Description
The opening symposium of the connecting cities urban media lab served as an introduction to an intensive six days workshop led by artists Ali Momeni & Luciano Pinna, where selected participants produced artworks that explore new forms of urban participation, using existing mobile technologies and custom DIY devices.-------
Cultural hARitage in Brussels Project:
The spread and importance of mobile devices, as smartphones, on everyday activities is well known. It is possible to list several features that allows people to navigate and access context-aware information, such as GPS, QR code scanners, augmented reality (AR), just to mention a few.
But the combination of augmented reality and cultural heritage content it is still not clear, from the effectiveness perspective. Some apps are already displaying touristic information using AR, such as Wikitude, Tripwolf, Junaio and others.
With the Wizart CMS Tool, which combines different media files (audio, video, 3d, text, links, etc) elements with Junaio, it is possible to use AR to achieve cultural information, creating a different approach on current AR apps, which could lead for interesting investigations. One possibility, among others, is the use of iconographic elements (combining comics characters, icons and text) that would trigger the information according to the proximity of the user, based on GPS location.
The target content for this project is one of the official World Heritage Sites from UNESCO, placed in Brussels: the "La Grand-Place" (http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/857).
This project aims to explore new tools and ways to present historical content for mobile users. The Wizart CMS Tool combined with the “Connecting Cities Urban Media Lab” seems to be an ideal scenario to experiment cultural content using AR, being a perfect opportunity to go beyond, towards something more pragmatic, and where it is possible to empirically validate some of the developed propositions, offering a unique opportunity to analyze the use of AR and Cultural Heritage content.
| Period | 13 Jun 2014 → 21 Jun 2014 |
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| Event type | Course |
| Location | Brussels, BelgiumShow on map |