Exploring dHeKalos. A Digital Heritage Lab for Building Up New Skills and Sharing Responsibilities With Cultural Institutions

This chapter presents dHeKalos, an interdepartmental laboratory on digital cultural heritage within the Department of Construction, Civil Engineering and Architecture at the Università Politecnica delle Marche. The lab was launched with the aim of building new competencies by merging humanistic and technological perspectives, sharing responsibilities with local cultural institutions, training new professionals (especially museum digital curators), encouraging processes of cultural democratisation, and giving a concrete framework to the multifaceted missions of universities. After describing dHeKalos’s infrastructural approach and its implications (technology, relations, and knowledge infrastructure), this chapter presents some of our relevant and recent research and experimentations as well as future lines of research.