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
May 7, event “Lessons from ‘Leaving Arabistan’: New Possibilities for Academic & Games Industry Collaborations”, The Bristol Digital Game Lab,
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On Wednesday 7 May 2025 at 17:00, Glaire Anderson will speak at The Bristol Digital Games Lab, on “Lessons from ‘Leaving Arabistan’: New Possibilities for Academic & Games Industry Collaborations”. The Bristol Digital Game Lab at the University of Bristol is a leader in the study and development of games for public good. Sited at the intersection of academia and the games industry, the Lab acts as a catalyst for thinking about and with games in the creative city of Bristol, exploring complex societal challenges and shared cultural heritage. Glaire is Senior Lecturer in Islamic Art at the The University of Edinburgh and our founding director. She will be speaking about her work bridging the video games, GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums), and academic sectors. She was an external historian and art historian on Ubisoft's Assassin’s Creed Mirage and its ‘History of Baghdad’ educational Codex feature (Ubisoft Bordeaux, 2023). She will discuss how her recent experiences as an industry consultant and collaborator, as a speaker at #GDC2024, and as an academic game developer and intrapreneur is engaging with ongoing debates about historical and cultural representations in games, and the positive social impact of games. The seminar will be held in person in B.H05 Lecture Theatre, Arts Complex, Woodland Road, University of Bristol. Tickets available here |
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...
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