A silver lining of lockdown and all the online meetings has been renewing ties with distant friends and colleagues, like fellow alums of the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at MIT. It’s always inspiring to hear what those in this community are up to because it’s a varied group – architects, designers, urban planners, as well as historians of Islamic art/architecture. I volunteered to share some of the issues that have been on my mind with the group this month, on the topic of Islamic architecture, videogames, and the need to diversify the online digital heritage landscape. I’ll be writing about these issues in future posts, in the context of my planned digital lab for Islamic visual culture, so more in due course…