Oxford–Prague Exchange
Student and research exchange with St Hugh's College and Oxford partners.
Research centre at CIIRC / CTU Prague
We study how people handle change.
Then we put that research to work in heritage, AI, organisations, communities and public life.
What we do
What we work on
We work across five areas.
- LIMINAL HeritageCultural memory, archaeology and the future of heritage.Research and practical work with museums, galleries, archives, heritage sites and archaeological projects.
- — Cabinet of Memories
- — Heritage Audit
- — R&D and pilots
- LIMINAL AIHumans, technology, sovereignty and decision-making.We study what people trust, what they delegate and how they keep the ability to decide.
- — AI Scan
- — AI Diplomat
- — AI and society
- LIMINAL BusinessOrganisational and individual resilience.The Resilience Academy turns research into practical challenges for people and teams.
- — Resilience Academy
- — Workshops and simulations
- — Assessments and executive programmes
- LIMINAL CommunityHow functioning communities are built and governed.We study what makes people stay, contribute and govern something together.
- — Governance and decisions
- — Digital and decision sovereignty
- — Membership experiments
- LIMINAL PublicTaking research outside academia.Talks, podcasts, publications, exhibitions, citizen science and public experiments.
- — Talks and moderation
- — Podcasts and video
- — Public experiments and citizen science
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The Heritage Audit.
A questionnaire for museums, archives, castles and collections about digitisation, audiences and technology. It is free. We read every answer and write back with what we would do next.
Heritage campaign · Open until 31 December 2026
Cabinet of Memories
The Heritage Audit is the first step for every museum, gallery, archive and heritage site. We review it, contact you within five working days and recommend the right next step.
Selected work
Three projects running now.
Active
Cabinet of Memories
A programme linking collections, shared expertise, visitor trails and participating institutions.
In development
Resilience Academy
A training programme for teams under fast change.
Bottlecap AI project
AI Scan
LIMINAL contributes research and interpretation; it does not develop the tool.
Across LIMINAL
Cross-cutting programmes
Prague Protocol
A shared framework for research, institutions and public practice.
Guatemala / Los Abuelos 2027
Maya archaeology, LiDAR and Playable Archaeology led in the field by Prof. Milan Kováč.
Institutional collaborations
Work with Bletchley Park, Oxford and other research partners.
Got a problem or an idea? Write to us.
Talks, workshops, research and grant partnerships. We are also looking for partners for the AI Campus at CIIRC — an experiment, a game, a demonstration, a film or a workshop.