Digital meets Culture

Teachers and students met and interacted with each other, presenting elements of the respective cultures and good school practices

Erasmus+ Project “From Intangible Expression to Digital Cultural Heritage” enables collaborations among the schools in Italy, Turkey and Bulgaria

text and all images courtesy of the project From Intangible Expression to Digital Cultural Heritage

The aim in this Project is to boost introduction of national as well as European intangible cultural heritage subjects with innovative technological methods. Also we intend to maintain the intangible cultural heritage alive with the help of new educational Technologies. It is significant to make the intangible cultural heritage visible for all the students,their families,stakeholders and the society. With the help of the activities of the Project the students will be able to recognise, explore and understand their own cultural assumptions. It will increase good practices among teachers and partnerships with stakeholders. Also it will help in promoting intercultural dialogue among participants.

The fist Virtual meeting was organised by the Primary School named Instituto Comprensivo “B.Croce” in Paglieta, Italy from 23rd to 29th of October 2022. It was attended by 6 students and 2 teachers from each partner schools.During these 5 days activities all the participants recognised the art of storytelling as an Italian Intangible Cultural Heritage element. We learned about the transition of the Italian Intangible cultural heritage through innovative new Technologies and various learning and teaching methods. We were shown the benefits of the Europeana.eu platform as a teaching tool. The students had a very enjoyable experience with the use of digital Technologies like Kahoot. Especially the students were inspired by this app and they got in very close touch with the other countries’ students. All the learning-teaching activities gave us the opportunity to practice by combining skills and knowledge. We started to share innovative teaching methods, best practices and information and this helped and will continue to help us to grow our pedagogical skills and knowledge.

We prepared stands and displayed our cultural materials. We had a cultural trip to Procida. It is the Italian Capital Culture. We celebrated the European Cultural Heritage Day. We also had some more cultural trips and had some workshops.

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students from various countries, with careers that include a tourism component, are interested in INCULTUM reserach and piloting activities

INCULTUM calls for master thesis in Denmark

Before summer 2022, partner CBS Copenhagen Business School published an advertisement for the project and the possibility of writing the Master thesis in collaboration with INCULTUM on two sites of CBS, which reach far beyond the university itself: careergate.com and graduateland.com.

The posting was very successful with many international students applying or asking for information as they consider writing their thesis in the project. In particular, contacts came from 15-20 Master students, nearly all studying careers with a tourism component, and they come from many different countries and study at various different universities.

Such impact of the call for master thesis testimonies the importance of the topics addressed by INCULTUM for the students who are the cultural tourism professionals of tomorrow.

Currently, CBS team has supervised one Master thesis student in Spring 2022 and one in autumn 2022, while between 5 and 10 students are considering to deliver their thesis in Spring 2023.

the group activity was organized in the BA course at Copenhagen Business School and delivered good suggestions, useful for INCULTUM Pilots

Students work for place branding of INCULTUM Pilots

img. sourced from Copenhagen Business School website

In the context of the Place Branding elective BA course by Prof. Carsten Humlebæk at Copenhagen Business School, a case study session on 7th November 2022 was fully dedicated to INCULTUM.

The project and the 10 Pilots were presented to the class, composed of 35 students (half of them from Denmark, and the other half are exchange students from all over the world – Australia, USA, UK, Spain, Mexico, Italy, Japan, Indonesia, Netherlands, Belgium…), and the assignment and scope was to help the Pilots brand the chosen product/innovation.

Students were split them into groups and each group had to focus on one Pilot, so to come with recommendations. Students provided good interaction and came with many good ideas as to how to market the product that each of them had chosen to focus on, to whom (target groups), how these visitors were supposed to get to the pilot site/area and how there were supposed to move around the area.

Results of the session were then transferred to the respective INCULTUM Pilots, which showed great interest in the students’ recommendation and thoughts.

The Europeana Aggregators Forum event which took place in The Hague on 18-19 October 2022 was the perfect occasion to present the new EUreka3D project

Announcing upcoming project for capacity building in 3D digitization

EUreka3D is a project funded by the Digital Europe Programme of the European Union, to support the digital transformation of the cultural heritage sector, by offering capacity building and training, and new services, to Cultural Heritage Institutions facing the challenge of advancing in the digitization effort, especially in 3D.

The project was briefly presented to colleague institutions, partners and Europeana aggregators, by the Project Coordinator Antonella Fresa, vice president of Photoconsortium.

View and download the presentation (PDF, 740 Kb)

In this article, it is presented a case study by Donato Maniello (Studio Glowarp, Academy of Fines Arts-Naples, Italy, multimedia contents) and Valeria Amoretti (Parco Archeologico di Pompei, storytelling).

A journey into the Hades in the Hypogeum of Cerberus: The Spatial Augmented Reality experience

Text and images by Donato Maniello (Studio Glowarp, Academy of Fines Arts-Naples, Italy, multimedia contents)

This work discussion is a hypothesis of reconstruction of the missing part of the frieze of the Hypogeum of Cerberus located in Canosa di Puglia (Bt), Italy. The narration is considered difficult because of the particular fragility of the pigments, by the strong visual fragmentation or by the complete lack of pigments. This work wants to show the potentialities of SAR (Spatial Augmented Reality) technology in order to make visible the ancient polychromies, thus providing interesting perspectives of use for video mapping.

In recent years, the academics have always been more and more interested into the study of the polychromies of ancient works and aware of their value. However, the audience who visits the museums it’s not aware of it, ignoring the fact that the white marble of the statues and buildings it’s not what we can call a stylistic choice but evidence of the flowing time. The collective imagination that has always considered white as the supreme colour of the ancient sculpture needs now to re-considerate its position facing with an interdisciplinary approach, that allows to revaluate and better appreciate the pieces of the ancient sculpture and its decorations, being aware of the importance that the colour had in that times. It is therefore important to use forms of communication that make possible to highlight the colour appearance of the original works in the eyes of the final users, pieces kept into our museums object of precise studies.

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It is important to pay attention to the new communication media that have the clear role of showing the final outcomes of the research to the public, a research carried out by more sophisticated means. SAR is one of the architectural technologies that lends itself best to such communication experimentations in archaeological and museum settings. The reasons of its fortune can be ascribe to its relative user-friendliness and the fact that can be used by a group, an audience. The archaeological and museum assets are well suited to the use of this technology because it allows to reconstruct missing fragments or original colours by overlapping the real and virtual model through the use of matching techniques. SAR technical possibilities and its applications into archaeological and museum fields create new scenarios for the scholars because it is particularly suitable as support for restoration project and digital anastylosis and permits to recreate the original colours using different methods of research. The Glowarp Studio has long since set the goal of using SAR into archaeological and museum settings for communicative purposes and as a mean to enhance the finds or “reconstructing the absence” by creating ad hoc multimedia contents.

Link: https://www.glowarp.com/arim_96_ipogeo_cerbero.html

Viaggio nell’Ade: racconti di luce sull’Ipogeo del Cerbero (trailer). from Studio Glowarp / www.glowarp.com on Vimeo.

H2020 project ILUCIDARE releases Policy Recommendations to promote heritage as a source for innovation and cooperations

Cultural Heritage to Innovate and to Stimulate International Cooperation

ILUCIDARE was a three-year EU-funded H2020 project aimed at establishing an international network promoting heritage as a resource for innovation and in international relations through a diversity of collaborative activities.

The policy recommendations resulting from the project’s activities are now available. As a key project partner KEA was task leader on the drafting of this document.

The recommendations highlight the importance of developing a new understanding on the value of cultural heritage by acknowledging its contribution to social innovation, citizens’ engagement to a sustainable future, creative entrepreneurship and international cooperation promoting mutual understanding. The document stresses the importance of building capacity to enable better cooperation between heritage stakeholders and policy makers. It proposes ways for heritage stakeholders to influence regulatory and policy frameworks for a more holistic and sustainable use of cultural resources.

Read the ILUCIDARE policy recommendations here.

To discover more about the project and its deliverables, please consult the project website: http://ilucidare.eu/

online, 11th November 2022

Digital transformation in the Data Space – symposium

A discussion event and learning opportunity in the morning of 11 November 2022 to explore challenges and opportunities around data collection, and how data can support the digital transformation of cultural heritage institutions.

The upcoming Europeana online symposium during the Czech Presidency of the Council of the EU offers an opportunity to join members of the European Commission’s Expert Group on a common European data space for cultural heritage, as well as relevant representatives from ministries of culture and cultural heritage institutions, to discover and discuss how data collection can support digital transformation in our sector.

Please find the draft programme here.

For more information and to register: https://pro.europeana.eu/event/digital-transformation-in-the-data-space-measurement-and-assessment

organized by Geopark South Funen Archipelago, the session discussed common challenges and different solutions in the sustainable development of territories

INCULTUM in Denmark: networking with stakeholders

screenshot from https://www.geoparkoehavet.dk/

INCULTUM collaboration partner Geopark South Funen Archipelago organized on October 14 2022 a workshop focused on “Co-design of Geotourism” with a number of stakeholders in the territory.

In the workshop, prof. Carsten Humlebæk (Copenhagen Business School) was invited to present the work ongoing in the project and particularly in the innovations explored in the INCULTUM Pilots.

Although still mid-term in the project and thus not completely ready yet for the market, the INCULTUM innovations were throughoutly presented, among which the payment-for-services contract that the pilot in the Altiplano de Granada is developing.

There are differences between Geopark projects and INCULTUM but also many overlaps, since Geopark-designation is often used to foster sustainable economic, social and cultural development that will make it possible for communities to keep on living in the area. A lot of the solutions/innovations of INCULTUM Pilots are therefore of interest to various stakeholders of the Geopark, since they struggle with similar problems.

Geopark South Funen Archipelago: https://www.geoparkoehavet.com/

case studies of the I CULTUM Pilots offer many points of reflections for students interested in cultural and tourism management

INCULTUM presented at Master of Intercultural Market Studies

img. sourced from Copenhagen Business School website

INCULTUM was presented by prof. Carsten Humlebæk at the new Master students of Intercultural Market Studies at Copenhagen University, in the introduction meeting held in late August 2022.

At the informative meeting, ca. 35 students learned about INCULTUM research and activity, with the scope of getting them interested in the possibility of writing their thesis in collaboration with INCULTUM. The Master on Intercultural Market Studies is focused on strategic planning of marketing processes in companies and institutions, and how such processes relate to the resources, environment surroundings and the current market situation the organization is immersed in.

Prague and online, 14-17 November 2022

EOSC European Open Science Cloud symposium

Last year, the Council of the European Union defined the specific policy priorities of 2022-2024 for the establishment of the New European Research Area (ERA) as a “researchers-centred, value-based, excellence as well as impact-driven area, in which researchers, knowledge and technology are supported and can circulate freely.”

The European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) was highlighted as the key to facilitate the creation of ”a truly functioning internal market for knowledge” by enabling the open sharing of knowledge and the re-use of research outputs. By being the data space for science, research and innovation, EOSC is therefore the essential facilitator for the realisation of the European Data Strategy.

The EOSC Symposium is the main EOSC annual event and takes place this year in Prague, Czech Republic, from 14th-17th November 2022 as part of the calendar of events of the Czech presidency of the Council of the EU. This coincides with the Second EOSC Tripartite Event on the 15th of November 2022.

Over 500 stakeholders from ministries, policy makers, research organisations, service providers, research infrastructures and research communities across Europe and beyond are expected to attend the Symposium to reflect on the EOSC key achievements and strategic challenges, and to identify priorities and concrete actions at the European, national, and institutional level to speed up EOSC implementation.

Full programme available HERE: https://events.eoscfuture.eu/symposium2022/programme

The plenary sessions will be live streamed.

Registration until 2 November: https://events.eoscfuture.eu/symposium2022/begin