Workshop Interactivity and Virtual Reconstructions in Cultural Heritage

Tweedaagse workshop ‘Interactivity and Virtual Reconstructions in Cultural Heritage’
Op 19 en 20 mei 2009 vindt er een workshop plaats over interactiviteit en virtuele reconstrcuties in het Allard Pierson Museum te Amsterdam. De voertaal is Engels.

This workshop shows the different aspects of Villa di Livia, one of the applications in the Future for the Past exhibition in the Allard Pierson Museum. Several international experts will explain and discuss new approaches to interactivity and virtual reconstruction and illustrate this through Villa di Livia and other similar projects.
Tap into the knowledge of these experts and discuss your project or ideas in this two day workshop, organised by the Allard Pierson Museum in cooperation with leading cultural heritage organisations such as Erfgoed Nederland and DEN.

Preliminary Program
Tuesday 19th May

Chair: Marco de Niet (DEN)

Morning session
– Goals and implementation of the Villa di Livia project (Sofia Pescarin and Eva Pietroni)
– Hands-on session on digitisation of Cultural Heritage objects (Daniel Pletinckx)
– Cultural Heritage objects in 3D (Jean-Pierre van Maasakker)
– Digitisation in the Villa di Livia project (Sofia Pescarin)

Afternoon session
– Introduction to virtual reconstruction from archaeology (Daniel Pletinckx)
– Virtual reconstruction in the Villa di Livia project (Eva Pietroni)
– Virtual reconstruction projects in the Netherlands and Belgium (Jan de Rode, Daniel Pletinckx)
– Visit to the exhibition Future for the Past

Wednesday 20th May

Chair: Frans Hoving (Erfgoed Nederland)

Morning session
– Games Technology in Cultural Heritage (Arjan Egges)
– Possibilities of Virtools software (Fabien Noyer)
– Villa di Livia as multi-user, Second Life and iPhone applications (Eva Pietroni
– Virtual Landscape Reconstruction and Interactive Landscapes (Daniel Pletinckx)

Afternoon session
Virtual Landscape Reconstruction in the Virtual Rome project (Sofia Pescarin)Interactive session (all) : how do I use all this in my project?

Costs
75 euro Costs (including lunches and coffee and tea-breaks)
Contact/reservations
a.m.t.schilder@uva.nl

Participants
– Sofia Pescarin (ITABC – CNR) www.vhlab.itabc.cnr.it/
– Eva Pietroni (ITABC – CNR)
– Jan de Rode (Derode 3D, Utrecht) www.derode3d.nl/
– Daniel Pletinckx (Visual Dimension bvba) www.visualdimension.be/
– Jean-Pierre van Maasakker (Zero Creative bv) www.zerocreative.com/
– Fabien Noyer (Dassault Systems Virtools: www.virtools.com/
– Arjan Egges (Universiteit Utrecht) www.gameresearch.nl/
– Marco de Niet (Digital Heritage Netherlands) www.den.nl/
– Frans Hoving (The Netherlands Institute for Heritage) www.erfgoednederland.nl/
cooperation

This workshop is a cooperation of:
– Allard Pierson Museum
– Digital Heritage Netherlands (DEN)
– The Netherlands Institute for Heritage (Erfgoed Nederland)
– Dassault Systèmes, Virtools

More information
Infornation about Villa di Livia: www.vhlab.itabc.cnr.it/flaminia/siti_archeo_villa.html
Information about the Allard Pierson museum:
allardpiersonmuseum.nl/