Forever Project
Design and Production
As our modern world grapples with intolerance once again, Holocaust education is more important than ever.
Every week at the National Holocaust Centre in rural Nottinghamshire, UK, survivors take to the stage to tell their own personal stories of the Holocaust. Each year thousands of school children listen to the survivors accounts and then have the unique opportunity to ask questions. The dialogue with the survivor allows the visitors to connect, engage and relate to the subject in a way that a passive experience cannot provide.
The survivors are getting older and soon this profound opportunity will be lost.
The Forever Project is a highly ambitious project that has captured 10 survivors’ stories. Each survivor then went through a week of filming where they were asked over a thousand questions each. The result is a digital installation that projects a virtual survivor on stage to tell their story and allows the audience to ask questions of them and be answered. Preserving the experience beyond the life of the survivor.
This project was awarded a place on The Nominet Trust NT100 celebrating innovators using digital technology to change the world for the better.