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IDAology is a project aimed at capturing and preserving the pastoral experience as both a virtual and augmented reality, while also serving as a repository of cultural heritage. The project focuses on the communities of Mount Ida, particularly in the present-day Psiloritis region.
Implemented under the framework of the "RESEARCH - CREATE - INNOVATE" action, IDAology is co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) of the European Union and national resources through the Operational Programme Competitiveness, Entrepreneurship & Innovation (EPAnEK).
The primary goal of IDAology is to document the unique aspects of pastoral life across six municipalities where shepherding has been a tradition for centuries. Despite the passage of time and changing cultural landscapes, certain old characteristics of pastoral life persist to this day.
The project, with a duration of 30 months, seeks not only to record and study the specialized characteristics of livestock farming and the culture of mountain shepherds but also to create an immersive experience using technology. Through the use of personal viewing devices such as VR glasses, users can remotely transport themselves into the space and time of Psiloritis, becoming immersed in the pastoral lifestyle.
IDAology is coordinated by the Institute of Computer Science of the Foundation for Research and Technology, along with the Computational Biomedicine Laboratory and the social cooperative enterprise of cultural management Androidus Project Tank based in Anogeia. The project consortium also includes the Research and Study Centre of the University of Crete for Humanities, Social Sciences, and Education, with the Laboratory of "Visual Anthropology - Image, music, text" and the "Centre for Gender Studies."
The project emphasizes the recording and preservation of intangible cultural heritage in the broader Psiloritis area, focusing specifically on pastoral life. By collecting primary material and documenting the timeless reality associated with pastoralism, IDAology aims to preserve disappearing knowledge and techniques while highlighting the unique relationship between humans and nature.
IDAology represents a significant effort to not only document but also to celebrate and perpetuate the rich cultural heritage embodied in the pastoral experience of Mount Ida and its surrounding communities.
The recording of the pastoral experience and, more broadly, the intangible cultural heritage focusing on the communities of Mount Ida in today's Psiloritis are the goal of scientists who implemented the project "IDAology: The pastoral experience in the communities of Mount Ida, as an augmented reality experience and digital repository of the intangible cultural heritage of the mountain". Through this project, the uniqueness of the pastoral experience will be captured in an area of six municipalities where pastoralism is a centuries-old tradition that, as strange as it may sound, still retains some old characteristics today.
The project was implemented under the framework of the Action "RESEARCH - CREATE - INNOVATE" and co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) of the European Union and national resources through the Operational Programme Competitiveness, Entrepreneurship & Innovation (EPAnEK), with the scientists involved aiming through it to record and keep alive such pieces of pastoral life, extending to the way pastoralism is practiced, the shepherds' way of life, customs, as well as the crucial connection between pastoral life and the economy of these areas.
The project has a duration of 30 months, and according to the participants, apart from recording and studying the special characteristics of livestock farming activity and the culture of the mountain shepherds, a significant goal is through this project and with the help of technology, to create an ideal reality so that the user and interested party, through personal viewing devices (e.g., VR glasses), can remotely place themselves in space and time and mentally transport themselves to Psiloritis, becoming part of the pastoral experience, as stated to the AMNA by the project coordinator Manolis Tsiknakis, visiting professor at the Computational Biomedicine Laboratory of FORTH and based at ELMEPA.
This specific project is coordinated by the Institute of Computer Science of the Foundation for Research and Technology, the Computational Biomedicine Laboratory, and by the social cooperative enterprise of cultural management Androidus Project Tank based in Anogeia, while the consortium of the project also includes the Research and Study Centre of the University of Crete for Humanities, Social Sciences and Education, with the Laboratory of "Visual Anthropology - Image, music, text" and the "Centre for Gender Studies".
As Mr. Tsiknakis stated to AMNA, this project will rely on technologies for the digital recording and documentation of customary features, using appropriate informatics documentation systems, and the creation of a digital repository so that through representations and real recordings of people, events, and generally the way of life of the people of the area, which extends to the borders of five municipalities, the different characteristics of pastoral life can be recorded and highlighted.
The proposal for the project focuses on the recording and preservation of intangible cultural heritage in the wider area of Psiloritis, not generally and vaguely on what is called pastoral life. As the scientific coordinator of the project George Kalomoiris explained to AMNA, the inspiration started from the attempt to approach pastoralism as an element of intangible cultural heritage and how all the communities of Psiloritis are connected. "The most basic and stable factor of the mountain is the shepherd who has been there from antiquity until today, in an uninterrupted presence in time, despite the civilizations that passed, despite the changes, despite periods of war or peace. The shepherd has always been on the mountain, always on Psiloritis, and had a cultural conglomerate, which we try to approach through pastoralism," as Mr. Kalomoiris explained.
The participants of the program, with the collection of primary material from people who will share their knowledge, as well as the recording of a timeless reality related to pastoralism, believe that what will come to the surface is knowledge and techniques that are disappearing but, according to Professor of Social Anthropology Aristeidis Tsantiroplis, represent a specific relationship of humans with nature.
"It is a more balanced relationship, which may require more effort, but is more balanced. We believe that this knowledge should be preserved for future generations, but also utilized for scientific reasons," he said.
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