New richness at the museum: AR & VR apps
Digitisation of cultural heritage turns Europe’s cultural resources into an important pillar of the digital economy. The EU Work Plan for Culture
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Mingei’s consortium meeting & activities on Chios
From 9 to 13 September 2019, PIOP welcomed all partners to the Mingei Consortium Meeting onChios, Greece, where the Mingei pilot on
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The creation of virtual avatars
Part of Mingei’s digitization process is the creation of virtual avatars that represent the craftsmen and the intangible elements of heritage crafts.
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On the name of the Mingei H2020 project
Mingei is the name of an art movement developed in the late 1920s in Japan by Yanagi Sōetsu (1889–1961), and as a
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The power of co-creation
To digitise and transfer knowledge about the (in)tangible aspects of crafts; that is the goal of our European project Mingei. Already from
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Mingei Crafts Ontology by CNR
The Mingei project aims to digitise and represent knowledge about the (in)tangible aspects of heritage crafts (HC). When we talk about knowledge representation,
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“The Countless Aspects of Beauty” at the Chios Mastic Museum
“The Countless Aspects of Beauty” at the Chios Mastic Museum Man is constantly striving to seek beauty and incorporate it into his everyday
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Reproducing a carafe from 1842: the glass master’s gestures
Image courtesy of A. Dubois for the Musée des Arts et Métiers The Conservatoire national des arts et métiers (CNAM) is a French
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Mingei project 2nd plenary meeting
Image courtesy of Haus der Seidenkultur The Mingei project 2nd plenary meeting, 2-4 April 2019, was kindly hosted by Haus der Seidenkultur.
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Co-creation and crafts in Krefeld
In March 2018 Dick, Meia and Isabella from project partner Waag travelled to Krefeld, together with Dutch weaving and educational expert Erma. The
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