Rendered in Bits and Stone

Maciej Stasiowski, PhD, is a graduate in film and media studies at the Institutue of AudioVisual Arts at the Jagiellonian University’s Faculty of Management and Social Communication (Cracow, Poland). He is the author of the book Atlas of All Things Inconstant: Strategies, structures and metafictional devices in the works of Peter Greenaway (Nomos, 2014), as well as of numerous academic articles on literary utopias, unbuildable architectural projects, and filmic space, among them monograph Anarchitectural Experiments: When Unbuilt Designs Turn to Film (Intellect, 2023) and an edited volume Watch This Space: Exploring Cinematic Intersections Between the Body, Architecture and the City (2024).

• List of FiguresIntroduction: In Tangible Matters: Emergence of the Permanent Exhibit – Maciej StasiowskiPart I: Politics Behind Reconstruction (Intangible Factors in Preservation and Restoration)Chapter 1: Reintegration of Missing Parts on Stone Sculptures: Comparing Traditional and Modern Techniques – Peter KozubChapter 2: Mixing Realities to Awaken the Future: Visiting the Monastery of Santa Cruz, Coimbra, in 1834 – Rui Lobo and Mauro Costa CouceiroChapter 3: Making Imagination of Pasts with the Case Study “Reconstructing the Neighbourhood” – Atanur AndıçPart II: Agents of Storytelling (Agency Versus Storytelling)Chapter 4: The City as a Museum: Restoring the Identity and Intangible Heritage of Nottingham's Multicultural Past through Augmented Reality and Location-Based Technology – Andrea MonetaChapter 5: Conservation in the Post-Pandemic Era: Avatar-Based Virtual Reality Technology Provides New Opportunities for Heritage Conservation – a Case Study of the Ex-Sham Shui Po Service Reservoir in Hong Kong – Mingming Zhao, Yuan Jin, Tatjana Crossley and Thomas Wang Leung ChungChapter 6: Heterotopia on Demand: The Digital Possesso Project – Antonella de Michelis and Hussein KeshaniPart III: Resurrections (Restoring the Damaged, Reviving the Lost)Chapter 7: 3D Virtual Reconstruction of Petra Utilising Crowdsourced Images Based on Retracing Visitors' Experiences – Nemeh RihaniChapter 8: Augmenting Archives, Agency and Authenticity: A Case Study of Using WebXR to Resurrect the Lost City of Dunwich – Emily GoddenChapter 9: On the Dormant Buildings of Imbros: Photogrammetry and the Aesthetic Deployment of Harman’s Object-Oriented Ontology – Sevcan Ercan and Joe GrahamPart IV: Algorithmic UncertaintyChapter 10: Machine Vision and Algorithmic Creativity: Application of Image Recognition Algorithms to Architectural Style Analysis – Małgorzata Starzyńska-GrześNotes on ContributorsIndex

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