Digital Intangible Heritage of Europe

Founded 2012, DIHE (Digital Intangible Heritage of Europe) is an R&D participatory cluster that channels its efforts towards creating a sustainable framework for communication with, and engagement of, all interested stakeholders in the field of digital intangible heritage — researchers, artists, cultural practitioners and institutions, SME’s from the creative and technology sectors, policy and decision making bodies.

Methodologically, DIHE aims at consolidating an interdisciplinary and cross-sec­toral approach spanning visitor and museum studies, interaction design, human-computer interaction, cultural studies and ethnography. This framework is currently augmented by integrating related fields such as cognitive and af­fective sciences, or cognitive semiotics — a younger discipline entirely dedicated to furthering a thor­ough understanding of meaning-making processes across modalities and communication channels.

Two main areas of interest will drive the actions and initiatives undertaken by DIHE in the near future.

1. Research, artistic creation and exploration in the field of Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH), whose intricate and diversified aspects we aim to investigate from a variety of perspectives, focusing on both content and expressionof ICH, as well as on the interplay between them. This initiative, in turn, will involve: i) research activities dedicated to unravelling European ICH by collecting a significant amount of empirical data; ii) creative and research activities for contributing to establishing new methodologies and standards for the identification, documentation, archiving and visualization of ICH; iii) creative and prototyping activities leading to digital applications that will promote the engagement of a variety of audiences, as well as open access to ICH-related content and issues.

2. Transfer of methods and standards for the indentification, documentation, archiving and visualization of Intangible Cultural Heritage between the fields and sectors involved. This will continue the tradition of academic curricula, vocational courses, know-how books, interactive and travelling exhibitions initiated by Digital Heritage Center.

The following project was initiated by DIHE:

Cultural Heritage Identity Profile

 

DIHE (Digital Intangible Heritage of Europe) is an R&D participatory cluster that channels its efforts towards creating a sustainable framework for communication with, and engagement of, all interested stakeholders in the field of digital intangible heritage — researchers, artists, cultural practitioners and institutions, SME’s from the creative and technology sectors, policy and decision making bodies.

Methodologically, DIHE aims at consolidating an interdisciplinary and cross-sec­toral approach spanning visitor and museum studies, interaction design, human-computer interaction, cultural studies and ethnography. This framework is currently augmented by integrating related fields such as cognitive and af­fective sciences, or cognitive semiotics — a younger discipline entirely dedicated to furthering a thor­ough understanding of meaning-making processes across modalities and communication channels.