Usability of Visiting Routes in Heritage: The Case Study of Mercati di Traiano.

Large museums as services to the community, can be considered strategic facilities needing exploitation after the health emergency. Through optimising usability, some methodologies and tools taken from other building uses (hospitals, airports) for analysing users and flows seem effective in testing new spaces' uses. The case study of Mercati Traianei-Museo dei Fori Imperiali was investigated in two different periods and methods for comparing the impacting factors on usability and orientation of visiting routes.

The STAGE Platform: User Engagement of Older People Through Co-Design and Extended Access to Streamed Cultural Events.

This paper illustrates the aim, concept and scope of the STAGE project as a complementary way of exploiting leisure. This is achieved through accessing cultural events for the benefit of older users in addition to the standard direct participation. Older users could not always avail such events within reach, due to several reasons - mobility and family problem, lacking infrastructure and transportation, affordability.