Reimagining Tanzania's Townscape Heritage

在其核心部分，我们的提案将探讨创意(电影、音乐、音响、视觉艺术、手工艺传统)在文化资产(城镇景观遗产、沿海景观环境以及与坦桑尼亚大陆、桑给巴尔和英国的教科文组织世界遗产的链接)中的作用。这加强和放大了我们AHRC的碎片化遗产/好奇旅行者方法的影响，该方法将摄影图像(众包/网络刮来的和新的图像)与移动地图数据结合在一起，以数字方式记录背景中的文化遗产遗址，作为一种预见变化的方法，考虑到将遗产置于危险境地的各种挑战。该项目将借鉴巴加莫约丰富的遗产和文化传统，考虑到巴加莫约的沿海战略位置，与印度洋、过去、现在和未来的贸易联系--包括造船传统、与食盐生产和香料贸易的作用；奴隶和象牙贸易；其殖民历史及其与基督教和伊斯兰教的联系--基督教进入内陆；以及历史人物，包括利文斯通博士的遗体在马拉维去世后被送往巴加莫约。布拉德福德和圣安德鲁斯的数字遗产研究人员和创意研究人员将与达累斯萨拉姆大学的遗产和创意研究人员以及TaSuba(Bagamoyo艺术文化研究所-Taasisi ya Sanaa na UTamaduni Bagamoyo)的艺术家共同创作艺术作品。创新的数字遗产研究将加强与坦桑尼亚创意和文化经济的包容性接触，支持文化遗产旅游和文化资源管理。我们将与UDSM的研究人员共同为历史名城巴加莫约(在联合国教科文组织暂定的世界遗产名录上)创建一个数字孪生兄弟，并作为其中的一部分，生成支持谷歌街景的内容，以提高城镇景观遗产的知名度，并支持当地企业。这对数字孪生兄弟将作为一个框架，将Bagamoyo的物质遗产(建筑、港口和造船传统、风景/海景)与无形的叙述(故事、歌曲、文化习俗和手工艺知识)结合起来，帮助记录过去和现在的生活方式。

At its core our proposal will explore the role of creativity (film, music, soundscapes, visual arts, craft traditions) inspired by cultural assets (townscape heritage, coastal landscape setting and links to UNESCO World Heritage in mainland Tanzania, Zanzibar and the UK). This enhances and magnifies the impact of our AHRC 'Fragmented Heritage/ Curious Travellers' methodology that combines photographic imagery (crowd-sourced/ web-scraped and new imagery) together with mobile mapping data to digitally document cultural heritage sites in context, as an approach that anticipates change, given diverse challenges that place heritage at risk. The project will draw from Bagamoyo's rich heritage and cultural traditions, given Bagamoyo's strategic coastal location, with trading links across the Indian Ocean, past, present and future - including its boat-building traditions, role with salt production and the spice trade; the slave and ivory trade; its colonial past and linkage both with Christianity and Islam - the entry of Christianity into the interior; and with historical figures including Dr Livingstone whose body was brought to Bagamoyo upon his death in Malawi. Digital heritage researchers and creative researchers at Bradford and St Andrews will co-create artistic works with heritage and creative researchers at the University of Dar-es-Salaam and artists at TaSUBa (Bagamoyo's Arts and Cultural Institute - Taasisi ya Sanaa na Utamaduni Bagamoyo). Training will be given in digital methods and the output will include an entry to the film shorts category at the Zanzibar International Film Festival; and a real-time portal/art installation to be showcased at the vibrant Bagamoyo Arts Festival that will link places within Tanzania (Bagamoyo on Mainland and Zanzibar Stone Towns) and between Tanzania, England and Scotland as an innovative concept and alternate form of digital twinning 'Windows Across the Oceans'. The innovative digital heritage research will enhance inclusive engagement with the creative and cultural economy in Tanzania supporting cultural heritage tourism and cultural resource management. The installations will be used to highlight the universal value of world heritage to a global audience, the importance of conserving cultural heritage settings (townscape heritage, maritime heritage) to both local people and government in Tanzania and the linked understanding and meaning that comes from oral histories, craft traditions and other rich narratives.The project facilitates knowledge exchange and capacity building throughout, crucially involving TZ researchers to spend time in the UK, developing digital heritage skills to work with the Bagamoyo data, with additional financial support/ value-added from Erasmus+ funded activity As a result , with researchers from UDSM we will co-create a digital twin for the Historic City of Bagamoyo (on the UNESCO tentative world heritage list) and as part of this, generate Google StreetView-ready content to raise visibility for townscape heritage and to support local businesses. The digital twin will serve as a framework to unite Bagamoyo's tangible heritage (buildings, port and boat-building tradition, landscapes/ seascapes), and intangible narratives (stories, songs, cultural practices and craft knowledge) to help to document past and present way of life. The new, vibrant digital assets that are created through this project will 1) support local tour guides (helping to increase visibility as a tourism destination; and by creating digital resources that can enhance the tourism experience); 2) promote global citizenship and foster good community relations (helping to educate people, develop place-making and enhance civic pride); 3) develop use of IT through methods that support digital discovery (hidden heritage); 4) improve accessibility (equality, diversity and inclusion); 5) provide methods for long term monitoring of change to sites by heritage guardians.