Falling Walls Falling Walls Science Summit 2022

Breaking the Wall of Cultural Heritage

Marinos Ioannides

Engineering & Technology

Our rich sites, monuments and artefacts are talking, but we cannot understand their stories. By using innovative digital technologies and linking together their multimodal data available we can recover their memories. Therefore, with the EU’s financial support we are developing ground-breaking ICT solutions to analyse this complex data, retrieve, reconstruct, protect and visualise the memory of the past, so that we can learn from our history, contribute to the UN SDGs and improve the future.

Tags: Cultural Memory, Digitalisation, Education, Engineering, Open Access, Resilience, Digital Heritage, Cultural Informatics, Cultural Heritage.

Marinos Ioannides

Cyprus University of Technology

Dr. Marinos Ioannides is a BSc, MSc & Dr-Eng. graduate of the University of  Stuttgart. He has a multidisciplinary engineering background in Informatics and Mechanical Engineering focusing on complex databases and 3D object reconstructions in Cultural Heritage. Currently, he is Chair of the Digital Heritage Research Lab at CUT. His pioneering work has received several awards: the IBM-Germany prize in 1993, the EU KIT in 1996, the prestigious Tartessos prize in 2010, the UNESCO Chair on Digital Cultural Heritage in 2017, the EU ERA Chair in Digital Cultural Heritage in 2018 with 2,5 MEuro. Since 2020, he is a corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute.