The Digital Interactive Preservation process holds the core practice that is proposed for the Lahore Fort Preservation Project. It is so important to develop a process that will allow communities to preserve their history without having to wrangle millions of dollars and niche profressionals to do it!
Thus, while the LFP project is in a temporary holding pattern, it continues to develop as the DIP, because if that method can be applied and tested, it will prove that we can use existing professional techniques to preserve culture in a manner that:
a) provides jobs to artists, gamers, architects, historians and museum scientists
b) saves more accurate representations of buildings, with less dense data structures
c) reduces costs of digital data storage
d) creates a way to share that preserved information via game distribution channels
e) returns ownership of a cultural heritage site to the actual communities that host them
So, what’s our latest update?
The DIP class is currently running as a Vertically Integrated Project course at RIT, allowing our students to get firsthand experience in the process and contribute their insights into the refinement of the workflow.
We have spent the first few weeks photographing, measuring and scanning the building. Our schedule had to adjust to avoid rain and weather in general, but it’s been fun!
Since then, we’ve had the opportunity to start exploring the digital rebuild, and are now starting to get our digital assets underway.
Exciting times ahead!
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