Pub Date : 2025-06-26eCollection Date: 2025-01-01DOI: 10.1080/13527258.2025.2520760
Paola Di Giuseppantonio Di Franco, Francesca Dolcetti, Matteo Baraldo, Steven Day
Disasters disrupt not only physical environments but also socio-cultural identities and sense of place. This study explores the role of Virtual Reality (VR) in post-disaster recovery, focusing on the earthquake-affected towns of Amatrice and Accumoli, Italy. Using a techno-ethnographic methodology, we integrated video interviews, 3D digital reconstruction, and co-creation to examine how immersive technologies facilitate emotional reconnection and community resilience. Findings suggest that VR environments can serve as spaces for mourning and re-familiarisation, helping individuals reconnect with lost surroundings. Multi-sensory elements (i.e. lighting, soundscapes, and everyday material details) proved crucial in fostering virtual place attachment. Intergenerational use of VR supported memory transmission, as younger community members relied on elders to interpret pre-disaster environments. However, trauma sensitivity remains essential, underscoring the value of community-centred, iterative design. This study contributes to digital heritage research by showing how VR can go beyond documentation, supporting storytelling and story-sharing, memory work, restauration of sense of place, and resilience-building, while calling for further study of its long-term impacts.
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Pub Date : 2024-01-08DOI: 10.1080/13527258.2024.2303114
Marta Severo, Sarah Gensburger
{"title":"Collecting traces of the outside world: an alternative collective memory of the lockdown","authors":"Marta Severo, Sarah Gensburger","doi":"10.1080/13527258.2024.2303114","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13527258.2024.2303114","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47807,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Heritage Studies","volume":"20 12","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-01-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139445657","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-12-17DOI: 10.1080/13527258.2023.2294740
P. Carnemolla, Linda Steele
{"title":"Disability activism and institutional heritage","authors":"P. Carnemolla, Linda Steele","doi":"10.1080/13527258.2023.2294740","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13527258.2023.2294740","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47807,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Heritage Studies","volume":"7 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-12-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138966369","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-12-15DOI: 10.1080/13527258.2023.2294771
Amy Clarke
{"title":"Values in cities: urban heritage in twentieth-century Australia\u0000 Values in cities: urban heritage in twentieth-century Australia\u0000 , by James Lesh, New York and London, Routledge, September 23 2022, 338 pp., USD 127.50, hardcover, ISBN 9780367371050.","authors":"Amy Clarke","doi":"10.1080/13527258.2023.2294771","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13527258.2023.2294771","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47807,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Heritage Studies","volume":"11 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138998123","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-12-14DOI: 10.1080/13527258.2023.2294761
C. Monterrubio, Katherine Dashper, Helen Wadham
{"title":"Contested intangible heritage: equestrian sport and animal welfare in Mexico","authors":"C. Monterrubio, Katherine Dashper, Helen Wadham","doi":"10.1080/13527258.2023.2294761","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13527258.2023.2294761","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47807,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Heritage Studies","volume":"2 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138971084","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-12-07DOI: 10.1080/13527258.2023.2284741
Ana Pastor Pérez, Laia Colomer
{"title":"Dissecting authorised participation in cultural heritage","authors":"Ana Pastor Pérez, Laia Colomer","doi":"10.1080/13527258.2023.2284741","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13527258.2023.2284741","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47807,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Heritage Studies","volume":"83 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-12-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138590527","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-12-06DOI: 10.1080/13527258.2023.2289433
D. Sham
{"title":"Betwixt and between creativity and heritage: remaking a traditional festival and creating festivals to remake traditions in a historic neighbourhood in Taiwan","authors":"D. Sham","doi":"10.1080/13527258.2023.2289433","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13527258.2023.2289433","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47807,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Heritage Studies","volume":"14 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-12-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138595931","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-12-05DOI: 10.1080/13527258.2023.2289425
Chung-Hsien Lin, Wei-Ching Wang, Gyan P. Nyaupane
{"title":"The intersection of landscape values for tourists and residents in a mining heritage destination: a case study of Jiufen in Taiwan","authors":"Chung-Hsien Lin, Wei-Ching Wang, Gyan P. Nyaupane","doi":"10.1080/13527258.2023.2289425","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13527258.2023.2289425","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47807,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Heritage Studies","volume":"98 22","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-12-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138599937","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-12-02DOI: 10.1080/13527258.2023.2289424
Martina Tenzer
{"title":"Social Landscape Characterisation: a people-centred, place-based approach to inclusive and transparent heritage and landscape management","authors":"Martina Tenzer","doi":"10.1080/13527258.2023.2289424","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13527258.2023.2289424","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47807,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Heritage Studies","volume":"114 16","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138607278","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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