Global programme: PRIN2022
Specific programme: Settore ERC SH5 "Cultures and Cultural Production"
Call: Call 2022
Project number: 2022JPNKZ4
Duration: 24 Months (10/20/2023 - 10/20/2025)
UNINETTUNO Scientific Leader: Gerardo Maria Cennamo
UNINETTUNO Project Manager: Ilaria Dibosco
Website: https://prin.mur.gov.it/
Summary
SPLASCH - Smart PLatform and Applications for Southern Cultural Heritage proposes a research methodology mainly based on the digital survey and reproduction of the historical-architectural heritage, in order to populate the digital platform - SPLASH - with three-dimensional contents supported by the scientific approach. The platform structured in this way allows the dissemination of content by successive levels of in-depth analysis, up to scientific insights. The study samples are located in Southern Italy.
Description
The SPLASCH project aims to create a cultural heritage support platform that, starting from architectural-archaeological cores in southern Italy, can collect fragmented and incomplete data from various sources, promote cultural accessibility systems, enhance sites, and increase user satisfaction. The goal is to develop a platform that serves as an intangible infrastructure for historical architectural-archaeological heritage, improving cultural usability and promoting "root tourism," thereby boosting the cultural and tourist appeal of the country.
Drawing on input from various disciplines, the SPLASCH platform incorporates the legacy of different experiences highlighted by specific case studies, which the project uses as the driving cores for developing the network of sites and the digital platform. The project focuses not only on creating the platform but also on its implementation. Two specific case studies determine the requirements for the Digital Twin and test the feasibility of the proposal: 1) vast archaeological areas; 2) architectural works and hybrid objects at urban and territorial scales.
Objectives
The main goal of the project is to connect cultural heritage with the geography of the locations, initiating the creation of a physical and virtual network of sites that, growing in size and relationships over time, envisions the structuring of a widespread and inclusive museum for southern Italy.
The platform, based on the use of 3D models, will be implemented through sequential and interrelated operations of integrated surveying, representation, digitization, enhancement, and dissemination of tangible and intangible cultural heritage.
Its reference structure aims to distinguish itself through a high degree of openness, allowing developers and operators to expand the system of services provided by the project, including through the preparation of integrated application software (API). The platform will be open to accommodate models and data from existing CH platforms, other research centers, or third parties, thus ensuring its future sustainability and strengthening interactions between universities and research institutions.
The SPLASCH platform also aims to become a tool for dissemination, both for scientific users and non-experts. The flexibility of the proposal's layout provides new educational tools available for effective dissemination of digitized heritage. Strengthening the connection with local cultural heritage through the narrative tools of representation, which is fundamentally important for shaping resilient territories, requires new virtual forms of experience implementation based on the representation of knowledge.
UNINETTUNO Role
UNINETTUNO's role is to direct the ivestigation and documentation activities towards that heritage traceable in the network of minor settlements, those settlement realities located in territorial areas, today little frequented, but of evident strategic interest in past eras. In this broad topic, our focus turns to places of worship, defensive structures and connective infrastructure as a system of land use and protection.