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While the modernist movement remains an integral epoch in American design heritage, its monuments... more While the modernist movement remains an integral epoch in American design heritage, its monuments have only recently become the subject of conservation and public interpretation. The city of Columbus, Indiana features several of these studies by internationally renowned architects and landscape architects, including Eliel and Eero Saarinen, Harry Weese, and Dan Kiley. While the Modernist movement in the United States has provided significant discourse for the architectural context as part of a theoretical tableau, the greater understanding of how to interpret and conserve these buildings for a modern public has not been previously explored. This paper will address geocached augmented reality as a way to disseminate information and conserve/ interpret significant architectural artefacts as part of the current Age of Digital Empowerment. Through digital technologies, the city can be reconstructed from archival documents, representing different phases of architectural design, while providing a non-invasive interpretation strategy to inform a diverse, international public about the buildings and their histories. Through a digital translator and embedded archival paper, audio, and video ephemera, the application enhances individual engagement and empowerment, encouraging continuing interest and opening up a user base beyond on-site signage. The technology allows the public to experience the architecture three-dimensionally and remotely, and can be modified easily to include the most recent information. The Columbus Indiana Augmented Reality Project provides a test case for this new methodology in interpretation in the form of a combination mobile application and web platform. Through the application, the user becomes the explorer, navigating the heritage of the city, selecting personalized information through a democratic and equalized method. As the historic city considers itself an incubator for emerging technologies, the augmented reality application contextually aligns with a pedagogical practice in the city, and also provides a framework for a digital publically-accessible research database and accumulating archive of information.
The Historic Environment, 2016
One world archaeology, 2019
In the public interpretation of historic sites, authenticity and community involvement are interc... more In the public interpretation of historic sites, authenticity and community involvement are interconnected, allowing for tourism communities to be engaged in a particular place or history, often outside of one’s own personal experiences. While the public views history as objective, the designed presentation of heritage artifacts demonstrates that history is largely subjective, as facts can be compiled and presented to create disparate “histories,” aligned with heritages.
Communications in computer and information science, 2017
The Columbus Indiana Augmented Reality Project is a student-driven initiative to research, interp... more The Columbus Indiana Augmented Reality Project is a student-driven initiative to research, interpret, and reproduce the historic urban architecture and landscape of Columbus, Indiana. Focusing initially on the 7 Landmark Buildings housed in the city, the project uses primary source information (original archival drawings photographs, letters, and audio material) to create an enhanced digital model, which patrons can use through an application and web platform to navigate the city either on-site or remotely. Employing the Ball State University approach to entrepreneurial learning, as students learn techniques for creating the environment, they then teach their peers and the public about the information, thus introducing and then reinforcing learning objectives and skillsets. The project provides real world experience in cutting-edge heritage preservation issues and methods, giving students an immersive experience, working with professionals in the field, and creating an immersive digital model to help the public engage with important modernist architecture.
Society for Historical Archaeology, 2018
Architectural Histories, Jan 19, 2017
Journal of research in philosophy and history, Jan 21, 2023
Although various resources have been provided at archaeological ruins for site interpretation, a ... more Although various resources have been provided at archaeological ruins for site interpretation, a recent change in education trends has led to a wider audience attending many international archaeological sites. An innovation in museum typology is needed to help ...
SHS web of conferences, 2019
Journal of Research in Philosophy and History
Routledge Companion to Global Heritage Conservation, 2019
The Historic Environment, 2016
The interpretation of petroglyph/pictograph sites has become increasingly less-invasive over the ... more The interpretation of petroglyph/pictograph sites has become increasingly less-invasive over the course of the twentieth and twenty first centuries, with professionals citing concern for the preservation of the remains amid increasing public interest and tourism. Following in the trend of Lascaux II, many cave sites have been partially reconstructed using modern materials to give context and accessibility to the art without further destruction of the original material. While these sites provide cultural visitors with a comprehensive experience, developing full digital interpretation can assist further in the protection of integral heritage, while at the same time engaging a community unable to travel to a museum or the site. Current two and three dimensional digitisation of rock art fails to capture the immersive atmospheric qualities and intentional intricacy of the art, much of which uses the natural forms of the cave to enhance artistic three-dimensionality. Increasing digital te...
Transforming Heritage Practice in the 21st Century, 2019
Abstract visual culture, such as pictographs and petroglyphs can be difficult to interpret and co... more Abstract visual culture, such as pictographs and petroglyphs can be difficult to interpret and contextualize for the general public, particularly as they hold significant religious or cultural value associated with the peoples who created them. Descendant communities, therefore, can play a prominent and important role in the interpretation, by reinforcing the meaning and significance behind the imagery as part of broader cultural movements or traditions. In New Zealand and Australia, two projects designed and managed by indigenous communities are helping to engage the public not only in an understanding of local and national rock art, but in its continuing conservation. The Te Ana Māori Rock Art Center in Timaru, New Zealand, and the Brambuk Aboriginal Cultural Center in Halls Gap, Australia both rely on the active investment of their respective indigenous communities to promote the wellbeing of heritage material and the continued conversation surrounding its creation. Also addressing issues of racism, colonization, and the forced removal of indigenous populations from their heritage landscapes, the projects interpret the historical material alongside modern ideas and perspectives, helping to initiate connections between the past and present.
Although various resources have been provided at archaeological ruins for site interpretation, a ... more Although various resources have been provided at archaeological ruins for site interpretation, a recent change in education trends has led to a wider audience attending many international archaeological sites. An innovation in museum typology is needed to help ...
Society for Historical Archaeology, 2019
While the modernist movement remains an integral epoch in American design heritage, its monuments... more While the modernist movement remains an integral epoch in American design heritage, its monuments have only recently become the subject of conservation and public interpretation. The city of Columbus, Indiana features several of these studies by internationally renowned architects and landscape architects, including Eliel and Eero Saarinen, Harry Weese, and Dan Kiley. While the Modernist movement in the United States has provided significant discourse for the architectural context as part of a theoretical tableau, the greater understanding of how to interpret and conserve these buildings for a modern public has not been previously explored. This paper will address geocached augmented reality as a way to disseminate information and conserve/ interpret significant architectural artefacts as part of the current Age of Digital Empowerment. Through digital technologies, the city can be reconstructed from archival documents, representing different phases of architectural design, while providing a non-invasive interpretation strategy to inform a diverse, international public about the buildings and their histories. Through a digital translator and embedded archival paper, audio, and video ephemera, the application enhances individual engagement and empowerment, encouraging continuing interest and opening up a user base beyond on-site signage. The technology allows the public to experience the architecture three-dimensionally and remotely, and can be modified easily to include the most recent information. The Columbus Indiana Augmented Reality Project provides a test case for this new methodology in interpretation in the form of a combination mobile application and web platform. Through the application, the user becomes the explorer, navigating the heritage of the city, selecting personalized information through a democratic and equalized method. As the historic city considers itself an incubator for emerging technologies, the augmented reality application contextually aligns with a pedagogical practice in the city, and also provides a framework for a digital publically-accessible research database and accumulating archive of information.
The Historic Environment, 2016
One world archaeology, 2019
In the public interpretation of historic sites, authenticity and community involvement are interc... more In the public interpretation of historic sites, authenticity and community involvement are interconnected, allowing for tourism communities to be engaged in a particular place or history, often outside of one’s own personal experiences. While the public views history as objective, the designed presentation of heritage artifacts demonstrates that history is largely subjective, as facts can be compiled and presented to create disparate “histories,” aligned with heritages.
Communications in computer and information science, 2017
The Columbus Indiana Augmented Reality Project is a student-driven initiative to research, interp... more The Columbus Indiana Augmented Reality Project is a student-driven initiative to research, interpret, and reproduce the historic urban architecture and landscape of Columbus, Indiana. Focusing initially on the 7 Landmark Buildings housed in the city, the project uses primary source information (original archival drawings photographs, letters, and audio material) to create an enhanced digital model, which patrons can use through an application and web platform to navigate the city either on-site or remotely. Employing the Ball State University approach to entrepreneurial learning, as students learn techniques for creating the environment, they then teach their peers and the public about the information, thus introducing and then reinforcing learning objectives and skillsets. The project provides real world experience in cutting-edge heritage preservation issues and methods, giving students an immersive experience, working with professionals in the field, and creating an immersive digital model to help the public engage with important modernist architecture.
Society for Historical Archaeology, 2018
Architectural Histories, Jan 19, 2017
Journal of research in philosophy and history, Jan 21, 2023
Although various resources have been provided at archaeological ruins for site interpretation, a ... more Although various resources have been provided at archaeological ruins for site interpretation, a recent change in education trends has led to a wider audience attending many international archaeological sites. An innovation in museum typology is needed to help ...
SHS web of conferences, 2019
Journal of Research in Philosophy and History
Routledge Companion to Global Heritage Conservation, 2019
The Historic Environment, 2016
The interpretation of petroglyph/pictograph sites has become increasingly less-invasive over the ... more The interpretation of petroglyph/pictograph sites has become increasingly less-invasive over the course of the twentieth and twenty first centuries, with professionals citing concern for the preservation of the remains amid increasing public interest and tourism. Following in the trend of Lascaux II, many cave sites have been partially reconstructed using modern materials to give context and accessibility to the art without further destruction of the original material. While these sites provide cultural visitors with a comprehensive experience, developing full digital interpretation can assist further in the protection of integral heritage, while at the same time engaging a community unable to travel to a museum or the site. Current two and three dimensional digitisation of rock art fails to capture the immersive atmospheric qualities and intentional intricacy of the art, much of which uses the natural forms of the cave to enhance artistic three-dimensionality. Increasing digital te...
Transforming Heritage Practice in the 21st Century, 2019
Abstract visual culture, such as pictographs and petroglyphs can be difficult to interpret and co... more Abstract visual culture, such as pictographs and petroglyphs can be difficult to interpret and contextualize for the general public, particularly as they hold significant religious or cultural value associated with the peoples who created them. Descendant communities, therefore, can play a prominent and important role in the interpretation, by reinforcing the meaning and significance behind the imagery as part of broader cultural movements or traditions. In New Zealand and Australia, two projects designed and managed by indigenous communities are helping to engage the public not only in an understanding of local and national rock art, but in its continuing conservation. The Te Ana Māori Rock Art Center in Timaru, New Zealand, and the Brambuk Aboriginal Cultural Center in Halls Gap, Australia both rely on the active investment of their respective indigenous communities to promote the wellbeing of heritage material and the continued conversation surrounding its creation. Also addressing issues of racism, colonization, and the forced removal of indigenous populations from their heritage landscapes, the projects interpret the historical material alongside modern ideas and perspectives, helping to initiate connections between the past and present.
Although various resources have been provided at archaeological ruins for site interpretation, a ... more Although various resources have been provided at archaeological ruins for site interpretation, a recent change in education trends has led to a wider audience attending many international archaeological sites. An innovation in museum typology is needed to help ...
Society for Historical Archaeology, 2019
Student Centered Research in the Applied Anthropology Laboratories 2014-2018, 2018
The AAL has prepared a series of 15 wayside exhibits and an associated Story Map to tell and refr... more The AAL has prepared a series of 15 wayside exhibits and an associated Story Map to tell and reframe the story of two significant Northwest Indian Wars battles that took place in present-day Fort Recovery, Ohio: the Battle of the Wabash (1791) and the Battle of Fort Recovery (1794). The project uses maps and images to emphasize the extent of the landscape involved in the battle and its role in shaping the outcome, emphasize the American Indian perspective and battle strategy, and stress the importance of future preservation and protection of the battlefield. One of our goals was to reintegrate American Indians as active agents in these events with real human motivations of protecting family and home. We balance the interests of the two descendent communities to recount a story that is more faithful to the history and archaeology of these two significant events in American history.
Art History Teaching Resources, 2019
Review of pedagogy panel reconsidering the role of the introductory art history textbook at SECAC... more Review of pedagogy panel reconsidering the role of the introductory art history textbook at SECAC 2019