Exploring the Cultural Heritage Landscape in Web 3.0 Era Tourism

Considering the cultural tourism, landscape, heritage, technology, and design theory multi-discipline crossing my dissertation is conceived into main five parts: Question thinking up: introduce related research and program background, think up some opening questions regarding what landscape architects can do, facing the hybrid of technology and web, for cultural heritage tourism, and nowadays how we perceive our places. Then citing some classical theory of psychology, tourism, landscape, and heritage to be clear what is cultural heritage tourism. In the third part, by the foothold of “transparency” to discuss that architecture transparency links to the space transparency & media transparency, perception transparency, so discuss today’s involving technology: GIS, Locative media, Database, any other Sensors for ordering present trends of new media and peoples changing ways of life. And then, by old-new media comparison, also of perspective of “public place – itinerary – theme park”, analysis human being development history how to pass the distanced way of appreciate landscape. Lastly, propose today, striding into era of Web 3.0, how we consider to change or try another landscape perception to arouse our memory on cultural heritage, foreseeing the value of territory. This dissertation is on the background of program “HI+”, using ICT (information computer technology) for probing any possibilities for territory brand development between towns of “Settimo Torinese – Casale Monferrato” in Italy.