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Figure 11
The Georgetown Project Website

In 2022, the Taiping project continued to create a website (https://www.heritagetaiping.com/)
(refer to Figure 12). The website serves as a digital platform for visitors to interact with during the
exhibition. At the same time, it is a stand-alone heritage portal that anyone from anywhere in the world
could use. Visitors can learn about the heritage assets of Taiping from the interactive maps, narratives,
graphics, video documentaries and e-books. Furthermore, the Taiping project team explored new
approaches for visitors to experience Taiping through holograms, virtual reality, and augmented reality.
The digital tools have attracted much visitor interest and made learning about heritage more engaging.

Figure 12
The Taiping Project Website

Discussion and Conclusion

The projects aim to expose students to the heritage attributes and values of the heritage sites.
Through a project-based learning approach, students research the sites before visiting and then collect
on-site data to have a first-hand experience of the sites. From reflecting on the seven projects, we found
that both analogue and digital techniques have advantages and disadvantages. In today’s digital age, digital
technology can offer a broader data collection and analysis scale. For example, drones enable capturing

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