Search results for "Cultural heritage"

De la musique comme soin en temps de pandémie

2022

Creativity of the Cultural Heritages and the Landscapes. Redevelopment experiences at compared

2019

This study intends to present some Sicilian realities in which good practices of protection and enhancement of material and immaterial heritage have been actualized. Enchanting places in the Agrigento territory, of great interest and beauty, destination for many travelers. Sites in which art, history, culture and traditions are inextricably combined becoming engines of economic development and promoters of experiential and emotional tourism.

3D #DigitalInvasions: a crowdsourcing project for mobile user generated content

2015

This paper introduces the #InvasioniDigitali project which is an online crowdsourcing initiative started in Italy in 2013 with the aim to promote the value of and engagement with local heritage. The paper focuses on two case studies of pilot ‘invasions’ using 3D data capture by students at museums and heritage sites in Sicily.

Baseline design of the thermal blocking filters for the X-IFU detector on board ATHENA

2014

ATHENA is an advanced X-ray observatory designed by a large European consortium to address the science theme "Hot and Energetic Universe" recently selected by ESA for L2 – the second Large-class mission within the Cosmic Vision science program (launch scheduled in 2028). One of the key instruments of the mission is the X-ray Integral Field Unit (X-IFU), an array of Transition Edge Sensor (TES) micro-calorimeters with high energy resolution (2.5 eV @ 6 keV) in the energy range 0.2÷12 keV, operating at the focal plane of a large effective area high angular resolution (5" HEW) grazing incidence X-ray telescope. The X-IFU operates at temperatures below 100 mK and thus requires a sophisticated c…

DIAGNOSTICS FOR CULTURAL HERITAGE: ANALYTICAL APPROACH FOR AN EFFECTIVE CONSERVATION

2014

Information systems for preservation of cultural heritage

2000

The preservation of the cultural heritage has become at present a subject of fundamental importance in Italy, above all because of the numerous unhappy events, due to not only natural reasons, happened in these last years. Besides this problem is particularly urgent in Sicily, because of the existence of a considerable cultural heritage and in absence of a complete and systematic inventory. To tackle such a complex subject, the use of informatics is required, since the traditional methods, based especially on paper documentation, are absolutely inadequate. Particularly, this work deals with the cultural heritage inventory selected according to: - historical urban centres; - archaeological s…

The Mathematical Table of the Palazzina Cinese in Palermo. Animation and Virtual Reality Techniques for an Edutainment Project

2023

The Palazzina Cinese of Palermo was built on a project by Venanzio Marvuglia in 1799 on behalf of Ferdinand IV of Borbone, when the royal family, fleeing from Naples following the establishment of the Parthenopean Republic, moved to Sicily. The building, known as “Chinese” due to its style, is full of particular architectural and decorative solutions. An element of particular interest is theMathematical Table, designed to avoid any contact between the living room and the kitchen below, isolating it from smells and servants. Thanks to a complex system of winches and pulleys, in fact, the dishes could be served by letting the central portion of the table and small circular areas fall into the…

Gibellina City of Art

2018

The earthquake that hit Western Sicily in 1968 destroyed, among others, the town of Gibellina. Back then, the town was abandoned and a new city was built ex novo at a distance of eighteen kilometres from the original site. The ex novo foundation of a new city requires the interaction of two fundamental components: one characterised by a physical-formal nature, related to urban layout and architectural characterisations, and the other related to socio-cultural issues concerning the relationships between citizens and their city. If the rst component might be dealt with by means of theories and techniques from architectural and urban disciplines, how is it possible to deal with the even more i…

The virtual reconstruction of temple B in Selinunte excavation site

2008

This paper proposes a study on the virtual reconstruction of temple B in Selinunte. It is the smallest of Selinunte’s temples yet, despite its size, it has been the subject of great interest and debate by scholars since its discovery in 1823. The studies carried out throughout the XIX century and the first half of the XX century provided different renderings, especially as to the organization of the elevation. The goal of this work is the virtual anastylosis of temple B, through the study of all available historical sources, the survey of fragments preserved today at the “A.Salinas” Regional Archaeology Museum in Palermo, and the survey of the finds at Selinunte’s site. The virtual reconstr…

RISO, museo d'arte contemporanea della Sicilia

2009

C’è in Riso, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea della Sicilia, una volontà di radicarsi nel territorio che emerge già nel disegno del piccolo logotipo che connota il museo palermitano inaugurato nel 2008. La prima lettera è una R corposa e densa di inchiostro, generata dalla rotazione di una Trinacria che ha perso ogni tratto espressionista, per ridiventare un potente segno grafico che richiama alla memoria elementi dell’architettura classica che tanti esempi ha disseminato sull’isola. Le altre tre lettere sottomesse formalmente alla prima la seguono dichiarando attraverso il disegno stencil, la propria natura di elementi temporanei e leggeri, che in molte declinazioni si annullano per lasciare la …