Heritage is already there. Telling its story is another job entirely.

The project applies the Finestre sul Passato product to the historic centre of Peschiera del Garda, shown at three different moments in time, the fourteenth, sixteenth and nineteenth centuries. With no app to install, visitors reach the interactive reconstructions from their own phone as they walk the streets, and the screen becomes a window onto the town's past.

Each reconstruction rests on archival research, historical maps and comparative analysis, all set out in the sources report delivered with the project. The scenes are published in several languages and triggered by QR codes along the route.

The project forms part of the initiative “Turismo innovativo in viaggio tra le opere di difesa veneziane”, submitted by the Municipality of Bergamo as lead partner together with the municipalities of Peschiera del Garda and Palmanova for the UNESCO site “Venetian Works of Defence between the 16th and 17th Centuries: Stato da Terra – Western Stato da Mar”, funded by decree of the Italian Ministry of Tourism, Directorate-General for Tourism Development and Promotion (ref. no. 0025629/23 of 4 October 2023, CUP H19E22000150001).

The conservation of Lorenzo Lotto's choir stalls opened the way to a wide-ranging communication project around one of the city's most emblematic works. Rather than closing the area for the duration of the works, the site itself became an interactive installation, open to visitors and built around augmented reality, telling the story of how heritage is given back to the public.

The project also included a programme of associated events and a digital communication plan designed to reach the audiences furthest from conventional cultural venues.

The project brought together the conservation site, a digital communication plan and an education programme for local schools, with audience and teaching results well ahead of the previous period.

Cantiere Vivo, the project on the conservation and interpretation of the choir stalls by Lotto and Capoferri, was the subject of a 60-minute documentary, made with Coral Climb and produced for Rai Storia.

The title Restauratio Humana comes from the inlaid cartouche in one of the main marquetry panels of the screen, and it captures the idea that conservation, when it is well told, can be far more than a craft operation, and become a cultural act in its own right.

Watch the documentary on RaiPlay

A project tied to the maintenance of the celebrated equestrian statue held by the civic museums of Verona. The painstaking conservation work was recorded through a precise three-dimensional model of the sculpture, resolved to sub-millimetre detail.

The survey also produced technical drawings for decay mapping, along with the material needed to develop an interactive interpretation system for the visitor route.

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An interpretation project built on augmented-reality gamification across the whole monastic site. The playful format opens a new way of engaging with one of the most important heritage sites in Bergamo.

The project, supported by Fondazione Cariplo and developed with CNR IMATI and the Verona Academy of Fine Arts, closed with a conference on gamification in the cultural sector and a two-week coding workshop hosted by the Bergamo Scienza festival.

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A project created to reinterpret a lost heritage site in Bergamo's upper town and give it back to the public in a new way. The intervention is deliberately light, designed so that the installation can travel and adapt to other spaces, in the spirit of a touring museum.

The installed route is paired with a multimedia augmented-reality application, and includes a virtual tour, a dedicated app and a printed catalogue.

Project page on the ISREC website

The visitor system developed for the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore in Bergamo's upper town offers an interactive augmented-reality model, reached directly from the visitor's own phone by scanning a QR code.

Through augmented reality, visitors see hotspots on screen positioned against the works themselves. Each one opens that work's record, with a written description and an audio track. All content is available in five languages and needs no app installed.

A digitisation project for the cadastral registration and interpretation of four military forts abandoned in 1911, in the municipality of Varzo, province of Verbano-Cusio-Ossola.

The work covers photogrammetric three-dimensional surveying, vector drawing, GPS georeferencing, web-accessible three-dimensional models and the interpretation panels.

The project is funded under Piedmont Regional Law no. 9 of 19 May 2021, “Interventi per la valorizzazione delle strade storiche di montagna di interesse turistico”.

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