What is it about?
The article shows the progress of an ongoing digital heritage research focusing on Kashgar, a unique historical city in the westernmost part of China. The project aims to decode intangible heritage with the help of tangible characteristics representing Kashgar architecture. The study reveals the first step of photogrammetry documentations and aerial views of a specific part of Kashgar's old town, ` Gaotai'.
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Why is it important?
Digitising heritage information is manifold because two different realms, digital and real, converge here RtD allows for an interesting intersection between analogue and digital heritage. In our study, we include gamification elements to offer incentives for the general public to contribute with their own aspects of heritage. Based on Kashgar specific shape grammars of architectural and cultural content users generate a novel representation of their heritage that then further develops into a virtual museum by using a variety of digital tools that translate actual and generated 3D information into one accessible data mode, which is where the digital value lies in.
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In order to decode an urban pattern in a historical city, Kashgar, this project combines working prototypes, theories and methods in a ‘research through design’. Our research converts messages coded in Kashgar's brick architecture into an intelligible language that would allow a particular community-the younger generation to engage in (digital) heritage production. In other words, it seeks an active community engagement in recording, reconstructing and revitalising heritage knowledge and information.
Professor Marc Aurel Schnabel
Xi'an Jiaotong Liverpool University
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This page is a summary of: Decoding Kashgar, September 2015, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE),
DOI: 10.1109/digitalheritage.2015.7419553.
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