(IN)TANGIBLE HERITAGE(S): Design, culture and technology - past, present, and future - AMPS Proceedings Series 29.1

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Conference proceedings exploring how design, culture and technology reshape understandings of heritage across tangible objects and intangible experiences. It frames built environments and everyday artefacts as social and cultural constructs whose meanings evolve overlaid histories, hybrid experiences, and digital mediation. Special attention is given to computational design, VR and digital archives, scanning, and representational systems that make the past accessible, readable, and re-usable. The publication presents diverse disciplinary perspectives spanning art, architecture, design, and cultural studies.

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Introduction

Spatial ideation and heritage conservation

Digital artefacts, simulation and representation

Intangible heritage and storytelling

Memory, well-being and adaptive reuse

Accessibility, readability and immersive heritage

Case studies and regional heritage

Table of contents

Chapter 1 - Spatial Ideation

Chapter 2 - The Wood Sculptors Workshop

Chapter 3 - An App for Valladolid

Chapter 4 - No Strings Attached

Chapter 5 - Fair-Data Architecture Study

Chapter 6 - Odds and Ends in Experiencing Heritages

Chapter 7 - Intangible Heritage: A Taxonomy of Storytelling

Chapter 8 - If These Walls Could Talk

Chapter 9 - The Productive Village

Chapter 10 - Plural Authenticities

Chapter 11 - Digital Representation and Accessibility

Chapter 12 - Heritage and Memory in Emotional Well-Being Cities

Chapter 13 - Encoding the Whole-of-Environment Knowledge

Chapter 14 - Sonic Heritage

Chapter 15 - Mountain and Water Concept

Chapter 16 - Anticipating Potentialities

Chapter 17 - Ambisonic Composition

Chapter 18 - Latent Histories

Chapter 19 - From Heritage Facades to Digital Media Screens

Chapter 20 - The Thick Interface

Chapter 21 - The Madrid Balcony

Chapter 22 - Memory Laundrette

Chapter 23 - British Tea Enterprise in Assam

Chapter 24 - Discovering Architecture Through Animated Narratives

Chapter 25 - The White Building

Chapter 26 - Critical Regionalism in Bhopal

Chapter 27 - Intangible Cultural Heritage in the Afrorurality of the

AMPS PROCEEDINGS SERIES 29.1 AMPS, University of Kent. 15-17 June, 2022 (IN)TANGIBLE HERITAGE(S): Design, culture and technology – past, present, and future EDITOR: Howard Griffin EXECUTIVE PRODUCTION EDITOR: Amany Marey © AMPS AMPS PROCEEDINGS SERIES 29.1. ISSN 2398-9467 INTRODUCTION (IN)TANGIBLE HERITAGE(S): Design, culture and technology – past, present, and future The buildings, towns and cities we inhabit are physical entities created in the past, experienced in the present, and projected to inform the future. The same can be said of the artefacts we use daily: designed furniture in the home, the mobile devices in our hands, the vehicles we see on our streets. However, each of these places, buildings and products had, at their inception, social and cultural roles beyond their ‘object’ status. They continue to have them today. What we understand a designed object to be then, is a complex question of material and social import, and an intricate play of the tangible and intangible identities. Increasingly, it is also a question of hybrid experiences and overlaid histories. This conference addresses the range of issues connected to this scenario. The complexity described above is even more pronounced in the case of digital artefacts and experiences such as computational design, VR simulations of ancient buildings, mobile apps, digital photography or virtual exhibitions. Intangible at the very moment of their inception, such designed artifacts not only blur the difference between the object and the experience, but, increasingly, the past and the present. Computer generated imagery creates‘life like’ reconstructions of historic sites. Laser scanning gives archeologists glimpses of pasts erased long ago. Computational design gives designers instant recordings of their work in progress. Coupled with digital cataloguing, it gives us the instant asynchronous design archive. Considered in this context it is not surprising that recently questions about the nature of heritage and design have opened up to redefinitions of the tangible and the intangible. In responding to this scenario the work of the authors collected in this publication present a diverse range of perspectives from various fields including art, architecture, design and cultural studies, to name but a few. They present reconsiderations of ‘heritage’ as both a tangible and an intangible concept and overlay our notions of the digital, on ideas of heritage and concepts of physicality and the present. TABLE OF CONTENTS Chapter 1 SPATIAL IDEATION: AN INTERIOR DESIGN APPROACH TOWARDS ARCHITECTURAL HERITAGE CONSERVATION Sadiyah Geyer, Andrew Gill Chapter 2 THE WOOD SCULPTORS WORKSHOP or A STORY IN SIX CHAPTERS: AN ART BASED EXPLORATION OF SITE AS HERITAGE Seher Uysal Chapter 3 AN APP TO MAKE VISIBLE THE CINEMATOGRAPHIC ECOSYSTEM OF VALLADOLID, SPAIN Eusebio Alonso-García, Sara Pérez-Barreiro, Iván Rincón-Borrego Chapter 4 NO STRINGS ATTACHED: DISENTANGLING ARCHITECTURAL HERITAGE FROM CULTURAL HERITAGE AS A STRATEGY FOR THE ADAPTIVE REUSE OF HERITAGE BUILDINGS Sadiyah Geyer, Andrew Gill Chapter 5 FAIR-DATA ARCHITECTURE STUDY, PRESERVATION AND DIFFUSION OF ARCHITECTURAL DOCUMENTARY HERITAGE FROM THE TWENTIETH CENTURY, IN PORTUGAL Nuno Correia Chapter 6 ODDS AND ENDS IN EXPERIENCING HERITAGESuk Hee Yun, Tae Yeual Yi Chapter 7 INTANGIBLE HERITAGE: A TAXONOMY OF STORYTELLING Ramya Chandran, Harah Chon Chapter 8 IF THESE WALLS COULD TALK Fiona Raley Chapter 9 THE PRODUCTIVE VILLAGE: VERNACULAR FORMS OF PRESERVATION AND REUSE IN SUBURBAN VILLAGES, WENZHOU, CHINA Vincent Peu Duvallon, Nuoying Cai, Jiawei Dou, Yanqi Li, Ruzhen Zhao Chapter 10 PLURAL AUTHENTICITIES: HOW CAN DIGITAL REPRESENTATION ENHANCE, EXTEND AND EVEN RIVAL THE ORIGINAL OBJECT? David Littlefield Chapter 11 DIGITAL REPRESENTATION OF HISTORICAL MONUMENTS AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITES AS A TOOL TO IMPROVE VISITORS’ APPROACH TO ACCESSIBILITY AND

FAQs

How does the proceedings define tangible and intangible heritage in design and technology contexts?

It treats designed buildings, artefacts and digital experiences as carriers of social and cultural roles that extend beyond object status. Heritage is approached as a blend of tangible materiality and intangible meanings shaped by past and present.

What digital methods are discussed for representing and preserving heritage?

The text highlights computational design, VR simulations, mobile apps, digital photography and virtual exhibitions, supported by computer-generated reconstructions and laser scanning. It also references digital cataloguing and asynchronous archives.

Which application areas do the chapters cover across the conference theme?

Across the table of contents, topics include adaptive reuse of heritage buildings, accessibility and readability of digital representations, emotional well-being cities, immersive urban heritage environments, and regional case studies.

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