Tangible digital archives
A book summarises theory and practice of digitalisation as applied to heritage
The future revisits the past, making it more accessible and comprehensible – not in the form of fanciful words and images, but as part of a tangible operation aimed at making new sources of knowledge available to all. Along those lines, one of the most important and intriguing examples is the confluence of digital techniques, archiving and cultural and corporate heritage.
Margherita Tufarelli (University of Florence) scrutinises this process, offering a broad perspective on cultural archiving in her recently published Design, Heritage e cultura digitale. Scenari per il progetto nell’archivio diffuso (Design, heritage and digital culture. Scenarios for extensive archiving projects).
Tufarelli tries to bring together, in a single line of thought, the opportunities offered by the most innovative, cutting-edge digitalisation techniques, the many cultural archives existing in Italy and all that the concept of heritage encompasses. With a solid and long-standing experience in researching and working in these areas, the author of this work, published by the Firenze University Press, tackles such a complex theme by subdividing it into four sections – “from inheritance to heritage, from objects to processes”, “design for/of cultural heritage”, “digital memory”, “from place of conservation to project tool” – characterised throughout by an effort to blend theory and her considerable experience in both design and cultural archiving.
Tufarelli writes: “The impact of digital technologies seems to have created a metaverse in which real and digital combine into a kind of new materiality with unique physical characteristics, all to be explored, which bring life to new testing grounds distinguished by availability, pervasiveness and accessibility. The new material that progressively takes shape appears as the product of continuous interactions between new media and new tools, which engender complex, underlying cultural operations, affecting the production dynamics of cultural content, as well as its transmission.”
Thus, the book provides a kind of overview of the opportunities arising from the careful blending of digital techniques and cultural archiving – a model that could also effectively be applied to corporate archives and museums.
Design, Heritage e cultura digitale. Scenari per il progetto nell’archivio diffuso (Design, heritage and digital culture. Scenarios for extensive archiving projects)
Margherita Tufarelli
Firenze University Press, 2022
A book summarises theory and practice of digitalisation as applied to heritage
The future revisits the past, making it more accessible and comprehensible – not in the form of fanciful words and images, but as part of a tangible operation aimed at making new sources of knowledge available to all. Along those lines, one of the most important and intriguing examples is the confluence of digital techniques, archiving and cultural and corporate heritage.
Margherita Tufarelli (University of Florence) scrutinises this process, offering a broad perspective on cultural archiving in her recently published Design, Heritage e cultura digitale. Scenari per il progetto nell’archivio diffuso (Design, heritage and digital culture. Scenarios for extensive archiving projects).
Tufarelli tries to bring together, in a single line of thought, the opportunities offered by the most innovative, cutting-edge digitalisation techniques, the many cultural archives existing in Italy and all that the concept of heritage encompasses. With a solid and long-standing experience in researching and working in these areas, the author of this work, published by the Firenze University Press, tackles such a complex theme by subdividing it into four sections – “from inheritance to heritage, from objects to processes”, “design for/of cultural heritage”, “digital memory”, “from place of conservation to project tool” – characterised throughout by an effort to blend theory and her considerable experience in both design and cultural archiving.
Tufarelli writes: “The impact of digital technologies seems to have created a metaverse in which real and digital combine into a kind of new materiality with unique physical characteristics, all to be explored, which bring life to new testing grounds distinguished by availability, pervasiveness and accessibility. The new material that progressively takes shape appears as the product of continuous interactions between new media and new tools, which engender complex, underlying cultural operations, affecting the production dynamics of cultural content, as well as its transmission.”
Thus, the book provides a kind of overview of the opportunities arising from the careful blending of digital techniques and cultural archiving – a model that could also effectively be applied to corporate archives and museums.
Design, Heritage e cultura digitale. Scenari per il progetto nell’archivio diffuso (Design, heritage and digital culture. Scenarios for extensive archiving projects)
Margherita Tufarelli
Firenze University Press, 2022