Digital 3d-platform for Cultural Heritage, Michelangelo Buonarroti’s architecture, digital modelling 3D of architecture, Human-centred design of interface, IT ecosystem and frameworks for web3d, webxr, semantic 3D, collaborative interaction, HCI

Metamic is a cross-disciplinary research project, involving expertise in the fields of history and graphic representation of architecture, communication design and IT. Metamic aims to innovate digital tools for the valorisation of cultural heritage, in order to broaden its fruition to a wider range of users, from the general public and tourists, up to students and scholars. The case study is the unbuilt architectures of Michelangelo Buonarroti: the choice of cultural artefacts that never existed in reality, but only in the mind of an artist, is particularly challenging for a project that intends to build a purely virtual 3D reality.

The objective of Metamic is to experiment the use in a platform dedicated to cultural content, of some of the communicative and IT features currently used in metaverses: immersiveness in a 3D environment, augmented/cross-reality, interactivity, participativeness, FAIR (Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability and Reusability) requirements. Therefore, Metamic's users will not only be able to visit its 3D environments, but also interact with them, download and upload content, and exchange opinions with other users, making the platform a living place of cultural relations, not excluded some gaming experiences. For Michelangelo scholars, Metamic can become a place for the exchange and production of knowledge, open over time to external contributions. No similar experiences in the field of cultural heritage are currently known.

Michelangelo's unbuilt architectures, together with their original environments, will be philologically reconstructed on the basis of the original drawings and archival and iconographic sources; the philological reconstructions will be translated into digital 3D models, which will constitute the 3D environment of the platform; a dedicated interface will be designed, to make the platform immersive, experienceable in augmented reality, interactive and participatory (Interaction Design/User Experience); and finally, a digital
ecosystem suitable for the project’s objectives will be created, implementing the open-source ATON framework of the CNR-ISPC, which participates in Metamic with its own Research Unit.

Each scientific area composing MetaMic will have to obtain its own specific results to achieve the key-objective of the project: a historically controlled corpus of digital 3D models of Buonarroti's architectures, the related documentary database, the innovative interface and 3D ecosystem. Whether funded, MetaMic would constitute a prototype-experience, and a basis for future partnerships at national and international level, matching the explicit objectives of the PNRR (M1C3, domains 1, 4) and Horizon Europe (Cluster 2, Destination: Innovative Research On The European Cultural Heritage And The Cultural And Creative Industries).

Periodo
2023 — in corso

Durata
24 mesi

Responsabile scientifico
Federico Bellini

Tipologia di bando competitivo
PRIN 2022 PNRR

Gruppo di ricerca
Unit PI (Camerino): Federico Bellini (PI), Giuseppe Bonaccorso, Enrica Petrucci,  Giovanna Puztu 
Alessandro Basso, Marta Maganini, Nicolò Sardo, Daniele Rossi, Federico Oppedisano, Andrea Polini, Michele Loreti

Partner

• Unit 2 (Università di Firenze):
  — Emanuela Ferretti (PI),
  — Alessandro Brodini,
  — Francesca Tosi;
• Unit 3 (IUAV)
  — Vitale Zanchettin (PI),
  — Emanuela Bonini Lessing;
• Unit 4 (CNR)
  — Bruno Fanini (PI),
  — Enzo D’Annibale,
  — Emanuel Demetrescu

Budget complessivo
€ 299.882

Finanziamento ad Unicam
€ 38.984

Altri progetti o proposte correlate a questa ricerca

• FAR 2022 PNR Metamic