UNIFI - Innovative Tools To Digitize The East And West Cultural Heritage: A Digital Game Design Methodology Guide

	Prof. Emanuela Ferretti is associate professor of architectural history at University of Florence, Department of Architecture. Her interests and publications focus on questions of design, style, building materials, and structures, from the fourteenth to the end of sixteenth century, with other studies on architectural culture of 20th century. A particular research interest is the modes of communication used in architectural projects –e.g. drawings, models, and administrative documents- from the Renaissance to the present. She has collaborated with numerous Florentine museums on digital development and communication projects, including, including the Opificio delle Pietre Dure in Florence, the Casa Buonarroti Museum, Uffizi Gallery and the Opera di Santa Croce. For the Museo Leonardiano in Vinci, she has edited the contents of the "E-Leo" data base, a digital archive of Science and Technology, for Leonardo da Vinci's architectural drawings. She was fellow at Villa I Tatti, The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies (2012-2013), “Hanna Kiel Fellowship,” research project: “Cosimo I and the First Aqueduct of Renaissance Florence”.
	Prof. Alessandro Merlo, Ph.D. in "Architectural and Urban Surveying and Drawing”, is an associate Professor in the University of Florence (Department of Architecture) . In 2020 he obtained the national qualification as full professor. He heads national and international research, like “Valleriana Project, “Ghibertiana Project” and “¡Que no baje el telón! Project”, on digital documentation and management of Cultural Heritage. Since 2017 he coordinates the “Cultural Heritage Management Lab” (CHMLab) and from 2018 he heads the master’s degree in "Enhancement of Cultural Heritage”. His research activity is aimed at the analysis and representation of the city and its architectural emergencies, which he investigates through digital tools and methods of drawing and survey disciplines.
	Gaia Lavoratti, PhD in “Architectural and Environmental Survey and Representation” (Florence offices) regulated by the National Doctorate School in “Representation and Survey Sciences” (SSD ICAR/17). From the Academic Year 2011/2012, she is a Short-Term Lecturer of Architectural Design at the University of Ferrara and the University of Florence.Member of the CHM_LAB “Cultural Heritage Management Lab” and DIDA’s Research Unit DM_SHS “Documentation and Management of Small Historical Settlements”. She is also involved in studies related to the formation and transformation process of historical settlements on the national territory and to the documentation strategies and appreciation of cultural heritage. She is part of the organizing committee of international seminars and conferences, actively participates in national/international researches and survey campaigns, gives papers at conferences and she is included in the editorial board of journals, volumes and series.

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