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Pisa, 27 May 2023, h. 9.00 - 21.00
XXI Maratona Fotografica IMAGO

Pisa’s cultural association Imago presents its XXI photographic marathon: 12 hours, 4 subjects, 1 passion.

The event is taking place in Pisa, on 27 May 2023, from 9.00 to 21.00 CEST.

Website: http://www.imagopisa.it/xxi-maratona-fotografica/

The Marathon will also be available as an online event for those who cannot participate in Pisa. Two sections are available: analogue photograph and digital photograph.

At the opening, the organizing committe will provide participants in the analogue section with a film for 36 shots, and will check the memory cards of participants in the digital section.

Organisers will communicate to the participants one subject every three hours (9.00, 12.00, 15.00, 18.00), which the participants are invited to immortalize in their photographs. The 4 subjects will be communicated also on the IMAGO’s online channels.

The historical bar in Pisa “La Tazza D’Oro” will offer creakfast and light lunch to the participants.

Within 21.00 o’clock the shots produced (max 36 images) will be submitted to the Organizing committe.

Attaining-Expertise-In-Professional-Photography

photo courtesy imago association

Additionally, out of the 36 images, participants are invited to deliver to the organisers 4 black & white or coloured photos (20×30 cm), fixed on black cardboards (30×40 cm), by  the 14th of July. The images collected will be part of the exhibition in the XIII IMAGO PHOTOGRAPHIC MARATHON SHOW, being held in autumn 2023.

Register online at http://www.imagopisa.it/xxi-maratona-fotografica/

Registration fee: € 15,00 (digital) € 23,00 (analogue)

Deadline: 24th May 2023

Both projects are focused on the promotion of lesser-known areas, so that visitors can discover hidden heritage sites, rural museums and heritage stories, generating benefits to the local enviroment.
rurAllure and INCULTUM establish collaboration

INCULTUM and rurAllure projects recently established a collaboration agreement due to common themes, aims and actions. While rurAllure is more specifically focused on historical pilgrimage routes and INCULTUM expands to other types of lesser-known tourism, the promotion of cultural heritage in rural areas is a common thematic framework of both projects, This sets the basis for big opportunities for collaboration, synergies and cross-dissemination actions in the two projects.

The principal aim in INCULTUM is to foster bottom-up local strategies for sustainable cultural tourism, focusing, on the one hand, on hidden potentials in remote, peripheral or deindustrialized areas usually not taken into account and, on the other hand, on the experience, knowledge and participation of visitors. This is a value that rurAllure shares in the promotion of lesser-known areas, so that visitors can discover hidden heritage sites, rural museums and heritage stories, generating benefits to the local enviroment in terms of tourism and economic development.

The rurAllure project is focused on the promotion of rural museums and heritage sites in the vicinity of European pilgrimage routes, which have undoubtedly become a significant economic and political asset for Europe, but their impact is almost exclusively perceived in the places located directly on the paths, rarely permeating into the surrounding rural areas. Thus, entire provinces and regions of a predominantly rural nature, which are facing significant economic and demographic challenges all over Europe become passive witnesses of the flows of pilgrims, whereas they could actually add much of content and value to the experiences.

The rurAllure pilgrims’ portal allows walkers and travellers build customised travel itineraries, planning their trips along the historic routes according to their interests and learn more about the surrounding heritage. The portal also provides local economic actors with a space to share their services to the world-wide pilgrim community.

Read more on rurAllure website: https://rurallure.eu/

 

CitizenHeritage multiplier event - Athens, 29th May 2023
Citizen Science in Cultural Heritage: practices and digital technologies

Wedding dance, Litohoro, Olympus di Άγνωστος δημιουργός – 1979 – Greece – CC BY-NC-ND.

Athens, 29 May 2023

Hybrid event at the National Technical University of Athens Library and online

h. 14-17 CEST

The event organized by the National Technical University of Athens, explores good practices of citizen science in cultural heritage and the use of digital technologies in this context. It is an hybrid event organized in Athens and online.

As part of CitizenHeritage, this workshop will explore citizen science practices in cultural heritage, drawing from various successful case studies in the field and considering methodological aspects, the use of digital technologies, and lessons learnt in this context.

The event approaches the topic from a multidisciplinary perspective, featuring presenters with various expertise, from humanities and education to technical providers and computer science researchers.

Agenda and registration link: https://www.citizenheritage.eu/multiplier-events/athens/

 

The event was organized in collaboration with the municipality for stakeholders interested in destination development.
INCULTUM Pilot: training workshop in Öregrund (Sweden)

text and images courtesy of dr. Sabine Gebert Persson, Associatate professor
Uppsala University

On April 4th 2023 Uppsala University team responsible for INCULTUM Pilot 10 Escape into the Archipelago Landscape, participated in a workshop in Öregrund arranged with the DMO of Östhammar municipality for actors interested in destination development. At the workshop, Pilot 10 together with students from Uppsala University presented results from the summer of 2022 analysis and initiated discussions with 25 representatives from among others Öregrundsrådet, pensionat Ankargården, Hotell Floras Trädgård, Öregrund folklore society, and Tallparkens Vänner. As a result, two work groups will be responsible for developing itineraries through Öregrund (as a way to make visitors see and experience more), and one group working on where and how to use signs and maps at different locations.

View Presentation (Swedish language) – PDF 5Mb

 

online, 15 May 2023
Be.CULTOUR webinar: Values-based innovative marketing for less-known cultural tourism destinations

The Be.CULTOUR project, focused on enhancing cultural heritage and landscape values for sustainable cultural tourism, is launching a new series of webinars to boost peer learning among its Community of Interest and other followers. Various experts and on-field stakeholders will be invited to present and discuss their innovative ideas, their progress and their challenges concerning cultural tourism and beyond. The main purpose is to learn from peers and acknowledge the best practices from the field: where the challenges lay and how to face them. Given that Be.CULTOUR and INCULTUM established a cooperation agreement for cross-dissemination and knowledge exchange, the webinar series is promoted also via the INCULTUM channels and and in the INCULTUM network.

Webinar 4: Values-based innovative marketing for less-known cultural tourism destinations – 15 May 2023

Among the trends that are shaping the future of travel and the emerging visitors’ need, sustainability plays a key role. A recent Amadeus-commissioned survey found that two-thirds of consumers consider sustainable travel a priority, and 37% of respondents think opportunities for travellers to be involved in the preservation of tourist destinations will help the industry to become more sustainable in the long-term. At the same time, cultural tourism represents a great opportunity for smaller and lesser-known destinations. According to the UNWTO, 50% of travellers are driven by the desire to visit and experience the cultural heritage of the destinations they visit.
Therefore, it becomes increasingly important for destinations to create, develop and promote a sustainable and creative offer to attract new and conscious visitors.
In this webinar we will look at international examples of effective tourism promotion based on culture and sustainability and we’ll get to know the case study of the Ruhr region and the Gelsenkirchen area, that will bring a practical perspective to participants to develop their tourism offer.

Registration is accessible from https://becultour.eu/becultour-webinars

The list of all other topics addressed includes:

  • Understanding the European value of cultural heritage: Power of networks – 24 March 2023
  • Innovative solutions for circular cultural tourism – 21 April 2023
  • Values-based innovative marketing for less-known cultural tourism destinations – 15 May 2023
  • Community-led and innovative entrepreneurship for circular cultural tourism – 23 June 2023
  • Creative tourism and the role of arts, interpretation and storytelling – September 2023
  • Circular economy implementation in the tourism sector – October 2023
  • Innovative finance for circular cultural tourism – November 2023
  • Smart data management for circular cultural tourism assessment and monitoring – December 2023

Relevant information will be published in due time on the website of the project here.

Be.CULTOUR stands for “Beyond CULtural TOURism: heritage innovation networks as drivers of Europeanisation towards a human-centred and circular tourism economy”. It expresses the goal to move beyond tourism through a longer-term human-centred development perspective, enhancing cultural heritage and landscape values.

Read more about the project in the official website: https://becultour.eu/

 

The Festival will take place from 6 to 10 September 2023
Ars Electronica Festival 2023: “Who Owns The Truth?”

Ars Electronica Festival 2023 / Photo: Created with the AI-System DALL·E2

From 6 to 1o September 2023, the Ars Electronica Festival for art, technology and society once again invites artists, scientists, developers, designers, entrepreneurs, and activists from all over the world to Linz, Austria, to attend the festival.

Ars Electronica has accompanied the ongoing digitalization of our lives since 1979. It poses questions about the political, social, ecological, and economic consequences, and speculates on the future forms that technological progress will take. Embedded in a worldwide network of artists, scientists, developers, designers, entrepreneurs, and activists, Ars Electronica constantly advances this research – both within and together with the widest possible public. Whether with exhibitions, conferences, concerts, performances, or interventions – the goal has always been to push forward a discourse and promote inclusive and sustainable visions of the future.

This year’s theme by Europe’s largest festival for art, technology and society will focus on the following question: “Who Owns the Truth?”. This theme aims directly at key disputed topics of our time: truth and ownership, interpretive authority and sovereignty, specifically focusing on Artificial Intelligence performances: Ars Electronica 2023 is about demonstrating how artists from all over the world, through collaboration as well as confrontation with technology and society, are working on this topic.

This year, the festival has secured numerous partnerships with leading names in the arts and culture industry, such as the Museo Nacional del Prado and the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid, the Grand Palais Immersif in Paris, the Salzburg Festival, and the Biennale Musica 2023 Venezia. Additionally, renowned organizations like MEET Digital Culture Center in Milan, WRO Media Art Biennale in Wrocław, Leonardo – The International Society of Arts, Sciences, and Technology, and Arizona State University will also be participating. Notably, two European Capitals of Culture, Bad Ischl 2024 and Oulu (Finland) 2026, will also be involved in the festival this autumn.

Discover more about the festival at this link.

the third project meeting took place 27-29 April 2023
INCULTUM meeting, impressions from Uppsala

Hosted by partner Uppsala University, also leading the INCULTUM Pilot 10 Escape into the Archipelago Landscape, a friendly project meeting was organized to mark the conclusion of INCULTUM’s second year of work, and to review the progress and challenges. All the partners gathered on the occasion, to present the achievements in the various tasks and to discuss about innovation in cultural tourism, participatory approaches to local promotion and impact of the actions on the various stakeholders.

In specific, the 10 Pilots were illustrated in detail, focusing on the activities deployed to foster participation and training of the local communities in managing the territories and enhancing their tourism potential.

 

 

CitizenHeritage workshop - Rotterdam, 24th May 2023
Food and Culture

In this Food and Culture workshop, students from Erasmus University Rotterdam get to cook, eat, and discuss the role of food in shaping and expressing identity – also talking about the environmental effect of the food chain. The event takes place at the Erasmus Food Lab, an organization aiming to promote and raise awareness about sustainable and healthy food. It is an experimental playground for research, teaching and marketing related to plant-based foods.

arebyte Gallery organises a new masterclass on climate change, hosted by artist and researcher Angela YT Chan.
Upcoming masterclass event at arebyte Gallery

Image credit: Angela YT Chan, Tidal Workshop

arebyte Gallery is pleased to announce a new masterclass “Digital Practices – Masterclass with climate change expert Angela YT Chan”, that will take place on May 20 and will focus on developing a socially and environmentally responsible digital practice with climate change specialist, researcher, curator and artist Angela YT Chan.

Participants will learn about the historical roots of the climate crisis, gain tools for applying climate literacy in your digital projects, and develop frameworks for building a sustainable future in the digital sector.

The masterclass will be divided in three sessions:

  • Session 1 (11:30-13:30): this session will cover how the colonial histories of exploitative extractions from peoples and the planet have led to the climate crisis, and continue to sustain it through uneven global developments.
  • Session 2 (14:00-16:00): this session presents some of the tools available to digital practitioners to gain climate literacy and apply while developing your creative projects, focusing on a climate justice approach – one that forefronts the people at the heart of the climate struggle.
  • Session 3 (16:30-17:30): this session discusses the long-term infrastructures and resources that digital practitioners want to see in the sector and explores what already exists at the grassroots level or within other digital practices, allowing to develop intentions towards a sustainable practice that goes beyond climate literacy, towards a compassionate understanding of the dynamics of the climate crisis.

The masterclass will take place at arebyte Gallery, 7 Botanic Sq, Leamouth Peninsula, London E14 0LG. For more information, check this link. Get your ticket here.

Photoconsortium vicepresident Antonella Fresa presented EUreka3D at the important conference of Europeana on 18/4/2023
EUreka3D presented at “Why 3D Matters”

The Europeana conference “Why 3D Matters: accelerating 3D in the common European data space for cultural heritage” took place on 18th April 2023, under the Swedish Presidency of the Council of the EU, in collaboration with the Swedish Ministry of Culture and the Swedish National Heritage Board.

The event saw the participation of important guests such as Rehana Schwinninger-Ladak (DG CONNECT), Harry Verwayen (Deputy director of Europeana Foundation), Sophia Laurin (Swedish Ministry of Culture), Eva Stengård (Ministry of Culture, Government Offices of Sweden), Joakim Malmström (National Antiquarian and Director General, Swedish National Heritage Board), Ann Follin (Director of Etnografiska Musee), who opened the conference.

A programme of interesting talks and panels discussed various aspects and international projects focusing on 3D and cultural heritage. The conference was a great success, with 60 people who joined in-person and more than 200 online attendees.

 

EUreka3D, being dedicated to supporting Cultural Heritage Institutions with capacity building, training, and new services for 3D collections management storage and sharing, was presented by project coordinator Antonella Fresa, vicepresident of Photoconsortium, in the Final Plenary part “Building capacity, sharing, training, learning“.

The presentation focused on how e-infrastructures can support the implementation of 3D in Cultural Heritage, and what are the challenges and needs of CHIs in the 3D digitization effort.

View and download EUreka3D presentation at this link (PDF, 1MB)

 

Antonella also participated in the panel discussion moderated by Valentine Charles (Europeana Foundation), where selected speakers discussed the challenges and possible solutions for CHIs in the digital transformation and 3D digitization management.

Furthermore, one of the key partners of EUreka3D Dr. Marinos Ioannides (Cyprus University of Technology), presented the pioneerig project of digitization and enhancement that created an advanced 3D model of The Asinou Church, one of the national monuments in Cyprus.

EUreka3D website: https://eureka3d.eu/

Find EUreka3D also on Twitter.

eu emblemEUreka3D project is co-financed by the Digital Europe Programme of the European Union.

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