Authors:
Daniela Petrelli, Luigina Ciolfi, Dick van Dijk, Eva Hornecker, Elena Not, Albrecht Schmidt
[T]he museum's preoccupation with the information and the way it is juxtaposed to objects ... immediately takes the museum visitor one step beyond the material, physical thing they see displayed before them, away from the emotional and other possibilities that may lie in their sensory interaction with it. —Sandra Dudley [1] It sounds banal to say that a core feature of any digital artifact is its lack of materiality, but when dealing with traditional cultural heritage this becomes a serious issue, as materiality, authenticity, or "aura" cannot be transferred to the digital. A digital copy of a Le Corbusier…
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