ONEIRIC Mapping – ON-site Evaluation, Inspection and Readability Itinerary for Cognitive Mapping

The topic of ONEIRIC Mapping focuses on ways of documenting the urban areas to create a digital image of the city by drafting and interactive cognitive maps based on the skills and experiences of the universities involved.

By the end of the in-presence week, the students, divided into working groups, will be able to recreate an image of a portion of a city using innovative digital representations.

The workshop will be divided into frontal lectures (in presence and online) to guide the students in analysing and studying the techniques of perception, representation and fast digital survey for the interpretation and description of the territory, as well as practical laboratory activities (software, digital survey instruments). The strength of the didactic experience is to develop team-building skills and deepening expertise regarding methodologies for documenting and digitally describing urban areas to understand and interpreting the identity and changes of a territory.

Activities will focus on:

• importance of a digital documentation project for the maintenance of an urban area;
• analysis of data acquired with digital survey and data management protocols, using digital fast survey technologies;
• development of conceptual maps capable of synthesising the perceived values and criticalities of the city;
• tools for virtually visiting the city implementable with layers of informative contents for the built and urban heritage enhancement, valorisation, and dissemination.

Schematic structure of the course (4 ECTS certified by the University of Pavia):

• 6 hours of online meetings held both previously and after the in-presence work week. Preliminary online lectures will aim to introduce students to the software environment they will be working with, whereas those held afterwards will aim to resolve any possible doubts that may have arisen in view of drafting the final experience review.
• 1 day of lectures/conference (by professor/researcher of the different universities).
• Technical visit to the city of Pavia.
• 3 days of laboratory activities and practice on the topic of the ONEIRIC Mapping project, concerning fast survey post-processing, map drafting, and experimenting with virtual sightseeing.
• 1 day for the final discussion and closing event.