OUR Shurijo : Shurijo Castle Digital Reconstruction with People's memories

Abstract

A fire destroyed the Shuri Castle, an icon of Okinawan culture in Japan on October 31, 2019. I launched a project with a group of people who gathered on social media aiming to collect photographs and videos of the castle along with the memories from the public, and to digitally reconstruct 3D models of the castle so that they can be used as alternative touristic resources. The data has been collected through a website, and more than 80,000 images from 35 countries and regions have been received from about 3,000 unique contributors, half of whom sent their memories.