Digital techniques transform fraught questions of conservation philosophy—what is a copy? what is actual?—into new possibilities for dynamic, creative stewardship of heritage buildings and landscapes.
Reflected Heritage creates digital cultural landscapes—“reflections”—through LiDAR scanning, GIS integration, and interactive visualisation. Field-collected, geolocated point clouds “reflect” the actual land, buildings, and people of heritage places, opening space to speculate about heritage futures while precisely documenting sites. The installation features interactive frames that allow for point clouds to be represented, mapped, animated, and annotated, thus showing possibilities for modelling and reinterpretation of these reflected places.
Participants
JULIE MACGILVRAY, ANGELINA R. JONES, BRENT FORTENBERRY, JOHN-MARK COLLINS, ANDREA DIETZ, AND RANDALL F. MASON
WASHINGTON DC, BATON ROUGE, ALBUQUERQUE, AND PHILADELPHIA, USA
Julie McGilvray, Waco, USA, 1972. Lives in Alexandria, works in Washington DC, USA.
Angelina Ribeiro Jones, Tucson, USA, 1983. Lives in Arlington County, works in Washington DC, USA.
Brent Fortenberry, Alexandria, USA, 1984. Lives and works in Baton Rouge, USA.
Andrea Dietz, Georgetown, TX, USA, 1978. Lives and works in Washington DC, USA.
John-Mark Collins, Parma, USA, 1977. Lives and works in Albuquerque, USA
Randall Frambes Mason, Atlantic City, USA, 1963. Lives and works in Philadelphia, USA.
Authorial Collaborators
Andrea Dietz; Serena Bolliger, Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission
Technical Collaborators
Madeline Laub, Resource Stewardship and Science, US National Park Service; Dorcas Corchado Colon, Resource Stewardship and Science, US National Park Service; Nicholas Diaz, Institute for a Disaster Resilient Texas, Texas A&M University; Omid Shafigh Khatibi, University of New Mexico School of Architecture and Planning
Thanks
Louisiana State University Robert Reich School of Landscape Architecture; University of New Mexico School of Architecture and Planning
Supporters
Louisiana State University Robert Reich School of Landscape Architecture; University of New Mexico, School of Architecture and Planning – Historic Preservation and Regionalism Program; University of Pennsylvania, Stuart Weitzman School of Design; George Washington University Cororan School of the Arts and Design; Yijiang Zheng, GWU Institute for Computer Graphics; Isaiah Aladejobi and James Huckenpahler, GWU Corcoran Fabrication Lab; John Traub, GWU Scenic Lab
