Programs
Source: https://haa.fas.harvard.edu/programs Parent: https://haa.fas.harvard.edu/undergraduate-program
### Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture
Harvard University\ 485 Broadway Level 4\ Cambridge, MA 02138\ p: 617.495.2355\ f: 617.496.8389\ agakhan@fas.harvard.edu
Established in 1979, the Aga Khan Programs for Islamic Architecture (AKPIA) at Harvard University and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are supported by endowments for instruction, research, and student aid from His Highness the Aga Khan. AKPIA is dedicated to the study of Islamic architecture, urbanism, visual culture, and conservation, in an effort to respond to the cultural and educational needs of a diverse constituency drawn from all over the world. Along with the focus on improving the teaching of Islamic art and architecture and setting a standard of excellence in professional research, AKPIA also continually strives to promote visibility of the pan-Islamic cultural heritage.
Harvard University\ 485 Broadway Level 5 \ Room 515\ Cambridge, MA 02138\ p: 617.496.1909\ camlab@fas.harvard.edu
Integrating humanistic inquiry with cutting-edge technology and design, CAMLab explores innovative, interdisciplinary ways of showcasing art and culture through immersive installations, exhibitions, films, digital publications, and other multimedia forms.\ \ CAMLab creates and curates forward-looking, experimental work that explores enduring questions of human consciousness. Using cutting-edge multimedia storytelling and multi-sensory technologies, we model cultural and historical experiences that engage and transport participants beyond the here and now, across the continuum of time and space. Guiding modern audiences through these immersive, imaginative spaces, we enable them to discover and access forms of knowledge that are otherwise impossible.
Harvard University\ 485 Broadway \ Cambridge, MA 02138\ mch_harvard@fas.harvard.edu
Mapping Color in History (MCH) is a digital research platform that enables interdisciplinary, collaborative research on colorants in Asian painting. MCH database compiles pigment analysis data from existing and on-going research on scientific analysis of colorants in Asian painting with a capacity to add new data through collaboration with research centers and institutions. The MCH project takes an object-based entry method for data collection instead of a pigment-based organization scheme taken in existing pigment databases and publications. A database ontology developed for the MCH captures the complex and multi-layered hierarchic relationship between different data points, which in turn allows mapping each pigment’s appearance geographically and historically.