Books by Eurydice Georganteli
Articles and chapters by Eurydice Georganteli
No place can better represent the meeting of cultures in late medieval Europe than the Mediterran... more No place can better represent the meeting of cultures in late medieval Europe than the Mediterranean. Intellectual, artistic, and societal interactions during this time have impacted material culture on many levels. These interactions are yet visible in coins, monuments, cityscapes, languages, music, ideas, knowledge, and technologies. Byzantine, medieval Islamic, Norman, Italian, and Crusader coins have been the dominant evidence of cultural interactions between opposing Mediter-ranean shores. This paper presents aspects of cultural encounters in the late medieval Mediterranean, visualized in storylines and accompanying digitized datasets, and supported by computer technologies and related digital applications.
Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction/Human-Computer Interaction International Congress, Crete, 2014 (UAHCI/HCII 2014), 2014
Throughout history it has been necessary for mankind to travel: for a better life, for pilgrimage... more Throughout history it has been necessary for mankind to travel: for a better life, for pilgrimage, for religious or political freedom, for trade, for com- munication between nations or for conquest. Each culture as it developed found in coinage the most powerful means to facilitate and control economic activities within and outside its territories. And as peoples from different cultures travelled and mixed with others, so did their coins. Byzantine, Islamic, and western medieval European coins circulated and changed hands along routes of migration, trade, war, pilgrimage and diplomacy; the routes set out from Con- stantinople/Istanbul to the Adriatic in the western Balkans; from the Black Sea to the eastern and western Mediterranean; from Britain, Scandinavia to Russia. The Barber Institute of Fine Arts at the University of Birmingham houses one of the finest collections of medieval Christian and Islamic coins worldwide. This paper presents select case studies based on the numismatic resources of the Barber Institute to show the role of coins as a means to track and discuss inter-cultural dialogue that took place along Europe’s cultural routes. The com- bination of storylines based on coins, related artefacts and sites, and the imple- mentation of modern technologies can further social engagement and alert existing and new audiences of the potential of cultural heritage as a major connecting thread of Europe’s diverse cultural communities.
"Tailoring lifelong cultural experiences" in C. Stephanidis and M. Antona (eds.), Human-Computer Interaction International Congress 2014. With J. Floch, S. Jiang, M.E. Beltrán, I. Koukouni, B. Prados, L.M. Perez, M. del Mar Villafranca, S. de los Rios, M.F. Cabrera-Umpierrez, M.T. Arredondo ICT-based personalization in cultural heritage has been an important topic of research during the... more ICT-based personalization in cultural heritage has been an important topic of research during the last twenty years. Personalization is used as a means to enhance the visitors’ experience of a cultural site. Little consideration has however been set on lifelong cultural experiences, i.e. engaging the public in culture beyond the visit of a single site and bridging multiple sites. Cultural sites differ leading to a diversity of needs that should be taken into account through a personalization approach. This paper presents a set of scenarios tai- lored to suit the needs of three different Cultural Heritage sites in different EU countries. These scenarios have been developed within the EU funded project TAG CLOUD that aims at leveraging existing technologies to support realistic lifelong engagement experiences with cultural heritage through personalized content and interaction.
Invited papers by Eurydice Georganteli
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Urban heritage in Southeastern Europe is an important yet vastly underrepresented chapter in the ... more Urban heritage in Southeastern Europe is an important yet vastly underrepresented chapter in the story of Europe. The uneasy legacy of empires in the region, coupled by the trauma of more recent regional discord and political changes, has contributed to a blurred and occasionally unsympathetic view of places and monuments. Digitization projects such as Europeana (www.europeana.eu) and the Digital Atlas of Roman and Medieval Civilization (darmc.harvard.edu), and emerging digital initiatives such as COOLTURA (www.tagcloudproject.eu) and the Via Egnatia portal (viaegnatia.fas.harvard.edu) can transform the nature of audiences’ engagement with this unique heritage beyond the confines of national cultural agendas.
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Books by Eurydice Georganteli
Articles and chapters by Eurydice Georganteli
Invited papers by Eurydice Georganteli