Digital reconstruction and AR landscape guide at the Falstad Centre
The Falstad centre is one of the seven national human rights centres in Norway and it is a museum, a memorial and an educational centre where activities on human rights and democracy based upon its history as a prison camp from World War II are offered every year to thousands of students ranging from 15-18 years.
“The SS Strafgefangenenlager Falstad was established in 1941, and until liberation on seven May 1945, more than 4300 political prisoners, Jews, Soviet and Yugoslavian slave labourers were imprisoned at what was the only SS operated camp in Norway. More than 200 prisoners were executed in the Falstad forest, located 1 km from the campsite. Before the establishment of the Strafgefangenenlager in 1941, the main building was a reformative school for boys, including a special facility for convicted youth. Immediately after the liberation, the Innherrad collaborator camp was established at Falstad, with over 3000 convicted collaborators serving their sentence in the same buildings that once housed the prisoners of the Nazi regime.” Read more here.
As members of the EU-funded HERA research project IC_ACCESS: Inclusive strategies for European conflicted pasts, the Falstad centre, and the SPECS research group, at the Institute of Science and Technology IBEC) agreed to jointly develop the Future Memory App of SS Strafgefangenenlager Falstad 1945, targeted towards students, visitors and educational programs as well as museum visitors to the memorial. In addition, Eodyne Systems s.l. took charge of the technical realization of the FMA which was launched in the summer of 2018 and used daily ever since.
