Olomouc in 3D – A New Dimension of the City's Cultural Heritage: Past, Present, Future

The aim of the project is to understand and make accessible the socio-cultural, artistic and historical values of the city of Olomouc as a unique urban and cultural-historical environment of the Czech and Central European region. It uses newly created applied outputs – digital tools and innovative ways of presentation. The key aspect is the active connection of the historical stages of the city’s existence in the sense of a complex ecosystem with its current or future – predicted – form. The critical research itself is conditioned by the understanding of the city as a so-called “living monument”, in the formation of which civil society plays a significant role. Innovative digital platforms (three interactive maps, database, author’s realizations such as AR/VR, experimental forms of NFT as forms of newly formed public space within the exhibitions) will functionally and visually present eight centuries of urban development of the city from the Middle Ages to the present. Specific objects (buildings and monuments in public space) in the sense of critical probes will serve to make accessible, revitalize and contextualize the cultural heritage and history of the city of Olomouc to a wide range of users, including actors in the private sector and tourism. Besides the three interactive maps, also another output will be tied to these digital platforms and the scope of the research, esp. the database of photographs of Olomouc from the estate of Josef Kšír (Olomouc State District Archive), two exhibitions supplemented by a critical catalogues, two international conferences, that will bring a necessary external reflexion of the research.

The project is solved in cooperation with the Museum of Art, the Faculty of Arts of UP (Department of Art History, Department of History) and the Faculty of Science of UP (Department of Geoinformatics).