Resonant

Client: CyArk

Imagine being able to experience the history and heritage of Mesa Verde and Wupatki National Monument from anywhere in the world. To provide an immersive education experience of ancestral sites, members of the Hopi Cultural Preservation Office, Hopivewat Learning Center, and Hopi Public Library collaborated with CyArk and FableVision to create a Virtual Reality (VR) game and web experience allowing players to explore Native American heritage, history, and culture through the lens of a changing climate. 

Players explore, learn, and engage with the history of the sites. Tasked with finding “Resonants,” or short vignettes of dialogue and animation, players unlock learning moments throughout the site. In Resonants, players learn how people lived sustainably with the land and how ancestral knowledge is carried on today. As players gain understanding of the cultural connections between people and the environment, they gain access to additional tools to explore the ecological life that is both sustained and threatened at these sites. They make connections between the land and oral histories of Hopi people providing multisensory engagement through dialogue and oral narratives of descendant communities. 

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