Protocol for an integrated 3D survey for cultural heritage at risk

The digital documentation concerning the cultural heritage and existing built heritage at risk due to natural or anthropogenic events is an area of growing interest and experimentation, in order to develop integrated tools and strategies for risk prevention, mitigation and management, as well as protocols that are optimised to support decision-making processes in the different phases of damage assessment, damage evaluation and reconstruction project. The 2012 Emilia-Romagna earthquake offers an opportunity to establish and consolidate the partnership among the University of Ferrara, the DIAPReM Centre and the TekneHub laboratory, and the Agency for Reconstruction - 2012 Earthquake, within the framework of a line of research for the development of integrated digital methods and tools for the documentation of intervention on existing built heritage has been in progress for over twenty years. The project, comprising a set of research projects and post-graduate training, is part of a line of research that investigates, in the context of the complex relationship between “matter and memory”, the role that new “graphic models”, maps, diagrams, infographics and integrated digital platforms are the result of the application of integrated enabling technologies.