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Roberto Di Giulio
full professor, Department of Architecture, University of Ferrara
Roberto Di Giulio is an architect, PhD in "Architecture Technology", full professor at the Department of Architecture, University of Ferrara, where he has been the Dean from 2012 to 2018.
He is the CEO and Scientific Director of the spin-off INCEPTION, an innovative start-up incubated at the University of Ferrara that he founded after coordinating the INCEPTION project "Inclusive Cultural Heritage in Europe through 3D semantic modeling", funded by the European Commission within the Reflective 7 - Horizon 2020 program.
He is the Scientific Coordinator of “4CH - Competence Centre for the Conservation of Cultural Heritage” the ongoing research project funded by the European Commission to set up the European Competence Centre for preservation and conservation of Monuments and Sites.
His research activities cover a broad range of issues including studies of materials performances and building design methodologies, innovative technologies and design methodologies for Cultural Heritage conservation and restoration, maintenance strategies and building pathology applied to the historic and contemporary buildings.
Heritage and Crises in the Digital Age
13.30 - 15.00 | Session 1: HERITAGE AND CRISES (Keynote speaker)
Actions aimed at preserving social and identity values can make a significant contribution to positively steering transformation processes triggered by crises. Safeguarding and enhancing the tangible and intangible assets of the Cultural Heritage, a precious witness to these values, are part of these actions and can give substance to the relationship, so often recalled in recent years, between crisis and opportunity.
The implementation of digital technologies has been a feature of many of the most important socio-economic changes of the last two decades and has introduced significant transformations also in the field of Cultural Heritage.
Information and Communication Technologies played a key role in the pandemic years, during which all activities related to the Cultural Heritage sector were seriously affected by restrictions that in many cases limited – or more often completely closed down - access and enjoyment of monuments and sites.
The digital transition had already been underway for some time with objectives focused on the preservation and protection of heritage sites increasingly exposed to risks from natural, climatic and anthropogenic factors.
In the last few years (partly as a consequence of the pandemic crisis), new ways of perceiving, communicating and enjoying Cultural Heritage have also become objectives to be achieved through digitisation.
To achieve these objectives, it is crucial to strengthen cooperation between digital and physical infrastructures and to create transnational networks for the sharing and dissemination of technologies, services and products for the conservation of Cultural Heritage
The 4CH project (https://www.4ch-project.eu/), aiming at the creation of the European Competence Centre for the Conservation of Cultural Heritage, is moving in this direction.
The strategic role of the Competence Centre will be to federate European Institutions working in the field of Cultural Heritage and to cooperate in the implementation of a common Data Space ensuring interoperability and accessibility of digitised heritage assets.
