*They just run out there and 3d-scan the ruins. https://www.archdaily.com/1026993/independent-heritage-documentation-how-digital-tools-and-photogrammetry-are-reshaping-preservation-efforts Written by Mohieldin Gamal Published on February 19, 2025 The use of technology has become vital in the documentation and conservation of heritage, especially in difficult or urgent circumstances. After many landmarks of the historic city of Palmyra were destroyed during Syria’s war in 2015, […]

https://pro.europeana.eu/project/ai4culture-an-ai-platform-for-the-cultural-heritage-data-space ABOUT THE PROJECT The platform will offer access to a pool of AI-related resources (such as openly labelled datasets for training and testing AI models), a set of deployable and reusable tools and capacity building materials. Additionally, the project will customise the platform’s components so that they can be reused by cultural heritage institutions […]

https://youtu.be/ADR5VRaJ5mY?si=91hSmEBnkU3MQ59_

Perspectiv (Association of Historic Theatres in Europe) https://www.theatermuseum.at/en/backstage/restoration-conservation/

*I wonder what happened to Europe’s oldest theater props. https://youtu.be/aX3fIZSwnA4?si=79Hrr-rj6vIK6R0t

*This is quite an interesting document when you consider the possible creation, protection and maintenance of any speculative or theatrical “industrial heritage” that was never actually there and never really functioned in the real world. *For instance, the Primo Levi “Versificatore” was supposedly from Fort Kiddiwanee, Oklahoma, an American industrial town that didn’t even exist. […]

https://ticcih.org/about/about-ticcih/ The International Committee for the Conservation of the Industrial Heritage, better known by the more manageable TICCIH (pronounced “ticky”), is the world organization for industrial heritage. Its goals are to promote international cooperation in preserving, conserving, investigating, documenting, researching, interpreting, and advancing education of the industrial heritage. This wide field includes the material remains […]

Cade Diehm It is very popular to describe skepticism and rejection of generative artificial intelligence as a form of neoreactionary/”neo-luddite” fear. Such a claim has infested the discourse more widely – from bewildered policymakers to the chittering LinkedIn class and everyone in between. So I am surprised to have had such a visceral reaction to […]

https://rm.coe.int/16806f6a03 Recommendation of the Committee of Ministers to member States on the European Cultural Heritage Strategy for the 21st century (Adopted by the Committee of Ministers on 22 February 2017 at the 1278th meeting of the Ministers’ Deputies) (…) FOREWORD The European Cultural Heritage Strategy for the 21st century should be seen against the backdrop […]