According to Candidature finanziate at https://unipd.it/visiting-scientist I will be a visiting professor at the University of Padova (in English: Padua) in the Autumn (Fall) for one month, perhaps September or October. My thanks to Professor Andrea Giordano for inviting me. He is involved with fascinating projects, such as Visualizing Venice.
February 17-18, 2020, The CREASE
University of South Australia, Kaurna Building Level 2, City West Campus
This workshop will explore examples of how the application of digital technologies in the humanities, built environment, creative arts and design are affecting how heritage environments are studied, preserved, shared and celebrated. The advent of technologies such as LIDAR (Laser scanning of natural and built environments), Virtual and Augmented Reality and immersive interactive environments, in areas such as site data collection, site visualisation and heritage exhibitions, are transforming how we study heritage environments and experience them both in situ and elsewhere. These changes have implications in diverse domains, including archaeology, anthropology, museology, tourism, architecture, restoration and education.
Program
Day 1 Monday February 17, 2020
13:00 Welcome to Country
A/Prof. Jane Lawrence, Head: School of Art, Architecture and Design
13:15 Introduction to the day, Prof. Simon Biggs
13:30 Keynote: Prof. Erik Champion, Curtin University, Perth (Chair: Prof. Ning Gu)
Prof. Champion is UNESCO Chair of Cultural Heritage and Visualisation, and Professor of Media Culture and Creative Arts, in the Humanities Faculty of Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia.
14:45 Q&A
15:00 coffee and networking – Catered by Folk Lore
15:30 Burra Digital Heritage Project: Dr. Julie Nichols and Darren Fong
16:30 Discussion
17:00 Drinks at West Oak Hotel
Day 2 Tuesday February 18, 2020
09:00 coffee and networking – Catered by Folk Lore
09:30 Presentation 1 – Dr. Aida Eslami Afrooz – Time Layered Cultural Map project
10:15 Presentation 2 – CAD Walk – immersive environments for heritage simulation
11:30 Presentation 3 – Dr. Gun Lee – Augmented Reality in Outdoor Experience
12:15 Discussion
12:30 Lunch – Catered by Folk Lore
13:30 Presentation 4 – Sahar Soltani – The HYVE (in the HYVE)
14:15 Presentation 5 – Ben Keane and Alex Degaris Boot – AR for Heritage (in CCS)
This free mini-symposium of talks from leading UK NZ and Australian experts will explore recent developments and intriguing challenges in spatial and platial design involving aspects of both culture and technology.
10:00 Dr Stuart Dunn, Head of The Department of Digital Humanities King’s College London, UK
10:40 Dr. Juan Hiriart, Senior Lecturer in Interactive Media Art and Design, Salford University, Manchester, UK.
11:20 Mr Chris McDowall, Geographer, New Zealand, independent consultant.
Just added an early version of my chapter “Games People Dig: Are They Archaeological Experiences, Systems or Arguments?” in the Communicating the Past Book.
One of the many but important dilemmas we may encounter in designing or critiquing games for archaeology (Champion 2015) is determining the why: why we should develop, buy, play, and teach specific games for the above disciplines. For archaeology, I propose there is a further important trifurcation: games aiming to convey an experience of archaeology (Hiriart 2018); games aiming to show how systems, methods, findings, and unknowns interact either to produce that experience; or games revealing what is unknown or debated (how knowledge is established or how knowledge is contested).
