Purpose-driven startup providing accurate information on Islamic art, architecture, and history for wide public audiences. We help students, professionals, and history and cultural enthusiasts through our historical consulting services and online professional development training. Led by Founding Director and Principal Consultant Glaire Anderson, PhD our award-winning projects include Assassin's Creed Mirage and its educational ‘History of Baghdad’ Codex feature (Ubisoft, 2023). The Codex is now available to learners ages 12+ in the Discovery Tour Medieval Baghdad free app (Ubisoft, 2025). Follow us on LinkedIn and Insta and visit us online at www.digitallabivcc.com
Learning from Assassin's Creed Mirage Arabic calligrapher Hatem Arafa
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Our partnership with Arafa developed in the same spirit as our work on Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed Mirage (with Digital Lab team providing historical expertise, and Arafa designing the iconic crest and the in-game calligraphy used for the game’s skill trees). Although we worked with Ubisoft independently our mutual desire to bring knowledge of Islamic art and history to wider audiences is very much aligned. There are still a few spots left - It’s hosted by the Digital Lab on Zoom, and we hope this will allow more people to participate. The workshop begins April 19. The sessions will be recorded and accessible to participants online for practice and referring back to individual feedback. Details and registration: DLIVCC community registration here Non-DLIVCC registration here See you in the workshop! |
Digital Lab for Islamic Visual Culture & Collections (DLIVCC)
Purpose-driven startup providing accurate information on Islamic art, architecture, and history for wide public audiences. We help students, professionals, and history and cultural enthusiasts through our historical consulting services and online professional development training. Led by Founding Director and Principal Consultant Glaire Anderson, PhD our award-winning projects include Assassin's Creed Mirage and its educational ‘History of Baghdad’ Codex feature (Ubisoft, 2023). The Codex is now available to learners ages 12+ in the Discovery Tour Medieval Baghdad free app (Ubisoft, 2025). Follow us on LinkedIn and Insta and visit us online at www.digitallabivcc.com
Hello Reader, This week Ubisoft announced a new, free Discovery Tour Medieval Baghdad app! It incorporates our consultancy and collaborative research work from Assassin's Creed Mirage and its educational Codex feature. You can learn more and download the free app on the Ubisoft website here. I couldn't be happier that the results of our consultancy and collaboration with Ubisoft are now even more accessible to wide publics. My hope is that this app will inspire more people of all ages to...
Hi Reader, Hope you had a wonderful summer break! Here in Edinburgh the Festival season is finally drawing to a close, and we're looking forward to Fall in the Digital Lab. We start back tomorrow, 12pm EST/ 5pm BST on Zoom with a single session on 'Representing Historical Islamicate Societies: Common Pitfalls' with Sarah Slingluff, our History & Education Coordinator. If you'd like to join Sarah for tomorrow's session, it's not too late. Click for Details Hope to see you in the Academy!...
Hello! We're winding down for the summer holidays here in Edinburgh, but September is just around the corner. If you're looking ahead to Fall, enrolment is open for our Fall Academy online classes. New for this year, Sarah will be teaching a new unit, an Introduction to the art, architecture, and history of al-Andalus. Our mission in the Digital Lab is to bring accurate information about medieval Islamic art, architecture, and history to wide public audiences, through video games, and through...