The MATRES project brings together the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, and technical sciences to explore the relationships between humans, the environment, and climate change since the beginning of the Holocene. It focuses on the concept of societal resilience – the ability of societies to adapt and cope with change through cultural practices. Using digital tools, new technologies, and approaches, the project will develop a multi-level digital twin of cultural heritage that will link data, models, and visualizations, enabling a better understanding and protection of material heritage in the future.
Start date
Deadline
Project status
In progress
Content tags
UL BF, UL NTF, UL FF, UL FKKT
Financing
Large interdisciplinary project UL, UL BF, UL NTF, UL FF, UL FKKT.
ARIS stable funding, RSF, ref. no.: SN-ZDR/22-27/510, Interdisciplinary research projects selected through an internal call by the University of Ljubljana.
Brief project description
With its emphasis on interdisciplinarity, characteristic of the developing field of heritage science, the MATRES project will seek answers to numerous challenges that are extremely relevant and even critical for today's society, brought about by climate and social change. Today, we live in a time when humans have a decisive impact on the environment and climate. This is a fateful turning point in history that requires reflection on what the relationships and interactions between human societies and the environment were (and are) like, and what the social and cultural strategies for coping with and confronting change were (and are) like. The MATRES project will seek this information in a combination of humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, and technical disciplines, covering a time span from the beginning of the Holocene (approximately 12,000 years ago).
One of the key starting points of the project is the concept of resilience, which we understand as the ability of societies to cope with change, adapt, develop defiance, and maintain their continuity through cultural practices, thereby shaping their long-term ability to deal with diverse challenges, including those that lie ahead. flexibility, maintain their continuity, and thus develop a long-term capacity to cope with future challenges in a variety of ways. Our approach goes beyond the simple division between nature and culture and explores the social roles of the material world, i.e., the environment, landscapes, materials, and bodies.
The MATRES project will combine all the data obtained and seek and test the most innovative ways to use digital tools, new technologies, and approaches to better predict the risks that may threaten our materiality today and in the future, and how to present these findings to the professional and lay public. We will combine the acquired data, information, and knowledge into a completely innovative multi-level digital twin, which will serve as an open connecting platform for databases, computational models, and visualizations of cultural heritage.
Coordinator
Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana (UL FF)
Partners
Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Technology, University of Ljubljana (UL FKKT)
Faculty of Biotechnology, University of Ljubljana (UL BF)
Faculty of Natural Sciences and Engineering, University of Ljubljana (UL NTF)
Project value
2.275.000,00 EUR
Responsible person
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Matija Črešnar (Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana)