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Hypercities Receives MacArthur Foundation Grant
As part of a collaboration between a number of universities over many years, Professor of Germanic languages Todd Presner’s project HyperCities, a Web-based platform that shows Berlin and other cities as they evolve over centuries, has won a grant totaling $238,000 from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Read more:
International Team Rebuilds Ancient Rome Digitally
Walter Veltroni, the mayor of Rome, is scheduled to officiate in June
2007 over the first public viewing of "Rome Reborn 1.0,” a ten-year project initiated at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) to rebuild ancient Rome digitally on the computer. The result is the biggest, most complete simulation of an historic city ever created, thanks to the commitment and expertise of UCLA scholars and students working at the ETC in collaboration with archaeologists, architects and computer specialists from Italy, the United States, Britain, and Germany.
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Experiential Research
The ETC promotes the use of new technologies for experiential research in diverse disciplines including architecture, the performing arts, classics, archaeology, foreign language studies, and education, among others. Projects at the center explore a wide range of phenomenological issues, including movement, sequencing, sonification, and visualization. With past grants, the ETC team has distinguished itself in the spatial modeling of comprehensive environments, from natural and artificial landscapes, urban environments and other material culture, to the scientific visualization of surfaces and data. Comprehensive simulations of historical environments allow scholars to study various reconstruction issues and provide new spatial gateways into research and teaching about the broader cultural, social, economic, and political aspects of civilizations – both ancient and contemporary.
A focus on experiential historical architectural research distinguishes the ETC from other digital media centers by expanding upon current scholarly investigations and technology investments in virtual reality (VR) and sonification.
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