IN-PERSON: Prague – Section B

Abstract

As humanity we are experiencing a moment in time where technology is an established part of our daily lives: in work and in private. Several online platforms and social media are used on a daily basis by various age groups. More recently, these media tools have been used to support and promote citizen science projects in a variety of research areas. Social networks and online platforms where photographs can be captured and uploaded allows the public to photograph works of art that are outdoors and help build a database to document them: this is one of the aims of the watch/art project.
Watch/art is a citizen-science project within in the HAC4CG c project from CITAR that intends to monitor and document public artworks that reside the city of Porto, Portugal with the help of the citizens. Volunteers of the project will photograph the selected sculptures and upload the results in social media or send them through e-mail. In the long term the aim is to have a constantly updated database (using online platforms and social media) that allows the observation of changes that occur in the works of Public Art and in the surrounding environment through time. Consequently, this data can help conservation and restoration researchers understand which strategies are the most suited to preserve this Heritage through time and in a more sustainable way. To complement these visual results, environmental data will be collected using sensors, microbiological methodologies and visual inspection using microscopy and colorimetric equipment This article is a result of the project HAC4CG- Heritage, Art, Creation for Climate change.Living the city: catalyzing spaces for learning, creation and action towards climate change (NORTE-01-0145-FEDER-000067), supported by Norte Portugal Regional Operational Programme (NORTE 2020), under the PORTUGAL 2020 Partnership Agreement, through the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF).