Animation Explains: What Are Heritage Futures and Why Do They Matter?

Watch now! There’s a new animation to explain the heritage futures work of @UnescoChairLNU.  This short animation explains the need for futures thinking among cultural heritage…

Cultural Heritage Enriched With AI-Generated Image Captions: “Christ on the Cross with the Virgin, Saint John the Evangelist, and Saint Catherine of Siena in Adoration”

Author: Cédric Bhihe, researcher at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center In a previous post we briefly showed how objects detected in an image by means of…

These Are Our Biggest Challenges According to Young Heritage Professionals

Jean, European Heritage Tribune. April 28, 2022. (Read the original article on EHT) As 2022 has been proclaimed the European Year of Youth, the heritage…

Crowdsourcing Campaign to Generate Natural Language Descriptions Automatically

Automatic image captioning is a process that allows already trained models running on commodity computers to generate textual descriptions from an image. To date, no…

UNCHARTED: Introduction to the Project’s Work Program and Deliverables

UNCHARTED is a four years research and innovation action about understanding, capturing and fostering the societal value of culture. Funded by the EU Horizon 2020…

Culture Caleidoscoop Call for Contributions Still Accepting Proposals

At Culture Caleidoscoop, we believe that conversations should be ongoing. We want to continue to be a host for continuing conversations on our journal issue…

Call for Papers: Heritage and Peace

Call for Papers Heritage and Peace, edited by Lucas Lixinski and Yujie Zhu ‘Heritage must be at the frontline of peacebuilding,’ UNESCO’s Director-General Irina Bokova…

CAE position paper on the New European Bauhaus

Almost 18 months on, the New European Bauhaus (NEB) initiative is taking shape. Despite the proclaims, however, culture does not seem to be an equal…

[White Paper] Cultural Heritage and Climate Change: New Challenges and Perspectives for Research

Full Paper | References | Workshop Summary Collaboration between the two Joint Programming Initiatives “Cultural Heritage and Global Change” (JPI CH), and “Connecting Climate Knowledge…

Culture Caleidoscoop Working with and for People: Mapping Socially Engaged Practice in the Cultural Sector

Deadline: 12 April 21:00 (CET) We invite proposals for contributions for the first issue of Culture Caleidoscoop. Culture Caleidoscoop is an online, open-access, peer-reviewed publication…