Professor Briony McDonagh B.McDonagh@hull.ac.uk
Professor of Environmental Humanities
By the rising tide of Humber: Flooding Andrew Marvell's Hull
People Involved
Professor Stewart Mottram S.Mottram@hull.ac.uk
Professor of Literature and Environment
Project Description
https://risingtide.hull.ac.uk/
This project engages new and young audiences with the story of ‘tide of Humber’ poet, Andrew Marvell (1621-78), highlighting Marvell’s relationship with Hull and the Humber in the lead-up to Marvell’s 400th birthday in 2021. The project teams BetaJester with Hull researchers to develop the academic team’s existing digital resource – a geo-rectified, 3-D model of Hollar’s 1640 map of Hull that is linked to a flood model co-developed by Co-I Skinner to simulate the impact on Hull of the 1646 Humber flood. By recreating the 1646 flood, our resource is helping engage new audiences with the flood themes in Marvell’s poetry from the 1640s.
The current project meets the third of XR Stories’ challenge areas, building on our flood map to develop, with BetaJester, an interactive and immersive ‘rising tide of Humber’ VR storyworld for educational and heritage settings. Feedback from pilot work undertaken by the academic partners in schools and teacher consultations has identified a market for applications of VR to teaching Marvell, Marvell’s Hull, and Marvell’s floods. Responding to this, our VR storyworld will immerse users in the world of Marvell and Hull’s 1646 flood – a flood that users will experience and interact with within the storyworld, in company with Marvell. The project develops BetaJester’s expertise in immersive heritage applications of VR, and will find routes to market in schools and maritime / environmental heritage sites, through our partnership with Heritage Learning and developing collaborations with Hull: Yorkshire’s Maritime City, Aura and offshore industries, and the Environment Agency.
Status | Project Complete |
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Value | £28,058.00 |
Project Dates | Oct 1, 2019 - Mar 31, 2020 |
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