Experiencing the Lost and Invisible: AR Visualisation of the Past at Bryn Celli Ddu, Anglesey

体验失落和隐形：Bryn Celli Ddu 过去的 AR 可视化，安格尔西

• 批准号: AH/R009198/1
• 负责人: Benjamin Edwards
• 金额: $ 7.34万
• 依托单位: Manchester Metropolitan University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2018 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FR009198%2F1
• 关键词: Experiencing; Lost; Invisible; AR; Visualisation

This project will use innovative and disruptive augmented reality (AR) to immerse members of the public in their prehistoric heritage. This proof-of-concept project will deliver an immersive audio-visual experience allowing visitors to encounter the hidden history at one of the most important prehistoric sites in Britain. We will combine innovative approaches to archaeological narratives and artistic representation, enabling people to walk back through time at Bryn Celli Ddu Neolithic chambered tomb. Visitors will use their smart phones or tablets to experience the site over the course of its history, peeling back the layers to discover the history of the place and landscape, through which they can move, stop and engage with digital archaeology.Bryn Celli Ddu is a late Neolithic passage tomb, excavated in 1929, now partially and perhaps unsatisfactorily, reconstructed. It is one of the most important prehistoric monuments in northwest Europe, and attracts c.10 000 visitors annually, with considerable implications for the quality of archaeological interpretation provided to members of the public, and significant economic value to Anglesey. The monument and its landscape - the subject of this AR representation - is unique in the complexity of its archaeological remains. The landscape has over 10,000 years of human activity: ranging from Mesolithic hunter gatherers; a causewayed enclosure raised by the earliest Neolithic farmers; a later Neolithic henge, stone circle and passage tomb; associated ceremonial deposition of pottery and polished stone axes; a series of burial cairns; and a landscape of at least 12 prehistoric rock art panels. The complexity of the Bryn Celli Ddu landscape has rightly led to comparisons with Stonehenge.AR, creative visual reconstruction, and sound-art will allow visitors to experience the changing development of this important monument from the deep time of prehistory to the present. It will allow them to interact with three-dimensional textured models of the artefacts from the site whilst standing in the burial chamber, and pull back layers of soil to reveal the buried archaeology. This project will develop and refine the digital technologies and data to provide a rich, textured, immersive experience, within which members of the public can encounter a prehistoric monument in the full complexity of its time-depth and landscape connections. This project will place Bryn Celli Ddu at the centre of the circle of place-memory-performance: the physical remains of the past in its landscape; the cultural memory of artefacts now in museums; and the experience of multi-sensory immersion in the environment.Heritage is often presented to a non-specialist audience as static: the protected site, the conserved object, or the listed building. As a result, both the time-depth of physical heritage, and the connections between artefacts, monuments, places and landscapes are made invisible. Digital technologies allow us to re-immerse monuments and artefacts in their past contexts, and to do so in a manner that provides maximum accessibility to public stakeholders - the very people on whose behalf this heritage is preserved. The project will be delivered bilingually in English and Welsh, targeting one of the Welsh Governments areas of exclusion, and will emphasise visual narratives and audio representations, as ways of telling that move beyond simple dialectic forms of public engagement.By developing the necessary technology and connections between specialists, this project will serve as a proof-of-concept that will be scaled to an appreciation of prehistory nationwide in phase 2 of the call. We will produce a prototype app-based AR system and online VR version to allow access for those who cannot physically visit the site. Evaluation and testing of the system will provide essential information on the challenges and rewards of scaling up the technology to wider applications.

该项目将使用创新和颠覆性的增强现实（AR）技术，让公众沉浸在他们的史前遗产中。这个概念验证项目将提供身临其境的视听体验，让游客在英国最重要的史前遗址之一遇到隐藏的历史。我们将结合考古叙事和艺术表现的创新方法，使人们能够在布林切利杜新石器时代的室内墓室中穿越时间。游客将使用他们的智能手机或平板电脑体验该遗址的历史进程，剥开层层的面纱，发现这个地方和景观的历史，通过这些历史，他们可以移动、停下来，并参与到数字考古中。Bryn Celli Ddu是一座新石器时代晚期的通道墓，于1929年出土，现在部分重建，但可能不令人满意。它是欧洲西北部最重要的史前遗迹之一，每年吸引约1万名游客，对向公众提供的考古解释的质量有相当大的影响，对安格尔西岛有重要的经济价值。纪念碑和它的景观——这一AR表现的主题——在其考古遗迹的复杂性方面是独一无二的。这片土地上有超过1万年的人类活动：从中石器时代的狩猎采集者；新石器时代最早的农民筑起的堤道围场；新石器时代晚期有石阵、石圈和通道墓；陶器和抛光石斧的相关仪式沉积；一系列墓葬石冢；还有至少12块史前岩石壁画。布林Celli Ddu景观的复杂性理所当然地被拿来与巨石阵进行比较。AR、创意视觉重建和声音艺术将让游客体验这座重要纪念碑从史前深处到现在的变化发展。这将允许他们站在墓室里与现场的人工制品的三维纹理模型互动，并拉开土壤层，揭示被埋葬的考古。该项目将发展和完善数字技术和数据，以提供丰富的、有质感的、身临其境的体验，在这个体验中，公众可以看到一个史前纪念碑，它的时间深度和景观联系是完全复杂的。该项目将Bryn Celli Ddu置于场地-记忆-表演的圆圈中心：过去的物理遗迹在其景观中；博物馆中文物的文化记忆；以及多感官沉浸在环境中的体验。遗产通常以静态的形式呈现给非专业观众：受保护的地点、受保护的对象或列入名录的建筑。因此，无论是物质遗产的时间深度，还是人工制品、纪念碑、地点和景观之间的联系，都变得不可见。数字技术使我们能够将古迹和文物重新沉浸在它们过去的环境中，并以最大限度地为公众利益相关者提供便利的方式做到这一点，而这些利益相关者正是这些遗产被保护的人。该项目将以英语和威尔士语双语交付，针对威尔士政府的一个排斥领域，并将强调视觉叙事和音频呈现，作为超越简单辩证法形式的公众参与的讲述方式。通过开发必要的技术和专家之间的联系，该项目将作为概念验证，并将在第二阶段扩大到全国范围内的史前文化欣赏。我们将制作基于应用程序的AR系统原型和在线VR版本，以便无法亲自访问网站的人可以访问。对该系统的评估和测试将提供关于扩大该技术应用范围的挑战和回报的基本信息。