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Patras, Greece |
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09.11.2018 |
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| Our project manager, Xenofon Bitsikas, represented the PALIMPSEST Project at the summit along with Polyxeni Mantzou (Prof. Duth, Adjunct Prof. HOU). The Research Summit was organized by the Hellenic Open University in order to present the teaching staff’s research projects.
The presentation introduced the project to the audience and demonstrated its main features: it is a post-alphabetic, interactive, open-air museum that collects urban legends and local lore in a bottom-up, participatory way and then transforms them into art-installations that are embedded in the urban space of Ioannina. The project focuses on how cultural heritage assets can be reinserted in the city through digital technologies, storytelling and artistic interpretation. PALIMPSEST addresses the common challenge of promoting tourism in less-developed areas by animating the public space in urban areas and recuperating cultural heritage assets through bottom-up, participatory procedures and artistic interventions. PALIMPSEST will develop an in-situ, localized archive of story-telling assets, which will lead to an interactive and immaterial open-air museum experience in the public space of the city. The Summit was broadcasted live. |
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