LOST AND TRANSFORMED CITIES: A digital perspective
International Conference, November 17-18, 2016
*Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Nova University of Lisbon,
Lisbon, Portugal*
The city is by definition a living entity. It translates itself into a
collectiveness of individuals who share and act on a material, social and
cultural setting. Its history is one of dreams, achievements and loss. As
such, it also bears a history of identity.
To know the history of cities is to understand our own place in the
contemporaneity. The past is always seen through the eyes of the present
and can only be understood as such.
Time erases memory through development and disaster. Cities can simply
disappear because they lost their status in society, suffered severe
catastrophes or transformed themselves so radically that their history is
no longer materially traceable. They can also exemplary absorb the built
and cultural heritage through rehabilitation and re-use. Archaeologists,
historians, art historians, geographers, anthropologists and sociologists
try to decipher and interpret a diverse but comparable amount of data in
order to translate remote realities into a contemporaneous discourse. The
more interconnected the research is the more efficient it becomes.
Digital technology is playing a major role in the study of the city and the
preservation of its built and cultural heritage. It allows the collecting,
processing and testing of an extensive amount of data in a swift and
proficient manner. It also enables interdisciplinary research teams to work
collaboratively, often in real time. Digital technology applied to the
study of cities and their cultural heritage not only widens the scope of
the research, but also allows its dissemination in an interactive fashion
to an extensive and diverse audience.
Through the intersection of digital technology with historical practice it
is possible to convey a perspective of the past as a sensorial-perceptive
reality. The resulting knowledge furthers the understanding of the
present-day city and the planning of the city of the future. Cities in the
digital realm are, therefore, presented in their historical continuum, in
their comprehensive and complex reality and are opened to interaction in a
contemporary social context.
On the occasion of the 261st anniversary of the 1755 earthquake in Lisbon,
we invite scholars and experts in the fields of heritage studies, digital
humanities, history, history of art and information technology to share and
debate their experience and knowledge on digital heritage. We aim for an
integrative perspective of the study of lost or transformed urban realities
stressing its multidisciplinary character and the impact of the digital in
this equation.
We especially welcome papers that address (but are not necessarily limited
to) the following topics:
- The historic city from 2D to virtual and augmented reality;
- Cities as virtual museums;
- Cities, tourism and digital heritage;
- Digital Heritage: methodological and epistemological challenges;
- The contemporary city and digital citizenship.
Keynote Speakers
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*António Câmara (CENSE/FCT- UNL, Portugal)*
António Câmara is a Professor at Universidade Nova de Lisboa and CEO of
YDreams. He obtained a PhD at Virginia Tech (1982) and he was a
Post-Doctoral Associate at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
(1983). He has been a pioneer in the area of geographic information systems
having led the development of innovative virtual reality and mobile
applications. He has over 150 international publications including the book
Environmental Systems published by Oxford University Press (2002). António
Câmara co-founded YDreams in June 2000. YDreams is a world leader in
augmented reality.
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*Catherine Clarke (University of Southampton, UK)*
Catherine Clarke is Professor of Medieval Literature and Culture at the
University of Southampton, UK. She has published widely on place, identity
and uses of the past, and her work draws on digital, practice-led and
collaborative methods, as well as close reading of textual and material
evidence. She has led major projects on the cities of Chester (
www.medievalchester.ac.uk; http://discover.medievalchester.ac.uk) and
Swansea (www.medievalswansea.ac.uk), bringing together new research with
urban regeneration initiatives, heritage interpretation and public realm
transformations. She is interested in the intersections between traditional
scholarship and more affective, creative and imaginative idioms, and the
ways in which technology can mediate between visible and invisible
landscapes.
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*Maurizio Forte (Duke University, US)*
Maurizio Forte, PhD, is William and Sue Gross Professor of Classical
Studies Art, Art History, and Visual Studies at Duke University. He is also
the founder and director of the DIG@Lab (for a digital knowledge of the
past) at Duke. His main research topics are: digital archaeology, classical
archaeology and neuro-archaeology. He has coordinated archaeological
fieldwork and research projects in Europe, Asia and US. Since 2010 he is
director of the 3D-Digging project at Çatalhöyük. He is editor and author
of several books including “Virtual Archaeology” (1996), Virtual Reality in
Archaeology (2000), “From Space to Place” (2006), “La Villa di Livia. Un
percorso di ricerca di archeologia virtuale” (2008), “Cyberarchaeology
(2012).
Call for papers
We especially welcome papers that address (but are not necessarily limited
to) the following topics:
- The historic city from 2D to virtual and augmented reality;
- Cities as virtual museums;
- Cities, tourism and digital heritage;
- Digital Heritage: methodological and epistemological challenges;
- The contemporary city and digital citizenship.
*Abstracts: *Paper title, abstract (maximum 350 words), 5 keywords,
author(s), affiliation (s).
*Length:* 350 words
*Language of submission:* English
*Abstracts Submission limit:* only 1 paper submission per author
*Deadline:* June 30, 2016
*Notification of acceptance:* July 31, 2016
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