developed by the Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras) Centre for Memory Studies. The app combines Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality technology to record numerous moving memory models through digital reconstruction. It has been designed to be accessible across mobile apps (Android and iOS) and browser-based platforms, making it uniquely inclusive.
The ‘MovingMemory’ app provides users with the ability to choose their desired avatar and move across three-dimensional spaces. It also features video, music, 3D graphics, and interactive features that can be utilized as models for sustainable and heritage-focused pedagogical and research techniques.
The ‘MovingMemory’ project was launched during the second annual Indian Network for Memory Studies conference titled ‘Memory, Ecology, and Sustainability,’ which was held at IIT Madras from September 20 to 22, 2023. The conference was inaugurated by V. Kamakoti, director of IIT Madras, and featured a worldwide audience of over 500 attendees from India and countries like the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, New Zealand, Morocco, Canada, Sweden, and Bangladesh.
At the conference, V. Kamakoti, Director of IIT Madras, highlighted the importance of incorporating collective memory in order to anticipate policies related to ecological issues such as climate change. He also discussed the need for interdisciplinary and collaborative formats to further memory studies as a discipline.
The Centre for Memory Studies (CMS) is a research programme that looks into the cultural, psychological, physiological, and mechanical vectors that shape memory and forgetting processes. It also looks at how various human-centric technologies and policies related to cultural memory and sustainable development goals can be understood in India and worldwide.
The CMS provides an interdisciplinary analysis of memory and forgetting, examining the cultural, psychological, physiological, and mechanical vectors that shape such processes. It also facilitates partnerships with industrial partners working on cognition, embodiment, and technology, while connecting rituals of remembering and experiencing the environment to systems of sustainability.
For teachers, the ‘MovingMemory’ app provides a great way to incorporate technology into their classrooms. It can be used to help students explore and experience different cultures, as well as to better understand environmental issues. The app also has the potential to open up new opportunities for research and collaboration between teachers, students, and industry experts.
