Experiencing the Lost and Invisible: AR Visualisation of the Past at Bryn Celli Ddu, Anglesey

体验失落和隐形：Bryn Celli Ddu 过去的 AR 可视化，安格尔西

• 批准号: AH/R009198/1
• 负责人: Benjamin Edwards
• 金额: $ 7.34万
• 依托单位: Manchester Metropolitan University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2018 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FR009198%2F1
• 关键词: Experiencing; Lost; Invisible; AR; Visualisation

This project will use innovative and disruptive augmented reality (AR) to immerse members of the public in their prehistoric heritage. This proof-of-concept project will deliver an immersive audio-visual experience allowing visitors to encounter the hidden history at one of the most important prehistoric sites in Britain. We will combine innovative approaches to archaeological narratives and artistic representation, enabling people to walk back through time at Bryn Celli Ddu Neolithic chambered tomb. Visitors will use their smart phones or tablets to experience the site over the course of its history, peeling back the layers to discover the history of the place and landscape, through which they can move, stop and engage with digital archaeology.Bryn Celli Ddu is a late Neolithic passage tomb, excavated in 1929, now partially and perhaps unsatisfactorily, reconstructed. It is one of the most important prehistoric monuments in northwest Europe, and attracts c.10 000 visitors annually, with considerable implications for the quality of archaeological interpretation provided to members of the public, and significant economic value to Anglesey. The monument and its landscape - the subject of this AR representation - is unique in the complexity of its archaeological remains. The landscape has over 10,000 years of human activity: ranging from Mesolithic hunter gatherers; a causewayed enclosure raised by the earliest Neolithic farmers; a later Neolithic henge, stone circle and passage tomb; associated ceremonial deposition of pottery and polished stone axes; a series of burial cairns; and a landscape of at least 12 prehistoric rock art panels. The complexity of the Bryn Celli Ddu landscape has rightly led to comparisons with Stonehenge.AR, creative visual reconstruction, and sound-art will allow visitors to experience the changing development of this important monument from the deep time of prehistory to the present. It will allow them to interact with three-dimensional textured models of the artefacts from the site whilst standing in the burial chamber, and pull back layers of soil to reveal the buried archaeology. This project will develop and refine the digital technologies and data to provide a rich, textured, immersive experience, within which members of the public can encounter a prehistoric monument in the full complexity of its time-depth and landscape connections. This project will place Bryn Celli Ddu at the centre of the circle of place-memory-performance: the physical remains of the past in its landscape; the cultural memory of artefacts now in museums; and the experience of multi-sensory immersion in the environment.Heritage is often presented to a non-specialist audience as static: the protected site, the conserved object, or the listed building. As a result, both the time-depth of physical heritage, and the connections between artefacts, monuments, places and landscapes are made invisible. Digital technologies allow us to re-immerse monuments and artefacts in their past contexts, and to do so in a manner that provides maximum accessibility to public stakeholders - the very people on whose behalf this heritage is preserved. The project will be delivered bilingually in English and Welsh, targeting one of the Welsh Governments areas of exclusion, and will emphasise visual narratives and audio representations, as ways of telling that move beyond simple dialectic forms of public engagement.By developing the necessary technology and connections between specialists, this project will serve as a proof-of-concept that will be scaled to an appreciation of prehistory nationwide in phase 2 of the call. We will produce a prototype app-based AR system and online VR version to allow access for those who cannot physically visit the site. Evaluation and testing of the system will provide essential information on the challenges and rewards of scaling up the technology to wider applications.

该项目将利用创新和颠覆性的增强现实（AR）让公众沉浸在他们的史前遗产中。这个概念验证项目将提供身临其境的视听体验，让游客能够在英国最重要的史前遗址之一邂逅隐藏的历史。我们将把考古叙事和艺术表现的创新方法结合起来，让人们能够在布林切利杜新石器时代的墓室中穿越时光。游客将使用智能手机或平板电脑体验该遗址的历史进程，剥开层层，发现该地点和景观的历史，通过这些，他们可以移动、停下来并参与数字考古。Bryn Celli Ddu一座新石器时代晚期的通道墓，于 1929 年出土，现已部分重建，或许重建效果并不令人满意。它是西北欧最重要的史前古迹之一，每年吸引约 10 000 名游客，对向公众提供的考古解释质量具有重大影响，并对安格尔西具有重大经济价值。该纪念碑及其景观（本次 AR 展示的主题）因其考古遗迹的复杂性而独一无二。这片土地上有着一万多年的人类活动历史：中石器时代的狩猎采集；由最早的新石器时代农民修建的堤道围墙；晚期新石器时代的石阵、石圈和通道墓；相关的陶器和抛光石斧的沉积仪式；一系列墓葬石堆；以及至少 12 个史前岩石艺术面板的景观。布林切利杜 (Bryn Celli Ddu) 景观的复杂性理所当然地导致了与巨石阵的比较。AR、创造性的视觉重建和声音艺术将让游客体验这座重要纪念碑从史前时期到现在的不断变化的发展。当他们站在墓室中时，它将使他们能够与现场文物的三维纹理模型互动，并拉开土壤层以揭示埋藏的考古学。该项目将开发和完善数字技术和数据，以提供丰富、有质感、身临其境的体验，让公众能够在时间深度和景观联系的全部复杂性中遇到史前纪念碑。该项目将把 Bryn Celli Ddu 置于地点记忆表演圈的中心：景观中过去的物理遗迹；博物馆内文物的文化记忆；以及多感官沉浸在环境中的体验。遗产通常以静态的形式呈现给非专业观众：受保护的地点、受保护的物体或列入保护名单的建筑。结果，物质遗产的时间深度以及文物、纪念碑、地点和景观之间的联系都变得不可见。数字技术使我们能够将纪念碑和文物重新融入到它们过去的环境中，并以一种为公共利益相关者——这些遗产得到保护的人们——提供最大程度的可访问性的方式做到这一点。该项目将以英语和威尔士语双语授课，针对威尔士政府的排斥领域之一，并将强调视觉叙事和音频表现，作为超越简单辩证形式的公众参与的讲述方式。通过专家之间的联系，该项目将作为概念验证，并在第二阶段的征集中扩展到全国范围内对史前史的了解。我们将制作一个基于应用程序的原型 AR 系统和在线 VR 版本，以便那些无法亲自访问该网站的人也可以访问。该系统的评估和测试将提供有关将该技术扩展到更广泛应用的挑战和回报的重要信息。