• Shehade, M., Stylianou-Lambert, T., Kyriakou, P., Frangoudis, F., Pavlou, M. Papadas, S. and Neocleous, K., (forthcoming, 2024), Delving into Fairy Tales: Designing for digital interactions in a children’s museum. In: Liarokapis, F. Shehade, M., Aristidou A. Chrysanthou Y., (eds), Interactive media for cultural heritage, Springer.

Authors: Shehade, M., Stylianou-Lambert, T., Kyriakou, P., Frangoudis, F., Pavlou, M. Papadas, S. and Neocleous, K.

Abstract: With the rapid advancement of technology, children’s museums have integrated interactive installations to engage young visitors in immersive and ed-ucational experiences. The advantages of interactive installations lie in their abil-ity to cater to different learning styles and enhance children’s engagement with educational content. However, it is important to acknowledge the limitations and challenges that such interactive technologies can have in these settings. This chapter explores the design of two interactive installations in a children’s mu-seum, examining the advantages that can be achieved and also the challenges and limitations that can be addressed through a well-thought-out design process. By focusing on fairy tale museums, and through a real case example, the chapter explores how interactive technologies can foster fantasy, imagination and allow children to be transported in magic worlds. The chapter explores and analyses specific design considerations and principles that can be applied in order to har-ness the advantages of interactive installations while addressing their limitations and explains how these were applied in a fairy tale museum in Cyprus.

Publication Date: forthcoming 2024

• Papapetrou, A., Frangoudes, F., Polydorou, A., Papadas, S., Shehade, M., Kyriakou, N. and Neokleous, N. (forthcoming, 2024), ReInHeriting cultural heritage spaces: Two case studies for using interactive media applications in immersive performance design and practice. In: Liarokapis, F. Shehade, M., Aristidou A. Chrysanthou Y., (eds), Interactive media for cultural heritage, Springer.

Authors: Papapetrou, A., Frangoudes, F., Polydorou, A., Papadas, S., Shehade, M., Kyriakou, N. and Neokleous, N.

Abstract: Two interdisciplinary immersive performances were organised within the framework of ReInHerit, funded by Horizon 2020 (https://www.reinherit.eu), which is an international project focused on promoting a digital ecosystem connecting cultural heritage collections and sites, in order to present Europe’s tangible and intangible heritage to citizens and tourists in its wider historical and geographical contexts. The immersive performances will provide a template for collaborations for developing similar projects, which are shaped by cultural heritage sites and will in turn help to attract wider audiences to them. These were planned, developed and realised in parallel to the setup of a digital platform, in which all key stakeholders (museums, cultural heritage sites, policy makers, professionals and communities) have an open and collaborative space to experiment, share, cocreate and innovate. A diverse group of professionals joined forces to create this project, resulting in two interdisciplinary performances that invited audiences to take initiative in shaping their experience of them.

Publication Date: Forthcoming 2024

•  Heraclidou A & Stylianou-Lambert T. “Photographic Representations of Colonial Cyprus and the Ledra Palace Hotel” in Maria Hadjiathanasiou, Andreas Karyos, Emilios A. Solomou (eds) Cyprus: A Cultural History, 1878-1960, London: I.B. Tauris (2023)

Authors: Theopisti Stylianou-Lambert and Antigone Heraclidou

Abstract: This chapter explores the colonial history of a well-known, albeit overlooked building in the buffer zone in Cyprus: the Ledra Palace Hotel, an emblematic building with historical significance. From its establishment in 1949 until the end of the colonial period in Cyprus, it played a pivotal role in the development of a cosmopolitan and multicultural urban society in Cyprus. It also played an important role in the development of Cypriot art as it served as a main exhibition space. The chapter is divided into two main sections: The first section gives a brief history of the hotel and examines how and to what extend the hotel reflects the history of Cyprus, with a focus on the colonial period. The second section explores the way Cyprus was photographically represented during the colonial period from 1950-1960 – at the time the Ledra Palace hotel was at its prime. Cyprus at the time was mostly portrayed as a rural, romantic and relatively backward place. Indeed, travelling artists and writers, used to cast Cyprus as a primitive, premodern society, for the tendency was, for Cypriot modernity to be ignored. While ethnography, tourism and art excluded signs of modernity and focused on a rural and “authentic” image of Cyprus, everyday photography where Cypriots had control over the production of representations of the self, emphasized modernity. Indeed, the Ledra Palace of the 1950s splendidly depicts a modern image of the Cypriot society: one where ballroom dances, tea parties, art exhibitions, fashion shows, concerts academic lectures, business conferences and of course wedding parties were taking place.

Publication status: Accepted for publication – Forthcoming 2024

• Stylianou-Lambert, T. & Achilleos, A. (forthcoming, 2024). “The Archive of Unnamed Workers”. In Wooldridge, D. & Rajguru, R. (Eds.) Routledge Companion to Global Photographies, London, New York: Routledge.

• Stylianou-Lambert (2024). “Selecting Methodologies and Methods – Research Currents Interview: Theopisti Stylianou-Lambert”. In Love, A. R. & Randolph, D. (eds) An Introductory Guide to Qualitative Research in Art Museums. London, New York: Routledge, pp. 51-67.

• Shehade, M. and Stylianou-Lambert, T (2023), Presence, Museums and Immersive Technologies: An interdisciplinary exploration, in: Shehade, M. and Stylianou-Lambert, T., Eds. Museums and Technologies of Presence, Routledge, pp.9-29 .

Authors: Maria Shehade and Theopisti Stylianou-Lambert

Abstract: Recently there has been a re-articulation of the concept of presence, which has evolved into an important trend in the humanities. Despite the many cross-disciplinary endeavours to define what ‘presence’ is, it proves a rather elusive concept, with different conceptualisations of the term found across different disciplines.

In museum studies, presence is associated with the type of experience a visitor can have in a museum setting, in an attempt to find the balance between interpretation/meaning and embodiment/immersion in the museum space. The rapid advancement of technology and the turn towards immersive experiences in museums, however, has raised a set of new questions regarding the effects of technology on presence. The aim of this chapter is to provide a multidisciplinary discussion of the concept of presence and critically explore the different approaches to it to pinpoint the limitations and gaps in existing literature. The chapter explores the dichotomy between presence and meaning effects and the application of presence in museum environments with an emphasis on embodiment, affect, and atmosphere. It also investigates how presence is defined and studied in computer science. The ultimate aim of this chapter is to provide the theoretical basis for the exploration of the potential role of technologies as facilitators of presence in museums.

Available in Open Access: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-edit/10.4324/9781003334316-2/presence-museums-immersive-technologies-maria-shehade-theopisti-stylianou-lambert?context=ubx&refId=91eeed39-0ac7-42c7-b183-3729c4e7a485

Publication Date: 2023

• Stylianou-Lambert, T., Morris, C., Papantoniou, G. & Heraclidou, A. (2023). “Aphrodite’s Sisters”. In Bonaci, G. S. & Petroni, N. (eds) APS Mdina Cathedral Contemporary Art Biennale: Mediterranean Goddesses. Mdina: Mdina Biennale.
• Aristidou, M.; Stylianou-Lambert, T.; Neokleous, K. (2023) Curating the Future: Artists and other interdisciplinary contributors in media art as archivists. RE:SOURCE –10th International Conference on the Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology Proceedings [Forthcoming]
• Hovadik, J.; Aristidou, M.(2023) Cyprus Vital Signs – A journey to enchantment. RE:SOURCE –10th International Conference on the Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology Proceedings [Forthcoming]
• Aristidou, M.; Stylianou-Lambert, T.; Neokleous, K.; Yiakoupi, K. (2023) Curating the Future: Artists and other interdisciplinary contributors in media art as archivists. ISEA 2023 Conference Proceedings

•  Stylianou-Lambert, T. (2022). Tourists Photographic Self-representations. In D. Buhalis (ed), Encyclopedia of Tourism Management and Marketing. Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, pp.513-516.

Publication on: 25 Aug 2022

• Shehade, M. (2022). Developing international cultural relations through the negotiation of cultural property disputes: A sustainability perspective. In: Fouseki, K., Cassar M., Dreyfuss G. and Kah Eng K. (eds), Routledge Handbook on Sustainable Heritage. Routledge, UK, pp.169-180

Author: Maria Shehade

Abstract: A critical issue faced by many countries is the request for the return of cultural artefacts to their countries of origin. Such claims are pursued either through litigation or through alternative processes, with negotiation gaining more ground in recent years. Such negotiation initiatives, resulting in restitution agreements, could offer many advantages to the involved parties apart from resolving the dispute in question, such as the development and establishment of long-term international cultural relations (ICR) between the involved parties, which can constitute the basis for developing close ties in many other areas of interest.

This chapter aims to explore the potential of negotiated restitution agreements for establishing ICR, through the example of the Getty–Italy restitution agreement signed in 2007 and its aftermath. The chapter also highlights the potential that such resolution processes may have in the economic development of the involved parties, the physical sustainability and preservation of the contested heritage, the development of tourism initiatives, and the involvement of all interested stakeholders and the preconditions for achieving such benefits. Current research agendas on the interconnection of such negotiation initiatives with cultural diplomacy and soft power are also discussed, emphasising the major impact that negotiated restitution agreements can have on several sustainable development goals.

Published on: 2022

• Heraclidou, A. & Stylianou-Lambert, T. (2022). The Ledra Palace Hotel and the ‘difficult history’ of modern Cyprus. Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies. 47(1), 103-122.

• Bounia, A., Nicolaou, P. & Stylianou-Lambert, T. (2021). Contested perceptions of Archaeological Sites in Cyprus: Communities and their Claims on their Past. In E. Solomon, Contested Antiquity: Archaeological Heritage and Social Conflict in Modern Greece and Cyprus”. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, pp. 108-130.

Authors: Alexandra Bounia, Polina Nikolaou, Theopisti Stylianoy-Lambert

Publication Date: 2021

• Shehade, M. & Stylianou-Lambert, T. (2021). Η Εικονική Πραγματικότητα μέσα απο τα μάτια των επαγγελματιών του μουσείου: Πλεονεκτήματα, προκλήσεις και προοπτικές (Virtual reality through the eyes of museum professionals: advantages, challenges and prospects) [in Greek]. In: Bounia, A. & Catapoti, D. (eds.), Αναδυόμενες Τεχνολογίες και Πολιτιστική Κληρονομιά (Emerging Technologies and Cultural Heritage) [in Greek]. Alexandreia Publishing, pp. 129-150

Authors: Maria Shehade and Theopisti Stylianou-Lambert

Publication Date: 2021

• Shehade, M. (2021). Τα μάρμαρα και οι «άλλοι»: Ο επαναπατρισμός αρχαιοτήτων ως βασική έκφανση της ελληνικής πολιτιστικής διπλωματίας (The marbles and the ‘others’: Antiquities repatriation as a basic aspect of Greek cultural diplomacy). In: Kizlari, D. and Shehade, M. (eds).Ελληνική Πολιτιστική Διπλωματία Σύγχρονες Προσεγγίσεις – Μελλοντικές Προκλήσεις (Greek Cultural Diplomacy: Current Approaches- Future Challenges) [in Greek]. Epikentro Publishing, pp.123-140

Authors: Maria Shehade

Publication date: 2021

• Kizlari, D. and Shehade, M. (2021). Βασικές έννοιες της πολιτιστικής διπλωματίας και χαρτογράφηση της ελληνικής πραγματικότητας (Basic concepts of cultural diplomacy and mapping of the Greek reality). [in Greek] In: Kizlari, D. and Shehade, M. (eds). Ελληνική Πολιτιστική Διπλωματία Σύγχρονες Προσεγγίσεις – Μελλοντικές Προκλήσεις (Greek Cultural Diplomacy: Current Approaches- Future Challenges) [in Greek]. Epikentro Publishing, pp.17-36

Authors: Dimitra Kizlari and Maria Shehade

Publication Date: 2021

• Heraclidou, A., (2021) Mirroring History in Ledra Palace Hotel. In: Stylianou-Lambert Theopisti, Loizou-Hadjigavriel Loukia and Heraclidou Antigone (eds), Ledra Palace Hotel: Dancing on the line/ Λήδρα Πάλας: Χορεύοντας σε μια γραμμή

Authors: Antigone Heraclidou

Published Date: 2021

• Aristidou, M.; Stylianou-Lambert, T. (2021) From the artist’s perspective: on the longevity of VR/AR artworks. in Art, Museums and Digital Cultures →Rethinking Change. IHA/NOVA FCSH & maat. ISBN: 978-989-54405-4-2 Add to Citavi project by ISBN Add to Citavi project by ISBN

• Shehade, M. & Stylianou-Lambert, T. (2020). Exploring the challenges of interactive technologies in museum spaces. Proceedings of the conference “Free and Open Source Technologies, Arts and Commoning Practices: An Unconference about Art, Design, Technology, Making, Cities and their Communities.” pp. 103-109. (ISBN 978-9963-711-88-8)

Authors: Maria Shehade and Theopisti Stylianou-Lambert

Published Date: 2020

• Heraclidou H. and Stylianou-Lambert T. (2020) Dealing with Difficult history: the ‘Ledra Palace’ project. Proceedings of the conference “Free and Open Source Technologies, Arts and Commoning Practices: An Unconference about Art, Design, Technology, Making, Cities and their Communities.”

Authors: Heraclidou H. and Stylianou-Lambert T

Published Date: 2020

• Shehade, M. & Stylianou-Lambert, T. (2019). The Future of Technology in Museums. In Smeds, K. (Ed.). The Future of Tradition in Museology: Materials for a discussion (pp.153-158). Paris: ICOFOM

Authors: Maria Shehade and Theopisti Stylianou-Lambert

Publication Date: 2019