Search results for "heritage"

A look from outside: foreign photographers in Palermo between the 19th and 20th centuries

At the beginning of the 19th century, the representation of Italy was mostly due to the literary and artistic narrative of foreign travellers. The resulting image influenced the vision Italians had of their own country and carried weight with the awareness of their national identity. Sicily stood outside the traditional itinerary of the Grand Tour for a long time and only became an essential stop after the publication of Goethe and Vivant Denon’s travel journals in the 1780s. This literature led to the codification of a series of stereotypes linked to neoclassical culture and to the first development of Romanticism. With the introduction of photography in mid-19th century, the role of natur…

Visti dagli altri: il patrimonio culturale siciliano fotografato dagli stranieri

La ricerca è incentrata sulla produzione riguardante il patrimonio monumentale, archeologico e storico-artistico siciliano realizzata da fotografi d'oltralpe, tra la seconda metà del XIX e gli inizi del XX secolo. Tramite l’analisi dell’evoluzione della rappresentazione del patrimonio siciliano da un punto di vista esterno, si vogliono individuare i principali soggetti di predilezione, le motivazioni alla base di queste scelte e l’influenza di questa iconografia nella costituzione dell’identità locale.

An external gaze: the Sicilian cultural heritage photographed by foreign travellers during the second half of 19th century

Since its origin, photography was immediately involved in a lively debate about the relationships that this new technology could have with Art, its production, its exploitation and its conservation: even if it was perceived as a potential threat by someone, several voices emphasized the revolutionary influence that photography could have on the arts. It soon became clear that the new media could also be used for the documentation of events and cultural assets, and thus as a tool for knowledge and safeguarding of the artistic and monumental heritage. Photography will soon inherit the role of nature’s copyist traditionally attributed to engraving but, due to its technological limitations, its…

Meritare le responsabilità. Il complicato confine tra merito, virtù e gloria in Cicerone e in Tacito

2017

Quale posto la relazione tra merito e responsabilità ha avuto nelle concezioni morali dei Romani? Quale lessico ne è in qualche modo spia e rappresentazione? Per provare a rispondere a tali domande intendo partire dal Dialogus de oratoribus di Tacito, che presenterò come un apologo significativo del conflitto tra successo, gloria e virtù, utile anche per misurare la distanza tra le idee romane di merito e responsabilità e quelle nostre; quindi passerò dal racconto al modello, andando a recuperare, dietro i personaggi dell’opera, la riflessione etica compiuta dall’ultimo Cicerone, che trova il suo punto culturalmente più interessante proprio nell’individuazione di criteri che definiscono il …

Patrimonio toponomastico di Sicilia. Una raccolta capillare per la toponimia orale e la sua cartografazione digitale

2022

Il progetto onomastico qui presentato rientra nel più ampio progetto dell’Atlante Linguistico della Sicilia. L’obiettivo è di documentare capillarmente l’intero patrimonio toponimico nella forma popolare (che affianca quella documentata e cartografata). La ricerca che si propone, di straordinaria ampiezza, costituirà una fondamentale chiave di lettura della storia linguistica della Sicilia e della sua complessa stratificazione. I primi sondaggi confermano che il patrimonio toponimico orale è a grave rischio di scomparsa. La possibilità di realizzare un portale interrogabile e interattivo è una opportunità di riconsegna al territorio non passiva e inerte, ma può sollecitare ulteriori attivit…

Autenticità digitale. L’esperienza turistica aumentata di un sito UNESCO

2022

The article proposes a reflection on the topic of authenticity with reference to digital solutions developed for cultural heritage. After a brief theoretical review on digital authenticity, the article analyzes as a case study an application for mobile devices, which offers augmented reality content and digital reconstructions of spaces, monuments and activities of the Roman city of Tarraco (Tarragona), included by UNESCO in the World Heritage List. The research conducted according to a qualitative methodology returns evidence of the centrality of authenticity in the tourist experience and in the strategies aimed at fostering the attractiveness of places.

Tecnologie digitali per la visibilità del patrimonio culturale. L'immagine di Tarragona nella prospettiva dell'offerta

2023

This work aims to contribute to the debate on the role of new technologies in the process of urban image construction, presenting as a case study the digital offering of the UNESCO site of Tarragona. Inclusion on the World Heritage List may represent a decisive event in the definition of an urban image, which new technologies can promote and project to the outside world. By making the winning narrative visible, technologies offer spaces for tourist desire and consumption and show us how cities are told by highlighting some aspects and excluding others. After explaining the dynamics of the context under study, the paper demonstrates how digital tools can convey a brand, mediate or transfigur…

Misrecognition and Reinvention of Stigmatised Cultural Heritages. The case of the 'Romani People'.

2017

Low cost survey techniques aimed to the Cultural Heritage conservation.

2017

Thanks to SfM (Image Based Modeling) survey techniques, is possible to realize 3D models of every object, in a very short time and with limited economical and training resources, today. These semi-automated SfM software allow users to simply upload photos and follow a mediated workflow, without any complex inner workings of SfM and this can be especially advantageous to users in non-technical fields or to those with limited resources. Every year there is an international Event, #digitalinvasion, that involves the Italian museums and that reckons on to allow to take pictures and video to the whole museum collections. This event is present in Palermo since 2014 and the Engineering first year …

Shake-table testing of a stone masonry building aggregate: overview of blind prediction study

2023

Bulletin of earthquake engineering (2023). doi:10.1007/s10518-022-01582-x special issue: "Adjacent Interacting Masonry Structures"