Leadership and vision for the digital age—imagining, exploring and enabling the possibilities of our digital future.
Victoria University of Wellington is uniquely placed to help Wellington and New Zealand prepare for the digital future—watch the video from founding theme chair Professor Benoit Aubert.
The possibilities presented by the digital age are multifaceted, exciting and complex. From information-sharing, shopping and learning, to how we work, travel and live, our world is increasingly impacted by digital technologies.
Victoria University of Wellington will be a leader in imagining and exploring the possibilities of a digital age. We have the knowledge and capability to design technologies that will enable a digital future, the expertise to understand and communicate what a digital future will mean for individuals, organisations and society and a mandate to prepare young people to be educated citizens in a digital society.
Researchers from all disciplines at the University are collaborating to explore and find solutions to the many challenges and opportunities associated with our digital future.
Can the experience of VR be built around our present understanding of cinema and theatre? This research investigates how to use 3D printing technologies and soundscapes, 360 camera rigs, and live performance to produce a VR short film.
This project stages a suite of colliding conversations that explore how Victoria University of Wellington staff and students are contributing to the hot topics in virtual reality and digital creation.
The research analyses characters and their networks in literary texts. Scholars, students, and members of the community can interact with the dynamic character networks for all 15 of Dickens’ novels.
The multidisciplinary research centres, institutes and chairs at Victoria University of Wellington provide a platform for our world leading researchers to collaborate and focus on significant research challenges related to Spearheading digital futures.