About

The full name of the project is “DIPOT: DIgital dePOT. A dynamic 3D representation of art collection storage facilities as a learning resource to build critical engagement and improve future design”

DIPOT has been developed by Marzia Loddo as a postdoctoral fellow at the UNESCO Chair of Heritage & Values, Department AE+T, Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment at the Delft University of Technology. Located in Delft, in the Netherlands, it is the oldest and largest Dutch public technological university.

DIPOT was submitted in the last of the three calls offered by the LEaDing Fellows Programme (September-October 2018) and it was selected to be one of the last thirty projects (90 in total). This programme has offered Marzia the unique chance to establish her own programme in research projects embedded in the three different universities (Leiden-Erasmus-Delft). Because of this, she found an opportunity to deepen skills in her main sub-discipline or broaden her research scope by developing skills in adjacent fields of research. Additionally, she was encouraged to take up internships at one of the other partners, and with public or industrial collaborators.

Marzia Loddo holds a European PhD in Preservation of Architectural Heritage, awarded cum laude at the Politecnico di Milano (2019). Besides a master’s degree in Management of Artistic and Cultural Heritage (2014), she also holds one in Conservation of Environmental and Architectural Heritage (2012), a specialized degree in Conservation of Ceramics and Stone Artefacts (2008) and a bachelor’s degree in Technologies for the preservation and restoration of cultural heritage (2006). All of these contributed to enriching her knowledge in the management and preservation of the architectural and cultural heritage field, implemented also through several internships both in the fields of restoration and museum management.

In 2020, she published her first monograph, (Storage facilities for the collections of art museums. A focus on the Italian context), on the topic of art collections storage.

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Marzia is an Affiliated Researcher with the Centre for Global Heritage and Development (Leiden-Erasmus-Delft), the International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property (ICCROM), the International Council of Museums (ICOM) and KI Culture.

Partner of the Project

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 707404.

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