The Built with Bits initiative brings together educators, students and citizens with local cultural heritage institutions to work on developing digital spaces. Giving students the chance to work with cultural heritage professionals creates space to interact, to exchange tools and knowledge and to tackle local issues together. Working with these institutions helps students to acquire more knowledge about local heritage and inspires them to develop projects with positive impact. It also teaches them digital skills and media literacy.
In the most recent edition in 2023, 10 teams took part, involving 11 educational institutions (schools and universities) and 6 cultural heritage institutions from 10 cities. Read on to discover more about the digital spaces that the teams built and the lesson that they offer for educators and cultural heritage professionals using virtual spaces (such as Mozilla hubs) to teach digital skills.
Tell traditional stories in innovative ways
One team got involved with Spain's National Archive by exploring the trial documents related to the murder of Diego Troncoso, famous because it was one of the first documented criminal cases (early 18th century). They created a virtual escape room to recreate the original scene of the murder and created a narrative to explain how the case was solved.