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Venba and the Festival of Lights: A Diwali Gaming Feature
Venba is a narrative cooking game, where you play as an Indian immigrant mom, who immigrates to Canada with her family in the 1980s.
Karan Nimsons
Nov 11, 20232 min read


Sources + Origins, continued...
Contemplating where we come from and how that makes us who we are is a lengthy process; all the words and pages are sometimes not enough....
various, edited by Issabella Orlando
Feb 6, 202014 min read


Hazards to Heritage are Hazards to Human Morale
Photo of a ceiling in Hasht Behesht, Isfahan, Iran by Diego Delso (via WikiCommons) When a certain Twitter-savvy president took to the...
Issabella Orlando
Jan 14, 20203 min read


Bodies in Boxes: Should Human Remains Be Displayed in Museums?
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Mummified hand from the Musée des beaux-arts de Lyon When I visited the Pompeii exhibition during its...
Issabella Orlando
Oct 15, 20193 min read


Concrete Decisions: Should Historical Monuments Be Reconstructed?
The reconstruction of historical sites is such a regularly occurring practice that we seldom blink when they are scaffolded and taped off...
Issabella Orlando
Nov 25, 20185 min read
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