Author: Atia Newman
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Why Make Preservation Accessible to All?
My Lahore Fort digital preservation project is continuing to evolve and spark new results. I am refining my techniques and cementing the method that will serve as the foundation of this project. When my pilot project, the Shed Game wrapped up, my students coined the phrase “Interactive Digital Preservation” as a way to represent the…
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Faculty Senate Chair at RIT
After three years as Chair of the RIT Faculty Senate, I have come away with a treasure trove of insights, realizations and strategic understanding. Leadership, as experienced and viewed close-up from this role has taught me so much, I have spent the past 6 months simply processing everything, trying to find the words to make…
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Games For Good 2025
Another exciting development for our project; Digital Interactive Preservation was presented at the Games for Good Conference in Wooster MA this year! Wrapped up in a pre-Thanksgiving high, my co-PI and I had the best time at Clark University. The conference was well-organized, with great attendees bringing up the most interesting ideas and engaging in…
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UNESCO World Heritage Conference – Shanghai, China – Oct 2025
A huge win for my Digital Interactive Preservation project. My co-PI, Alissa de Wit-Paul were accepted to present at this year’s UHC-HEI Conference at Tongji University. Held by the International Network for Urban-rural Heritage Conservation in HIgher Education Institutions (UHC-HEI), it was an honor to present alongside some truly exciting researchers exploring ways to use…
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FACSS – SciX Conference 2024
The Great Scientific Exchange! Another wonderful experience and my first trip to North Carolina. The FACSS stands for The Federations of Analytical Chemistry and Spectroscopy Societies, and the SciX Conference represents the Great Scientific Exchange, a conference that has been running since 1974. This year marks the 50th year of this international conference at the…
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Scanning @ the Campbell House
Our work has begun! With the tiniest team possible, we picked up our scanning equipment (iPads, smartphones and measuring tools) and jumped headlong into the Digital Interactive Preservation process. Getting animators to work with architects is incredibly fun, particularly when you realize how similar the fields really are. Despite the difference in mediums, it’s clear…
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Where did 2023 go (and most of 2024)??
2023 was the year of internal growth. As much as I’d like a simple external list of wins, I found myself forced to slow down and put in the kind of deep work that must be done in order for true progress to be made.
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The Campbell House @GCVM
A huge shout out to the Genesee Country Village and Museum for their continuous support of the Digital Interactive Preservation Project! With the success of the pilot project, I have now teamed up with Dr. Alissa De Wit-Paul to scan another building and develop a fuller, more architecture-friendly process of scanning an historic site! Scanning…
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Digital Preservation: Promo and News 2024
Summer of 2024 is off to a great start. I have teamed up with architect and art historian Dr Alissa De Wit-Paul to put the second step of my preservation process to the test. Together, we have garnered support from the Genesee Country Village and Museum to provide us access to their historic Campbell House.…
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The SHED Game Walkthrough
A short video of the first draft. This was the export that was play-tested by students of the Museum Sciences program (MUSE360), thanks to the support of Dr. Samaya Nasr at RIT. Here, we learned that the students struggled with the speed of the navigation tools and wished they had the option to fly. From…