EPIC will Energise Passion and Innovate Creativity as we explore forgotten, lost, hidden and invisible intersections of cultural heritage and histories to strengthen the linkages that define our common humanity.
EPIC merges and meshes Dr. Kris Rampersad’s groundbreaking model multi-framed development experiment with LiTTscapes® LiTTours® LiTTributes® with travel and cutting-edge new media to connect people, places, and stories across the globe.
It fills the gaps and fractures in knowledge systems of post-colonial societies, particularly of the global South drawing from intensive research over the past decades.
Objectives
- To reconnect, celebrate and preserve our interconnected global heritage through creative, cutting-edge mediums.
- To expand cultural literacy and heritage awareness and intergenerational understanding.
- To foster global participation and engagement with literary, historical, and cultural landscapes.
How Are We Doing This? (make Contact to Partner and Support Development of These)
- Preserve and Animate Heritage: Document and reinterpret cultural and historical landscapes and the ancient resonances for contemporary interpretations.
- Revisit sites and elements and link World Heritage, Intangible, Underwater Heritage into seamless continuum that pulls together our human story
- Advance Cultural Literacy: Bridge literary, historical, and creative learning for all ages through engaging formats.
- Innovate Multimedia Storytelling: Employ print, digital, and emerging technologies (AR/VR/immersive tools) to create EPIC experiences.
- Foster Global Dialogue: Encourage cross-cultural understanding and collaboration through interactive platforms.
- Support Sustainable Development: Align with UNESCO, UN SDGs, and other global frameworks for education, culture, and community empowerment.
What We Can Do for you to Join In. Make Contact for help to develop
- Define and map the outstanding universal value of your heritage elements, sites and expressions.
- Policy briefs to integrate cultural heritage into education and tourism strategies.
- Collaborative multisector workshops and forums with global heritage stakeholders.
- Toolkits for schools, universities, and lifelong learning programs.
Impact
- Creative & Knowledge Economy Growth: Opens opportunities for Foreign exchange along with upstream and downstream industries, local creators, designers, and cultural entrepreneurs.
- Educational Transformation: Makes heritage learning dynamic, accessible, and relevant.
- Tourism and Diplomacy: Enhances heritage tourism and strengthens cultural diplomacy.
- Cultural Continuity: Safeguards and revitalizes intangible and tangible heritage for future generations.
- Global Connectivity: Builds bridges among nations, diasporas, and indigenous communities.
Target Communities
- Industry leaders
- Cultural enthusiasts, heritage tourists, and lifelong learners.
- Policymakers, international organizations, and cultural institutions.
- Educators, thought-leaders, students, and researchers.
- Creative industry professionals and innovators.
Strategic Outcomes for Partner Countries, Industries, Communities
- Showcase local heritage in global contexts on global & multimedia stages.
- Stimulate heritage tourism and creative industries.
- Strengthen diaspora relations and cultural diplomacy.
- Contribute to UNESCO SDGs and heritage safeguarding obligations.
EPIC Landscapes & Mindscapes of World Heritage and History
Is re-envisioning how heritage, history, and culture intersect to transform our personhood by engaging with landscapes and mindscapes and creation of immersive, interactive narratives that bridge natural literary, audio-visual, and digital worlds.
These illuminate the intersection of lived experiences, literature, culture, memory and place.
Isn’t it time to harness our natural passions, propensity to innovate and creativity to the next level by harnessing our rich cultural heritage and history?
EPIC – Landscapes and Mindscapes of Heritage and History is Energising Passion Innovating Creativity.
The EPIC way – Energising Passion, Innovating Creativity bridges traditions and technologies, harnessing past and present to transforming static knowledge and history into living, participatory heritage experiences that power industries, empower communities, enrich education, enhance heritage tourism, and foster intercultural dialogue.
It merges cutting-edge multimedia, immersive technologies, with experience and deep research to unearth hidden dimensions that underscore our interconnected global heritage, connect sectors and people.
As such it is at once a mechanism of social and cultural transformation, policy reform and instrument for strategic multilateral engagements between and among governments, private sector partners, iNGOs, NGOs and the philanthropic sectors, media and academia.
This pioneering initiative, the brainchild of multimedia content innovator, policy influencer and cultural strategist, Dr Kris Rampersad, reimagines cultural heritage, history, and literature as dynamic, interactive, multidimensional experiences to stimulate multi-dimensional development.
Get Involved because this is a
- First-of-its-kind blending invisible, oral, aural, documented and literary history and heritage with lived experiences and multimedia storytelling.
- High scalability and adaptability across regions, themes, and languages.
- Aligned with UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): education, cultural preservation, gender equality, creative industries, and sustainable tourism, people, planet and prosperity.
- High and wide potential for multi-sector partnerships: public policy, education, media, tourism, and technology for every sector including petro heritage, agro-tourism, community development and much more
Some creative forms
We can also package this knowledge for you as:
Interactive engagements for your occasions
- Illustrated heritage books, under our global editions, and thematic series, print and multimedia.
- Companion guides for educators, tourists, and cultural institutions.
Multimedia Innovation
- Interactive e-books and digital heritage maps.
- Augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) explorations of sites of EPIC Landscapes and Mindscapes of Heritage and History sites.
- Short films, podcasts, and web-based documentaries.
- Cross-platform outreach via social media, online exhibitions, and global events.
Make Contact to Find Out More, how you can get involve, Support, Collaborate, Sponsor or Donate
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