Prof. Dr. Mona Hess
Full Professor and Lead of the chair for Digital Technologies in Heritage Conservation
Dipl.-Ing. Univ. Architecture, M.A. Denkmalpflege / Heritage Conservation, PhD in 3D imaging metrology for cultural heritage (UCL Faculty of Engineering/ UCL CEGE), Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy (UK FHEA)
- Lead of the Chair of Digital Technologies in Heritage Conservation, Program director of the M.Sc. Digital Technologies in Heritage Conservation
- Vice speaker and Lead of Digital Technologies in Heritage Conservation at the Centre for Heritage Studies and Technologies (KDWT) , Am Zwinger 6, Bamberg
Meetings can be agreed by appointment through the assistant.
Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg
Kompetenzzentrum Denkmalwissenschaften und Denkmaltechnologien
Lehrstuhl für Digitale Denkmaltechnologien
Office: ZW4/01.26
Am Zwinger 4 (Villa)
D-96047 Bamberg
Germany
Tel.: +49 951 863-1634 / Secretary: +49 951 863-1633
Mail: mona.hess(at)uni-bamberg.de
Publikationen
EU COSCH - Colour and Space in Cultural Heritage, Working Group II: Spatial Object Documentation. Case study: Multi-modal imaging of Roman coins
EU COSCH Action: Colour and Space in Cultural Heritage. Part of Working Group II: Spatial Object Documentation. The main objective of this COST Action is to promote research, development and application of optical measurement techniques – adapted to the needs of heritage documentation – based on an interdisciplinary cooperation, on a concerted European level and to offer a novel and reliable, independent and global knowledge base facilitating the use of today's and future optical measuring techniques to support the documentation of European heritage. Part of COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) is one of the longest-running European frameworks supporting cooperation among scientists and researchers across Europe.
Wel(l)come@3D - knowledge exchange in 3D imaging technology, 3D printing and dissemination of archival and collection objects , Knowledge Exchange Champion, UCL Enterprise
Principal investigator, UCL Enterprise Knowledge Exchange Grant plus match funding by the partner Wellcome Trust for a collaborative project on in-house capacity building of 3D imaging in collections. "Wel(l)come@3D". Collaboration of UCL CEGE with UCL Digital Humanities, partnering with the Welcome Trust.
Stamp printing plates, dies and rollers–from vault to view
The British Postal Museum & Archive [BPMA] has a comprehensive record of stamp production in the UK from the introduction of the world’s first stamp, the Penny Black. BPMA holds approximately 1300 dies and rollers from the stamp printing process and 280 printing plates. These objects, made of metal, provide a fuller context for the cycle of stamp production. The objective for this project is to provide access to these very valuable objects. The aim is to capture these finely engraved printing plates, rollers and dies as 3D digital objects. These objects pose a challenge for 3D digitization since they are manufactured mainly from steel with high reflectance, making them difficult to measure with optical surface technologies. A public outreach event will be qualitative evaluation and feedback from the public and researchers through user testing of a public delivery with selected objects from the feasibility study. The 15 Share Academy projects 2013-2014 aim to build sustainable and mutually beneficial relationships between the higher education sector and specialist museums in London.
More information about Shareacademy
More information about the British Postal Museum and Archive
Collaborators and more information on the project
3DPetrie: 3D imaging research, digital applications and use of new technologies in the museum
3DPetrie at the UCL Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology: 3D imaging research and use of new technologies in the museum. 3DPetrie is researching the viability of using high quality 3D images of museum collections to engage a range of audiences through the production of 3D models of Petrie Museum artefacts and the development of end-user digital 3D applications.
Re-engineering Watt: 3D laser scan and 3D printing in museum artefact documentation
Re-engineering Watt: A case study and best practice recommendations for 3D colour laser scans and 3D printing in museum artefact documentation. The project completed the full production cycle from an original negative plaster cast to the final product in the form of a physical exhibition replica of a newly discovered bust of James Watt. The replica has been accessioned and exhibited by the Science Museum, London, in "James Watt and our World".
More information on the projekt
The project in the media
Publication
British Museum War Canoe - 3D virtual reconstruction and digital repatriation
3D digital documentation of a highly significant cultural heritage object from the Melanesian Southwest Pacific, held in the ethnographic collections of the British Museum. The object, which dates from about 1910, is a large plank-built war canoe from the island of Vella Lavella in New Georgia, Solomon Islands. 3D laser scanning is paired with anthropological research, which aims to deliver a holistic virtual 3D reconstruction and multimedia interactive delivery of the boat for the digital repatriation to the source community.Collaboration: University of Bergen, Norway; British Museum, London.
Play it again SAM. Design with Heritage.
The project will investigate issues of authenticity of historic objects and the relationship between original and reproduction(s), in particular digital reproduction, by making a reproduction of a kinetic interactive work. The project will use SAM (Sound Activated Mobile), by Edward Ihnatowicz (1968), as an exemplar by 3D scanning the existing artefact, constructing a 3D virtual model and validating the model by 3D printing the constituent parts. Design with Heritage is a twelve-month Knowledge Exchange project supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). The aim of the project is to develop connections between designers, academic researchers, and arts and heritage institutions by identifying shared interests and creating opportunities for collaboration.
E-Curator: 3D colour scans for remote object identification and assessment
The project 'E-Curator: 3D colour scans for remote object identification and assessment' was a one-year project from 2007 to 2008 at UCL Museums and Collections. This project draws on UCL's expertise both in curatorship and in e-Science. It takes advantage of the presence at UCL of world class collections across a range of disciplines and of a state of the art colour scanner, the quality of which is unequalled in the UK. The project explores the use of 3D colour scanning and e-Science technologies to capture and share very large 3D colour scans and detailed datasets about museum artefacts in a secure computing environment. The combination of these technologies could assist curators and conservators in object identification and assessment, both locally and remotely. The E-Curator project was jointly funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), the Arts and Humanities e-Science Support Centre (AHESSC), the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) and the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC). The aim of this project is to bring together, through workshops, practical sessions and conferences, as well as in an edited publication, museum conservators, educators, scientists, curators and other professionals from the higher education and museum sectors who are interested in this technology and its implications across the heritage sector.
Teaching and Tutoring
Lehre im Masterstudiengang M.Sc. Digitale Denkmaltechnologien seit 10/2022 (Studienprüfungsordnung 2022)
GL Grundlagen, P Profilierung
- Virtuelle Studieninformationstage (und Master-Herbst, Master-Mai HS Coburg)
- Erstsemestereinführungstage/ Erstsemestereinführung am 1.Studientag
- M-DDT-GL-1: Einführung in die Digitalen Denkmaltechnologien (Vorlesung und Seminar)
- M-DDT-GL-2: Grundlagen und Theorien der Denkmalpflege und ihre Bedeutung für die Digitalen Denkmaltechnologien (Übung Co-Teaching)
- M-DDT-GL-4: Grundlagen des Technischen Zeichnens und CAD, Handzeichnen (Vorlesung und Seminar, Handzeichenübungen/Architekturzeichnen)
- M-DDT-GL-6: Bildgebende Verfahren und 3D-Erfassung (Vorlesung, Seminar, Anwendungswoche)
- M-DDT-GL-12 : Virtuelle und digitale Modellbildung (Vorlesung, Seminar)
- M-DDT-MM: Methoden für Masterarbeit und Wissenschaftskommunikation (Seminar und Übung)
- M-DDT-Masterarbeit: Betreuung von Masterarbeiten in den Digitalen Denkmaltechnologien und dazugehöriges MasterandInnen-Seminar
- M-DDT-P-1: Räumliche Modellbildung und BIM 2 (Building Information Modelling, Seminar, Übung, Korrektur)
Courses in the M.Sc. programme of Digital Technologies in Heritage Conservation, since October 2017 (all German)
- Modul 1: Introduction to Digital Technologies in Heritage Conservation
- Modul 3: Digital acquisition of objects, with Dr. Maria Chizhova
- Modul 8: Digital Modelling, with Dr. Maria Chizhova
- Modul 9B: Introduction to BIM and HBIM (Heritage Building Information Modelling) with Egbert Keßler (HS Coburg) and Dr. Cinzia Tommasi (Politecnico di Milano)
- Modul 12B: Heritage Building Information Modelling (HBIM) Advanced Course with Dr. Maria Chizhova
2020-2022 Digital Technologies in heritage conservation - integration of optical surveying and measurement methods and sensor technologies into clasical heritage conservation and museology, interactive seminar with student presentations for University of Roma III, Attività didattica nell’ambito dei Master “Didattica Museale Generale”, Master di II livello in “Studi avanzati di educazione museale”, Università degli Studi di Roma Tre, Italien.” e nell’ambito dei seminari autunnali del progetto di ateneo “Il progetto Inclusive Memory nell’era post covid”, per Prof. Dr. Antonella Poce (organiser)
2/2020Digitale Strategien in den Denkmalwissenschaften (Digital Strategies in Heritage Sciences), Gastvorlesung an der Universität Würzburg, Professur für Museologie und materielle Kultur (Lecture for a seminar in museum studies) hosted by Dr. Menke and Prof. Dr. Guido Fackler
08/2020 Tutor at the Summer School Monitoring Heritage 2020, Surveying the castle ruin Burg Neideck in the Fränkische Schweiz, Course directed by Prof. Dr. Till Sonnemann, with Prof. Dr. Mona Hess and Phil Burgdorf
05/2020Digitale Rekonstruktion/Digital Reconstruction , seminary 'Deckenmalerei Digital', geleitet von PD Dr. Matteo Burioni, Institut für Kunstgeschichte, LMU München. Cooperative Project with : Akademieprojekt Corpus der barocken Deckenmalerei in Deutschland
09/2019 Second Internationalal Summer School Monitoring Heritage in Havana/ Cuba , by Prof. Dr. Till Sonnemann/ Prof. Dr. Mona Hess/ Dr. John Hindmarch/ .
- Press: Erschließung und Erhalt von Kulturgut , Digitale Geistes-, Sozial- und Humanwissenschaften , Uni international , Wissenschaft & Praxis , Analyse von Weltkulturerbe der Kolonialzeit in der Karibik , Bamberger Forschende vermitteln zerstörungsfreie Denkmaltechnologien auf Kuba https://www.baylat.org/aktuelles/meldungen/bamberger-forschende-vermitteln-zerstoerungsfreie-denkmaltechnologien-auf-kuba.html
- Playlist Youtube
2019/08 Tutor at the Summer School LEVERAGE ICTs : Information and Communication Technologies in Tourism for preserving Living Heritage, August 24 - 31, 2019 , Lugano & Müstair, Switzerland, Universita della Svizzera Italiana, Schweiz
2019/05 Tutor at the 2-day course: Digital Technologies in Heritage Conservation - integration of optical surveying and measurement methods and sensor technologies into classical heritage conservation. for the Master annuale di II livello “Didattica Museale Generale”, Master di II livello in “Studi avanzati di educazione museale”, Università degli Studi di Roma Tre, Italien.
07/2018 First International Summer School Monitoring Heritage in Bamberg, led by Prof. Dr. Till Sonnemann, Prof. Dr. Mona Hess and Dr. John Hindmarch together with Gastprofessor Prof. Dr. Jesus Pacheco Martinez
- Press Erschließung und Erhalt von Kulturgut , Die Vermessung des Bamberger Doms , Internationale Studierende testen zerstörungsfreie Techniken ,
- Video und Webseite by Till sonmemann
May to July 2021
Visiting Professor at the Politecnico di Milano, 3D Survey Group, ABC Department (Architecture, Built environment and construction engineering), Italy
Januar 2019to December 2022
Vice-Womens officer of the University of Bamberg
Since Oktober 2017
Appointment to Professor of Digital Technologies in Heritage Conservation and Chairholder as well as programm director of the M.Sc. at the University of Bamberg, Germany
November 2019 - October 2022
Honorary Senior Research Associate, Centre for Digital Humanities, University College London, United Kingdom
October 2017 to September 2019
Honorary Senior Research Associate, 3DIMPact Research Group, UCL Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering,
January 2014 to September 2017
Research Associate, Research Manager for the 3DIMPact Research Group, Module coordinator (Bachelor of Arts and Sciences , one elective module), UCL Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering, UCL Faculty of Engineering Sciences, University College London, UK
September 2016 to January 2017
Research Fellow, Preserving Maya Heritage, Department for Africa, Oceania and Americas at the British Museum, Coordinator via Adecco UK on assignment to Google (The Google Cultural Institute), London, UK
August 2015 to June 2016
UCL Robotics Coordinator, Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council – Impact Acceleration Award, UCL Robotics and Autonomous Systems, UCL Faculty of Engineering Sciences, University College London, UK
2008 to 2013
Research Associate, The Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, UCL Public and Cultural Engagement, University College London, UK
September 2006 to August 2007
Graduate Research Intern, Getty Conservation Institute, Fields Projects department, The J. Paul Getty Trust, Los Angeles, USA, Project: Middle Eastern Geodatabase for Antiquities – Jordan (MEGA-J)
February 2005 to August 2006
Freelancer: Digital Cathedral Archives, Bamberger Dom, Dombauhütte, Staatliches Hochbauamt Bamberg
June 2004 to August 2006
Research Assistant, Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg, Professorship of Building Preservation Sciences, Institute for Archeology, Heritage Sciences and Art, cooperation with Prof. Dr. Rainer Drewello
August 2002 to September 2003
Apprentice Architect, L’étude de Louis Brillant, Montreal, Canada, Architect's office with a focus on the preservation of architectural monuments and conservation
August to September 2000
Apprentice Architect, Luca Gazzaniga & Carlo Ceccolini Architetti, Lugano, Schwitzerland
August to Oktober 1999
Apprentice Architect, Braunfels Architekten, Munich
2017
Appointment to Professor and Chairholder for Digital Technologies in Heritage conservation
2016
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA), United Kingdom Professional Standards Framework (UKPSF) for supporting and learning in higher education, Descriptor 2. certificate of educational qualification
2015
PhD in 3D imaging metrology for cultural heritage, UCL Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering, Faculty of Engineering Sciences, University College London, UK
2014
Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (AFHEA UKPSF)
2005
Master of Arts in Heritage Conservation, Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg/ Fachhochschule Coburg
2002
Dipl.-Ing. Univ. Architecture, Technische Universität München (TUM)
Professional Memberships
- CIPA ICOMOS Heritage Documentation
- ICOMOS Germany
- ICOM Germany
- Deutscher Hochschulverband/ German Association of University Professors and Lecturers