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Place Panel Synopsis
What is place, and how can new media technologies put place at the heart of cultural heritage? The topic of the panel discussion could not be more ambitious and controversial. Still, it is fascinating.
The aim of the panel is to explore and debate the different, sometimes competing perspectives on the design practices, methodologies, and technologies that can bring a sense of place in the preservation and appreciation of cultural heritage. Place is a common research topic for many of the speakers and delegates. The panel will discuss emerging issues related to place, raised during the two-day conference, and encourage members of the audience to reflect on their own practices and actively participate in the discussion.
The discussion will cover issues ranging from how we can recreate a sense of place within technological environments to how new media can help us to technologically augment people’s different engagements with particular spaces and territories. These issues entail questions concerning the creative relationship between actual artifacts and virtual dimension, tangible and intangible cultural objects, and our sense of past, present, and future as well. More concretely, they raise debate about who has the capability of producing content and what this content has to be, who is in charge of creating context, and whether the latter is a matter of information architectures, augmented reality, experiential settings, or temporal boundaries of engagement and storytelling.
The topics addressed will include: virtual environments (VEs), mixed reality environments, locative technologies, cross-media, technological augmentation of public space, and design models for place-making and sense-making.
Elisa Giaccardi
Yehuda Kalay