Digital Engagement for Heritage-led Urban Regeneration

该项目将展示以遗产为主导的城市再生的潜力，使用数字技术，这对各种环境下的建筑规划具有广泛的影响。该研究项目汇集了来自谢菲尔德大学的考古、建筑和计算机科学的学术研究人员，来自该市创意产业部门的组织（Human Studio Limited设计机构）和社区遗产组织（谢菲尔德城堡之友）。它旨在展示沉浸式技术的能力，利用文化遗产的力量、社区参与和创意产业的变革潜力，为城市再生战略提供信息，推动经济增长。该项目将专注于谢菲尔德的一个案例研究——城堡门地区——长期专门用于再生，这将用于测试沉浸式技术实现再生的潜力。数字技术将被用来产生发展的想法，利用该遗址的遗产。这样做的目的是让公众接触到他们的遗产，并授权社区团体与城市规划者和地方政府合作，要求富有想象力的再生。这将有助于确保其成功地融入城市生活，这将增加再生倡议的经济可持续性的可能性。同情当地遗产的发展有助于减轻公众对社区的疏离，并确保发展的经济可行性。如何吸引公众参与是一个巨大的挑战。该项目将以数字技术为原型，展示一个被确定为再生基地的过去、现在和未来的模型，并展示如何利用这些模型来激发公众对再生的兴趣。根据考古部门目前的研究，谢菲尔德中世纪城堡的3D模型将被制作出来，同时还将制作出城堡门遗址目前的3D模型。模型的第三个元素将在后期阶段充分开发，根据建筑发展计划，但在这个原型中，将包括最近创建的城堡门遗址的建筑设计，这是最近由谢菲尔德大学建筑学院领导的学生项目的一部分，并与谢菲尔德城堡之友合作运行。这些模型将接受当地社区的用户测试，以探索其在为再生计划提供信息方面的价值。这些活动将促进对城市未来发展和繁荣感兴趣的一系列利益相关者之间的合作。

This project will demonstrate the potential for heritage-led urban regeneration, using digital technologies, which has broad-ranging implications for architectural planning in a wide variety of contexts. The research project brings together academic researchers in Archaeology, Architecture and Computer Science from the University of Sheffield, an organisation from the city's creative industry sector (Human Studio Limited design agency), and a community heritage group (Friends of Sheffield Castle). It is intended to demonstrate the capacity of immersive technologies to harness the power of cultural heritage, community engagement and the transformative potential of the creative industries to inform urban regeneration strategies and drive economic growth. The project will focus on a Sheffield case-study - the Castlegate district - long ear-marked for regeneration, and this will be used to test the potential of immersive technologies to enable regeneration. Digital technologies will be used to generate ideas for development, drawing on the heritage of the site. This is intended to engage the public with their heritage and empower community groups to work with urban planners and local government to demand imaginative regeneration. This will help to ensure its successful integration into urban living, which will increase the likelihood of the economic sustainability of regeneration initiatives. Developments sympathetic to the local heritage help to mitigate against public disengagement from their communities and ensure the economic viability of the development. How to engage the public is a huge challenge. This project will prototype the use of digital technologies to present models of the past, present and future of a site identified for regeneration and show how this can be used to generate pubic interest in the regeneration. A 3D model of Sheffield's medieval castle will be produced, drawing on current research by the Department of Archaeology, along with a version of a 3D model of the Castlegate site as it currently appears. A third element of the model would be fully developed at a later stage, informed by architectural plans for development, but in this prototype will involve the incorporation of architectural designs for the Castlegate site created recently as part of a recent student project led by the University of Sheffield's School of Architecture, and run in collaboration with the Friends of Sheffield Castle.The models will be subject to user testing by the local community to explore its value in informing plans for regeneration. These activities will foster collaborative working between a range of stakeholders interested in the future development and prosperity of the city.