Un percorso di digitalizzazione "multilivello" per l'ex Istituto di Farmacologia e Patologia Generale di Messina e il suo ornato in pietra artificiale. Le tappe per una fruizione informativa della conoscenza

Digitalisation is a topic towards which both the scientific community and the professional sphere are ori-enting their activities, also by virtue of international and national strategies that promote its adoption. The reason is the opportunity to optimise resources and processes; in this statement it is impossible not to grasp a potential contribution to the paradigm of sustainability. The latest report on the achievement of the 2030 Agenda objectives highlights actions still to be made for Goal 11 Sustainable cities and communities whose target 4 encourages to “strengthen efforts to protect and safeguard the world’s cultural and natural heritage”. The question to ask is whether digitalisation can sup-port the protection of Cultural Heritage, a moral duty towards both the generations that delivered it to us and the future ones to which we will not have to deny the right to use it, recalling the very definition of sustainability. In light of these reflections, a study was undertaken on the former Institute of Pharmacology and General Pathology of the University of Messina, now Department of Political Sciences, which with its artificial stone ornaments is representative of a technique widely used for the reconstruction of the city after the earthquake of 1908, also in other academic buildings. This research made possible to propose an operative approach based on digital technology to promote knowledge and enhancement. The digitalisation process was defined, in this context, as “multilevel” to recall the complexity of the Cul-tural Heritage: a multivalue, multiscalar and multidisciplinary resource. Four stages were identified, each with a digital solution. The first two concerned the efforts to acquire knowledge about the building and the decorative apparatus through archival research, survey and operative investigations and were deepened in a related paper . Such information was preliminary to the next two stages now presented, in which knowledge was returned by evaluating the contribution of the BIM and GIS methodology, the latter bringing together all the experiences of digitalisation.