The field of digital heritage, definable in the most elementary terms as the application of digital technologies to the practices of conservation and heritage practices, has exploded in recent years.
Today it is typical to see 3D modelling, augmented reality, virtual tours and mobile apps as part and parcel of the heritage sector in a whole variety of ways. This has been reflected in academia with a growing number of conferences and publications dedicated to these questions.
The objective of this book is to offer an interdisciplinary examination of such practices which, it is expected, will reveal more of the nuances, interplays and a wider range of interests than is found in the current literature. To that end, the book offers chapters from international scholars in several disciplines: architectural conservation, archaeology, cultural tourism, urban studies and photography; heritage, film, game, museal studies, and scenography.
Their work deals with three broad areas of activity in the digital heritage field that this book defines as the digital politics of conservation; technology as a heritage storytelling device; and digital technologies as tools to create virtual models of the past.
Introduction
In Tangible Matters: Emergence of the Permanent Exhibit
Maciej Stasiowski
Part I: Politics behind reconstruction
(intangible factors in preservation and restoration)
Chapter 1
Reintegration of Missing Parts on Stone Sculpture: Comparing Traditional and
Modern Techniques
Peter Kozub
Chapter 2
Mixing Realities to Awaken the Future: Visiting the monastery of Santa Cruz
of Coimbra in 1834
Rui Lobo, Mauro Costa Couceiro
Chapter 3
Making Imagination of Pasts with the Case study Reconstructing the
Neighbourhood
Atanur Andic
Part II: Agents of Storytelling
(agency versus storytelling)
Chapter 4
The City as a Museum: Restoring the identity and intangible heritage of
Nottingham's multicultural past through augmented reality and location-based
technology
Andrea Moneta
Chapter 5
Conservation in the post-pandemic era: Avatar-based virtual reality
technology provides new opportunities for heritage conservation, a case study
of the Bishop Hill Underground Reservoir in Hong Kong
Mingming Zhao, Yuan Jin, Tatjana Crossley, Thomas Chung
Chapter 6
Heterotopia on Demand: The Digital Possesso Project
Hussein Keshani, Antonella de Michelis
Part III: Resurrections
(restoring the damaged, reviving the lost)
Chapter 7
3D Photogrammetric Reconstruction of Al-Khazneh (The Treasury) Utilising
Crowdsourced Images & Retracing Visitors' Experiences in the Ancient City of
Petra, Jordan
Nemeh Rihani
Chapter 8
Playing the Past: Using WEBXR to rebuild the lost city
Emily Godden
Chapter 9
The Dormant Buildings of Imbros: Dami, Photogrammetry and Drawing
Sevcan Ercan, Joe Graham
Afterword: algorithmic uncertainty
Chapter 10
Machine Vision and Algorithmic Creativity: Application of Image Recognition.
Algorithms to Architectural Style Analysis
Magorzata Starzyska-Grze
Maciej Stasiowski, PhD, is a graduate in film and media studies at the Institutue of AudioVisual Arts at the Jagiellonian Universitys Faculty of Management and Social Communication (Cracow, Poland). He is the author of the book Atlas of All Things Inconstant: Strategies, structures and metafictional devices in the works of Peter Greenaway (Nomos, 2014), as well as of numerous academic articles on literary utopias, unbuildable architectural projects, and filmic space, among them monograph Anarchitectural Experiments: When Unbuilt Designs Turn to Film (Intellect, 2023) and an edited volume Watch This Space: Exploring Cinematic Intersections Between the Body, Architecture and the City (2024).
