https://www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/oso/9780190498900.001.0001/oso-9780190498900
Author: Helena Murteira
Cities in the Digital Age: Exploring past, present and future
“Lost Cities as a Virtual Experience: The Example of Pre-Earthquake Lisbon” In Memories of a City
“Virtual Lost Cities: The Case of Pre-earthquake Lisbon.” In 2015 Digital Heritage
“Lost Cities in the Digital Era: The Case of Pre-earthquake Lisbon.” In Space and Time Visualisation
“City and Spectacle: A Vision of Lisbon Before the 1755 Great Earthquake.” In Virtual Palaces, Part II Lost Palaces and their Afterlife Virtual Reconstruction between Science and Media
“City and Spectacle: A Vision of Pre-earthquake Lisbon.” In 15th International Conference on Virtual Systems and Multimedia (VSMM ‘09), 239–243. Vienna: IEEE.
Ancient Lisbon Royal Opera House
The Lisbon Royal Opera House destroyed by the great earthquake of the 1st November 1755 – exteriors and interiors.
Modellation still in progress.
Centre for Art History and Artistic Research (CHAIA), University of Évora, Portugal.
Lisbon 31st October 1755: the city imaginary museum
Paper presented at the Seminar THE CITY AS A VIRTUAL MUSEUM RECONSTRUCTING THE PAST TO LIVE IN THE PRESENT, V-Must, Network of Excellence (7FP) – Spanish Society of Virtual Archaeology (SEAV), ISCTE – IUL – Escola de Sociologia e Politicas Publicas
21-22 February 2014
Recreating Lisbon before the 1755 earthquake using virtual worlds technology, a challenging and groundbreaking venture for scientific research and education.
Authors:
- Helena Murteira
- Paulo Simões Rodrigues
Video – International Workshop Virtual Historic Cities: reinventing urban research
Lisbon, May 21, 2010
Workshop organized in the scope of the City and Spectacle: a vision of pre-earthquake Lisbon project, a virtual recreation of the city of Lisbon before the 1755 earthquake, using Second Life® technology.
A pioneer project in Portugal, it is being developed by the Centre for History of Art and Artistic Research of the University of Évora (CHAIA), the company Beta Technologies, and the King’s Visualisation Lab (KVL), King’s College London.
Participants in this workshop included Bernard Frischer, Director of the Virtual World Heritage Laboratory, University of Virginia and scientific coordinator of the pioneer project Rome Reborn, a virtual recreation of Classic Rome; Richard Beacham, Director of the King’s Visualisation Lab, King’s College London, an institution focused on the application of the virtual language to historical research; Drew Baker, researcher and one of the founders of this institution; Ana Cristina Leite, Director of the Lisbon City Museum; António Filipe Pimentel, Director of the Portuguese National Museum of Ancient Art; Alexandra Gago da Câmara, researcher of CHAIA; Carlos Tavares Ribeiro, member of the Scientific Committee of the company VERSUS – 3D interactive development in the Web; Cristina Gouveia, representantive of the company YDreams – specialists in interactive technologies; Helena Murteira, researcher of CHAIA; Luís Sequeira, representantive of the company Beta Technologies – Architects of the Virtual World; Paulo Rodrigues, researcher of CHAIA; Ricardo Branco, representative of the Cultural Itineraries of the Tourism Association of Lisbon and Vítor Cóias, Director of GECoRPA – Group of companies for the conservation and restoration of architectural heritage.