The Cortona Heritage Project: Digital Applications in Education to Architectural and Archaeological Heritage

Il prodotto si inserisce nel filone di ricerca sul Digital Cultural Heritage-DCH ed è uno degli esiti più evidenti i cui risultati sono stati presentati in occasione della 1st International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Digital Environments for Education, Arts and Heritage, frequentato da circa 120 studiosi (77 papers revisionati e selezionati su 100 submissions). I principali caratteri di originalità ed innovatività consistono nella presentazione in anteprima di una ricerca, allora in progress, inerente la formazione di una piattaforma unitaria di comunicazione del patrimonio architettonico ed archeologico di Cortona a partire dalla base dati costituita da rilievi programmaticamente finalizzati alla divulgazione museale all’interno del prestigioso contesto del MAEC; i contenuti sono descritti con l’appropriata metodologia disciplinare relativa al rilievo digitale nelle sue articolazione di acquisizione, elaborazione, comunicazione del dato. L’impatto è coerente con la collocazione editoriale, di tipo internazionale. The publication is part of the research on the Digital Cultural Heritage-DCH. The paper is one of the most evident output whose results have been presented at the1st International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Digital Environments for Education, Arts and Heritage, attended by about 120 scholars (proceedings consistent of 77 papers reviewed and selected from 100 submissions). The main characters of originality and innovativeness consist in the preview presentation of a research then in progress concerning the formation of a unitary communication platform of the architectural and archaeological heritage of Cortona starting from the database made up of surveys programmatically aimed at the dissemination of the museum inside of the prestigious context of the MAEC museum; the contents are described with the appropriate disciplinary methodology relating to the digital survey in its articulation of acquisition, processing, communication of the data. The impact is consistent with the high international editorial rating. DETAILED DESCRIPTION: The paper presents the first results of the Cortona Heritage Project, which takes the opportunity to use the techniques of Virtual heritage to implementing concrete and innovative modes making the very rich cultural heritage of ancient Tuscan cities accessible for more people and engaging new publics by promoting its knowledge among young generations. The project includes some digital applications aimed at valorisation conceived for the adoption of smart forms of complementry education to the architectural and archaeological heritage of Cortona, made of architecture, archaeology, art; despite Cortona is already a city characterized by a very tourism developed in quantitative terms then to improve more in terms of quality of the visit. Cortona Heritage is therefore set on three following axes. Enhancing the cultural heritage of the city by favouring a simultaneously deeper and smart knowledge, promoting slow mode of visit to already too much abundant streams of tourists streams, overcoming the concentration of people only in the historical centre enlarging the area of interest to the newly established archaeological park. The project was founded in 2017 in the context of the collaboration between the Department of Architecture of the University of Florence and the Municipality of Cortona (Tuscany, Italy) and foresees three years of didactics and research activities