Design for Cultural Heritage – Developing Understanding in Teaching and Practice

Part 1: Beyond Computers: Wearables, Humans, And Things – WHAT!International audienceThis contribution shows how we discovered, by teaching and design, the need for ICT support in the domain of cultural heritage collections. We show examples of current situations with, both, workable solutions and logistic problems regarding the maintenance, documentation, and availability of precious artifacts to keep cultures alive. We point to currently available techniques to incorporate cultural heritage artifacts in a cloud based structure for knowledge and communication that might enable the continuation of cultures in an easy and safe way