From STEM to STEAM: Aerospace Partnerships with Cultural Heritage Diagnostics

FOR TRACK 13:

MANAGEMENT, SYSTEMS ENGINEERING, AND COST

PAPER 13.0803:

FROM STEM TO STEAM:

AEROSPACE PARTNERSHIPS WITH CULTURAL

HERITAGE DIAGNOSTICS

SESSION 13.08: PROMOTING (AND PROVOKING) CULTURAL CHANGE

FROM: SF & SILICON VALLEY

NOW: IN SAN DIEGO

FIELDWORK: MEDITERRANEAN BASIN

ASHLEY M. RICHTER:

A VISUAL BIOGRAPHY OF AN ARCHAEOLOGIST

EDUCATION: UNITED KINGDOM

BASIC PREMISE

AEROSPACE & ARCHAEOLOGY NEED TO:

* START NEW DIALOGUES OF COOPERATION TO

BUILD, REFINE, AND USE DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING & VISUALIZATION TECHNOLOGIES

*FIND NEW WAYS TO MERGE THEIR ENGINEERING EDUCATION GOALS TO BETTER ENGAGE

THE PUBLIC AND THE NEXT GENERATIONS OF ENGINEERS

*ARCHAEOLOGICAL SURVEYING NEEDS TO STOP SCAVENGING & RAIDING TECHNOLOGY

& START CONTRIBUTING TO ENGINEERING RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT, AND EDUCATION

THERE IS SIGNIFICANT OVERLAP BETWEEN THE GOALS OF

AEROSPACE & “CULTURAL HERITAGE DIAGNOSTICS”

*Spatial & Temporal

Visualization & Analysis

*Surveying

*Remote Multimedia Processing & Interdisciplinary Collaboration

*Science Education & Policy

AEROSPACE CULTURAL HERITAGE

DIAGNOSTICSMacrocosmic Spatialities

&Timescales

Earth &

Cultural Time Only

AN INTRODUCTION TO CULTURAL HERITAGE

DIAGNOSTICS

GENERAL DEFINITION: Employing Analytical Technologies to study and engage with culturally relevant

artifacts and landscape

DATA

COLLECTION

TECHNOLOGIES

DATA

VISUALIZATION

TECHNOLOGIES

THE CENTER OF INTERDISCIPLINARY

SCIENCE FOR ART, ARCHITECTURE, & ARCHAEOLOGY

NEW FIELD TOOLS & METHODOLOGIES

NEW VISUALIZATION AND

COLLABORATIVE

ANNOTATION SYSTEMS

NEW PROCESSING

TECHNIQUES TO COMBINE

AND ANALYZE DATA

NEW SYSTEMS FOR

ENGAGING PEOPLE WITH THE

PAST

BREAKING DOWN BOUNDARIES:• Between Academic

Departments

• Between Academic Disciplines

• Between Academia & Industry & Government

• Between Expert & Non-Expert

• Between Science & the Public

REFINING WORKFLOWS & EQUIPMENT

THROUGH PRACTICAL TESTING & TRAINING IN

THE FIELDEngineers & Computer Scientists in the field

Social Scientists &

Humanities Scholars

in the Processing Lab

THE

FEED

BACK

LOOP

Engineers & Computer Scientists in the Lab

Social Scientists &

Humanities Scholars

in the Field

(Note the implicit logistical workflow to any kind

of ‘field work’)

To focus on Interdisciplinary & Collaborative Workflows that can be engaged with on all levels by experts & non-experts

ACQUISITION

• Digital Data Collection Tools

• Diagnostic Imaging

• Analytical Diagnostics

ACQUISITION

• Digital Data Collection Tools

• Diagnostic Imaging

• Analytical Diagnostics

CURATION

• Data Storage

• Geo-Spatial Mapping

• Augmentation

• Community Data Bases

ACQUISITION

• Digital Data Collection Tools

• Diagnostic Imaging

• Analytical Diagnostics

CURATION

• Data Storage

• Geo-Spatial Mapping

• Augmentation

• Community Data Bases

ANALYSIS

• Modeling & Simulation

• Visual Analytics

• Crowd Sourcing

• 3D Visualization

• Cultural Analytics

ACQUISITION

• Digital Data Collection Tools

• Diagnostic Imaging

• Analytical Diagnostics

CURATION

• Data Storage

• Geo-Spatial Mapping

• Augmentation

• Community Data Bases

DISSEMINATION

• Print Publishing

• Open Access

• Citizen Science

• Cyber-Infrastructure

ANALYSIS

• Modeling & Simulation

• Visual Analytics

• Crowd Sourcing

• 3D Visualization

• Cultural Analytics

LAYERED REALITIES

Data Stratigraphywhich can be Viewed in Different Augmented& Annotated Realities

CONCEPT STARTED WITH MULTISPECTRAL ANALYSIS OF PAINTINGS

AND HAS TRANSITIONED TO LANDSCAPES

EXAMPLES:

JORDAN

Khirbat Negieb Asemer

Khirbat en-Nahas

Khirbat Faynan

Wadi Fidan 61

Petra(and many more….)

EXAMPLES: ITALY: THE BAPTISTERY OF ST. JOHN

EXAMPLES: ITALY: PALAZZO VECCHIO

EXAMPLES: SANDCASTLES FOR SCIENCE

PUTTING MORE ENGINEERS OUT IN THE FIELD

*TESTING OUT THEIR DESIGNS IN REAL-WORLD, TIME-PRESSURED, THINK ON YOUR FEET INSTANCES

WHICH SIMULTANEOUSLY COLLECTS NEEDED DATASETS

*COLLABORATIVE DESIGN WITH INPUT FROM REAL-WORLD USERS

PUBLIC INTEREST IN ENGINEERING

*STEM to STEAM Education Potential Where

STEAM is not just STEM with Art- but with

Art, Architecture, and Archaeology

Cultural Heritage Diagnostics IS made up of scavenged Aerospace pieces and can be an exciting

public facet of engagement for Engineering

COOL IDEA RIGHT? ITS BEEN PARTIALLY PROPOSED BEFORE:

SO WHY DOESN’T IT WORK IN PRACTICE?

Chinese Academy of Sciences’ International Centre on the Use of Space Technologies for

Cultural and Natural Heritage (CEODE) established in 2011

UNESCO-European Space Agency (ESA) Space for Heritage Open Initiative

established in 2003

Archaeological Remote Sensing & Space Archaeology with the National Aeronautics and

Space Administration (NASA)

FAILURES IN

COMMUNICATION, FOLLOW-THROUGH,

& EXPANSION

This is what we have now

These are pop culture symbols of what we’re

building towards

IF WE’RE EVER GOING TO HAVE THE SCI-FI

TECH- WE NEED TO MOVE ON TOGETHER

TO PRESERVE OUR PAST WHILE ENGINEERING OUR FUTURE

VISUALIZATION TECHNOLOGY & FIELD

WORK COULD BE THE KEY TRANSLATION

LANGUAGE TO BRIDGE GAPS AND BUILD

BETTER

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

•The National Science Foundation (NSF) Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT)

project for Training, Research and Education in Engineering for Cultural Heritage Diagnostics (TEECH)

• The Center of Interdisciplinary Science for Art, Architecture, and Archaeology (CISA3)

• The California Institute of Telecommunication and Information Technology (Calit2)

•The Anthropology Department at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD)

•The Cultural Heritage Authorities of Italy, Jordan, Cyprus, & Greece

•My fellow CISA3 Asgardians: Vid Petrovic, Tom Wypych, David Vanoni, and Andrew Huyhn

•My CISA3 colleagues, esp: John Mangan, Joe DeBlasio, David Srour, Jason Kimball

•My CISA3 Undergraduate Research Innovation Internship Students- especially James M. Darling and Aliya Hoff

•Professors Thomas E. Levy (Anthropology), Falko Kuester (Computer Science & Engineering), Maurizio Seracini (EmerituS

Engineering)

•The fabulous Alex Hubenko and amazing Vanessa Pool

Thank you Aerospace Audience!!