Digital opportunities for cultural heritage

03.10.2021 16:30 - 18:00 | Room 3 | SESSION


Moderator

Yunus Uğur

Assoc. Prof., History, Marmara University

İsmail Erkam Tüzgen

Secretary General, Istanbul Development Agency

Bülent Aydemir

Coordinator of Culture Portal, Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism

Almila Akdağ

Assist. Prof., Information and Computing Sciences, Utrecht University

Nil Tuzcu

Information Design Lead, Growth Lab, Harvard University

Erkam Tüzgen

Secretary General, Istanbul Development Agency

Cultural heritage is among the most important resilient elements that contribute to the smart and sustainable development of cities. Many different theoretical and applied studies are carried out in order to preserve this heritage and make it an integral part of the daily life of the city as a living heritage. It is seen that the rapidly developing digital approach, methods, and tools will play a very important role in the protection of tangible and intangible cultural heritage, and in an interactive way that is accessible to everyone and interactively with the citizens, thus making them a part of life. In the panel, the point reached in terms of both theory and practice within the framework of the relationship between digitalization and urban heritage, and ideas and sample applications about the future of this process will be discussed.