Articles by Paolo Carafa

Within the CHANGES Project, Spoke 8 focuses on integrated advanced technologies and scientific methods to enhance the sustainability and resilience of Tangible Cultural Heritage (TCH). The project fosters the creation of a transdisciplinary unit aimed at improving the knowledge, understanding, management, and dissemination of TCH contexts and assets, supported by innovative workflows and methodologies. It emphasizes transforming fragmented data into shared systems of knowledge. By geolocating information, the project directs scientific focus toward specific problems, promoting data-driven, interdisciplinary approaches for sustainable heritage management. The case studies, including the Ancient Latium, Amendolara (CS), and Syracuse projects, represent preliminary outcomes of this methodology, encompassing the systematic inventory and classification of diverse data, the assessment of knowledge frameworks, and the implementation of cultural narratives.

Sharing and communicating archaeological knowledge and heritage as a whole has been, and still is, one of the main points of strength of SITAR. It is possible to argue that this goal has been achieved not just thanks to technological tools but by moving from a cultural premise based on a prevalent contextual concept of archaeology and cultural communication.