- Title
- Bringing together the present with the industrial past: the Newcastle digitalised heritage project
- Creator
- Morrison, Tessa; Giggins, Helen; Foulcher, Nicholas
- Relation
- Tourism and the Shifting Values of Cultural Heritage: Visiting Pasts, Developing Futures - International Conference. Proceedings of the Visiting Pasts, Developing Futures - International Conference (Taipei, Taiwan 5-9 April, 2013)
- Relation
- https://internationaltaipei2013.wordpress.com/accepted-abstracts/
- Publisher
- Ironbridge International Institution for Cultural Heritage
- Resource Type
- conference paper
- Date
- 2013
- Description
- Newcastle is the sixth largest city in Australia. It has vast coal deposits and it is the largest coal export port in the world. Its entire European history is dominated by coal mining and the development of associated industries such as steelmaking. Many industries are clustered on the north-west side of the Port of Newcastle. There has been a constant change in the industrial landscape with either modernisation of some industries or the demise of other industries. Other areas where coal pits dominated the landscape in the past have become suburbs where industry no longer exists. The industrial port of Newcastle has gone through phases of change and redevelopment and this makes any preservation of industrial sites problematic as new industries and structures replace the old, or industrial sites are transformed into recreation or housing sites. The Newcastle Regional Museum does not reflect this changing industrial past as the exhibition gallery on Newcastle's industry is dedicated only to BHP Steelworks, which represents a small fraction of Newcastle's industrial history in terms of activity and time. However, the scale of Newcastle's industrial heritage is massive and would be difficult to present within the confines of a single museum. The paper discusses a project by the authors, currently taking place in Newcastle, which uses mobile technologies to reconstruct the lost industrial heritage. The 'lost' heritage which is preserved in photographs can be viewed in situ through common mobiles devices such as Smart Phones and iPads. The viewer walks around the city and browses the selected historical records, from different eras, in the form of digital photos and digital models that reflects key facets of the industrial history of the site. In this manner, the public can view the 'past' of the industrial site in situ. The significance of this method of preserving cultural heritage of industrial sites is a retrospective and holistic approach, which will encapsulate the evolution and development of these industrial sites through history which would otherwise have been lost. It brings together the present and the past industrial heritage, and it moves the museum outdoors and is accessible to anyone with a Smart Phone or iPad.
- Subject
- Newcastle; digitised heritage; industrialism
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1318806
- Identifier
- uon:23692
- Language
- eng
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