Reflexive Migration Research in the Museum. Potentials and Perspectives of Virtual Realities (T01)

• Subject Area: General Education and History of Education ; Empirical Social Research ; Modern and Contemporary History
• Term: since 2024
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 501120656

In the form of a real-life laboratory, the project transfers reflexive perspectives and research results into societal practice, and at the same time gains additional data and insights into the production of migration-related meanings. The application partner is the Documentation Centre and Museum on Migration in Germany (DOMiD). The real-life lab uses the potential of two Virtual Reality-tools to give civil society actors the opportunity and agency to bring different and new narratives into the museum and by this to renegotiate the social meaning of migration.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres (Transfer Project)
• Subproject of: SFB 1604: Production of Migration
• Applicant Institution: Universität Osnabrück
• Co-Applicant Institution: DOMiD e.V.; – Dokumentationszentrum und Museum über die Migration in Deutschland
• Project Heads: Professorin Dr. Julia Christina Becker; Professor Dr. Aladin El-Mafaalani; Professor Dr. Christoph A. Rass; Professorin Dr. Lale Yildirim