News & Events

We are delighted to share that Bournemouth University has been shortlisted for the TIGA Excellence in Games Research Award for its work on the LoGaCulture project and the development of LUTE (LoGaCulture’s authoring tool for interactive cultural storytelling). The TIGA Awards are among the most respected in the UK games industry, celebrating innovation and excellence across game development, education, and research. Being recognised…

A team of LoGaCulture researchers from Portugal and across Europe has piloted Biotopia — a groundbreaking transmedia experience that invites people to explore heritage not just as human history, but as an entangled story of humans, animals, plants, and landscapes — and published their findings in the research paper Designing Biotopia: A Transmedia Experience for Natureculture…

The BBC has recently featured LoGaCulture’s “Avebury Adventures“, highlighting how playful technology can deepen public engagement with one of the world’s most iconic heritage landscapes. Under the headline “Stone circle visitors can learn with new games”, the BBC reports on how more than 20 smartphone-based experiences — ranging from artistic and educational to story-driven and exploratory — have…

Two innovative augmented reality (AR) experiences we recently piloted at the Funchal Natural History Museum, merging cutting-edge technologies with cultural heritage to explore new ways of engaging the public in natural and historical narratives. Developed by researchers Yu Liu and Noura Kräuter within Professor Ulrike Spierling’s team at Hochschule RheinMain (Germany), the interventions tested creative…

Over the past few days, the ACM Designing Interactive Systems (DIS) 2025 conference in Funchal, Madeira, has featured four groundbreaking contributions from LoGaCulture researchers, disseminated in papers that reflect LoGaCulture’s ongoing commitment to advancing post-anthropocentric, multispecies approaches in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and heritage engagement. Marta Ferreira presented “Designing Biotopia: A Transmedia Experience for Natureculture Heritage and More-than-Human…

We are thrilled to share that the LoGaCulture team presented its latest research at the ACM Creativity & Cognition 2025 conference, held online this June. The paper — Designing a Digital Game for Natureculture Heritage Encounters — was authored by Valentina Nisi, Marta Ferreira, Pedro Galvão-Ferreira, Beste Syobilge, Mathilde Gouin, and Nuno Jardim Nunes, marking another important milestone in…

Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main – 11–13 June 2025 The 2025 LoGaCulture General Assembly brought together project partners and collaborators from across Europe for three days of intensive exchange, reflection, and forward planning. Hosted at the Senckenberg Museum in Frankfurt, Germany, the gathering marked a key milestone in the project’s mission to explore the intersections…

25th-26th July 2025, 10am-4pm, Visitor Reception Barn at Avebury Come to Avebury for the launch of a panoply of locative games! Experience history in and around the ancient landscape with games and stories you can play through your smartphone. During the launch, come and chat with some of the developers and see how these mixed reality…

At this year’s British DiGRA — or Digital Games Research Association — conference, held at Birmingham City University on 20–21 May, Professor Charlie Hargood presented LoGaCulture’s latest work at the intersection of digital games, heritage, and place. Speaking as part of a national conversation on What is British Games Research?, Hargood spotlighted the project’s unique contributions…

Published on the occasion of the Joint Conference on Serious Games (JCSG 2024, which took place in New York City), LoGaCulture researchers Jessica Bitter and Ulrike Spierling present new findings on co-presence and playful interaction in immersive Augmented Reality (AR) for cultural heritage. As museums and cultural heritage sites increasingly adopt immersive technologies, one challenge…

This past week, LoGaCulture researchers presented their latest work at the Foundations of Digital Games (FDG) 2025 Conference (FDG25), exploring how storytelling techniques from genre fiction can transform location-based cultural heritage experiences. The paper — titled “Temporal Collisions: On the Use of Narrative Conventions from Genre Fiction for Location-Based Cultural Heritage Games” and authored by Mads Haahr…

LoGaCulture took the spotlight at SciComPT 2025, Portugal’s largest science communication conference, where 175 science communicators came together to explore the future of public engagement with science. The research collective from the LoGaCulture project, with teams based in Lisbon and Funchal, presented a trio of thought-provoking activities that blended design, ecology, technology, and education, reinforcing…