Antonella Lerario

• Master of Engineering
• Italian National Research Council

Archaeological museums play a vital role in regions with ancient roots, holding a millennial image as the cradle of civilization. In the South of Italy (former “Magna Graecia”) and particularly in Puglia—a melting pot of cultures where ancient Messapian, Byzantine, Roman, and Greek civilizations followed one another in ages, bequeathing a wealth of...

The importance of culture and cultural heritage for the achievement of sustainable development is widely stressed in official documents. Nevertheless, the role of cultural heritage for the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in the Agenda 2030 is limited in practical terms, as explicit references to it only appear in Target 11.4...

The rapid spread of the COVID pandemic is deeply changing people’s lives and upsetting consolidated models and lifestyles. The social distancing measures for the reduction of contagion have been heavily affecting people’s daily experiences, such as for example the public’s relationship with cultural resources. Museums, in particular, are paying the...

The article describes the design process carried out to deliver a tool for the virtual fruition of the resources of the Puglia Regional Museum Directorate through multimedia content, within the frame of the Vi.S.T.A. (Virtual and Social heritage Touring Application) project. Identifying the virtual tour as the most suitable technology to achieve th...

In recent years the application of information and communication technologies (ICTs) to the built heritage has been increasingly finalized to heritage promotion in order to maximize visitor flows. New urgent challenges facing built heritage loom now over its very existence and our possibilities to preserve it for future generations. Italian heritag...

Architectural heritage is perhaps the most important marker of the Italian and European landscapes. Over the last decades, its strategic relevance for local economic development has led to prioritize tourism-oriented promotion objectives. Therefore, new light has been thrown on once unknown resources that have thus received the attention of tourist...

Most of the maps in tourist information websites show only the position of the Points of Interest (PoIs)—providing sometime a link to a webpage—making choices difficult. Multimedia maps, instead, could support users in satisfying the traveler needs giving links to information about the PoIs. The developed application supports improved connections b...

A solid and consistent research production has, up to now, considerably contributed to the identification and exploration of the meanings, theoretical foundations, and possible implications of tourism in the cities. The focus on pursuing sustainable tourism activities has also inspired different approaches (eco-tourism, responsible tourism, pro-poo...

Albania represents an interesting case of a newly emerging destination in the international tourist market, with intensive pressures coming from seasonal visit flows and the related impacts on the environment. The Albanian Culture Marketing Strategy, while correctly focusing on heritage for the de-seasoning of visits in congested areas and for awar...

This article describes the ongoing project “School for Cultural Heritage through Map Exploitation” (SCHEME), an integrated set of activities designed to support social inclusion in heritage promotion processes in Albania. The main project goal is delivering ICT tools (map and crowdfunding platforms) and procedures as well as improving the capacity...

IT L’ingente patrimonio culturale italiano affronta oggi le conseguenze di strategie di promozione obsolete e di un insufficiente uso delle ICT, ma soprattutto di una errata percezione del suo significato nella vita delle comunità. I caratteri stessi del c.d. ‘Museo Italia’(un patrimonio di beni ‘minori’ fortemente diffuso sul territorio accanto ai...

ICTs represent strategic resources for Cultural Heritage (CH) projects. Anyway, several conditions put the success of promotion projects at risk, especially if carried out at the local level. Firstly, local scale amplifies the weight of budget constraints on the priorities of public administrations, compelled to allocate funds to the physical conse...

Remote fruition of architectures can be enhanced by using virtual tours more effectively. This technology suffers from a lack of information about context and objects, our user-centered approach described in this paper attempt to make progress in this direction to deliver virtual tours as a powerful, active learning tool to enhance understanding of...

The focus on the reduction of energy consumption in the last Italian Decrees for the enforcement of the UE Directive 2002/91/CE on Energy Performance in Buildings does not take the whole building process -from resource extraction and production to building construction and disposal/recycling -into due consideration. The integration of LCA methodolo...

The extent and periodicity of catastrophic events adding to average housing needs in developing countries requires from the research world a large-scale approach, providing communities with rapid, low-cost but also sustainable housing solutions to emergency problems. This paper presents a research that focused on an innovative use of conventional c...

This research work represents the continuation of the analysis 'Loan Funding for Sustainable Housing Ownership', presented at the XXIX IAHS World Congress. On the basis of the financial barriers to the access to much of sustainable housing - mainly the objective, though long-term balanced, high initial cost of efficient technologies - the study pre...

The trend towards environmental protection is gaining momentum. Social and political forces are increasing the pressure for more environmentally-sound technological decisions. Companies also recognize that initiatives such as adoption of proper materials and waste management, efficient process and product design, energy efficiency, and recycling ca...

International debates on sustainability clearly stress the role of cities as generation ground of the most dramatic problem related to the rapid growth of population: the insufficient access to appropriate and 'sustainable' shelter. Solutions to this do not have to cope with technological barriers, but rather with economical constraints: sustainabl...

The Web represents a particularly important innovation by offering access to text -based information, searchable databases, photographs, sound recordings, and video images. For energy professionals, the Web is more than a place to post one's favourite paper-based reports; it's a venue for one-on-one as well as group communications, tracking down de...

Assenza di informazioni, conoscenze inadeguate e insensibilità alle problematiche ambientali, se non vere e proprie negligenze, contribuiscono a incrementare il degrado del territorio. Una sempre maggiore consapevolezza della limitatezza delle risorse, ampiamente sottolineata a livello internazionale, richiede l'adozione di nuove iniziative sia per...

SUMMARY The use of computerized information is a growing part of our society; people use geographic, social, economic, political and environmental information to answer practical questions. Information mining and sharing is therefore of crucial importance: drawings, photographs, documents and surveys information enhance the understanding of resourc...