Life and environment of Women Leaders in Western Balkans History in Virtual Reality

2026-07-22

Western BalWestern Balkans have always been considered patriarchal and predominant by men but history of these countries encounters many women who held prominent positions and led kingdoms in the medieval period. The project will focus on such historical characters and take the users to time travel to their lives through Virtual and Augmented Reality. We will virtually recreate the castles where those women lived and add the actresses performing the scenes from their lives. The users of VR headsets will be placed in historical buildings and participate in stories about selected ladies through interactive digital storytelling. Furthermore we will create an AR route through the reconstructed locations, leading the users to the remains of selected places where our characters will appear over the mobile devices. The project will be developed by the digital artists and VR developers from BiH and Ireland in collaboration with heritage professionals and historians from Serbia, Montenegro, BiH, Albania and North Macedonia. We will select historical buildings where women rulers were living, will digitize cultural heritage material, sites and historical buildings using 3D, VR and AR technologies. The project will strengthen transnational creation, increase cultural access to cultural heritage, participation in culture as well as audience engagement and development both physically and digitally through created applications, accessible online and within selected museums. The project will help European cultural and creative sectors to fully take advantage of new technologies to enhance their competitiveness, as well as accelerate their digital transition as a response to the COVID-19 crisis. It will foster cooperation between organizations active in the culture field, to increase the European dimension of creation and circulation of European artistic content as well as to encourage the development, experimentation, dissemination or application of new and innovative practices.

Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro, Ireland

2025-12-15