At the REPLACE project, we are contributing new knowledge and academic research to heritage studies and disaster risk reduction practices. Links to our project blog and our published academic works can be found below.
Academic publications
The main purpose of this paper is to analyse and discuss the co-creation process we undertook with residents of the town for the making of an immersive documentary Italia Terremotata which explores life before, during and after the earthquake.
This paper aims to bridge this knowledge gap by reviewing the literature on the use of place-centric digital technologies in disaster settings. Understanding how these technologies address the social dimensions of human perception of risk and human responses to the loss of place during disasters is crucial for supporting long-term recovery efforts of communities and place.
Three-sixty video-ethnography is a growing field of research, offering novel insights into the complex interactions between individuals and their environments. Despite its potential, the application of 360-degree video in qualitative research remains underexplored. The study presented here aims to bridge this gap, by discussing an approach to data collection and visual analysis, grounded in a multimodal epistemological framework for in-depth qualitative exploration of place-based interactions.
Disasters disrupt not only physical environments but also socio-cultural identities and sense of place. This study explores the role of Virtual Reality (VR) in post-disaster recovery, focusing on the earthquake-affected towns of Amatrice and Accumoli, Italy. This study contributes to digital heritage research by showing how VR can go beyond documentation, supporting storytelling and story-sharing, memory work, restauration of sense of place, and resilience-building, while calling for further study of its long-term impacts.
This article investigates the evolving methodology of 360-degree video-ethnography, particularly in qualitative inquiries concerning the interconnectedness of individuals and their surroundings. It delineates some unique affordances of 360-degree videos in capturing multimodal elements and interpreting environments within place-centric research frameworks. This work elucidates some methodological and practical complexities of employing 360-degree video-ethnography to investigate community resilience post-natural disasters in Italy.
Policy documents and toolkits
Values-Led Design Toolkit
06 Nov 2024
The Values-Led Design Toolkit is a card-based resource designed to support and guide archaeologists and heritage professionals in foregrounding ethical considerations and embedding values in the design process of a diverse array of projects.
The toolkit is composed of:
- Design instructions
- Five decks of design cards – Values, Vision, Concept, Design and Challenge
- Design outputs
- Toolkit Board
The current version of the toolkit is the result of the latest iteration of testing, implementation and redesign carried out within REPLACE. Credits for the original version and following iterations of this work go to the EMOTIVE project team (with key contributions from Laia Pujol, Narcís Parés and collaborators at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra), Francesca Dolcetti, Claire Boardman, Rachel Opitz and Sara Perry.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License