Invisible Cities: Digital culture & augmented heritage reality
How does the digital creation revolutionize the visitor experience? How much will it impact the European thermal tourism in a near future? European decision-makers, sociologists, researchers, artists and writers gathered at the French town of Enghien-les-Bains to discuss these topics.
Organized by the Centre of Arts on Enghien-les-Bains, in partnership with the City Tourist Office, this Café questioned the role played by digital creation in the knowledge and enhancement of the European cultural heritage, in an event featuring key projects, while interacting with text reading from travel writers and to feature key projects.
The city of Enghien-les-Bains, the only spa station in the Ille-de-France region, is part of the UNESCO Creative Cities Network. In 2013, it was designated a UNESCO City of Media Arts.
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Futur en Seine is the largest free and open innovation festival in Europe. Since 2009, the festival has been exploring trends, selecting the best of innovation and having it tested by its large number of visitors.
14th June 2013
Philippe Sueur
Mayor of Enghien-les-Bains
Philippe Sueur is Vice-President of the Association of Mayors of Registered Resorts and Tourist Towns, a member of the Local Finance Committee, he sits at the transport federation of Ile-de-France and at the Paris Métropole federation Committee.
Connected to the social adventure of Caisses dÉpargne, he is the first Vice-president of the councelling and supervisory Board of the Ile-de-France Caisse d'Epargne, manager of Natixis and of BPCE Assurances. It also holds the presidency of the Val-d'Oise and of the Institut de Formation dAnimation et de Conseil.
Christian Corne
EHTTA Honorary President
At the same time, he held various positions: President of Thermauvergne since 1991, President of the French Thermal and Climate Federation since 2003 and member of the Board of directors of AFRETh (French Association for Thermal Research), President of EHTTA (European Historical Thermal Town Association) since December 2009, Member of the National Economic, Social , and Environmental National Council since November 2010, which he had the honor of representing at the National Conference of Public Health which meets four times a year with the presence of the Minister of the Health, President of IFMK (Medical Training Institute of Physiotherapy ) of Vichy since 1990.
From the invisible city to the European city
Vicente Puig
Institute for Research and Innovation (IRI) Deputy Director
Challenges for heritage: Personal and collective memory, crowdsourcing and economic challenges, time and stories, body and brain.
Arnaud Druelle
Cap Digital Responsible for Image & Mobile Services communities
Digital disruptions that affect heritage and tourism.
Part 2: The European Context
The European interpretation of heritage represents a critical challenge in establishing, defining and understanding a cultural route, which can be deconstructed by the number of resources engendered by digital approaches. The variety of cultural routes is a testament to the diverse facets of the European identity.
Philippe-Denis Fee
Representative for France at the Enlarged Partial Agreement on Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe.
A strategy for the European cultural routes of the Council of Europe in France.
Michel Thomas-Penette
EHTTA General Delegate
Characters in search of an autor: an interactive novel developed under the SOURCE Project.
Juliette Jeanne
Graine d'Europe
Introducing My European City, a network of towns promoting the discovery, experience and sharing of local and common European aspects.
Imaginary & Imagined Cities
Part 1: Imaginary Cities
Artistic creativity, whether visual, sonic or even literary, should permanently infuse the digital approach. A multimedia or transmedia approach, the web documentary has became one way of creating a new narrative arena that incorporates difference forms of imaginative techniques. Starting from the work produced at the Centre des arts, different experiences will be presented.
« Bistros frontières »
Nicolas Pannetier
"In Belgium, cafés are popular places where people from different backgrounds meet, exchange and put the world to rights: French, Dutch, German, young, old, retired, workers, students, politicians... These meetings led to reflections on identity, politics, Europe, the future and challenges of our society, all showcased in this web-documentary. "
Le « Défi des bâtisseurs »
Jeremie Gentais
Composed of different interconnected medias: a film, a web documentary, a mobile application, the "Défi des bâtisseurs" traces the human and artistic adventure behind the Strasbourg Cathedral.
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Geoculture - La France vue par les écrivains
Marianne Viremouneix
A digital, contributing and free service offering online and by application, a literary cartography of the French territory over geolocalised extracts, from literary heritage or from contemporary art.
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Gabriel Soucheyre
Videoformes Festival
Gabriel Soucheyre, professor at the Blaise Pascal University, presents a selection of projects from the Videoformes Festival, an annual event that is a structure and a demonstration of digital arts in Clermont-Ferrand.
Triny Prada
Multidisciplinary Artist
Her videos, paintings, installations, sculptures and culinary performances reflect this obsessional idea of "Wire that separates life from death", creating installations where the man / machine interaction takes place in real time. Her works have been shown around the world in events as Videoformes, Fair Play or the Venice Biennale.
Dominique Rolland
Cda Director
Sensitive narration of the city through digital creation: the Cda as a place of production, development, research and broadcasting of digital arts, with an approach based on decompartmentalized areas of artistic expression and the promotion of new forms of exchange as its main goal.
Part 2: Imagined cities
Tourists today are seeking new, original and more wholesome experiences in all their forms and look into new technologies to offer a comprehensive vision of heritage . Starting from the case off Enghien-les-Bains, examples of the importance of digital technology in European regional and urban cultural routes, examples of interactive technologies and the role of 3D in thermal town tours will be presented.
Dominique Rolland
Deputy Mayor - Responsible for Tourism and Culture
Introducing a new mobile app for the narration of Enghiens visible and invisible heritage
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Gaël Hamon
Digital Arts & Heritage: Interactive 3D applications, augmented reality and mobile devices for heritage interpretation in historic sites.
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Julien Brouillard
SmartCity, an European programme dedicated to creative, collaborative and sustainable cities, initiates an innovative process to assist urban projects and territorial development.
Carré dOr App
Raphael Elmaleh & Romain Camenen
Introducing Carré dOr : a free mobile application, accessible and fun, that allow people to know more about historic sites linked to Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe.
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E-Itineraries
Lèa Lemoine
Digital Itineraries as a tool for cultural mediation in the Route of Spa Towns of the Massif Central: explanations, analysis and constraints. Circuits in France and mid-term projects..
Download PresentationReinventing the image of the Floating World in the Digital Era
Spa Towns and the Place · Reinventing the Image of the Floating World · An Open Call for Artist Proposals
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Artist · Professor · Art Theorist
Huges Brivet
Print Editor & Collector
