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The Virtual Experience Company sviluppa progetti di patrimonio digitale dal 1999 e ha un ampio portfolio di progetti in tutto il Regno Unito, Europa, regione MENA e Africa sub-sahariana. Il nostro team comprende una vasta gamma di specialisti provenienti dall’ ambito accademico e dall'industria dei videogiochi. In questo progetto esploriamo l'applicazione delle ultime tecnologie, inclusi dati acquisiti tramite droni, applicazioni web e game engine.
ThinkSee3D è un'azienda di successo nel settore del patrimonio digitale 3D coprendo ogni aspetto, dalla scansione, modellazione e stampa 3D fino alla produzione e animazione VR. ThinkSee3D ha realizzato oltre 200 progetti fino ad oggi per diversi musei e università prestigiose, tra cui il British Museum, il V&A, NMS, Oxford, Cambridge e UCL. Il ruolo di ThinkSee3D in REPLACE è quello di sviluppare realistiche e coinvolgenti visualizzazioni 3D in realtà virtuale dei vari luoghi studiati.
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The PI for the project, Paola is a UKRI Future Leader Fellow (Round 6) & senior lecturer in Heritage and Digital Humanities. Her research combines material culture, heritage, & cognitive science to explore how new technologies impact heritage making processes and the interpretation processes of the past. Her previous fellowships include a Marie Skłodowska Curie fellowship at the University of Cambridge & an Eastern ARC fellowship. These grants, among others, have allowed for the development of two research strands; One line of research studies the role new technologies play in enhancing processes of meaning making & interaction with past material culture.
Paola’s other focusses concern collaboration with small/medium enterprises & educators to study how novel pedagogies and 3D technologies can be combined to enhance young people’s engagement with their heritage in conflict afflicted countries. Paola has co-developed a project in Tunis supported by the British Council Cultural Protection Fund, & is now developing similar projects in Syria, Lebanon and Uganda in collaboration with the University of Cambridge, Virtual Experience Company & the Rambourg Foundation.
Paola has been recognised for developing both practise based and theoretical approaches to research. She has recently been awarded a BAFTSS Practice Research Innovation award for my co-directed film “Italia Terremotata”, which tells the story of resilient communities in post-earthquake Italy. REPLACE builds on this research, and both strands of Paola’s work will be informed by this project.
Prima di unirsi al team di REPLACE, Matteo ha trascorso quindici anni in Africa come operatore umanitario e ricercatore indipendente. La sua esperienza professionale nei settori umanitario e dello sviluppo, che include gestione di progetti, monitoraggio e valutazione d'impatto, si è concentrata sulla centralità delle comunità per supportare la resilienza delle popolazioni sfollate e delle comunità ospitanti in aree colpite da conflitti nell'Africa orientale (Etiopia, Sudan). Matteo ha anche lavorato a progetti legati al patrimonio, come l'iniziativa finanziata dall'UE “Konso Culture Best Practices and Promotion” (Investing in People: Access to Local Culture, Protection, and Promotion of Cultural Diversity, DCI–HUM/2010/249.021), che mirava a preservare e promuovere il paesaggio culturale di un sito appena iscritto a patrimonio dell'umanità.
L'interesse di Matteo per la ricerca legata al luogo si è sviluppato costantemente nel tempo, culminando in contributi alla letteratura sul “Senso del Luogo”. Alcune delle sue pubblicazioni principali includono Places of Power: Mediation and Interpreters, Topografie leggendarie in Etiopia, Mapping Ethiopia’s Ancient Spirituality e The Amba Geshen: From Sacralization to De-Sacralization. Inizialmente, la sua ricerca esplorava le rappresentazioni letterarie del luogo e le dinamiche post-coloniali. Col tempo, l'attenzione si è spostata sulle implicazioni sociologiche e le pratiche dell'attaccamento al luogo e della formazione dell'identità, in particolare nel contesto del patrimonio a rischio.
Il percorso di Matteo lo ha portato ad esaminare gli aspetti digitali del luogo e come le tecnologie digitali plasmino e medino il nostro senso del luogo, sia nella vita quotidiana che in circostanze difficili. La sua visione è quella di colmare il divario tra interventi umanitari e di sviluppo e ricerca accademica basata sul luogo, progettando progetti interdisciplinari che integrino la partecipazione della comunità, l'uso della tecnologia e infrastrutture collaborative digitali nelle scienze umane. Attraverso questo lavoro, Matteo mira a promuovere il coinvolgimento della comunità e sviluppare strategie per preservare il patrimonio culturale a rischio.
Francesca is a Digital Archaeologist with experience in User Experience Design and Evaluation, the application of 3D technologies in archaeology and heritage, as well as Participatory Design approaches. Her research interests lie at the intersection of both archaeology and heritage sectors and the design field, focusing on embedding values-led and participatory design methods into archaeology and heritage to develop more ethical, collaborative and community-led practices.
Francesca’s PhD was premised on the notion that design shapes how archaeologists and heritage professionals develop and share their work and engage with audiences. As such, her research investigated how archaeological practices can benefit from embedding design theory and Participatory Design processes into the creation of digital resources, through two distinct iterations of design and assessment of digitally mediated experiences.
Alongside her doctoral programme Francesca worked as UXD manager for the exhibition “Cyprus. Crossroads of civilizations” (Musei Reali, Turin, Italy), where she curated a museum experience developed as an interactive and multi-sensorial journey into the Cypriote Middle Bronze Age site of Erimi-Laonin tou Porakou. Francesca also collaborated on the redesign, testing and evaluation of a cards-based values-led design toolkit for the archaeological and heritage sectors – part of the EU-funded EMOTIVE project – recently implemented for her research fellowship at the Venice Centre for Digital and Public Humanities, Cà Foscari University of Venice, and she has published research in Ethically engaged Archaeology & Heritage, 3D models and immersive experiences and architectural visualisation.
Louise is the Project Officer for REPLACE, and manages the day-to-day administration of the project, supporting the PI & wider team, coordinating the project activities and is the point of contact if the Principal Investigator is away. After teaching in the History Department, Louise joined the project in September 2022, working on the REPLACE project alongside her PhD in the Department of History, currently entitled “Art & Commemoration at the Centenary of the First World War”.
Before undertaking her PhD, Louise worked for A Plus Tate Organization in the development team in the lead up to a series of successful large bids, including the Arts Council Collection National Partners Programme. The practical experience with project management gained in this role has informed her expertise in navigating larger project-based work. Since joining Essex for her PhD, Louise has taught courses on the First World War, and the History of Pandemics, given interviews on the comparisons and contrasts between Covid and the Great Flu, and been a regular contributor to History Indoors. Louise also has worked as a project officer within the Department of History as part of the Fulbright Specialist Programme, which explored how natural and historic heritage sites can be used to engage the public with the climate emergency.
She is particularly interested in developing ways to tell the stories of people and places that no longer exist and exploring how people interpret histories and heritage that can no longer be ‘told’ by those who experienced them.
