International Online Workshop: Documentation and Visualization of Urban Ecosystems

19 Nov 2025
In 2024, an art project by Anna Choďková and Kristina Jaroš, who call themselves EtchingRoom1, drew attention at SEFO Fence to the loss of historical monuments and cultural heritage that has been occurring in Ukraine since the beginning of the full-scale Russian invasion.
In 2024, an art project by Anna Choďková and Kristina Jaroš, who call themselves EtchingRoom1, drew attention at SEFO Fence to the loss of historical monuments and cultural heritage that has been occurring in Ukraine since the beginning of the full-scale Russian invasion.
On Friday, November 28, 2025, an online international workshop dedicated to the documentation and visualization of specific urban ecosystems will take place on the CEAD.space platform. The event will bring together experts in the fields of geoinformatics, data analysis, and visualization technologies with historians, art historians, active artists, and civic initiatives.

The aim of the meeting is to present and discuss current methodological and technological approaches that enable the comprehensive recording and visualization of the historical physical, cultural, and social layers of the city, and to discuss their use in interdisciplinary research practice and in the current thinking about public space. The main focus will be on shaping public space, art within it, audience activation, etc. From a geographical perspective, attention will focus on Central and Eastern Europe.

The conference will open with a keynote lecture dedicated to the Olomouc in 3D project, which aims to create a digital model of the historic center of Olomouc, linking archival, architectural-historical, and geoinformation sources. This project will serve as a framework and starting point for a broader debate on the possibilities of visualizing and interpreting urban structures in time and space.

Contact information

  • PROJECT: Documentation and Visualization of Urban Ecosystems: Data – History – Imagination
  • WEBSITE: https://3dolomouc.upol.cz
  • E-MAIL: SEFO@muo.com (registration)
  • PLATFORM: CEAD.space
  • ORGANIZER: Palacký University & Olomouc Museum of Art

The conference was funded by the Program for the Support of Applied Research in the Field of NaLonal and Cultural IdenLty for the years 2023 to 2030 (NAKI III) of the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic as part of the project Olomouc in 3D – A New Dimension of the City’s Cultural Heritage: Past, Present, Future (DH23P03OVV018).

The program is divided into several thematic sections, each comprising fifteen-minute presentations. Among the speakers are Octavian Esanu (American University of Beirut), Oleksandra Kushchenko (Lviv National Academy of Arts), Lengyel Toulouse Architekten (DE), Stanislav Popelka (Palacký University), Adéla Rádková (Charles University), Petr Roubal (Czech Academy of Sciences), Szabolcs Süli-Zakar (MODEM Debrecen), and others. The opening remarks will be given by Ondřej Jakubec (Palacký University). The subsequent discussion will include practical demonstrations of solutions to the issues.

The conference is open to experts, students, representatives of institutions, and the general public interested in digital technologies, urban history, artistic interventions, and civic participation. The link will be sent to interested parties upon registration via SEFO@muo.cz. The working language of the conference is English.

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