University of Bari Aldo Moro is set to promote local culture in the metaverse using non-fungible tokens
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Italy’s Aldo Moro University has undertaken steps to promote and revive Puglia’s cultural heritage beyond the conventional ways, using the metaverse. Puglia is known for its whitewashed hill towns, centuries-old farmland, and hundreds of kilometres of Mediterranean coastline.
As a part of this initiative, the first ‘digital library of Italian culture’ will be created using non-fungible tokens (NFTs). The first step of this operation took place on May 26 in Bari, at the Santa Teresa Dei Maschi complex.
The event on May 26 concluded with the auctioning of the non-fungible tokens and the presentation of an NFT specimen to University Rector Stefano Bronzini as a symbolic protector of this beautiful region's physical and digital culture. This is the first time in the world that the most iconic cultural works of Puglia are set to be simultaneously digitised and brought into the NFT world.
The above initiative is accompanied by the Apulian Blockchange organised by the Aldo Moro University of Bari's Department of Humanities. It is the first university event in Italy to use blockchain, NFT, metaverse, virtual reality, and gamification technologies to protect the vulnerable Apulian territory and culture.