User:Erik Champion

Erik Champion is an academic who specializes in virtual heritage, (virtual reality applied to cultural heritage) and serious games, especially for history and heritage. He was a UNESCO Chair, he is currently an Emeritus Professor at Curtin University, Honorary Research Professor at the Australian National University, and Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Western Australia.

His recent books are Critical Gaming: Interactive History and Virtual Heritage for Routledge’s Digital Research in the Arts and Humanities Series, and Playing with the Past (Springer, 2011). He also wrote Organic Design in Twentieth-Century Nordic Architecture (Routledge, 2019). Two books will appear in 2021, Rethinking Virtual Places (Indiana University Press, 2021), and an edited open access book: Virtual Heritage: A Guide (Ubiquity Press, 2021).

He edited The Phenomenology of Real and Virtual Places (Routledge, 2018), Game Mods: Design, Theory and Criticism (ETC Press, 2012) and co-edited Cultural Heritage Infrastructures in Digital Humanities (Routledge, 2017).