AI, Tourism, and Culture
The TIME TRAVEL LAB: MAESTRI COMACINI, Masters of Cathedrals in the metaverse: Tourism, and Culture Innovation Design Workshop for the Future of Tourism with AI and virtual reality. The history of the Comacini Masters regenerated with Artificial Intelligence, is part of the IATH Academy Innovation Design Labs for the Future of Tourism.
The story of the MASTER COMACINI builders, protagonists of an international tourist destination where the artisanal culture made in Italy has created places to dwell in beauty.
This lab go beyond an everyday edu-tech project by creating a new tourist product – a meta
destination - bridging the real with the virtual. This is not intended to replace traditional tourism
experiences but to enhance the existing ones by adding innovative digital content.
The IATH Academy team, in partnership with Carraro Lab, has illustrated the virtual cathedral with AI genereated frescos to tell the history of COMACINE builders, as part of an international “phygital” tourist destination where the artisanal culture made in Italy has created places to dwell in beauty. COMACINE MASTERS, known since the early Middle Ages as master builders, the protagonists of Lombard Romanesque architecture, who spread innovative solutions in Italy and Europe.
