Digital Surveying & Field Experience
Description
This module has a two-fold aim, as follows:
a) to examine how digital survey technologies and methodologies have been employed in the protection, management and presentation of world heritage. In particular students will examine the cultural goals of digitisation projects and explore the ethics, and sustainability of digitally recording heritage.
b) to outline and apply field survey methods used in archaeology, architectural history and folklife for the recording of field monuments with particular emphasis on comparison of traditional and digital survey of buildings.
Learning Outcomes
Discuss the key international digital survey projects, and recommend how such surveys can be applied in the management of built heritage in Ireland.
Critically appraise the digitisation of cultural and built heritage as it applies to the UN sustainable goals, with particular emphasis on sustainability and ethical impactions of recording cultural and built heritage.
Outline and demonstrate the principal methods used to draw and survey field monuments.
Conduct and oversee the detailing recording of a building.