In the scenario of the digital transition, techniques and methodologies for management of data and information, objects and themes related to cultural heritage, in the whole lifecycle, represent a fertile field of research, in which traditional knowledge and disciplines interact with the new approaches of digital humanities.
The aim of the PhD is to encourage the growth and development of new specialized skills in which digital tools produce renewed interpretative and analytical approaches and, at the same time, allow the creation of knowledge also in a social and collaborative dimension), in the direction of a new and wider valorisation, dissemination and public use of the heritage, also through the meta-disciplinary interaction of scholars from different fields and the dialogue with all the institutions active in the field of cultural heritage.
The course is focused on those topics related to the study of cultural heritage (as an environment made of objects, actions, and technologies), in its broad and multifaceted meaning:
The core of the research is the enhancement of this heterogeneous heritage through new methodologies and digital technology, but the course also focuses on the notion of digital culture in a broad critical-epistemological perspective.
The idea is then to reflect on cultural heritage - from antiquity to the contemporary -, innovating through computational and digital methods, in a context of transversality and trans-disciplinary knowledge.