Design for Cultural Cooperation. Interaction, Experience, and Heritage Awareness

The design of the museum experience can be improved through an innovative interaction framework that uses digital technology to digitize and make different types of cultural heritage accessible and improve awareness for the management of public and tourist use of heritage sites. This research aims to protect cultural heritage diversity and enhance its accessibility and dissemination. It presents methods to digitize resources of various heritages and develop experiential design and interactive environments through advanced simulation and representation. The study addresses the development of an interaction design model based on real-time simulations of existing installations and experience environments for cultural sites and the evaluation of the process and design workflow, introducing modeling (CAD/BIM) and simulation environments (Game Engine/AI). The objectives are to introduce an information model to manage the environment and exhibit design and to develop interactive installations that use diverse media to highlight cultural content and improve cultural attraction and communication efficiency. An itinerary and interactive display of tangible/intangible heritage will be presented and tested through the advanced simulation application to visualize immersive 3D environments. From the BIM, a live connection with the visual development tools of the game engine middleware is possible, which facilitates graphic simulation. Field tests and process references will benefit from recent research on the Roman Theater of Amman as part of an international cooperation project on the experiential and interactive valorization of the museum collections of the Popular Traditions Museum of Jordan.