Changing Paradigms: Digital Twins and Buddhist Heritage in the Global Age

A full-day workshop to brainstorm the new frontiers of technological intervention in preserving heritage and its impact

This workshop is part of a multi-institutional joint research project by a research team from IIT Jodhpur, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), IIT Indore, FLAME University and University of Geneva. The project, ‘Digital Twins: Negotiating Identity and Translocated Heritage in the Global Age,’ is funded by ICSSR & SNF.

Goals of the event:

Understand heritage from different stakeholders' points of view.
Understanding of why, what, and how of the digital twin of heritage.
Opinions about digital twin as a medium of preservation, analysis, and appreciation of built heritage by different groups of stakeholders like curators, heritage experts/historians, the general public, students
How digital twins can help in enhancing knowledge and understanding of Buddhist heritage in India and its global connection