DIVA
Integrated into the mixed interfaculty research unit Art, Archaeology, Heritage, the DIVA research group is characterized by an interdisciplinary approach. Initially centred on the history of the built environment, it has gradually broadened its scope to include approaches involving philosophy, human sciences and literary theories in the service of heritage interpretation, as well as methods of digitisation, modelling and dissemination of information related to it. "Heritage" is understood here in the cultural, material - including movable and immovable productions - and discursive sense, with a non-exclusive focus on the contemporary period, the approaches being brought to evolve according to the composition of the research group.
Research Themes
History of conservation theories and practices
Although people have always reused the built heritage of the past, the institution of conservation as a discipline dates back to the 19th century. Fundamentally linked to the (geo)political, ideological and economic context, but also to the technical means and the evolution of taste and the gaze on the past, the evolution of conservation theories and practices constitutes a field of study that can be of interest to both the historian and the architect. Indeed, it allows not only a better grasp of the changes in the built environment over the last two centuries, but also a better understanding of the buildings on which we must intervene today (documentation, conservation, restoration, reconversion). At the crossroads of the history of architecture, the history of ideas and the archaeology of the built environment, this theme is being developed on the basis of the interdisciplinary skills of the research group, also including the digital humanities.
Projects: From/to Venice, Re-Site, LInkedHerit
Heritage concepts and theories
Building on the theme "History of conservation theories and practices", this theme focuses on the questions currently raised by the valorization of heritage in the broad sense (from conservation to reuse). It is nourished by dialogue with various disciplines and in contact with the questions raised by the conservation-restoration of artworks. Focusing on the questions raised by heritage evaluation, inclusiveness and authenticity, it constitutes a field of experimentation that is closely linked to the teachings of the Rewritings programme.
Project: CoToCoCo
Digital Heritage
The digital transformation changes fundamentally all areas of society, and heritage is not spared by this transformation. For a decade now, new tools and techniques for data acquisition, modeling and heritage representation have emerged and have changed the way we perceive our environment. Beyond the expert use of existing tools, an important part of the research developed in the field of digital heritage aims at proposing technical improvements, processes allowing to digitally reproduce - as faithfully as possible - elements of mobile or immobile heritage. The research developed within the group is aimed more particularly at three aspects of digital heritage: the improvement or development of new techniques for the acquisition of geometric data from mobile or immobile heritage; improving the way in which concepts (values, authenticity, etc.) linked to heritage are taken into account in digital models; the development of new ways of representing and communicating heritage using digital technologies.
Projects: VP-NUM, E-Thesaurus, TerraMosana, Senefer 3D
