Digital meets Culture

Deadline for submission: 8 March

The European Commission has launched the Horizon Impact Award 2022

The deadline to apply for the third edition of the Horizon Impact Award ends on March 8th.

This European Commission’s initiative intends to celebrate projects that have used their results to provide value for society and show the socio-economic benefits of EU investment in research and innovation. This will also encourage all other beneficiaries to best use and manage their results.

All beneficiaries of closed FP7/H2020 projects can submit their application; they must be able to show proof of effective exploitation and uptake of their research results.

Six winners will be selected by the evaluation jury for their achievements and each of the six winners will receive EUR 25.000.
The Commission will further promote the winners by inviting them to provide testimony at other major events.

Further information on the prize and how to participate are available on the Funding and Tenders Portal.

UNCHARTED supports small and medium-sized European museums in the development of digital strategies

The UNCHARTED community is expanding: welcome DOORS project!

DOORS, the Digital Incubator for Museums is a H2020 project coordinated by ARS ELECTRONICA with the aim to create an European incubator to support small and medium-sized museums in developing strategies to integrate technology and to enrich the online and on-site cultural offer.

It moves from the assumption that for small museums, the technologies and skills to launch and sustain digital strategies are usually unattainable.
DOORS aims at offering small institutions a program of incubation and development of digital skills so that they can access knowledge, resources, skills.

The project has launched a call to invite small and medium-size museums across Europe to submit proposals for digital pilots that can benefit their institutions and help them initiate a long-term digital transformation. The deadline for submitting applications is February 13 2022.
40 museums will be selected among the participants in the call, to participate in the first phase of the incubation programme focused on shared learning and, among these, 20 will be able to continue in the second phase with the practical implementation of their digital pilot projects.

DOORS has recently joined the UNCHARTED community with the aim of collaborating in mutual support, respectively, of the dissemination and promotion activities of the main progress of the projects as well as mutually participating in the events organized within the two projects. With regard to the latter aspect, UNCHARTED and DOORS have accepted each other’s invitations to participate respectively in the festival organized by ARS Electronica, DOORS coordinator, to be held in September 2022 and in the central UNCHARTED event to be held in London in January 2023.

The Showcase of DOORS on UNCHARTED website is available here.
Learn more about DOORS at https://ars.electronica.art/doors/en/

Ponta Delgada, São Miguel Island, Azores (Portugal), 8-10 November 2022

Creative Tourism, Regenerative Development and Destination Resilience

ABOUT THE CONFERENCE

Many are the hurdles and dilemmas confronting the tourism industry in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, the epicenter of a global upheaval which has exacerbated the already impending threats of the environmental and climate crisis. As never before, this is the time for serious re-evaluation of the tourism sector, and for the redesign of previous models and practices that have proven to be detrimental to destination communities and local ecosystems, and to the revival of the industry in a post-pandemic world.

Among the most-promising trends in the sector, culture-based creative tourism has garnered increasing support and enthusiasm as a pathway to regenerative development and destination resilience, two essential components of sustainable tourism and development. Inherently personalized and participative in practice, creative tourism is based on the personal contact of one-on-one and small-group experiences based on the culture of a place and its people. Focused in its dimension and emphasis, creative tourism offers visitors the opportunity to hone their creative instincts and tendencies, as they learn about the local culture through direct contact with artists, artisans, and cultural agents of the destination community. The result is a dynamic, interactive exchange that both incorporates and promotes regenerative, sustainable local development and destination resilience.

Creative Tourism, Regenerative Development and Destination Resilience

International conference within the project CREATOUR Azores

8 to 10 November 2022
Ponta Delgada, São Miguel Island, Azores, Portugal

This is being planned as an in-person conference.

CALL FOR PROPOSALS

We are inviting proposals for individual paper/project presentations, thematic panel sessions and workshops.
The primary language of the event will be English, but proposals for presentations in Portuguese are also welcome.

Deadline for proposals: 14 March 2022

Call for Proposals (PDF)

KEY THEMES

Creative and regenerative tourism
Linking culture, tourism, and local well-being
Cultural trends in sustainable tourism
Culture and regenerative tourism
Culture and destination resilience
Cultural sustainability and tourism
Cultural mapping and ‘visibilization’ of resources
Culture-based development
Art and place identity
Linking art and environment in tourism contexts
Inclusive tourism development
Art-based and creative tourism on islands
Innovation and technology in sustainable creative tourism

* In these topics, culture includes heritage, art, and other expressions of ‘everyday’ culture.

We invite researchers/academics, artists, tourism practitioners, and students to propose presentations or workshops in these areas, or to suggest other innovative and provocative themes.

The conference website (www.ces.uc.pt/creative-azores) will be hosted by the Centre for Social Studies of the University of Coimbra (www.ces.uc.pt). The project website is hosted by the Observatory of Tourism of the Azores (OTA): www.ota.pt.

Information about conference fees will be available on the conference website.

Following the conference, we are planning to organize an international book with selected papers from the conference.

ABOUT THE CREATOUR AZORES PROJECT

CREATOUR Azores – Turning the Azores into a Creative Tourism Destination is an integrated research-and-application project that aims to advance research focused on creative tourism in island regions, diversify tourism offers in the Azores, and strengthen links with other regions of Portugal where this model has already been implemented through the CREATOUR project as well as with other islands where the approach could be replicated. The main objective of CREATOUR Azores is to empower various agents located in the Azores archipelago to develop, implement, and promote creative tourism experiences through which tourists can actively participate in creative activities, providing opportunities for learning, creative self-expression, and interaction with local communities. A creative tourism approach allows both visitors and communities to benefit from tourism exchanges, promotes cultural vitality and sustainability, and allows artistic and creative activities to play a driving role in socio-economic development.

In addition, the CREATOUR Azores project intends not only to strengthen knowledge about specific market segments that may have greater interest in the products of creative tourism available in the region (matching profile characteristics and offers of specific destinations) but also to identify the most appropriate channels to communicate with these differentiated segments. Given the unique location and intrinsic characteristics of the Azores – a nine-island archipelago located in the North Atlantic – there is a very high potential for the development of internationally attractive and unique creative tourism offers in this island region.

The CREATOUR Azores project is coordinated by the Observatory of Sustainable Tourism of the Azores (OTA) and the University of the Azores/Gaspar Frutuoso Foundation, in partnership with the Centre for Social Studies (CES) of the University of Coimbra, Portugal.

SUBMITTING A PROPOSAL

Submit your proposal using the online form on the conference website at: www.ces.uc.pt/creative-azores (launching shortly)

Information requested:

Personal information:

Name of lead author (key contact)

Names of any co-authors

Institution(s)

Country

Email address (for lead/contact author)

Website (optional)

Brief bio note about authors (overall, maximum of 100 words)

Proposal information:

Title of presentation

Abstract (maximum of 200 words)

Key theme(s) addressed

TIMELINE (2022)

February	Conference website launches
Monday, 14 March	CFP deadline
Thursday, 14 April	Feedback and decisions communicated
Monday, 12 September	Earlybird registration deadline
Thursday, 20 October	Registrations close
Monday, 7 November	Pre-conference event (TBC)
Tuesday to Thursday, 8-10 November	Conference
Friday, 11 November	Post-conference event (TBC)

QUESTIONS?

If you have any questions, please email: creatour-azores@ces.uc.pt.

Girona (Catalonia), 16-19 November 2022

I&R Image and Research conference

I&R Image and Research, the benchmark event for professionals in photography and audiovisual heritage, is organized in the 17th edition in November 2022 by the Centre for Image Research and Diffusion (CRDI) of the Girona City Council and the Association of Archivists of Catalonia, with the support of the Department of Culture of the Generalitat of Catalonia – Archive and Records Management.

The conference includes a mix of activites such as focused workshops, keynotes to discuss the state-of-the-art on working with (digital) audiovisual archives and technologies; presentations and debates.

General Programme and schedule (PDF, 3Mb)

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The event is supported by the promotion of the International Council on Archives (ICA) and the collaboration of Photoconsortium, Photographic Studies Institute of Catalonia (IEFC), Sindicat de la Imatge UPIFC and ANABAD.

A call for participation (full papers and Tribune of Experience) was open until 15th June.

Cultural Tourism stakeholders and researchers join forces to support sustainable cultural tourism research and development

Collaboration established between INCULTUM and IMPACTOUR for synergies in cultural tourism

The EU-funded IMPACTOUR project is connecting Cultural Tourism stakeholders and researchers, envisaging new approaches and methods that will support European Cultural Tourism, reinforce a feeling of belonging, value minority cultures and promote Europeanisation. IMPACTOUR is coordinated by Uninova – Instituto de Desenvolvimento de Novas Tecnologias – Associacao, Portugal and includes twelve project partners from nine EU Member States who are working on the project

The project will elaborate on an advanced and adaptable methodology to estimate the impact of Cultural Tourism on EU regional economic growth. It will combine data analytics algorithms with machine learning and AI approaches to improve policies and actions on Cultural Tourism.

It is a common goal for INCULTUM and IMPACTOUR to support sustainable cultural tourism analysis and policy development, and for this reason a collaboration agreement was recenty established between the two for cooperation and synergies.

IMPACTOUR website: https://www.impactour.eu/

IMPACTOUR Community sign-up page (All Welcome!): https://www.impactour.eu/user/register

in the framework of the INCULTUM Pilot located in the Altiplano of Granada, students and other participants were involved in hands-on laboratories and recovering activities

Recovering abandoned spaces at the Dry Stone Balates School, Jérez del Marquesado (Granada)

text and images courtesy of Elena Correa Jiménez (University of Granada).

On the 29th and 30th of January 2022, the “Escuela de Balates” (dry-stone balates school) took place in the municipality of Jérez del Marquesado, Granada. More than 70 people from different disciplines and interests participated in the recovery of the cultivation area around the Alcázar tower.

The activity was organised by the Biocultural Archaeology Laboratory (MEMOLab), coordinated by Professor Dr. José María Martín Civantos, from the Department of Medieval History and CCTTHH of the University of Granada. The Jérez del Marquesado Town Council and the Irrigation Community of Jérez del Marquesado have collaborated in this project.

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The local drystone master taught how to build these dry stone walls, recovering a large part of the cultivation terraces of the Alcázar ravine. In addition, one of the branches of the Alcázar irrigation channel that supplied water to the terraces has been recovered and rebuilt using the traditional dry stone walling technique (traditional knowledge declared Intangible Heritage of Humanity in 2018: Knowledge and techniques of the art of building dry stone walls – intangible heritage – Culture Sector – UNESCO). Finally, a dozen chestnut trees were planted to restore part of this productive space that had been totally abandoned.

During the month of February, students from the SENED Rural Public School in Jérez del Marquesado, accompanied by researchers from MEMOLab and the Irrigation Community of the municipality, will plant chestnut, walnut and rowan trees, thus recovering this abandoned space.

Learn more about INCULTUM Pilot 1 – Altiplano de Granada

the materials produced by the project will possibly aggregated and shared to Europeana via the WEAVE project

«De Volta aos Bailes mandados em Portugal» the new project of PédeXumbo

WEAVE partner PédeXumbo announces a new project about traditional heritage dances for which synergies with WEAVE will be explored.

The project is focused on the “Bailes Mandados”, a varied dance practice where all the dances have in common the fact that there is a supervisor, who announces choreographic figures to be performed. This mandador can sometimes be a dancer at the same time, or stand next to the musicians.

The project was one of the winners of the 4th edition of EDP’s Tradições program, and is currently underway. A good part of the theoretical work has already begun, with the production of four articles on each of the Bailes Mandados that are part of the project, by researcher Sophie Coquelin:

«O Fado Mandado na Lousã. Fado e Dança Social em Portugal.»

«A Valsa Mandada no Litoral Alentejo, uma valsa amazurcada?»

«Vira, Chula e Cana Verde/Malhão. Os bailes mandados no Minho»

«A Contradança no Baile da Pinha em Reguengos de Monsaraz.»

The articles (Portuguese language) are available at http://pedexumbo.com/de-volta-aos-bailes-mandados-em-portugal/

In March, April and May, the practical part of the project will be developed, in which three trainers will be in four different regions of Portugal (Sines in Litoral Alentejo, Lousã in Beira Litoral, Arcos de Valdevez in Minho and reguengos de Monsaraz in Alentejo, exploring these choreographic practices and teaching them to the community to be reviewed, learned, kept alive and for to find new “mandadores”. In this context videos and photography will be recorded for dissemination and educational purposes.

The materials produced by project, which combines research with practice, will be of high interest for the dance research communities. the collaboration with WEAVE and discussions are it could be a good opportunity for everyone to have it in Europeana

More info about the project (Portuguese language, English translation coming soon): http://pedexumbo.com/de-volta-aos-bailes-mandados-em-portugal/

Cyprus, 7th - 11th November 2022

EuroMed2022: Digital Cultural Heritage Documentation, Preservation and Protection

NEW DATES: The international conference EuroMed 2022 will be held in Cyprus from the 7th to 11th November 2022.

View the agenda for EUROMED: https://euromed2022.eu/e-agenta/

The event, announced by the newly established UNESCO and European Research Area (ERA) Chairs on Digital Heritage, is dedicated on Digital Cultural Heritage Documentation, Preservation and Protection.

EuroMed 2022 will focus on interdisciplinary and multi-disciplinary research on tangible and intangible Cultural Heritage, using cutting edge technologies for the protection, preservation, massive digitalization, documentation and presentation of the Cultural Heritage contents. At the same time, it is intended to cover topics of research ready for exploitation, demonstrating the acceptability of new sustainable approaches and new technologies by the user community, SMEs’ owners, managers and conservators of cultural patrimony.

The conference is in cooperation with the EU Research Infrastructures: DARIAH-EU European Research Infrastructure on e-Humanities and Art, CLARIN-ERIC European Research Infrastructure for Language Resources and Technology, the H2020 MSCA ITN CHANGE project, the H2020 Impactour project, the EU OPHERA project, the international association for photographic heritage Photoconsortium, the CARARE Consortium and the Michael-Plus Association, together with the prestigious publisher Springer-Nature.

Website: https://euromed2022.eu/

CALL FOR PAPERS

Open until 15 June the call for papers on original works addressing the subjects or related research themes in the following two categories:

Protection, Restoration and Preservation of Tangible and Intangible Cultural Heritage
Digital Heritage Documentation and Preservation

More information regarding the themes can be found under the Call for Participation.
It is possible to submit proposals via the on-line submission website available at https://euromed2022.eu/paper-submission/

Digital Cultural Heritage Documentation, Preservation and Protection

International conference EuroMed2022: call for papers

The international conference EuroMed 2022 will be held in Cyprus 7-11 November 2022.
The event, announced by the newly established UNESCO and European Research Area (ERA) Chairs on Digital Heritage, will be dedicated on Digital Cultural Heritage Documentation, Preservation and Protection.

View the agenda for EUROMED: https://euromed2022.eu/e-agenta/

The conference is in cooperation with the EU Research Infrastructures: DARIAH-EU European Research Infrastructure on e-Humanities and Art, CLARIN-ERIC European Research Infrastructure for Language Resources and Technology, the H2020 MSCA ITN CHANGE project, the H2020 Impactour project, the EU OPHERA project, the EU Photoconsortium, the CARARE Consortium and the Michael-Plus Association, together with the prestigious publisher Springer-Nature.

EuroMed 2022 will focus on interdisciplinary and multi-disciplinary research on tangible and intangible Cultural Heritage, using cutting edge technologies for the protection, preservation, massive digitalization, documentation and presentation of the Cultural Heritage contents. At the same time, it is intended to cover topics of research ready for exploitation, demonstrating the acceptability of new sustainable approaches and new technologies by the user community, SME’s, owners, managers and conservators of cultural patrimony.

Researchers and practitioners wishing to participate in the conference have until 15 June to submit papers on original works addressing the subjects or related research themes in the following two categories:

Protection, Restoration and Preservation of Tangible and Intangible Cultural Heritage
Digital Heritage Documentation and Preservation

More information regarding the themes can be found under the Call for Participation.
It is possible to submit for the event through the on-line submission website available at https://euromed2022.eu/paper-submission/

EuroMed 2022 website is available at https://euromed2022.eu/

Visit the exhibition online via a high-quality virtual tour

Accelerazione Pericolosa, photographic exhibition about climate change

The Piaggio Foundation organized and hosts at Museo Piaggio in Pontedera (Italy), until 8th April 2022, a photographic exhibition by Fabrizio Sbrana dedicated to the theme of climate change. The exhibition is composed by 30 large photographic panels complemented by a video that shows hundreds of more pictures. It represent the reinterpretation of Sbrana’s reportage photographs shot during many travels around the world, from the 1980s to the present day.

From Zambia to Italy, from Brazil to Spain, from Ethiopia to Iceland passing through Tunisia and Namibia, the images testify, over the years and through changing landscapes and latitudes, the scream of the Earth and its wounds, between light and dark, lights and shadows, despair and hope.

In addition to be on display at the Museo Piaggio, the exhibition is available also in a virtual tour, accessible online, which offers a very nice interactive experience. Moving around the virtual space, the digital visitor can select the hot-spot that give access to the photos, interesting captions and videos.

Visit the exhibition online via a high-quality virtual tour: https://bit.ly/AccelerazionePericolosa

The exhibition is an opportunity to contribute to reflections around a theme of the climate change that is dramatically in focus nowadays, so to participate in the collective awareness-raising process that must accompany the concrete actions of governments, institutions and businesses.

In addition to the photographs, the exhibition leverages the storytelling by astrophysicist Luca Perri, who has long been involved in scientific dissemination on radio, television, print media, festivals, social networks and through experiments of citizen science. The videos are accessible online, in the virtual tour, as well.

As the President of the Piaggio Foundation Riccardo Costagliola wrote in the introductory text to the exhibition: “If it is true that the salvation of our planet depends on the ability by governments to guiding the processes of energy and industry transition, it is also true that each of us can make an important contribution to achieve this goal and can do it in our daily life”.

Museo Piaggio – website: https://www.museopiaggio.it/en