FronTowns

About the Project

Think big on small frontier towns: Alto Alentejo and Alta Extremadura leonesa (13th - 16th centuries)

The Frontowns project studies the small border towns between the Portuguese Alto Alentejo and the Leonese Alta Extremadura in the 13th to 16th centuries. The aim is to identify the role of these towns in the articulation of a border territory and in the relation with more distant spaces, exploring the links and flows that are established among them. The project also intends to reconstruct and study the evolution of the urban space of two of these towns, Castelo de Vide and Cáceres, using 3D modelling and animation. The project team is composed of experts from various fields, such as history, archaeology, art history, urbanism, and mathematical modelling. The project is funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology and has a duration of three and a half years, from 2021 to 2025. The project has an official website (https://frontowns.fcsh.unl.pt/), where one can find more information about the objectives, the team, the activities and the results of the project.

Acronym

FronTowns

Responsible

Leonel Morgado

Status

Concluded

Starting Date

January 20, 2021

Ending Date

January 19, 2025

Effective End Date

Global Budget

€188,159.00

Funding

€33,905.00

Website

Datasheet

Members

Team Leaders

Leonel Morgado

Research Coordinator

Team Members

António Coelho

Area Manager

Demetrius Lacet Silva

Leonel Morgado

Research Coordinator

Maria van Zeller

Assistant Researcher

Associated Centres

Human-Centered Computing and Information Science

The Centre for Human-Centered Computing and Information Science (HumanISE) brings together engineers, scientists, and designers with expertise in Human-Centred Computing (HCC), Computer Science (CS), and Information Science (IS). Interdisciplinarity, one of the Centre’s defining features, fosters the development of software systems, methods, and tools designed to empower individuals and their communities. The excellence and impact of HumanISE’s research, innovation, and consultancy activities allow addressing increasingly complex, volatile, heterogeneous, ambiguous, and uncertain challenges, while ensuring compliance with legal, ethical, and organisational standards and frameworks. Value transfer is achieved through close collaboration with academia and industry partners. HumanISE’s core research areas include Human-Computer Interaction; Computer Graphics and Interactive Digital Media; Information Management and Information Systems; Software Engineering; and Large-Scale and Special-Purpose Computing Systems, Languages, and Tools; as well as Computing for Embedded and Cyber-Physical Systems. HumanISE also explores innovation domains like Earth, Ocean and Space Sciences; Personalised Health Research; Geospatial Information Systems Engineering; and Applied Information Systems and Computing.