We have been working with Moray Council on the ‘Castle to Cathedral to Cashmere’ project, which aims to draw attention to the hugely significant built and social heritage of Elgin and it’s region. Our work will include input to the online presence of the project (particularly through social media), and has so far involved extensive laser scanning of 21 heritage sites in the town. This has extended our previous work (for example, from the RCUK ‘Bring you own heritage’ project, recently published here, and a whole series of projects exploring the use of laser scan data in architectural design, as reported here).
Together with my colleague Dr Marianthi Leon, it was a great honour to present our work last week to a group of almost 100 S
tage 3 and 5 design students from Elgin Academy and Elgin High School. I am an alumnus of Elgin Academy (from the ‘old’ building, recently replaced with a hugely impressive new school), so it was nice to be able to return with plenty of technology and hopefully impressive videos, demonstrations from the scanning work, and examples of the ‘built heritage’ of Elgin to which we were referring.
My feeling is that what seems like a high-end niche at the moment (3D modelling, scanning, photogrammetry) will become mainstream in the next few years. My hope is that these technologies and techniques become impressive ‘tools in the box’, and the chances are that school pupils of today will realise applications and breakthroughs which can seem rather distant at the moment.
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