What is it about?
Digital Heritage is twofold in nature. There is rigid and actual heritage value as well as the freedom of digitality. Fusing the two adds a new layer to the authenticity issue prevalent in heritage studies. Within the context of our research of Kashgar, we confront three sub-layers to discuss authenticity. They are dichotomies between self-other (identity), topophilia-topophobia (place) and unilateral-plural perceptions (time).
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Why is it important?
In Kashgar, how to capture, process and disseminate the cultural heritage in Kashgar is a formidable challenge for a digital heritage research. Kashgar's revitalization has already been a controversial issue because of its conflict with the demand for urban redevelopment. This has caused current conversation plans prepared by local and central authorities end up with lucrative tourism models. Therefore Kashgar needs to grow into a different level of authenticity since the current situation does not allow for a flexible and evolving interpretation of Kashgar's heritage allowing local people to identify themselves with.
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Our research is a design research project, titled ‘Augmenting Kashgar’. The project is embarked upon by pushing further Research-through-Design methods. Our derogative approach to contemporary cultural heritage preservation and conservation methods is modelled on a cybernetic process cycle that is explained below, before which its problems, amphibolies and dichotomies found in heritage works are presented.
Professor Marc Aurel Schnabel
Xi'an Jiaotong Liverpool University
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This page is a summary of: Amphiboly of Digital Heritage, September 2015, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE),
DOI: 10.1109/digitalheritage.2015.7419582.
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