Deadline extended until Sep. 25th to apply for the 2nd edition of the residential course “Event Management”, realized by USI in collaboration with Ente Regionale per lo Sviluppo Locarnese e Vallemaggia. It will be held in Muralto/Locarno on Oct. 21-22 & Nov. 14-16 and led by prof. Rob Davidson.
Organized by the Swiss Study Foundation, the school guided smart university students to reflect on the many dimensions that link Heritage, Digital Media and Sustainable Tourism, discovering the tangible and intangible heritage of Tessin. Look at the photos here.
Special guided tours as part of the exhibition ‘Mortar. History and Science in Fragments' dedicated to the Convent of St. John in Müstair, on 21.09, 6.10 and 26.10 in Castel Grande, Bellinzona. Researchers will tell about their work and answer to visitors' questions. Find out more here.
Dr. Anna Picco-Schwendener of USI UNESCO Chair and dr. Adine Gavazzi of the UNESCO Chair of the University of Genoa, visited Peru to carry out various activities related to the country's natural and cultural heritage. Discover more about their adventures here.
Susanna is a Master student in International Tourism at USI. She joined the UNESCO Chair as intern in March, and is in charge of the Chair's online outlets. Together with prof. Adam Ahmed Hussein, she developed a digital exhibition on Google Arts & Culture featuring the Sudanese city of Al-Khandaq.
Margherita is a Master student in International Tourism at USI. In her internship at the Chair she's working on a project of cultural sustainability, aiming at developing indicators to assess the cultural impact of tourism activities, realized in collaboration with a renowned Italilan tour operator.
Images by the famous Peruvian photographer Heinz Plenge tell the story of the archaeological monument and centre of the Chachapoya culture, Kuélap.
Ukuku tells you the story of the Andean bear and its important role in the regeneration of the forest with the help of the beautiful images of photographer Heinz Plenge.
Heinz Plenge's images show different representations of Andean bears and their deep symbolic and spiritual significance in various periods and cultures.
A digital exhibition on the Sudanese city of Al-Khandaq, aiming at displaying its rich development over time that has shaped its architecture.
The exhibition reveals how Swiss footwear contributed to the first ascent of Everest in 1953.
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Stachel, C., and Cantoni, L. (2024). Creating an Online Exhibition About Shoe Heritage. In: Marcus, A., Rosenzweig, E., Soares, M.M. (eds) Design, User Experience, and Usability. HCII 2024. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14713. Springer, Cham.
Garbani-Nerini, E., Marchiori, E., Sabatini, N. and Cantoni, L. (2024). Creating private and public value in data-related management projects: a cross-border case study from Switzerland and Italy. In Proceedings of the 25th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research (dg.o '24). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 269–277.
