In 2026, speaking about cultural heritage, tangible and intangible, means engaging with a profound transformation. Artificial Intelligence (AI), Digital Twins, cloud platforms and FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) data infrastructures are reshaping the ways we document, interpret and protect heritage, aligning with emerging agendas on sustainability, risk management and responsible innovation. The joint 4th GEORES and 10th Arqueológica 2.0 Symposium, organized by CHEDAR (Cultural Heritage Digitalization and Resilience) project and supported by ICOMOS Italia (International Council on Monuments and Sites), and CIPA-Heritage Documentation (ICOMOS International Scientific Committee), positions itself as a strategic laboratory: three days to outline a shared roadmap toward a coherent and sustainable digital ecosystem for heritage, integrating research, advanced training and long-term policy. In line with CHEDAR’s mission, focused on 3D digitization, Digital Twins, AI and eXtended Reality for risk management, the Symposium invites participants to conceive Cultural Heritage as a dynamic relational system rather than a static collection of objects.
Digital Ecosystems for Heritage 4.0
From the 26th to the 29th of August, the international symposium "Digital Ecosystems for Heritage 4.0" will be held in Florence in several locations: - Istituto degli Innocenti in piazza della Santissima Annunziata 12 - Istituto Geografico Militare in via Cesare Battisti 10 and - UniFi Rettorato in piazza di San Marco 4
