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Heritage Lab italgas: installation of a Replica Scanner in Turin
Italgas, Italy’s main gas provider founded in 1837, has partnered with ARCHiVe in a project to record and share online its historical archive: a multi-layered and complex collection of documents,...
Final stages of the recording in the tomb of Seti I
A team from Factum Foundation is currently in Luxor during the final stages of the recording of the tomb of Seti I in the Valley of the Kings, carrying out...
Opening of the Spanish Gallery in Bishop Auckland
Led by Jonathan Ruffer, the Auckland Project is working to regenerate large sections of the town of Bishop Auckland. Part of the redevelopment is the new Spanish Gallery, the first...
Grinling Gibbons’ Crucifixion
A video of the 3D model of the Crucifixion by Grinling Gibbons was on display at Compton Verney for the exhibition Grinling Gibbons: Centuries in the Making (September 24, 2021...
AOA ARCHiVe Online Academy 2021
As part of the Fondazione Cini’s 70th anniversary celebrations, a special lecture on September 27 (4:30-6:30 PM CET) was held by Adam Lowe, founder of Factum Foundation, and Frédéric Kaplan...
Recording the painted caves of Laas Geel
In collaboration with the Hargeysa Cultural Centre and the Redsea Cultural Foundation, a team from Factum Foundation travelled to Somaliland in July/August to carry out a skills and technology transfer...
ARCHiVe and Divirod
Research into new monitoring systems Following a radio programme on the ARCHiVe project, discussing the digitisation of the Island of San Giorgio Maggiore in Venice (The World, September 2020), Factum...
A New Publication: The Aesthetics of Marble
Coming Soon The Aesthetics of Marble: From Late Antiquity to the Present, by Dario Gamboni, Gerhard Wolf and Jessica Richardson aims to shed new light on the celebration and uses...
The 15th International Alvar Aalto Symposium – Future of Industry
The 15th International Alvar Aalto Symposium – Future of Industry (August 12-13 2021), focussed on the current challenges of the spaces and milieus of the history, present and future manufacturing...
Factum Foundation and RCU: final phase
Factum Foundation is delighted to announce that the project to record the Nabataean, Dadanite and Lihyanite heritage in the AlUla oasis in high-resolution 3D and colour is in its final...
Bishop Auckland: work for the Spanish Gallery is almost complete
Yeserías (carved plaster decorations) are the embodiment of the co-habitation of Muslim, Jewish and Christian communities in Spain. A number of yeserías were recorded in high-resolution throughout 2020 and 2021,...
Factum and Colnaghi: recording a 16th century tapestry
Factum Foundation and Colnaghi are developing an increasingly close relationship. This month we have completed the full colour and 3D recording of both sides of an important tapestry by Pieter...
Recording in Venice: Titian’s La Sapienza
For the exhibition ‘Tizians Frauenbild’ (5 October 2021 – 16 January 2022) at the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Wien, Factum Foundation carried out the recording of Titian’s La Sapienza (c. 1560) at...
AI, Tech Diplomacy and Conflict Resolution: an international symposium in Toledo
From the 18th-19th June 2021, a symposium was held to discuss the use and application of advanced technologies in conflict and peacebuilding contexts. Organized by the Instituto de Resolución de...
The AALTOSIILO Project
Factum Foundation’s new project is the restoration and reuse of the Silo at the Toppila Pulp Mill (on the left of this image). Alvar and Aino Aalto’s Silo was a...
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