Ogilvy New York Teams Up With #Unite4Heritage To Celebrate And Safeguard Historical Sites

NEW YORK, May 2, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Over the last several years we have seen countless historical sites lost by conflict and natural disasters. It's not just the buildings and artifacts that are taken but the heritage and culture for people around the world. Ogilvy New York teamed up with #Unite4Heritage to launch an interactive site, ReclaimHistory.org, a crowd sourced online museum. Here people can come together to learn, share and digitally recreate monuments that have been lost. 

The reclaiming history project was started by cofounders, Chance Coughenour and Matthew Vincent, both researchers from Spain and Germany respectively, who started Rekrei, formally known as Project Mosul. By integrating their knowledge in archaeology, web development, and photogrammetry, their objective was to promote the digital preservation of lost cultural heritage using crowdsourced data in a cooperative, open-source project.

"ReclaimHistory.org provides users with a much more visually immersive experience, encouraging them to explore historical sites that have been lost around the world. In many cases, physical restorations are impossible due to the extent of the destruction, but through crowdsourcing the digital preservation of the memory of that heritage, not only does it provide a way for the public to engage with lost heritage, but also to have an active, tangible role in preserving it," said Matthew Vincent, founder, Rekrei.

Building on the initial workflow of using crowdsourced images to virtually recreate artifacts using photogrammetry, the project's web-based platform is evolving to better utilize publicly-available data on the web to assist their volunteers in new ways. After partnering with Ogilvy and Pet Gorilla, Rekrei will now be able maintain this worthwhile project.

ReclaimHistory.org will be the central hub where people can go to visit and learn more about the monuments that have been digitally recreated. The site will also be a place for anyone to come together and help recreate more monuments.

"This project is very personal to me. If we can use the power of technology to preserve and safeguard these cultural monuments lost over time through conflict and natural disasters, preserving them in one central site, it will hopefully be a gift for generations to come," said Corinna Falusi, Chief Creative Officer, Ogilvy New York.

Ogilvy New York

Chief Creative Officer: Corinna Falusi

Creative Directors: Bastien Baumann & Chris Rowson

Associate Creative Director: Rodrigo Moran

Senior Art Director: Lauren van Aswegen

Senior Copywriter: Chad Johnson

Chief Production Officer: Matt Bonin

Senior Executive Producer/Director: Akiko Nakashima

Design Director: Francesco Bertelli

UI Designer: Dallas Barnes

Creative Technology Director: Kaare Wesnaes

Strategy: Jeremy Wilson, Adam Kornblum, Molly Hoffman

Chief of staff: Alexander Banon

Production partner - Pet Gorilla

Rekrei

Cofounder: Chance Coughenour

Cofounder: Matthew Vincent

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