This event is only for N8 universities. Please use your university email to sign up to ensure eligibility for this event.
Date: Tuesday, 2nd September
Location: Helix, University of Leeds
Cost: Free
Introduction
Are you interested in materiality and cultural heritage? Do you want to see how innovative 3D scanning and modelling can shape new approaches to digital research and communication? Join us in the Digital Creativity and Cultures Hub, kindly supported by the N8 Digital Humanities Computationally Intensive Research Centre of Excellence (N8 CIR), for a showcase of how high-quality 3D models of cultural heritage artefacts can shape research. We will be joined by speakers from four example research projects from across the Universities of Leeds, Manchester and Liverpool, and museum and gallery partners, who have used new capacities for high-resolution 3D scans to digitally reconstruct and print artefacts from antiquity to the present day.
Session 1: How Can We Use 3D Printing in Cultural Heritage Spaces?
- 3D Printing and Accessibility in Leeds City Museum, Jordan Keighley (Leeds City Museum)
- 3D Printing in the John Rylands So Far, Tony Richards and Jo Castle (John Rylands Research Institute and Library, University of Manchester)
Session 2: Digital Reconstructions and 3D Printing
- Reconstructing Early Medieval Ivories in the World Museum, Liverpool, Eddie Meehan (University of Leeds, Digital Creativity and Cultures Hub), Jordan Poole (University of Liverpool, Department of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology), and Chrissy Partheni (National Museums Liverpool)
- Getting a-head: the possibilities of digital restoration, RJ Wade (University of Leeds, Cultural Collections and Galleries)
Audience and Pre-requisites
This workshop would be suitable for researchers, research software engineers (RSEs) and Galleries, Libraries, Museums and Archives (GLAM) professionals who are interested in 3D printing for research communication and outreach.
Please bring along any ideas and 3D models you already have to the workshop. No laptop or experience necessary.
What's included
This event is completely free to attend. Refreshments will be provided. Attendees are expected to arrange their travel and accommodation. Bursaries are available to successful applicants who suffer financial, caregiving, or disability-related barriers to attendance.