The disciplines of representation within the PhD Programme in Architectural Heritage express their disciplinary specificities in the areas of analysis, interpretation, and communication of cultural heritage, with particular attention paid to all three areas of continuous development offered by technological and digital innovation.
Concerning analysis, the discipline works with the tools of descriptive geometry and the history of representation for the analysis of archival documentation and artistic literature and with the tools of surveying to analyze material heritage (territorial, urban, architectural, archaeological, museum, ...) and intangible heritage.
Digital modeling technologies, methodologies, and processes (geometric, parametric, algorithmic, BIM, HBIM) operate in the field of interpretation through reconstructive digital modeling and algorithmic and informative heritage modeling.
Regarding communication, the discipline offers its versatility in using representation tools, from analog ones (physical models, also for inclusive communication) to digital ones (including animation, extended reality, including augmented, mixed, and virtual reality). In particular, the continuum between real and virtual and the increasingly close relations between representation, artificial intelligence, and extended reality constitute new fields of exploration that are also interdisciplinary.
- SH5_12 Computational modelling and digitisation in the cultural sphere
- SH5_8 Cultural studies, cultural identities and memories, cultural heritage
- Descriptive Geometry and Representation History
- Surveying tangible and intangible heritage
- reconstructive digital modeling
- BIM – HBIM (Building Information Modelling - Heritage Building Information Modelling)
- Extended reality (XR)