Lasers, Algorithms and Lost Worlds: How AI Is Rewriting the Map of the Past
Some of the most striking discoveries of recent years were not dug out of the ground, they were computed out of it. Pairing LiDAR, which maps terrain hidden...
A Cathedral With a Digital Soul: Notre-Dame’s New Twin
The 2019 fire at Notre-Dame de Paris was a near-catastrophe with one quiet stroke of luck: years earlier, art historian Andrew Tallon had laser-scanned the building, recording around...
The Library That Fire Could Not Erase: AI Reads the Herculaneum Scrolls
When Mount Vesuvius buried Herculaneum in 79 AD, it carbonised an entire private library into what looked, for nearly three centuries, like lumps of charcoal. Unrollable, unreadable, untouchable...
The 47th World Heritage Session — and What It Means for Poland’s Heritage
Meeting at its Paris headquarters from 6–16 July 2025, UNESCO’s 47th World Heritage Committee session inscribed 26 new properties, bringing the global total to 1,248 sites across 170...
From Coal to Culture: Three Regions Reimagine the Mine
In late June 2025, artists and activists from three of Europe’s coal regions gathered in Eastern Wielkopolska, Poland, for a Just Transition Culture week. Alongside the Polish hosts...
Preserve, Protect, Reuse: Inside Europeana 2025 in Warsaw
For two days in June, Warsaw became the capital of Europe’s digital memory. Europeana 2025 – Preserve, Protect, Reuse, the flagship conference of the common European data space...
Post-Mining Sites: A European Transformation Case Study
Upper Silesia (Poland) Once the powerhouse of Polish coal mining, this region has undergone dramatic transformation since the industry’s decline. Zabrze exemplifies this shift, where the Queen Louise...
How Digital Transformation Supports Circular Economy
Introduction Digital transformation offers powerful enablers for the circular economy—redefining production, consumption, and lifecycle management of resources. By integrating advanced technologies such as AI, IoT, blockchain, digital twins,...
Digital Tools Changing Cultural Heritage Practices
A Future-Oriented View from the HI-EURECA-PRO Alliance Introduction In a rapidly digitalizing world, the preservation and activation of cultural, industrial, and mining heritage is undergoing a profound transformation....