XRwise at
University:Future Festival
Lightning talks from a shared virtual space – broadcast live to festival venues in Braunschweig and Berlin.
Learning Between Presence and Virtuality: Mediation in Cross Reality
How can Cross Reality (XR) be meaningfully, participatorily, and accessibly integrated into higher education? The XRwise research project is developing a hybrid teaching architecture as a No-Code platform that enables encounters in a shared virtual environment, facilitating learning across physical and digital spaces. This platform demonstrates the didactic potential of XR formats and discusses the practical, didactic, and organisational challenges of real teaching contexts.
On June 23, we present a special format: lightning talks from a shared virtual space, broadcast live to the festival venues in Braunschweig and Berlin. Educators from various universities share their experiences in five minutes each – whether developing their own XR learning environments, using AR and VR in subject-specific contexts, or teaching in XR environments. On all other festival days, existing teaching and learning spaces are accessible and explorable both online and at the festival venue in Berlin. Participants can attend in person or join remotely.
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| Time | Speaker | Talk Title |
|---|---|---|
| Teaching Realities: Learning with AR, VR, and MR | ||
| From virtual spaces to new didactic approaches and experimental learning formats: The presentations show how AR, VR, and MR are already being used, developed, and taught in higher education today. | ||
| 11:55 | Dr. Ing. Francesco Vona, Hochschule Hamm-Lippstadt |
The Classroom of the Future: Learning Through XR |
| 12:00 | Charlotte Knorr, HAW Hamburg Game Lab |
Gameplay as a Learning Space: How Students Use Immersive Technologies |
| 12:05 | Navid Ashrafi, Hochschule Hamm-Lippstadt |
Teaching with Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVAs) in Virtual and Augmented Reality |
| Discussion | Moderated by Anke von der Heide, Hochschule Hamm-Lippstadt | |
| 10-Minute Break | ||
| Cultural Mediation with XR in Arts and Culture | ||
| What new forms of cultural mediation are emerging through XR? The contributions show how immersive technologies are being used in art and culture – as collaborative narrative spaces, fields of experimentation and tools for developing new artistic formats. | ||
| 12:25 | Prof. Dr. Joachim Friedmann, HAW Hamburg |
Words Across Europe, Empowering Authors in the EU through VR |
| 12:30 | Maja Stark, HTW Berlin | XR meets Art: EU-funded XR Projects in Collaboration between the Independent Berlin Arts and Culture Scene and HTW Berlin (2018–2026) |
| 12:35 | Leonie Wolf, Freelance Lecturer | AR in Spatial Design Education |
| Discussion | Moderated by Anke von der Heide, Hochschule Hamm-Lippstadt | |
| 10-Minute Break | ||
| XR in Teaching: Methods, Spaces, Experiences | ||
| How can XR be taught? What learning spaces emerge through AR, VR and MR? And what experiences are universities having with immersive technologies across different disciplines? | ||
| 12:55 | Prof. Dr. Ceenu George, TU Berlin |
Inclusive XR: Insights from a Hackathon on Participatory Design with Neurodivergent People |
| 13:00 | Prof. Felix Beck, Fachhochschule Münster |
Designing Heritage Around the World: VR in Teaching |
| 13:05 | Tom Milter, HAW Hamburg | Teaching with the No-Code Platform XRwise |
| Discussion | Moderated by Anke von der Heide, Hochschule Hamm-Lippstadt | |