Igor Bajena is an architect specializing in the field of digital 3D reconstruction, documentation and visualization of cultural heritage. From August 2019 he is collaborating with the Architecture Institute of the University of Mainz (AI Mainz), where he was part of the projects ‘Digital reconstruction of the New Synagogue in Wroclaw’, ‘Mainz-Worms-Speyer. Three medieval cities in central Europe as linked data’ and ‘Digital Urban History Lab - Digital research laboratory for historical urban development’. In December 2020 he defended his master thesis entitled 'Fortress in the city. Connections between old town and fortress in Kłodzko city in Poland', winning a distinction in International Professor Jan Zachwatowicz ICOMOS Competition for the best university graduation works in the academic year 2019/20. Since November 2021 he is conducting PhD research on infrastructure for documentation and publication of 3D reconstruction of lost cultural heritage in the Architecture and Design Cultures course at the University of Bologna (XXXVII cycle) in cooperation with AI Mainz. He belongs to the community of the International PhD College of the Institute of Advanced Studies at University of Bologna and the Digital 3D-Reconstruction Working Group in the Digital Humanities in German-speaking Region Association. Currently he is also collaborating with the University of Jena, University of Applied Sciences in Mainz and The Saxon State and University Library Dresden in the project "DFG-Viewer 3D. Infrastructure for digital 3D reconstructions", where he is responsible for low-threshold requirements for the metadata for the web-based visualization, identification and description of the 3D models in the viewer and configuration of input masks for he minimal set of metadata.
