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This interactive tour of the Dom Square was developed as part of the Utrecht Time Machine. The UTM strives to share Utrecht's heritage via digital means and encourages all those interested to discover and interact with it.

About the project

This virtual walking tour of the Dom Square was created as a part of the "Living Pasts" course at Utrecht University. The aim of the course is to bring the past to life by showing the history of the city and its people in an interactive and creative way using modern tools and media. The iteration of Fall 2020 is focusing on the Dom Square.

This project is the first assignment of the Living Pasts course, in which we are challenged to create a unique and attractive walking tour of the Dom Square. Inspired by Cristina Moretti's chapter on walking as an ethnographic method in A Different Kind of Ethnography, we carefully observed the square and its users, and delved deeper into the history of the square, the architecture, its geographical aspects and much more.

With our product, we aim to reach incoming students at Utrecht University and teach them more about the history of Dom Square and Utrecht as a student city. To make sure that the walking tour is both appealing and memorable to students, we chose the format of a personality test that students can engage with while they learn about the 'student heritage' of the Dom Square.

Do you want to learn more about Cristina Moretti’s methodology of the walking tour?
Read her chapter in A Different Kind of Ethnography here.

About the team

Niels Boogers

Niels is currently a student at University College Utrecht, where he studies Art History, Museum and Heritage Studies, and Linguistics. He is especially interested in the ways consumers interact with heritage, and how these interactions are defined in terms of gender, language, cultural background and education.

Chantal Lengua

Chantal Lengua graduated in Humanities at the University of Genova (Italy). Her passion in the artistic and historical heritage interweaves with her interest in technology and digital innovations. For this latter reason, she is currently attending the Master in Digital Humanities at the University of Bologna and is part of an exchange programme at the Utrecht University (NL).

Tanja Muller

Tanja is in her last year of high school at the Amadeus Lyceum right now. She was born in Utrecht and still lives there. She is interested in computer sciences and mathematics. She participates in the beta excellence program U-Talent and she challenges herself through U-Talent to improve her scientific skills.

Let's Get In Touch!

Wanna know the three amazing students behind this project?
Contact us, don't be shy!

n.a.boogers@students.uu.nl
chantil[at]hotmail[dot]it
tanja.muller.nl[at]gmail[dot]com