The main objective of the project is to present a new perspective on the famous journeys of the engineers Hanzelka and Zikmund (H+Z) and their followers, using modern cartographic, visualization, and didactic methods. The processing of their journeys using digital and web cartography, augmented and virtual reality will enable the interconnection of cartographic, photographic, audiovisual, written, oral, and material sources. The innovative and vivid presentation of diverse sources will convey the transformation of the world and humanity in space and time to a wide audience. The project focuses primarily on events for educational groups of primary and secondary school students, but also for individuals. In general, it targets a wide audience, both locally within the exhibition space and globally in the form of online interactive map applications using a specialized database of location nomenclature. As part of the main objective, a large amount of mainly cartographic material from the travel duo H+Z and their followers will be processed. These map materials are an integral part of their extensive structured archive, have great informative value, and despite the number of published books and films, are not well known. Another objective is to use the above-mentioned selected materials to create an accurate reconstruction of the routes in the form of cartographic output, which will serve as a spatial platform for further archival materials and facilitate the interactive presentation of the outputs. Selected social, landscape, and natural phenomena and their transformations will be presented using augmented and virtual reality techniques.
