Reflected Heritage: Digital Cultural Landscapes of the US National Park Service

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.