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Smart cities and heritage conservation: developing a smartheritage agenda for sustainable inclusive communities
This paper discusses the potential of current advancements in Information Communication Technologies (ICT) for cultural heritage preservation, valorization and management within contemporary cities. The paper highlights the potential of virtual environments to assess the impacts of heritage policies on urban development. It does so by discussing the implications of virtual globes and crowdsourcing to support the participatory valuation and management of cultural heritage assets. To this purpose, a review of available valuation techniques is here presented together with a discussion on how these techniques might be coupled with ICT tools to promote inclusive governance
Simulating bodily movement as an agent for the reactivation of forgotten open air spaces in the city
This paper presents experimental work that uses immersive technologies for
engaging users and local communities in the design process of architectural interventions
on historic, fragmented environments in an effort to re-activate the place under study. In
addition to the use of cutting-edge methods of capturing and analysing on-site information,
this research framework, implemented in the on-going study of Paphos Gate area of
historic Nicosia which lies on the infamous Green Line that still divides the city, explores
the potential of narrative-led visualization to enable personal interpretations of space and
its history. This virtual environment hosts reconstructions of the Paphos Gate neighbourhood
which were produced based on archival material and via 3D data acquisition (LiDAR, UAV
and terrain Structure-from-Motion techniques), in order to explore the associations
between the transformation of the monument through the years – from its construction
to present day – and the bodily experience of the visitors sojourning in its surrounding part
of the city. The vision of this research is to develop a digital platform which through
immersion, cinematic language and storytelling will enable the evaluation of alternative
scenarios and design interventions in the context of the management plan of forgotten
open air spaces that used to be popular within their urban fabric.Funded by the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme of the European Union.peer-reviewe
The People's Smart Sculpture
The People’s Smart Sculpture (PS2) panel discusses future oriented approaches in smart media-art, developed, designed and exploited for artistic and public participation in the change and re-design of our living environment. The actual debate about a smart future is not taking into account any idea of media art as an instrument for to realize the social sculpture, mentioned by Beuys [1] or as social sculpture itself. The People’s Smart Sculpture is the only large scale Creative Europe media-art project (2014-2018) in this context. It fosters participative-art and collaborative media-art-processes. The artistic results and the open approaches of the project will be discussed by 5 panelists from 5 countries. The project itself is constituted by 12 project-partners in 8 European countries with more than 350 artists and creatives from 29 countries worlwide. The approach works on two levels: the implementation of cultural participation-projects by media-artists and the ongoing optimization of the art and participation aspects. PS2 integrates diverse groups of people to participate in the non-institutional set up of structures for the people´s re-design of their urban,societal and living environment. Artists, citizens, creatives with a new user's perception and new skills are able to „medialize“ the Cultural Revolution of art, culture, society and science: into spaces of a new public
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Rapid urbanization and heritage conservation in Indian cities
The paper discusses the issue of heritage conservation in Indian cities in the face of current rapid urbanization trends. The urban development pressure, coupled with the lack of an appropriate conservation framework, is causing the loss of important cultural heritage in India. The federal Indian government has recently launched a program on smart cities to improve cities livability and embrace technological progress. The paper discusses the current policy situation and the role that urban heritage is having within the internal debate. It presents results from an experts’ workshop held in Mumbai in December 2016 and argues that a novel smartheritage approach is needed to support decision making in urban conservation
Real and virtual convergences: the LOCUS Project: playful connected rural territories
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Information Systems and Models for Territorial and Cultural Heritage
The contribution considers in an introductory way synthetic frameworks relating to aspects of the organisation of the information heritage, the nature and format of data with respect to different thematic areas of the Cultural Heritage, the spatial processing of data in order to build digital information models, finally data management and processing environments, today's evolution of information systems.
The topics will concern: data formats and coherence of interchange flows (some definitions for the design and implementation of interdisciplinary and multiscalar information systems and models); a brief review of methods and tools for the management and representation of data and information in the field of Cultural
Heritage; methods and tools for the representation of models and interpretative conceptual schemes related to complex geodatabases; use of graphic information for technical and non-technical communication
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