Volterra-Detroit Foundation

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International Digital Preservation Workshop 2024 | Apr. 14 – Apr. 26, 2024 | Information Page

Introduction In October, 2016, a small team of researchers and professionals embarked upon a journey to digitally reconstruct and preserve many of the historically significant architectural, archeological and artistic treasures of the ancient city of Volterra, Italy.  The results of this and subsequent workshops (in June, 2017; April, 2018; April 2019 and October 2022) have had great value to the...

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Registration for the International Digital Preservation Workshop – Volterra – April 14 – April 26, 2024

Register for the International Digital Preservation Workshop in Volterra – April 14 – April 26, 2024  or read more information about the workshop here. If you have any questions, please send email to: mark.dietrick(at)casetech.com. Please fill out the form completely and press “Submit” button at the bottom. You must also make a deposit payment in the amount of $500 USD. Please use...

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Ten Years Flew By….

Ten years ago, in October 2010, we were all ten years younger… and we organized a banquet to inaugurate our effort to raise money to renovate the future Residential College in Volterra. The event took place in the Detroit Yacht Club. Around 180 people participated. Just to remember a few highlights: Bruno Leon, the first Dean of the School of...

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Foundation – Officers and the Board of Directors

Paul F. Aubin View profile on LinkedIn Architectural consultant and a top-rated speaker at Autodesk University and video and print author. Paul is the author of many Revit book titles including his “deep dive” into the Revit family editor: Renaissance Revit. He has also authored dozens of Revit video training titles on LinkedIn Learning covering all levels of Revit, Dynamo and ReCap....

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Artist in Residence 2019

This year we have restarted our Artist in Residence program, in a new format. It will now include both Italian artists in Detroit, as well as the Detroit artists in Volterra. The program is now ryn in collaboration with the Consulate of Italy in Detroit, and the Ponyride. The first guest of the program from Italy was an artist from Volterra...

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Great News at the end of the year!

Dear Friends; The Holidays and the end of the year are always a great opportunity for looking back at the year passed, and looking forward at the things to come. It is also a good moment to share a few thoughts about our activities at the Volterra-Detroit Foundation. The 2017 was really good for us. We hosted a lot of...

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Reality Capture Workshop receives American Institute of Architects 2017 Innovation Award… and is the 2017 People’s Choice recipient!

We are extremely happy and honored to be part of the Reality Capture Workshop Team, which has received the American Institute of Architects 2017 Innovation Award. “The Innovation Awards honor new practices and technologies that will further enable project delivery and enhance data-centric methodologies in the management of buildings for their entire lifecycle, from design, to construction and through operations.” (AIA Website)....

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WORKSHOP di Storytelling: Fotografia, Scrittura, Videomaking 11-16 Dicembre

Full immersion nei linguaggi contemporanei e nelle regole dello storytelling. Sei giorni di fotografia, videomaking, storie e marketing. Un programma in-tenso di esercitazioni, teoria e analisi di case history reali. I partecipanti sco-priranno i segreti del percorso creativo, dall’idea alla realizzazione, e si con-fronteranno con le regole che governano i diversi mercati di riferimento (edi-toria, corporate, fine-art e web). I...

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University of Detroit Mercy Open Enrollment Program Summer 2018

Yellow_line International study program Volterra 2018 [art, history and culture] University of Detroit Mercy School of Architecture & Volterra-Detroit Foundation OPEN ENROLLMENT ACADEMIC PROGRAM Program at a glance: A six week open enrollment program (May 5 2018 – June 18 2018) at the Volterra International Residential College in Volterra Italy, organized by the University of Detroit Mercy School of Architecture...

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International Reality Capture Workshop – October 10-22, 2016 – Information page

Introduction The main purpose of this workshop is to provide an International educational experience in which students and professionals will learn to use innovative reality capture technologies and collaboratively produce three dimensional computer models of the ancient City of Volterra, its archaeological remains and some of its treasured artwork. This workshop will provide the participants hands-on experience in using drones...