Tech x Heritage
Reimagining Memory, Place & Participation
TYPE
Event Highlights
DATE
5 July 2026
ADVOCACY THEME
Digital Humanities
Tags:
DIGITAL HUMANITIES TALK/CONFERENCE EVENT HIGHLIGHTS
On 5 July 2026, SHS conducted a Tech x Heritage Conference, in conjunction with the National Heritage Board and the Nanyang Polytechnic School of Design and Media. This conference serves as a keynote event, the first ever organised directly by the Society, that highlights the application and methods of employing modern technologies and digital humanities practices in promoting heritage.
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The Conference showcased two main aspects – the historians and academics using digital methods to conduct historical research, and the practitioners of heritage that employ modern techniques to preserve and showcase heritage.
The Conference started off with a keynote discussion moderated by our SHS President Amira Karim, with panellists speaking on their research and how they have employed digital techniques (such as building online databases and storymaps) to make accessible their research into a diverse range of topics (such as documenting Bukit Brown Cemetery, Darwin and history of evolutionary sciences, and Singapore hawker history).
Representatives from NYP and NHB next presented on various heritage documentation projects which they were involved in, to showcase modern digital techniques employed in preserving and promoting heritage. Highlights included a VR game exploring a shipwreck, based on the live 3D modelling conducted on the same shipwreck, and the NHB’s documentation of various heritage sites around Singapore.
Attendees were also led on a guided tour to visit the tech-labs in the NYP School of Design and Media, where they saw first-hand the various technologies employed by NHB and NYP to document and digitise aspects of Singaporean heritage. Highlights included a visit to the motion-capture laboratory, where there was an exemplary showcase of 3d modelling of wushu as an intangible cultural heritage practice.
We wish to thank our organisational partners, the National Heritage Board and NYP School of Design and Media, as well as our panellists/speakers and booth presenters, for making this event possible. It is through this opportunity that fellow practitioners in the history and heritage fields can exchange their experiences and opinions towards conducting more digital humanities, while learning about how to employ such modern-tech practices in a variety of genres/topics in heritage. This event is also the starting point for our Society, in advocating for better understandings towards the digital humanities in heritage.