May 10 – Tuscany is trying to make Georgia’s architecture and archaeological heritage available and offer a different way of accessing the main historical sites through the immediacy of smart communication technologies (smartphones and tablets). The Augmented Reality Tbilisi-ART project, coordinated by Paola Puma of the Department of Architecture at the University of Florence and Nana Iashvili of the Tbilisi State Academy of Art (TSAA), will be presented today in Tbilisi. The meeting was part of a joint teaching and research program in the context of a bilateral agreement between the two institutions. The plan includes workshops for the study of Old Tbilisi (the oldest part of the Georgian capital) dedicated to a mixed groups of students from the Department of Architecture and the Faculty of Architecture, Media Art and Restoration of TSAA. The calendar of activities will end on May 29.
