After 6 years of disuse, the irrigation channel of La Alpanchía is eventually recovered

On 16 and 17 December 2023, one of the Andalusian irrigation channels was recovered in the municipality of Galera in Granada: the irrigation channel of La Alpanchía. This canal, probably built in the medieval Andalusian period, had a problem in its passage along the road, which caused it to fall into disuse for 6 years.  The progressive abandonment of the irrigation channel itself and of the associated cultivation areas made it difficult to put it into operation. This abandonment was also causing the disappearance of a unique cultural landscape which is home to a great deal of traditional and ecological knowledge: the traditional fertile plains.

The initiative, carried out in the frame of the INCULTUM pilot, has been promoted by different entities: the PASOS | Participación Association and its project “Vegas de Conocimiento”, the University of Granada, represented by the MEMOLab – Biocultural Archaeology Laboratory, the Galera Town Council, the La Alpanchía Association, and the Irrigation Community of the River Orce, La Alpanchía and Carrachila.

In total, some 2.5 km of irrigation ditch have been recovered, returning water to this channel and to the adjoining cultivation areas. Seventy people took part, ranging from students of archaeology, history and politics to residents of neighboring municipalities. The recovery of these ditches is a tool for social intervention to strengthen the Irrigation Community and encourage the use of farmland, thus recovering the environmental services that this ditch had been providing before its abandonment.

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Fair and Solidarity Tourism workshop at the INCULTUM pilot

The Fair and Solidarity Tourism workshop, organised in the frame of the INCULTUM project, unfolded over three Sundays on 3, 10 and 17 December 2023, with the final event held in the picturesque mountain village of Demati Zagori.

The workshop brought together cultural associations, local stakeholders and representatives from neighboring regions. Participants were introduced to the new website set up by The High Mountains in the context of INCULTUM.

Practical sessions were devoted to demonstrating tools on cooperative branding and marketing of community-based experiences.

Different ways were discussed about the life in the villages in North and South Pindus, which aim to celebrate and preserve their local heritage.

The model of Fair and Solidarity Tourism emerged as a powerful counterbalance to the dangerous effects that may be produced by mass tourism.

Further information is available in the Press release that can be downloaded here (PDF).

 


International Festival Of Art, Theatre And New Technologies “The Wonders Of Possible” 2024

INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF
THEATER, ART AND NEW TECHNOLOGIES
“THE WANDERS OF THE POSSIBLE”
XI° Edition 2024

 

Between November and December 2024, Kyber Theatre organises in Cagliari (Italy) the 11th Edition of the International Theatre, Art and New Technologies Festival called “The Wonders of Possible”.

The LMDP Festival supports the development and experimentation of new creative, theatrical and artistic languages through new technologies, with the programming of shows, performances, installations, workshops, and conferences.

Kyber Teatro, a spin-off of L’Aquilone di Viviana, the creator and organizer of the LMDP Festival, promotes international encounters between artists, scientists and technological researchers and the contamination between the arts, offering all Italian and foreign artists and performers, including emerging and/or under-35 companies, the opportunity to participate in the Festival by sending their project by April 2, 2024.

 

Who can attend
• Companies, Individual Artists
• Companies/Artists emerging or/and under 35.
• Companies/Non-emerging artists of all ages (we encourage applications from artists at any stage of their careers).
Maximum 3 participants per project.

 

Eligible Projects
• Theater and new technology performances
• Performances of art and new technologies

 

Artists interested in participating in the Festival should email info@kyberteatro.it the following materials:
Artists/Company CV;
– Location of departure of each artist and technical staff of the company;
– Presentation dossier in PDF format;
– Technical sheet;
– A selection of up to 5 photographs;
– Link to the integral audio and video material to be made available on Vimeo or Youtube;

The outcome of the evaluation will be communicated to those selected only by May 6, 2024.

 

Economic conditions
Open Call winners will be guaranteed full coverage of mobility costs (travel to Cagliari, food and lodging). The organizing Company will communicate to the winning artists the travel itinerary and other useful information for hospitality. In addition, a small reimbursement of expenses will be guaranteed for the presentation of No. 2 replicas of their show/performance. If possible and by prior arrangement with the technical manager, any materials required for the presentation of the performance/show/installation will also be covered.

 

Publication and archiving
Artists agree to provide a brief biography and synopsis of the work and agree that the material may be published on the LMDP Festival website and social media or given to the press for promotional purposes.
Permission is given for Kyber Teatro – L’Aquilone di Viviana to archive the material and make it accessible via the Festival website. All rights to the project images will remain with the artist. The Organization is also authorized to document through audio video recordings or images the unfolding of the event at every stage.


IIIF Annual Conference and Showcase

The Wellcome Collection uses IIIF to make medical and scientific materials available via a their custom-built Welcome Viewer, which supports search and autocomplete service integration with overlaid search results, as well as 3D, audio, video, and pdf viewing experiences.

 

The 2024 International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) Annual Conference will be held in Los Angeles, California June 4–7, 2024, and will be hosted by UCLA Library, Getty, and the IIIF Consortium.

IIIF is a set of open standards for delivering high-quality, attributed digital objects online at scale. It’s also an international community developing and implementing the IIIF APIs.

Funded by a 67-member global consortium, III F is leveraged by aggregators, research institutions, national libraries, archives, museums, software companies, and digital agencies around the world.

The event is intended for a wide range of participants and interested parties, including digital image repository managers, content curators, software developers, scholars, and administrators at libraries, museums, cultural heritage institutions, software firms, and other organizations working with digital images and audio/visual materials.

In addition to the Conference, held June 4 and 5, the event includes a free Showcase on June 7. The Showcase is meant to introduce newcomers to IIIF, and those seeking to learn how IIIF is used in a variety of contexts. The conference features plenary presentations and sessions about IIIF implementations around the world, including cutting edge use cases and demonstrations.

 

The Call for Proposals is now open and submissions are due by February 6, 2024.

The IIIF Conference Program Committee encourage showcasing developments in IIIF and in particular welcome presentations in the following areas:

  • Interoperability in IIIF contexts and beyond / Linked Open Usable Data (LOUD)
  • Innovative IIIF use cases and implementations, including Audio/Visual, 3D,
  • AI/machine learning, Maps, etc.
  • Implementation of IIIF in teaching and learning contexts
  • Implementations of IIIF beyond image viewing, including Annotation, Content
  • Search, Aggregation/Discovery, Transcription/OCR, and Accessibility
  • Mediating access of IIIF resources, including copyright, ethics/CARE/FAIR principles, and reuse
  • Sustainability and the environmental impact of IIIF environments and resources

Find additional details about the Call for Proposals and required formats here 

Submit your proposal here


11th edition of DH Benelux Conference

DH Benelux 2024 Conference

 

“Breaking Silos, Connecting Data: Advancing Integration and Collaboration in Digital Humanities” is the theme of the 11th edition of the DH Benelux Conference. The event will take place at the Irish College in Leuven from June 5 to June 7, 2024, with pre-conference workshops scheduled for June 4, 2024.

The annual DH Benelux Conference serves as a platform for the community of interdisciplinary Digital Humanities researchers to meet, present and discuss their latest research findings and to demonstrate tools and projects.

Call for Papers

The Call for Papers is open until 31 January 2024.

Researchers, practitioners, scholars, and students are invited to submit their original research, case studies, position papers, and poster presentations related to the theme of “Breaking Silos, Connecting Data” and its associated topics.

Interdisciplinary perspectives are welcomed, with encouragement for contributions exploring strategies, techniques, and methodologies to break down silos, connect disparate data sets and sources, foster interdisciplinary collaboration, and enable new forms of data access

More info here

Submissions can be made here via Easychair


Language and the Media Conference 15th edition

Languages & The Media 2022 Conference
Credit: Dominik Tryba

 

Languages & The Media, the Biennial International Conference on Audiovisual Language Transfer in the Media, is gearing up for its 15th edition “New Frontiers in Media Localization“, scheduled from November 13 to 15,  2024, in Budapest.

The event will feature three days of pre-conference workshops, panel discussions and presentations by experts and analysts to explore both new and existing industry practices, discuss cutting-edge developments and pioneering research. It will investigate the role of AI-driven products and workflows, providing a glimpse into the potential future workplace and job landscape. The conference will raise questions such as: What will media localization look like in the era where AI and human intelligence create new pathways? Furthermore, what role does creativity play in this new age of media localization?

The event will be the platform for transformative dialogue, acting as a nexus for thought leaders, content owners, language service providers, technology developers, educators, researchers, and language professionals, shaping the future of media localization.

The call for papers is now open and the deadline for submission of proposals is January 8th, 2024.

Submit your proposal

Explore the conference program


Participation in culture and cultural tourism

Participatory Governance and Models in Culture and Cultural Tourism is the tile of the book that is now available for free download from the INCULTUM Training Portal.

The book has been produced in the frame of the INCULTUM project by the team at Matej Bel University.

“Participatory approaches and models in tourism are widely accepted as a criterion for sustainable tourism, as it helps decision makers maintain traditional lifestyles and respect community values.”

With these opening words, the incipit of the book immediately introduces the reader to one of the main pillar of the INCULTUM project, i.e. the connection between participation and innovative tourism.

The book is a real useful instruments for students, teachers and professionals who are interested to go deeper on the question of how participatory approaches can be beneficial for more harmonious governance, respectful development of territories and promotion of cultural tourism.


The INCULTUM pilot as case study at the course of Tourism Science of Campus Foundation

At the beginning of October 2023, Prof. Enrica Lemmi, leader of the INCULTUM Pilot of San Pellegrino in Alpe, accompanied the students from the second year of the bachelor in Tourism Science of Campus Foundation to the location of the pilot., to spend a day discovering the area.

The students visited the ethnographic museum founded by Don Luigi Pellegrini, attended the theatrical performance created and acted by actress Elisabetta Salvatori and alos were able to talk to the local operators.

After this experience, the students were asked to develop tourist proposals linked to San Pellegrino in Alpe and to the ethnographic museum, imagining ways to enrich the existing offer and to open up new paths towards this destination.

On the 30th of November and the following 5th of December 2023, the students presented their projects in front of the commission consisting of the Prof. Enrica Lemmi and the research team composed of Adele Cogno, Andrea Pedri and Martina Pirrone.

The students were able to propose interesting and innovative papers that included the themes of sustainability, slow tourism and de-seasonalisation, perfectly in line with the values promoted by INCULTUM.

Screen-shot from the presentation of the students’ works.


Management of Territorial Tourism Development

As part of the INCULTUM Pilot about San Pellegrino in Alpe, in the frame of the Executive Master Management of Territorial Tourism Development organised by Fondazione Campus and Touring Club Italiano, the INCULTUM project was presented and discussed with the students and teachers participating in the master.

The INCULTUM team coordinated by Prof. Enrica Lemmi discussed the project during a lesson, looking at the partnerships established and the ideas born to develop an innovative tourism offer based on the use of  Don Luigi Pellegrini Museum and the surrounding area of the high Valley of Garfagnana. Dr. Pirrone, as community manager of the INCULTUM pilot project, introduced also the topic of the academic courses developed under the leading of University of Pisa, which will be soon ready to be uploaded on the INCULTUM Training Portal.

The students were very interested in the topic and a productive dialogue developed within the lesson.

Further information about the the master is available in Italian at: https://www.touringclub.it/news/touring-e-fondazione-campus-lanciano-la-quarta-edizione-del-master-in-management-dello-sviluppo

Some pictures from the lesson about the INCULTUM project:


Recovery of Alpanchía irrigation channel

As part of the INCULTUM Pilot on the Altiplano de Granada, on the next 16 and 17 December 2023, the recovery of the irrigation ditch of La Alpanchía, in Galera (Granada, Spain) will take place.

The activity is organized by the Biocultural Archaeology Laboratory (MEMOLab UGR), coordinated by Professor Dr. José María Martín Civantos, from the Department of Medieval History and CCTTHH of the UGR and the PASOS Association.

The Galera City Council, the Alpanchía Association, the Community of Irrigators of Galera and the ACEQUIAS HISTÓRICAS Association have also collaborated.

In this action, about 60 volunteers from various interests and disciplines will participate. This will consist of the recovery of the irrigation ditch of La Alpanchía, abandoned for about 5 years. It is one of the main arteries of the fertile plain of this municipality and with its abandonment, numerous ecosystemic benefits and cultural and historical values are being lost. The work will consist of removing vegetation and soil using shovels and hoes, organized by work groups.