From Silk to Digital Technologies: A Gateway to New Opportunities for Creative Industries, Traditional Crafts and Designers. The SILKNOW Case

• Main Authors: Ester Alba Pagán, María del Mar Gaitán Salvatella, María Dolores Pitarch, Arabella León Muñoz, María del Mar Moya Toledo, José Marin Ruiz, Maurizio Vitella, Georgia Lo Cicero, Franz Rottensteiner, Dominic Clermont, Mareike Dorozynski, Dennis Wittich, Pierre Vernus, Marie Puren
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI AG 2020-10-01
• Series: Sustainability
• Subjects: silk; cultural heritage; sustainability; culture creative; innovation; design
• Online Access: https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/12/19/8279

Nowadays, cultural heritage is more than ever linked to the present. It links us to our cultural past through the conscious act of preserving and bequeathing to future generations, turning society into its custodian. The appreciation of cultural heritage happens not only because of its communicative power, but also because of its economic power, through sustainable development and the promotion of creative industries. This paper presents SILKNOW, an EU-H2002 funded project and its application to cultural heritage, as well as to creative industries and design innovation. To this end, it presents the use of image recognition tools applied to cultural heritage, through the interoperability of data in the open-access registers of silk museums and its presentation, analysis and creative process carried out by the design students of EASD Valencia as a case study, in the branches of jewellery and fashion project, inspired by the heritage of silk.