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Research and publications

Research projects and selected team publications, including 2025 and 2026 contributions.

Research projects

Completed projects retain the research group names used at the time. DiStoRi and GAP expertise is now brought together within Maindh_Lab. Institutional profile

2024–2025

CULTURE&CREATIVITY

TOCC A1 – Capacity building for cultural professionals to manage the digital and green transition. Measure 3.3.1: improving the cultural and creative ecosystem through cooperation, upskilling and reskilling. Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity, Italian Ministry of Culture.

2024–2025

GREEN EVENTS

TOCC B1 – Capacity building for cultural professionals to manage the digital and green transition. Measure 3.3.3: reducing the ecological footprint of cultural events by incorporating social and environmental criteria into public procurement and encouraging eco-innovation in products and services. Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity, Italian Ministry of Culture.

2021–2024

DCBOX: Erasmus+ project

“Digital Curator Training & Tool Box”: Erasmus+ KA220 Cooperation Partnership in Higher Education, led by Distori–UNIVPM. DCBox aims to train a new generation of European cultural heritage professionals with advanced, recognised and transferable digital skills.

2022–2024

NEXTMUSEUM: Erasmus+ project

“Stimulating Digitisation at Small and Medium-Sized Museums through the Enhancement of the Digital Curator”: Erasmus+ KA220 Cooperation Partnership in Vocational Education and Training, led by Fondazione Marche Cultura. Distori is the main training partner for museum digital transformation.

2019–2021

REMEMBER: Interreg Italy–Croatia project

“REstoring the MEmory of Adriatic Ports Sites: Maritime Culture to Foster Balanced Territorial Growth”: Interreg Italy–Croatia, led by the Central Adriatic Ports Authority in Ancona.

2019–2022

RAILTOLAND: Erasmus+ project

“A Collaborative Platform for Innovative Tools to Communicate European Cultural Landscapes from the Train”: Erasmus+ KA203 Strategic Partnership, led by Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. Distori contributes ICT expertise in heritage and landscape representation.

2018–2021

TRANSFER: Interreg Adriatic–Ionian project

“Integrated Management Models for Archaeological Parks”: associated partner; lead partner, University of Macerata

2018–2021

CIVITAS: university strategic project

“ChaIn for excellence of reflectiVe Societies for dIgitization of culTural heritAge and museumS. A pilot case in Palazzo Ducale at Urbino”. Principal investigator for the research team

Scientific output

Publications in the archive

Contributions on digitisation, information models, museums, archaeology and immersive experiences.

2026

From Treatise’s Geometry to an AI-Driven Procedural Framework for Shape Grammars

Quattrini R.; Pieruccini P.; D’Alessio M.; Clini P.

Nexus Network Journal 28, 727–758

Publication record

2026

Rappresentare per comunicare e conservare: strumenti digitali per la Pinacoteca di Ancona

Clini P.; Angeloni R.; Ferretti U.; Leonardi L.

Paesaggio Urbano 1, 60–71

Publication record

2025

Digital Representation and AI-driven Virtual Experience for Historic Houses. The Case Study of Borgo Storico Seghetti Panichi

Clini P.; Angeloni R.; D’Alessio M.; Coppetta L.; Galli I.

ISPRS Archives XLVIII-M-9-2025, 337–344

Publication record

2025

Dall’utopia al digitale: un AI-driven experience per la Città ideale di Urbino

Clini P.; D’Alessio M.; Galli I.

Èkphrasis. Descrizioni nello spazio della rappresentazione

Publication record

2024

A Virtual Immersive Movie for archaeological heritage: a journey through the Queen’s Tomb at Sirolo-Numana

Clini P., Angeloni R, D’Alessio M., Bardelli G., Finocchi S.

Journal article · Archeologia e Calcolatori

2024

Digital transformation of Ascoli Piceno’s civic collections: an innovative university–museum project

Clini P., Quattrin R., Malinverni, E.S., Vasic I., Papetti S.,Felicetti M.

Journal article · Archeomatica

2024

Dalla replica digitale alla modellazione informativa. Un approccio scan-to-bim alla documentazione del microscavo e restauro della tomba 27 di colle vaccaro (AP)

Cingolani S., Clini P., Quattrini, R., Angeloni, R. Angelo F., Sforzini L.,Di Giovanni A., Bollati R.

Journal article · Archeologia e Calcolatori

2024

Adrijo: A Digital Platform for Adriatic Port Heritage—Good Practices for Virtual Museums and Touristic Experiences

Clini P., Quattrini, R. Angeloni, Nespeca R., De Luca D., La Porta S.

Journal article · Heritage

2024

Architectural heritage digital representations for conservation strategies

Clini, P., Mariotti, C., Angeloni, R., Munoz Cadiz, J.

Journal article · International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences

2024

Emerging skills in the humanities panorama facing the digitalisation disruption: the digital curator training and tool box

Quattrini R., Stefanelli C., Agapiou A.

Conference proceedings contribution · INTED2024, 18th International Technology, Education and Development Conference

2024

Automatic generation of synthetic heritage point clouds: Analysis and segmentation based on shape grammar for historical vaults

Battini C., Ferretti U., De Angelis G., Pierdicca R., Paolanti M.,Quattrini R.

Journal article · Journal of Cultural Heritage

2024

3VR: Vice Versa Virtual Reality Algorithm to Track and Map User Experience

Vasic, I., Quattrini R., Pierdicca R., Mancini A., Vasic B.

Journal article · ACM Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage

2024

Scan-to-meshbim: implementing knowledge about historical vaulted ceilings with open tools

Muñoz-Cádiz J., Quattrini R., Martín-Talaverano R.

Journal article · TEMA

2024

Introduction to the Handbook – Enriching heritage through digital curation. Practice and training handbook

Quattrini R., Patricio C.

Book chapter · Handbook – Enriching Heritage through Digital Curation: Practice and Training Handbook

2023

From point cloud data to HBIM for public performance spaces knowledge, management and storytelling: Palazzo Olivieri in Pesaro

Clini P., Quattrini R., Mariotti C., Nespeca R., De Luca D.A.

Journal article · DISEGNARE CON…

2023

Digital memory and prevention can also help save the world

Clini P.

Book chapter · Living with Earthquakes · Maggioli Editore, Bologna

2023

Digital Transition for Heritage Management and Dissemination: Via Flaminia and Corduba-Emerita

Clini, P., Muñoz Cádiz J., Ferretti U., Luís Domínguez Jiménez J., González Nieto M.

Conference proceedings contribution · Transizioni · Franco Angeli

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