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The SECreTour Network is growing! A new collaboration has started between Hotel La Romantica and the SECreTour project. The Hotel La Romantica in Melide (Switzerland) has joined the SECreTour Network, in the light ot its participation in the SECreTour pilot … Continue reading
Organized by Jalón Ángel Archive and USJ Culture, from May 20 to September 28, the exhibition “Frankenstein: Scenographies. Isidro Ferrer Illustrates Mary Shelley”. The exhibition is by Aragonese designer and illustrator Isidro Ferrer, winner of the National Design Award … Continue reading
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Pisa’s cultural association Imago presents its XIII photographic marathon: 12 hours, 4 subjects, 1 passion. The event is taking place in Pisa (and online, for people not able to attend physically), on 16 May 2015, from 9.00 to 21.00 CEST. It is possible to participate both with digital and analogic camera. Attendees will meet at Bar La Tazza d’Oro) at 9.00 o’clock. Continue reading
Organised by the Civic Epistemologies project in the framework of the EGI Conference 2015, in collaboration with EGI.eu and IBERGRID, this session will present to the EGI scientific communities platforms for and use cases of citizen science, covering the wide range of potential capabilities (such as desktop computing and pattern recognition) usable in a huge variety of disciplines, from biodiversity to digital social sciences and humanities. Civic Epistemologies will present the first draft version of its Roadmap for Citizen Science. Continue reading
Did ancient statues living in the traditional museums lose their radiance and divine feature? New technologies, combining 3D imagery and multisensory visitor experience, enable to recreate within an innovative space the ancient splendour of the Greek plastic. Sophie Montel recognises … Continue reading
In partnership with the University of Milano Bicocca and under the patronage of EXPO Milan 2015, UNESCO Chair in ICT to develop and promote sustainable tourism in World Heritage Sites organises the Summer School 2015 on ICT to develop sustainable tourism, being held at Milano Bicocca from 24 August to 4September 2015. Italian land, development of the related resources in a responsible way and ICT will be central themes of the discussion. Continue reading
Photographic exhibition “Tomorrows and Yesterdays: Mads Nissen Meets Europe’s First Photographers” is opening on 13 May 2015 and running till 2 August 2015 at the premises of Arbejdeermuseet, one of the founding members of PHOTOCONSORTIUM. Here, award-winning Danish photographer Mads Nissen will juxtapose the original selection of around 100 early photographs from the All Our Yesterdays show with his own vision and reflections. Continue reading
In the Romani Week (April 27 – May 1, 2015), Amalia Sabiescu of Coventry University shares insights from the RICHES European project research: how a Romani community is finding ways to preserve and express its unique identity at a time of cultural change and how the arts, culture and technology can be used as bridges towards intercultural communication and dialogue. Coventry University seeks so to promote a better awareness and understanding of the lives and culture of the Romani/Gypsy/Traveller people. Continue reading
In the 21st century, the world faces epochal changes which affect every part of society, including the arenas in which Cultural Heritage (CH) is made, held, collected, curated, exhibited or simply exists. This workshop provided a framework to understand this context of change and the impact of the move from analogue to digital. International experts met in Ankara (Turkey) on 13-14 May 2015 to attend the event, organised in the framework of the European project RICHES (Renewal, Innovation and Change: Heritage and European society). Continue reading
“Memory ^ sentiment ^ body ^ space ^object – Dialogues across and between dance and art” is an interdisciplinary symposium that emerged from Body Space Object Roundtables at the School of Art and Design at Coventry University. It aims to consider how performative and material practices have articulated the embodied nature of memory and sentiment in relation to objects and space. Contributions are invited, registration is open! Continue reading
FabLab.iMAL presents its next workshop on laser-cutting, 3D printing & CNC milling, being held in Brussels on 26 May 2015 from 10.00 to 13.00. In 3 hours, you will get introduced to the basics and the safety instructions that will make you able to use the laser-cutter, 3D printers and CNC milling machine. Continue reading
EAGLE 2016 International Conference on Digital and Traditional Epigraphy in Context is the second in a series of international conferences planned by EAGLE BPN. The event will feature presentations and hands-on workshops regarding themes of the EAGLE project, led by the project’s Working Groups. Continue reading
