Vivara. From prehistory to digital information

During the Mycenaean era, the prehistoric settlement of Vivara was a place of intense exchanges between civilizations and people traveling throughout the Mediterranean along routes that, from the Near East and Greece, skimmed the shores of North Africa and then proceeded up to land on the coasts of southern Italy. To the island of Procida, pottery and objects arrived that, like live furrows of ancient sea lanes, the archaeological excavations are returning from the earth, and in this earth, which was mud that swept over everything, signs of disastrous events are detected, signs that have severed the succession of historical events. The subjects of our research are the new methods and tools for the detection of contexts (3D laser scanner devices for the scanning of submerged heritage, image-based systems, structured light scanners) and new forms of management and representation of data for the understanding of new forms of cultural fruition. What is being proposed here is an active approach to data production, aimed both at the recording of the moments and the space of an excavation and both at the verification of forms of their use within a scalar logic that include the study of phenomena, interpolation of data for complex analysis, teaching carried out in context with a simultaneous research activity, and forms of multi-level representation of digital information. Hence the results of our research: the activation of highly specializing training; the opening at Terra Murata of the TERRA exhibition, where every year the results of the experiments are illustrated.