The three subjects of the project

 The research project "Weser sandstone as a global cultural asset" is designed as an interdisciplinary project. It combines different scientific research areas in the fields of art and economic history, contextual informatics and architecture. On the following pages, each research area introduces itself and describes its unique tasks and challenges.

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    History of art and economic history

    At first, the attention is centered around the reconstruction of the historical transaction paths and personal networks of the international sandstone trade. We study the material, financial and idea historical infrastructure of the quarries, the central transfer sites and obstruction of representative individual objects. ...

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    Architecture

    The research area of the WeSa project, that is located at the research unit "Digital Reconstruction" of the Department "Digital Design" at the TU Darmstadt, works on 3D computer models or digital reconstructions, which have the potential to merge already existing and to generate new knowledge in the context of the scientific genesis process...read more.


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    Contextual Informatics

    The “Contextual Informatics” workgroup of the Heinz Nixdorf Institute supports the research discourse of both art and economic historians by developing a web based working environment. ...

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