Tangible, embedded and embodied technologies can enrich cultural heritage sites. Their design requires a solid understanding of the specific site, the needs and interests of user communities and stakeholders. Here we investigate how the physical and socio-cultural context influence potential design solutions despite of a seemingly similar context: historic cemeteries.

The open terrestrial swathes are by far the most collaborative of spaces shared human beings as they partake spatial and temporal experience. Their experiential reality is shaped sensory experience rooted in physical plane existence, palpably elusive metaphysical. Cemeteries however hold a unique position not simply seeking out on earth, but also symbolize metaphysical experience; transcending ...

In western Europe, municipal or otherwise state-commissioned cemeteries and crematoria are public spaces services, open to all. Cemeteries grounds neglected in geographical, planning policy debates about the character, design, management, use accessibility of spaces, likewise social inclusion migrants minorities. This may reflect a tendency situate socially geographically peripheries contempora...

The invasive Asian bush mosquito Aedes japonicus japonicus was first recognised as established in Germany in 2008. In addition to the first known and quickly expanding population in the southwestern part of the country, three separate populations were discovered in West, North and southeastern Germany in 2012, 2013 and 2015, respectively, by means of the 'Mueckenatlas', a German instrument of p...