DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES & FIELDWORK IN CULTURAL HERITAGE, MUSEUMS & MYCENAEAN SITE OF KASTROULI

Duration: 25 Days

The summer school includes 2 Parts:

Part I: DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES & FIELDWORK IN CULTURAL HERITAGE & MUSEUMS

13 Days equivalent workload to 130 hours (incl. 20 hours essay), 5 ECTS
Delphi, Greece 5 July -18 July 2016
Municipality of Delphi Lecture Room

• 1 day introduction to the current state-of-the-art and trends for future innovation
• 4 days lab & theory on digital archaeometry
• 3 days theory and fieldwork practice on 3D digitization & imaging
• 1 day introduction to cultural databases, repositories and international standards
• 1 day museum and sanctuary of Delphi guiding and touring
• 2 days educational trips in the Delphi archaeological environs
• 1 day free preparation for exams

Particular emphasis will be given to practical professional experience. Students will have a great experience and form strong bonds with their peers on a field program. For this reason digarch16 offers something more than a great academic course; including special opportunities and experiences in situ and in museum lab.

This Summer School DIGARCH16 is a collaboration between:

• the University of the Aegean (www.aegean.gr)- Dept of Mediterranean Studies (Leader) & Dept of of Product and Systems Design Engineering
• University of California, San Diego, USA*
• ATHENA-Research and Innovation Center in Information, Communication and Knowledge Technologies, Xanthi’s Branch

The Summer School is linked to the Workshop Virtual Archaeology Museums & Cultural Tourism initiated in 2013 by our University and established to a biannial basis and annual summer school coorganized by participated international Institutes and as a consortium participation on a joint Research Programme.

* Subject to last year’s high number of applicants and the restriction to 35 participants first apply first gets.

Part II: MYCENAEAN SITE OF KASTROULI FIELDWORK

(only for UCSD & UAEGEAN students)

12 Days equivalent workload to 130 hours (incl. 20 hours essay), 5 ECTS

Desfina Village (near Delphi) 19 July – 30 July 2016

For UCSD & UAEGEAN students there is a follow up of additional 12 days (19^th to 30^th July) of fieldwork at the MYCENAEAN SITE OF KASTROULI SUMMER SCHOOL near Delphi (at Desfina villagehttp://greece.places-in-the-world.com/263171-263219-distance-from-desfina-to-delphi.html) of 5 ECTS and includes 12 days of Fieldwork, portable technologies, tuition and interaction with experts in the field, but much emphasis on cyber-archaeology, fieldwork and labor work in digging and learning instrumentation.