Creators
- Tijm Lanjouw
Contributors
- Jitte Waagen
- Ranjith Jayasena
- Maarten Hell
- Patricia Lulof
- Mattia Lucca
- Mikko Kriek
Date created
- 2025-02-28T11:11:03Z
Date modified
- 2025-03-27T15:42:57Z
A Virtual Research Environment for
3D Digital Humanities And Heritage
3D Digital Humanities And Heritage
Vlooienburg Jewish Amsterdam
The historical transformation of a neighbourhood
The project is a 3D reconstruction of Vlooienburg, what is now the Waterloopleinbuurt in Amsterdam, made by the University of Amsterdam's 4D Research Lab. The reconstructions were made for the research project Diaspora and Identity, which investigated Jewish material culture and customs in Amsterdam over the period 1600 - 1800 AD. The aim of the reconstructions was to visualize the historical transformations of Vlooienburg for a target audience of museum visitors. It was presented in a desktop/touchscreen VR environment that visitors to the exhibit "Waterlooplein, de buurt binnenstebuiten" (okt/nov 2020) could interact with. Different historical periods could be seen in the application: 1625, 1675 and 1890. Not only Vlooienburg, but also Valkenburg, a neighbouring island, could be accessed this way. In addition, it included a simple 3D visualization of the excavations from 1980. Visitors were also able to take a look at a typical dining room of a Portuguese-Jewish family from around 1650. The reconstructions have been produced on the basis of extensive cartographic, archaeological, and architecture-historical research by a team of digital/virtual archaeologists, in close collaboration with experts in various domains of the cultural history of the area. Since the neighbourhood doesn’t exist anymore, and very few traces in the current urban layout of the area are visible, 3D/VR is the only way to create an experience of revisiting the area.
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