Generative | Inclusive | Accessible
Visualizing Heritage
An interdisciplinary lab, making connections between technology, archaeological data management, and heritage practice.
our approach
Research built on connection, not extraction.
The Laboratory for Integrated Archaeological Visualization and Heritage utilizes non-invasive forms of data collection to develop visualization tools that enable spatial and temporal research.
We are a feminist, anticolonial, and antiracist platform focused explicitly on undoing colonial harm through generative—rather than extractive—interdisciplinary archaeological research.
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Non-Invasive Research
Legacy Data
Accessible Visualization
Collecting and interpreting archaeological data while protecting sites, environments, and communities.
Giving existing records renewed purpose through careful analysis, stewardship, and contextual research.
Turning complex spatial and temporal relationships into tools that invite understanding and discovery.
our commitments
Technology in service of care.
Complex data, made clear for multiple audiences.
LIAVH is committed to protecting the environment and community by using legacy data for analysis and research. Our work is explicitly generative, inclusive, and accessible.
We believe archaeological technology is most meaningful when it strengthens relationships, broadens participation, and returns knowledge to the people and places from which it comes.
Our visualizations communicate complex relationships and data-driven insights through formats designed for different ways of seeing, learning, and engaging.
LiDAR scans of Houses 3,4,5, DK-G South, LIAVH 2025
In the press
National Geographic Article: Inside Mohenjo Daro, The Indus Valley Metropolis frozen in time
LIAVH provided the National Geographic image design team with recent photogrammetry and LiDAR data to support the reconstructions featured. The article also includes an interview with LIAVH Principal Investigator Dr. Rizvi.
All images are copyright of National Geographic.
Recent Talks
November 12, 2025 (Dr. Uzma Z. Rizvi presented at the 27th Annual ICOM General Conference: The Future of Museums in Rapidly Changing Communities.): “Dialogue and Lightning Talks: Leading the Digital Future”. Dubai World Trade Center. Dubai, UAE.
Recent Awards
December 2025, Shanghai – LIAVH became the recipient of the 2025 Shanghai Archaeological Forum Research Award.
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