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Manuele Veggi

May 5, 2024

Curriculum Vitae

Manuele Veggi has been working in the Villa Vigoni team as external collaborator at the Research and Projects Department since 2020. Since 2025 he has been responsible for the publishing house “Villa Vigoni Editore | Verlag”.
He is interested in methodologies for the enhancement of cultural heritage through digital tools, such as interactive systems for museum contexts, digital art history methodologies and semantic web technologies (particularly ontologies and linked open data).
Since November 2023 he has been a PhD Candidate at the doctoral programme in “Heritage Science” (Università La Sapienza; CNR – Istituto di Scienze del Patrimonio Culturale, Prof. Pescarin). In 2025 he was awarded the Swiss Government Excellence Scholarship for a research period as visiting PhD student at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne – Laboratory for Experimental Museology (EPFL – eM+, Prof. Kenderdine).
He graduated in Modern Italian Literature at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice in 2021 and completed the MA “Digital Humanities and Digital Knowledge” at the Alma Mater Studiorum – University of Bologna in 2023. He was a student at the honors colleges of both universities and attended courses with professors from Harvard University, Boston College and Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität.

Areas of expertise:

  • Editorial assistance and management
  • Digital Humanities
  • Interaction Design

Research areas:

  • Digitization of Cultural Heritage
  • Museums and Museum Participation in the Digital Age
  • Interaction Media Design for the Enhancement of Cultural Heritage
  • Applications of Artificial Intelligence to Cultural Heritage and the Humanities
  • Digital Art History

 

Scientific publications

Publishers title

  • I.-M. Ciortan, … M. Veggi (eds.), Chromatic Visions. Exploring Colour in Art, Archaeology and Digital Realities, Part II, Springer LNCS, 2026.
  • M. Veggi (a cura di), Vigoni Paper n. 2/2021, Villa Vigoni Editore | Verlag, Loveno di Menaggio 2021.

Contributions in edited volumes

  • M. Massidda, … M. Veggi, «Design Resources to Enhance Access to Coloured Collections through Interactive Experiences», in: I.-M. Ciortan et al. (eds.), Chromatic Visions. Exploring Colour in Art, Archaeology and Digital Realities, Part II, Springer LNCS, 2026.
  • L. Travaglini, … M. Veggi, S. Pescarin, «The CoDesign Tool. A Card-Based Framework for Interactive and Collaborative Design in Cultural Heritage», in: M. Schrepp, M. Rauterberg, (eds.), HCI International 2025 – Late Breaking Papers, Springer LNCS, 2026.
  • M. Veggi, «Sense of Care in the Design of Digital Heritage Applications», in: S. Pescarin et al. (eds.), Chromatic Visions. Exploring Colour in Art, Archaeology and Digital Realities, Part I, Springer LNCS, 2026.
  • M. Veggi, «Key Concepts of the Exhibition. Sense of Care», in: C. Barandoni et al. (eds.), Perceive Isis’ Colours, Valtrend Editore | I Campi del Sapere, 2025.
  • M. Veggi, «Integrating Artificial Intelligence in the Design of Interactive Experiences. An Overview for Digital Cultural Heritage Practitioners», in: S. Campana et al. (eds.), Digital Heritage, The Eurographics Association, 2025.
  • F. Bonifazi, M. Veggi et al., «Implementing Curiosity Hooks and Caring Practices in the Reconstruction of Lost Polychromy: Design Prototypes for Interactive Experiences», in: S. Campana et al. (eds.), Digital Heritage, The Eurographics Association, 2025.
  • S. Pescarin, … M. Veggi, «Perceptive Enhanced Realities of Coloured CollEctions through AI and Virtual Experiences», in: S. Campana et al. (eds.), Digital Heritage, The Eurographics Association, 2025.
  • I. Muci, M. Veggi, … S. Spotti, «A Serious Game Strategy from Coastal Leisure to Cultural Discovery of an Archaeological Museum. The “Ozan1982” Application», in: S. Campana et al. (eds.), Digital Heritage, The Eurographics Association, 2025.
  • M. Veggi et al., «An Open Access Catalogue for Renaissance Terracotta Sculpture in Northern Italy», in: S. Campana et al. (eds.), Digital Heritage, The Eurographics Association, 2025.
  • M. Veggi et al., «Sketching Interactive Experiences: Can Co-creation with Artificial Generative Systems Enhance the Communication of Cultural Heritage?», in: C. E. Catalano et al. (eds.), ACM/EG Expressive Symposium – WICED: Eurographics Workshop on Intelligent Cinematography and Editing, The Eurographics Association, 2025.
  • M. Veggi, I. Cerato, «Stratigraphic Units beyond Archaeological Contexts. A Proposal to Enhance Knowledge Management of Heterogeneous Data of Cultural Heritage Sites», in: M. Corsini et al. (eds.), EUROGRAPHICS Workshop on Graphics and Cultural Heritage – GCH2024, The Eurographics Association, 2024.
  • M. Massidda, … M. Veggi, S. Pescarin, «Towards an Experiment Planner for Cognitive Studies in Virtual Heritage Environments. A Pilot Study», in: M. Corsini et al. (eds.), EUROGRAPHICS Workshop on Graphics and Cultural Heritage – GCH2024, The Eurographics Association, 2024.
  • M. Veggi, «Interaction Design as Catalyzer of Creative and Interpretative Praxes in Museum Context», in: A. Bucciero et al. (eds.), EUROGRAPHICS Workshop on Graphics and Cultural Heritage – GCH2023, The Eurographics Association, 2023.
  • F. Rinaldi, M. Veggi, «’Not Even More than a Shadow’. A Data-Driven Approach to Stylistic Cubism and Symbolism in ‘Tender Buttons’ by Gertrude Stein», in: F. Imperiale (ed.), Rete di Idee 2020 – I Quaderni dell’ISUFI dell’Università del Salento n. 2, Pensa Multimedia, 2022.
  • M. Veggi, «L’Europa: “espressione geografica” o “social catena”?», in: D. Biehl, M. Scotto (eds.), Alla ricerca dell’Europa fra geografia, comunità e diritto / Auf der Suche nach Europa zwischen Geographie, Wertegemeinschaft und Recht, Villa Vigoni Editore | Verlag, 2021.

Articles or Essays in Journals

  • M. Veggi, A. Von Gal et al, «How Much Do We Care About Cultural Heritage? A Rasch Scale Validation Study Among Young Adults», Heritage, n. 8, MDPI, 2025.
  • M. Veggi, I. Cerato, «The Brancacci Chapel from the Quattrocento to the semantic web: An ontology-assisted case study of cultural data management and site reconstruction», Digital Applications in Archaeology and Cultural Heritage, n. 37, Elsevier, 2025.
  • M. Veggi, «Sewing text and images together in the digital environment. A review of Bayeux Tapestry Digital Edition», RIDE – A Review Journal for Scholarly Digital Editions and Resources, n. 20, Institut für Dokumentologie und Editorik, 2025.
  • M. Veggi, S. Pescarin, «Participatory Experiences as a New Way to Access Conservation Data in the Museum Contexts», Mimesis Journal, n. 13:2, Aa Accademia University Press, 2024.
  • M. Veggi, S. Pescarin, «Creative engagement and meaning creation: A first experimental protocol on interactive cultural experiences for conservation data», Digital Applications in Archaeology and Cultural Heritage, n. 32, Elsevier, 2024.
  • M. Veggi, F. Mambelli, «Modelling the Art Market in the Semantic Web. A Preliminary Analysis», Umanistica Digitale, n. 16, University of Bologna, 2023.

Translations

  • L. Kühnhardt; M. Veggi (trad.), Vigoni Paper n. 5/2022, Villa Vigoni Editore | Verlag, Loveno di Menaggio 2022.

 

Non-scientific publications

Blog and magazine

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