TECH4Heritage (2022 - 2025)
- Project Type
- Heritage, Digital Arts
- Title
- TECH4Heritage (2022 - 2025)
- Release Date
- 2023
- Irish Partner
- CARARE, Dublin
- Co-Partners
- Lead Partner: THE FACTSTORIES (France)
- Referencia Pictorica Unipessoal (Portugal)
- Universita Degli Studi Di Roma La Sapienza (Italy)
- Funding Strand
- Cooperation Projects
- Year Funded
- 2022
- Funding Amount
- € 199,998
TECH4Heritage is a project that aims to train local Cultural Heritage staff in Iraq to create and share 3D models of archaeological sites and objects.
The project will run from January 2023 to autumn 2024.
The first of five planned T4H training workshops took place in the ancient city of Babylon from the 12th to the 16th of March, 2023. Ten trainees learned how to capture data on site using photogrammetry, followed by creating the 3D models. Trainees collected data from the site of legendary antique city Babylon, as well as on the site of Borsippa, which ziggurat has been mistaken for the Tower of Babel until recently.
Trainees from Babylone will continue to collect data and share their 3D models from their region. When all of the other workshops are completed, they will join trainees from all around the country.
We are delighted to be a partner in Tech4Heritage and to work with The FactStories, Doppel (Referencia Pictorica Unipessoal) and La Sapienza in delivering training in 3D digitisation in Iraq. The support of the State Board of Antiquities and organisations on the ground in Iraq has helped the project with its objective of training local people in digitisation of the cultural heritage. The project’s aim is to build capacity and enable trainees to create content that can be shared with the world. At this stage the project has delivered four training workshops in Nassiriyah, Babylon, Baghdad and Mosul, and the trainees have begun to digitise archaeological monuments for real. The project team has met, mainly online, to discuss the training programme, the development of our database and to plan for the project exhibition, which will travel by road from Iraq to Europe next year. The project is developing learning approaches and resources that CARARE anticipates will contribute to future initiatives. CARARE
Irish Partner
CARARE is a non-profit association that brings together agencies and organisations, research institutions, specialist digital archives and others with an interest in the archaeological and architectural heritage.