Cultural heritage fruition, accessibility and inclusion

GRA.VIS Research Laboratory of Graphic and Visual Sciences offers projects and consultancy aimed at the enhancement of cultural heritage, from its physical to its virtual fruition. 
Beginning with survey and documentation campaigns of tangible and intangible sites and assets, the GRA.VIS laboratory studies and experiments with integrated strategies capable of infrastructuring sites and making them accessible from physical-spatial, digital, sense-perceptual, psycho-cognitive and socio-cultural perspectives.

The projects systematize architectural solutions, graphic design, three-dimensional modeling, and visual communication tools that promote accessibility and enjoyment of sites and cultural heritage aimed at defining:

• the design of actions to overcome architectural barriers and compensation in relation to inaccessible sites;
• the design of multimedia and multisensory supports;
• the design of tactile communication supports,
• the design of signaling systems and to promote orientation, recognizability and usability of places;
• the design of communication products that experiment with new languages, styles, strategies, and narrative and informational tools; and
• the design of inclusive interpretive infrastructures;
• the design of digital environments for managing accessibility to sites. 

Subject of experimentation are archaeological sites, museum spaces, virtual museums, historically, architecturally and culturally significant buildings and urban places.
Activities related to the communication, representation and fruition of cultural heritage are carried out both as services to the territory, consultancy and third parties, and as teaching activities within undergraduate courses and graduate laboratories.