From 10-12 February 2026, the IMPULSE Pre-Hackathon, CREATING IMMERSIVE EXPERIENCES
WITH DIGITAL CULTURAL HERITAGE, will take place at CoHub, Saarbruecken, Germany. Over two days, small teams will meet in five co-creation sessions to develop and prototype ideas.

IMPULSE research explores new ways of creating immersive experiences of Europe’s (digital) cultural heritage – this hackathon offers an opportunity to co-develop concrete use cases.

During the hackathon, participants will have the opportunity to use cultural heritage data sets to develop use cases in multidisciplinary teams. XR Studio Sessions offer all teams an introduction to our approach to XR (using the term “extended reality” to include augmented, virtual, and mixed reality approaches) as well as the Motion Hub, the studio K8 has designed for immersive experience research and development. Use case development will be supported by K8’s methodology for immersive experience design, a simple framework to structure complete XR workflows. View the full programme here.

Anyone interested in cultural heritage and/or immersive technologies (no special skills are required) is invited to join.

“Think inside the box” is an IMPULSE Project event organised by K8 Institut für strategische Ästhetik in cooperation with Hochschule der Bildenden Künste Saar in the context of CYANOTYPES and HAMLET project.