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2 May 2013
PUBLISHER:
Universitat Politècnica de
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Gender perspectives in case studies
across continents
Editors: Gloria Bonder y Brenda Gael
McSweeney
Year: 2013
This volume also features a Foreword authored by Saniye Gülser Corat, Director of the
UNESCO Division for Gender Equality. She
is “convinced that the case studies included in
this E-Book will help us understand different
realities and challenges better and provide us
with the possibility to formulate reality based
policies and initiatives.” Promoting Gender
Equality is an overarching priority of the
Organization through 2021.
The volume's eight essays illustrate the breadth
and diversity of the issues that affect the lives
and status of women in communities across the
world.
+ info: http://goo.gl/31btQ
Archaeological Heritage
News
Agenda
Publications
Mythical ‘Gate to Hell’ uncovered in Turkey
Archaeologists reportedly have uncovered the cave believed to be Pluto’s Gate, the
mythological portal to hell, in the ancient city of Hierapolis in southern Turkey.
The site was located among ruins in the area, Italian archaeologists said, according to a
report on Discovery.com. Hierapolis is now known as Pamukkale.
Pluto’s Gate was celebrated as the portal to the underworld in Greco-Roman mythology.
Pluto was the Greek god of the underworld.
The find was made by a team that was led by Francesco D’Andria, a professor of classic
archaeology at the University of Salento…
+ info: http://www.whas11.com/news/national/Mythical-Gate-to-Hell-uncovered-in-Turkey-201551431.html
Mission archéologique Monaco - Mongolie
Etude d'un site archéologique de la fin de l'âge du Bronze et du début de
l'âge du Fer situé au centre de la Mongolie dans la province de
l'Arkhangaï. Ce site est composé d'une nécropole, d'un site d'art
rupestre et d'une trentaine de stèles ornées. Tous les ans une mission
est organisée avec l'Institut d'Archéologie de l'Académie des Sciences de
Mongolie sur ce terrain.
Etude des gravures du site du Mont Bego, Vallées des Merveilles et de Fontanalbe.
+ info: http://archeo-steppe.com
Germán Delibes de Castro, Premio Castilla y León de Restauración y Conservación del
Patrimonio 2012
Germán Delibes de Castro ha obtenido el Premio Castilla y León de Restauración y Conservación del
Patrimonio, en su edición correspondiente a 2012. El jurado ha acordado, por unanimidad conceder este
galardón a Germán Delibes de Castro por su labor investigadora y docente que ha contribuido a
desarrollar la arqueología de Castilla y León. Germán Delibes constituye una referencia nacional e
internacional en el ámbito de la arqueología, a la vez que ha propiciado la formación y consolidación de
una generación de profesionales de primera magnitud y ha contribuido intensamente a la divulgación de
los valores culturales y patrimoniales en la sociedad…
+ info: http://www.noticiascastillayleon.com/noticia/German-Delibes-de-Castro-Premio-Castilla-y-Leon-de-Restauracion-yConservacion-del-Patrimonio-2012/38903/3
Luis Gonzalo Jaramillo Echeverri elegido representante de universidades para el
Consejo Nacional de Patrimonio
El Ministerio de Cultura adelantó la convocatoria para elegir al representante de las universidades
al Consejo Nacional de Patrimonio Cultural, dando así cumplimiento al Decreto 3322 del 5 de
septiembre de 2008, el cual modificó el artículo 3º del Decreto 1313 del 23 de abril de 2008. El
candidato elegido por los rectores de las universidades que propusieron candidatos fue, por
mayoría de votos, el doctor Luis Gonzalo Jaramillo Echeverri de la Universidad de Los Andes.
El doctor Jaramillo Echeverri es antropólogo de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Magíster
Antropología y Doctor en Arqueología de la Universidad de Pittsburgh, Estados Unidos. Es docente del Departamento de
Antropología de la Universidad de los Andes desde el año 2004. Fue profesor de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia, sede
Bogotá, y de la Universidad de Caldas en Manizales. Asimismo, fue jefe de la División de Arqueología y Parques
Arqueológicos del Instituto Colombiano de Antropología e Historia, ICANH.
+ info: http://www.notillano.com/index.php/vida-hoy/cultura/55-cultura/17850-elegido-representante-de-universidades-
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AIA Best Practices in Site Preservation Award - Deadline: 1 May 2013
Established in 2011, this annual honor is awarded to groups or projects recognized by their peers for doing exemplary work
in the field of site preservation and conservation. Each year the Institute selects a project that exemplifies the mission of
AIA’s Site Preservation Program and presents it with an award of $5,000 for furthering their activities and programs.
Nominations for this award must be submitted to AIA's Site Preservation Program. Nomination deadline May 1.
For further information, contact the Site Preservation Program Administrator at [email protected].
+ info: http://www.archaeological.org/sitepreservation/award
11th Expert Working Group releases recommendations for
Safeguarding the Bamiyan Valley, Afghanistan
A group of Afghan and international experts working on the safeguarding of
Bamiyan (Afghanistan), as well as representatives of the Afghan and Japanese
governments and UNESCO, recently released a list of recommendations for
further activities to preserve the Bamiyan site. The 11th Expert Working Group
meeting for the safeguarding of the cultural landscape and archaeological
remains of the Bamiyan Valley World Heritage property was successfully held in
Aachen, Germany from 10 to 12 December 2012, in close collaboration with the Aachen University (RWTH), Germany, and
the Afghanistan authorities…
+ info: http://whc.unesco.org/en/news/998
Opportunity to Support the Protection of Chinese Cultural Heritage
From May 14 to May 17, 2013, the State Department's Cultural Property Advisory Committee
(CPAC) will meet to discuss the possible renewal of the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU)
with the Government of the People’s Republic of China by which the United States would continue
to help preserve this country’s rich archaeological heritage through import restrictions on cultural
materials and artifacts from China.
The looting of sites damages archaeological contexts, hampering archaeologists' study of ancient
remains and distorting our reconstruction of the past. Because our understanding of the past is
dependent on our ability to recover, study, and interpret ancient sites and artifacts in their original context, the preservation
of sites is critical to the creation of archaeological knowledge, as well as to the maintenance of cultural heritage. A
commitment to stopping the import of looted cultural material will help to prevent the destruction of the archaeological
record.
Public comments are an important statement of support for the MoUs. If you would like to submit your comments to the
Committee, you can do so by sending them electronically through the Federal eRulemaking Portal. Comments must be
received no later than April 23, 2013 in order to be considered.
+ info: http://www.archaeological.org/CPAC
Kimbell Announces Acquisition of Two Major Maya Sculptures - Fort Worth - Texas - USA
On April 12, 2013, the Kimbell Art Museum announced the acquisition of two rare Maya Palenquestyle ceramic censer stands. Typical of the Maya late Classic period (A.D. 600–900) and dated to
about A.D. 690–720, Censer Stand with the Head of the Jaguar God of the Underworld and Censer
Stand with the Head of a Supernatural Being with a Kan Cross will be on view in the Museum’s
north galleries on Sunday, April 21st. Admission is always free to view works in the Kimbell’s
permanent collection.
Palenque-style ceramic censer stands (incensarios) are among the largest and most sophisticated
freestanding sculptures created by Maya artists. There are very few in either public or private collections in the U.S.
Measuring nearly four feet tall, the Kimbell censer stands are exceptional for their remarkable condition and superb quality of
execution…
+ info: https://www.kimbellart.org/collections/recent-acquisitions/maya-censers
Ancient undersea stone structure was made by man; what was it?
Archaeologists in Israel have discovered a mysterious stone monument weighing 60,000 tons and
rising 32 feet above the bottom of the Sea of Galilee.
Scientists don't know who built the structure, or why, but in a recent paper in the International
Journal of Nautical Archaeology the researchers shared a few hypotheses before concluding that
further study is needed.
The mystery rock pile was first discovered in 2003 during a sonar survey of the bottom of the
southwestern part of the sea. The sonar revealed a pile of boulders arranged in a circular shape,
lying on the sea floor…
+ info: http://www.latimes.com/news/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-mystery-monument-found-on-the-sea-floor20130412,0,2957527.story?track=rss
Djehuty Project discovers significant evidence of the 17th Dynasty of Ancient Egypt
The Djehuty Project, led by the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), has discovered on the hill of Dra Abu el-Naga in
Luxor (ancient Thebes), the burials of four personages belonging to the elite of the 17th Dynasty of Ancient Egypt, who lived
about 3.550 years ago. These findings, discovered during the 12th campaign of archeological excavations of the project,
shed light on a little-known historical period in which Thebes becomes the capital of the kingdom and the empire's
foundations become established with the dominance of Egypt over Palestine and Syria to the north, and over Nubia to the
south…
+ info: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-04/snrc-dpd040513.php
Fouilles au Clémentinum de Prague : découverte des vestiges d'un monastère du
13e siècle - République Tchèque
Des restes de murs, prouvant l'existence d'un monastère dominicain du 13e siècle, ont été
découverts par des archéologues tchèques au cours de leurs fouilles au Clémentinum à
Prague. Le Clémentinum, ancien collège de Jésuites situé au coeur de la veille ville, abrite
aujourd'hui la bibliothèque nationale tchèque.
Ces recherches archéologiques s'inscrivent dans l'entreprise de restauration du Clémentinum
qui a débuté il y a déjà plusieurs années. Cet hiver, les fouilles se sont concentrées sur le
sous-sol de l'aile ouest et dans le sous-sol des voies reliant deux cours de l'ancien collège de Jésuites.
+ info: http://www.bulletins-electroniques.com/actualites/72794.htm
Stone Age Kids Learned by Doing
Archaeologist Sigrid Alræk Dugstad of the University of Stavanger thinks that a discarded flake ax
found at the Mesolithic site of Hundvåg in southwestern Norway was probably made by a child. “Given
the numerous and characteristic failed strokes, it is also probable that the beginner had not received
any form of direct instructions on how to proceed in manufacturing the tool. Maybe the purpose was to
practice the technique in itself rather than produce a finished tool,” she said. Children probably
acquired knowledge and skills working and playing alongside their parents and other adults in the
settlement, she added.
+ info: http://phys.org/news/2013-04-flair-imperfections.html
Hominid Traits Suggested for A. ramidus Skull
The skull base of 4.4 million-year-old Ardipithecus ramidus was short and broad, with a forward-placed
opening for the spinal cord, according to a reconstruction of a partial skull base by William Kimbel of
Arizona State University. Such features are exclusive to hominids and modern humans. This skull was
discovered in 1994, before Ardi, the partial skeleton of an adult female, was first described in 2009. A
new analysis of Ardi’s pelvis, which has a mix of monkey, ape, and hominid characteristics, further
suggests that Ardipithecus ramidus probably had a slow, two-legged gait on the ground, in addition to
tree-climbing abilities.
+ info: http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/349661/description/Ardis_kind_had_a_skull_fit_for_a_hominid
New Thoughts on Easter Island’s Birdman Cult
Archaeologist Mike Pitts and scientists from the University of Southampton used digital imaging technology to
record and analyze the carvings on the surface of the Hoa Hakananai’a statue from Easter Island, which is
housed at the British Museum. This particular statue is thought to have been created around A.D. 1200 A.D.,
and then moved to a stone hut and intricately carved with motifs around 1600, at a time when the religious
beliefs of the Rapa Nui were shifting to the cult of the birdman. “The Hoa Hakananai’a statue has rarely been
studied at first hand by archaeologists, but developments in digital imaging technology have now allowed us to
examine it in unprecedented detail,” said Graeme Earl of the university’s Archaeological Computing Research
Group.
+ info: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/04/130411075615.htm
Rock Art, Burials Found in Sumatra’s Harimau Cave
The 3,000-year-old burials of 66 people, in addition to chicken, dog, and pig bones, have
been found in Sumatra’s Harimau Cave by Truman Simanjuntak of Indonesia’s National
Research and Development Center for Archaeology. “It means that this cave was occupied
intensely by humans and they continued to occupy it for a very, very long time,” he said.
The cave also contains the first rock art to be discovered in Sumatra. “Up to now we have
encountered up to 50 caves in the area and most of the caves contain archaeological
evidence,” Simanjuntak added. Scientists from Australia’s University of Wollongong will join
the National Research and Development Center for Archaeology in the continued study of Harimau Cave.
+ info: http://www.illawarramercury.com.au/story/1423599/art-bodies-found-in-ancient-caves/?cs=300
Homes of Scottish Squatters Will Be Excavated
Jeff Oliver of Aberdeen University plans to investigate the site of the Bennachie colony, where a
community of some 55 squatters lived and farmed on public lands in the early nineteenth
century. Local landowners went to court in 1859 and had the property divided so that they
could collect rents. Members of the Bennachie colony were portrayed as immoral and backward;
they were eventually evicted and their homes destroyed. “We are hoping the archaeology will
provide them with something of a voice,” said Oliver.
+ info: http://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/heritage/aberdeen-university-mount-bennachiecolonists-dig-1-2894995
Students Excavate Boston & Maine Train Depot
Students are excavating the site of a train depot that once stood on the campus of the
University of New Hampshire. When the campus opened in 1893, the Boston & Maine
Railroad split the campus in half. In 1905, a derailment injured 11 passengers and
prompted a change in the route. The students have unearthed coal, slag, off-slag, bricks,
wood, ceramics, nails, and glass. “It is interesting to find history in our own backyard,” said
mechanical engineering student Emily Hutchinson.
+ info: http://www.archaeology.org/news/790-130416-new-hampshire-train-depot-boston-maine-rr
Roman Fresco Found Beneath Nineteenth-Century Painting
The imaging technology used in airport security scanners has detected a previously unknown ancient Roman
image beneath a nineteenth-century fresco in the collection at the Louvre Museum. “We could not believe our
eyes as the image materialized on the screen. Underneath the top painting of the folds of a man’s tunic, we
saw an eye, a nose, and then a mouth appear. We were seeing what likely was part of an ancient Roman
fresco, thousands of years old,” said J. Bianca Jackson of the University of Rochester. The technology is now
being applied to other ancient works of art.
Counting on the Maya Calendar
Archaeologist Douglas Kennett of Pennsylvania State University and his colleagues decided to retest a lintel from
the Maya site of Tikal to see if new technology would uphold previous studies of the Maya Long Count Calendar. In
1905, scholars developed a conversion formula to correlate the Maya calendar and the European calendar. The
formula is based upon astronomical data and a few historical texts, but because the Long Count calendar fell out of
use before the arrival of the Spanish, not much information was available to work with. In 1960, scientists
obtained radiocarbon dates from two wooden lintels carved with dates and historical information at the Maya site
of Tikal. Their results were in line with the European date obtained with the conversion formula. Kennett’s new
radiocarbon dates and analysis of the lintel’s tree rings confirm the earlier work. “These events and those recorded at cities
throughout the Maya lowlands can now be harmonized with greater assurance to other environmental, climatic, and
archaeological datasets,” the team wrote.
+ info: http://www.archaeology.org/news/783-130412-maya-long-count-calendar-radiocarbon-dating
Did Humans Spring From Australopithecus sediba?
A collection of papers published in the current issue of Science represents the most complete investigation of
Australopithecus sediba fossils to date. Discovered in 2008 in South Africa, scientists think that the twomillion-year-old hominin may be the oldest direct ancestor of the human lineage. Its long, apelike arms and
shoulder blades would have been good for climbing, and its fingers would have been capable of powerful
grips. But Australopithecus sediba fingers may also have been able to make and use tools, although no tools
associated with the fossils have been found so far. Its legs, trunk, and lower back suggest that
Australopithecus sediba was able to climb trees and walk with a primitive, pigeon-toed gait. “These skeletons
are just interesting, wonderful blends of characteristics,” said evolutionary anthropologist Steven Churchill of Duke
University.
+ info: http://www.livescience.com/28656-closest-human-ancestor-was-pigeon-toed.html
Stonehenge 5,000 Years Older Than Thought
Excavation near Stonehenge found evidence of a settlement dating back to 7,500 BC,
revealing the site was occupied some 5,000 years earlier than previously thought.
Working at Vespasian’s Camp in Amesbury, Wiltshire, less than a mile from the megalithic
stones, a team led by archaeologist David Jacques of the Open University unearthed material
which contradicted the general belief that no people settled there until as late as 2,500 BC.
Indeed, carbon dating of the material revealed the existence of a semi-permanent settlement
which was occupied from 7,500 to 4,700 BC. The dating showed that people were present
during every millennium in between.
+ info: http://news.discovery.com/history/archaeology/stonehenge-settled-5000-years-earlier-than-thought-13041.htm
Mexican Temple Discovery Hints At Ancient Human Sacrifice
A newly discovered temple complex in the Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico, reveals
hints of a specialized hierarchy of priests — who may have committed human
sacrifice.
The evidence of such sacrifice is far from conclusive, but researchers did
uncover a human tooth and part of what may be a human limb bone from a
temple room scattered with animal sacrifice remains and obsidian blades. The
temple dates back to 300 B.C. or so, when it was in use by the Zapotec
civilization of what is now Oaxaca…
+ info: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/23/mexico-temple-discovery-human-sacrifice_n_3140287.html?
utm_hp_ref=science
Mexican archaeologists study cave paintings found in the northeast part of Argentina
A hill in the northeast part of Argentina that holds various cave paintings, which was
considered to be a sacred place before the Incan conquest of the region in the XV century,
was identified by Mexican investigator Luis Alberto Martos Lopez from the National Institute of
Anthropology and History (INAH), as part of an archaeological salvage. The exploration of this
space is within a much wider project destined to the excavation and restoration of the Incan
site known as Potrero de Payogasta, in the wide and contrasting Valle Calchaquí, in Argentina;
this is an initiative which has been supported by the Cultural Patrimony of the Salta province.
Also, this Project is funded by the National Geographic Society…
+ info: http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=62162#.UXpvBMqU_Z5
Space archaeologists want artifacts preserved
When it comes to preserving history, a group of archaeologists and historians are hoping to
boldly go where no archaeologist has gone before.
Researchers are increasingly urging humanity to protect off-Earth cultural resources. That may
well mean preserving NASA's Apollo landing sites on the moon as national historic landmarks,
regarding far-flung spacecraft as mobile artifacts and even working to preserve some pieces of
space junk.
"The cultural landscape of space includes both sites and objects on and off Earth," said Beth
O'Leary, an associate professor of anthropology at the University of New Mexico in Las Cruces. "It is necessary to evaluate
the significance of the latter and treat them as important objects and places worthy of legitimate archaeological inquiry."
+ info: http://science.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/04/23/17880123-space-archaeologists-want-artifacts-preserved?lite
Agenda
Exhibition: Life and Death : Pompeii and Herculanum
28 March - 29 September 2013 London. United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Organizers: The British Museum
Contact: [email protected]
+ info: http://www.britishmuseum.org/whats_on/exhibitions/pompeii_and_herculaneum.aspx
Exhibition: El Sexe a l'epoca romana
11 April - 30 June 2013 Barcelona, Catalunya. Spain
Organizers: Museo de Badalona
+ info: http://www.museudebadalona.cat/exposicio.php?id=41
31st Annual Maya Weekend
19 - 20 April 2013 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. United States of America
Organizers: Penn Museum
+ info: http://www.penn.museum/events-calendar/details/1034-Maya-Weekend-2013.html
1st International Congress on History of Art and Archaeology. The Empire and the Hispaniae from Trajan to
Charles V: Classicism and Power in Spanish Art
13 - 14 May 2013 Bologna. Italy
Organizers: The Royal College of Spain in Bologna, in collaboration with the Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna
+ info: http://www.congresoartebolonia.com/#!__eng
10th International Conference on Archaeological Prospection 2013
29 May - 02 June 2013 Vienna. Austria
Organizers: Austrian Academy of Sciences, the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Archaeological Prospection and Virtual
Archaeology and the Vienna Institute for Archaeological Science – University of Vienna.
DEADLINE: 31 oct 2012
+ info: http://ap2013.univie.ac.at/
1st International School on the Characterization of Archaeological and Historical Mortars and Plasters.
Archaeology, Archaeometry and Conservation (1st-ISCARM)
03 - 07 June 2013 Calabria. Italy
Organizers: The DiBEST (Dipartimento di Biologia, Ecologia e Scienze della Terra, Calabria University, Italy under the
patronage of: Associazione italiana di Archeometria
DEADLINE: 30 abr 2013
+ info: http://www.smfn.unical.it/iscarm/
XIV UNIVERSEUM Meeting “University heritage today: Beyond public engagement?”
06 - 08 June 2013 Valencia. Spain
Organizers: The European Academic Heritage Network UNIVERSEUM and The López Piñero Institute for the History of
Medicine and Science (Universitat de València – CSIC)
DEADLINE: 28 feb 2013
+ info: http://www.universeum.it/valencia2013/
XI Forum International of Sudies "Le Vie dei Mercanti"
13 - 15 June 2013 Aversa & Capri. Italy
Organizers: Second University of Naples and BENECON SCaRL
DEADLINE: 7 ene 2013
+ info: http://www.leviedeimercanti.it/2013eng
Posted by FUUH member: Ciambrone, Alessandro
Annual Symposium on Medieval and Renaissance Studies
17 - 19 June 2013 Saint Louis, Missouri. United States of America
Organizers: Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at Saint Louis University
DEADLINE: 15 dic 2012
+ info: http://www.slu.edu/x19540.xml
Course: Maritime Archaeology
08 - 12 July 2013 Bournemouth. United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Organizers: Bournemouth University, United Kingdom
+ info: http://courses.bournemouth.ac.uk/courses/training-course/maritime-archaeology/short-course/3980/
InART’13 - 1st International Conference on Innovation in Art Research and Technology
10 - 13 July 2013 Évora. Portugal
Organizers: Centro HERCULES, Evora University; REQUIMTE, Faculty of Sciences and Technology, Nova University, Lisbon,
Portugal; Laboratory of Scientific Investigation and Cultural Heritage Conservation, ARHEOINVEST Platform, Alexandru Ioan
Cuza University of Iasi, Romania & Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisbon, Portugal
+ info: http://www.inart2013conference.uevora.pt
Congrès européen des archéologues
Septembre 2013- Pilsen. Czech Republic
Organizers: Université de Pilsen en collaboration avec l'Association européenne des archéologues
14th International Meeting on Geological and Mining Inheritance
12 - 15 September 2013 Piedrasblancas, Asturias. Spain
Organizers: La Sociedad Española para la Defensa del Patrimonio Geológico y Minero (SEDPGYM) en colaboración con el
Ayuntamiento de Castrillón y el Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas
DEADLINE: 30 jul 2013
+ info: http://www.sedpgym.es/
Posted by FUUH member: AMARÉ TAFALLA, María Pilar
Metals Working Group triennial meeting
16 - 20 September 2013 Edinburgh, Scotland. United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Organizers: ICOM-CC
+ info: http://www.metal2013.org/
Coloquio internacional "El patrimonio desde las Ciencias sociales y las Humanidades"
25 - 27 September 2013 San Luis Potosí. Mexico
Organizers: El Colegio de San Luis, A.C.
+ info: http://www.colsan.edu.mx/investigacion/historia/patrimonio/default.html
Cemetery Preservation Summit
08 - 10 October 2013 Niagara Falls, New York. United States of America
Organizers: The National Center for Preservation Technology and Training (NCPTT), United States
Contact: Jason Church - [email protected]
DEADLINE: 6 may 2013
+ info: http://ncptt.nps.gov/call-for-presentations-international-cemetery-preservation-summit/
2014
Call for Papers - 47th Conference on Historical and Underwater Archaeology (SHA 2014)
07 - 12 January 2014 Quebec. Canada
Organizers: Society for Historical Archaeology
Contact: [email protected] or [email protected]
DEADLINE: 10 jun 2013
+ info: http://sha2014.com/index.html
40th International Symposium on Archaeometry (ISA)
19 - 23 May 2014 Los Angeles. United States of America
Organizers: The Getty Conservation Institute (GCI) and the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), United States
+ info: http://www.archaeometry2014.com/
IIC 2014: An Unbroken History: Conserving East Asian Works of Art and Heritage
22 - 26 September 2014 Hong Kong. China
Organizers: International Institute for conservation of historic and artistic works (ICC)
+ info: http://www.lcsd.gov.hk/CE/Museum/Conservation/eng/iic/congress.htm
Publications
La conservación del patrimonio cultural en Costa Rica
Editor: Aracne - Roma (Italia)
ISBN: 978-88-548-5880-0
Year: 2013
El libro La conservación del patrimonio cultural en Costa Rica tiene como finalidad el ilustrar parte de la
cultura de la conservación de los bienes materiales e inmateriales en Costa Rica con particular atención a
diferentes experiencias y metodos de investigación que, en los últimos años han valorado el proceso de
conocimiento de los bienes de la coletividad.
El libro se divide en seis partes: Teoría sobre la restauración, Normas y leyes para la conservacion del patrimonio, Paisaje en
el abordaje y gestión del patrimonio, Patrimonio arqueológico, Patrimonio inmaterial y Restauración del patrimonio
construido.
Las diferentes contribuciones permiten reflexionar sobre el rol del conocimiento para intervenir y valorar el Patrimonio
Cultural de un país con la finalidad de respetar, dentro un proyecto de consevación integrada, la identidad específica de los
pueblos, sus tradiciones y sobre todo sus diferentes valores históricos, simbólicos, sociales y políticos.
+ info: http://www.aracneeditrice.it/aracneweb/index.php/catalogo/area/areascientifica/ingegneria-civile-earchitettura/9788854858800-detail.html
Special Viewpoint for the Most Beautiful Landscape of Angkor Wat Site (Cambodia)
1st Edition in Khmer and in English (30 pages)
Found and Prepared by: Mr. HASH Chanly (M.Sc. Engineer, Architect and Urban Planner)
ISBN-13: 978-99963-559-0-5
Year: 2010
This book will give you fascinating insights into the concept of great Khmer ancestors who have
built Angkor Wat Temple during the glorious period of Angkorian Era of Khmer Empire. The book
was bilingually written in Khmer and in English.
This Great New Finding focuses on the view points and the landscapes of Angkor Wat Temple and Angkor Wat Site. Great
Khmer Temple of Angkor Wat was listed as the World Heritage by UNESCO in 1992. By this Great New Finding, Angkor Wat
Temple will be shown more its overwhelming greatness to the whole world.
+ info: http://chanlyhash.wordpress.com/2012/09/10/great-new-finding-special-view-point-for-the-most-beautifullandscape-of-angkor-wat-site/
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Cultural Policy Research Award: 2013 Call for applications now open! deadline
Friday 31 May 2013
The Cultural Policy Research Award was launched in 2004 by the European Cultural
Foundation (ECF) and the Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, and since 2008, is developed in
partnership with ENCATC.
Designed to foster academic and applied cultural policy research and to explore issues at
stake in contemporary Europe, the Cultural Policy Research Award aims to contribute to
new competence building among young scholars in comparative cultural policy research.
Through the CPRA annual competition, the program partners aim to encourage and enable cultural policy researchers to
take a step from evaluative (descriptive) to comparative applied research that can inform policymaking and benefit
practitioners active in the field. The Award is devoted to research projects which shed light on contemporary European
cultural issues and challenges by analyzing them and offering policy solutions.
+ info: http://www.encatc.org/pages/index.php?id=19
EUROPEAN AADIPA AWARD of intervention on architectural heritage.
Deadline: 15 April 2013
This award aims at spreading and differentiation of the works and quality related
speech at the Architectural Heritage. The awards are aimed at professionals and
institutions involved in the architectural heritage. In the current economy, and in
particular the construction sector, from our group, we think it’s important to
promote and encourage initiatives aimed at boosting the sector of restoration and
renovation of our heritage. For this reason, we propose you a collaboration to
make maximum publicity and this could be realized, always mutually, expand the network in exchanging links and logos
for the respective Web pages, spread among partners, share contacts and diffusion Newsletter or Twitter.
In this first edition are eligibles interventions and works made during the period e 2006-2012. The call is divided into four
categories:
A. Intervention in built heritage
B. Outdoor spaces
C. Planning
D. Dissemination
The deadline for submission of documentation will be on April 15, 2013
+ info: http://www.premiaadipa.eu/en
AIA Best Practices in Site Preservation Award - Deadline: 1 May 2013
Established in 2011, this annual honor is awarded to groups or projects recognized by their peers for doing exemplary
work in the field of site preservation and conservation. Each year the Institute selects a project that exemplifies the
mission of AIA’s Site Preservation Program and presents it with an award of $5,000 for furthering their activities and
programs.
Nominations for this award must be submitted to AIA's Site Preservation Program. Nomination deadline May 1.
For further information, contact the Site Preservation Program Administrator at [email protected].
+ info: http://www.archaeological.org/sitepreservation/award
15th Annual L’ORÉAL-UNESCO Awards for Women in Science - 2013
Each year, five outstanding women scientists – one per continent – are honoured for the
contributions of their research, the strength of their commitments and their impact on society. The
Awards jury was chaired by Professor Ahmed Zewail, winner of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Chemistry,
and Linus Pauling Chair Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Physics, California Institute of
Technology.
The research of the 2013 Laureates demonstrates exceptionally original approaches to fundamental
research in the Physical Sciences, from contributing to better understanding climate change to
advancing research on neurodegenerative diseases and potentially uncovering new energy sources.
+ info: http://www.unesco.org/new/en/natural-sciences/priority-areas/gender-and-science/for-women-in-scienceprogramme/2013-awards/
Museum of Moving Image Wins 2013 Red Dot Design Award - New York City
(USA)
LEESER Architecture’s design for the Museum of Moving Image has recently been
announced as the winner of the 2013 Red Dot Design Award in its highly competitive
Architecture and Urban Design category. Completed in 2011, the Museum of the
Moving Image houses a comprehensive collection dedicated to educating the public
about the art, history, technique, and technology of film, television, and digital media.
The existing structure is seamlessly integrated with the substantial new addition
through a grand lobby which connects the two…
+ info: http://www.archdaily.com/360265/
Jacques Rougerie Foundation International Architecture Competition - Deadline for
entries: 28 May 2013
Jacques Rougerie, a famous French Sea oriented architect, had the chance during his career to
receive help and support from those who believed in his talent. Open to everyone, his foundation,
the Jacques Rougerie Foundation, has launched an International Competition which aspires to
offer a unique opportunity for students in architecture, engineering or design, from all around the
world to make their projects come true, or simply to reward their creativity. The competition aims
to reward the most innovative, creative and bold projects at the service of architectural
innovation, relative to topics that are dear to the foundation; Water and Space. The deadline for entries is May 28.
+ info: http://fondation-jacques-rougerie.com/
Prizes
Winners of 2013 EU Prize for Cultural Heritage Europa Nostra Awards announced
The winners of the 2013 European Union Prize for Cultural Heritage / Europa Nostra Awards were unveiled
today by the European Commission and Europa Nostra. The 30 winners, selected from nearly 200 nominated
projects, are honoured for their achievements in four areas: conservation, research, dedicated service, and
education, training and awareness-raising. The award ceremony will take place on 16 June at the Odeon of
Herodes Atticus in Athens, in the presence of Karolos Papoulias, the President of Greece, Androulla Vassiliou,
European Commissioner for Education, Culture, Multilingualism and Youth, and Plácido Domingo, the worldrenowned opera singer and Europa Nostra President. The event is held under the auspices of the Greek
President. Of the 30 winning projects, six will be named as grand prix laureates in Athens and one of the winners will
receive the public choice award, based on an online poll conducted by Europa Nostra.
online poll deadline: 26 May 2013: http://vote.europanostra.org/
+ info: http://www.europanostra.org/laureates-2013/
Mención Especial Europa Nostra a la restauración de la Torre Bofilla. Valencia
(España)
La Torre Bofilla de Bétera está de enhorabuena, su restauración realizada en 2009 ha sido
reconocida con una mención especial en la categoría de conservación del patrimonio por los
Premios Europa Nostra 2013, un prestigioso galardón europeo logrado gracias a la labor
realizada por los profesores Camilla Mileto y Fernando Vegas, investigadores del Instituto de
Restauración del Patrimonio.
Los galardones Europa Nostra están considerados “los más prestigiosos que se conceden en
Europa para proyectos para la conservación, la difusión y la restauración de bienes culturales”, según ha informado la
Universitat Politècnica de València…
+ info: http://www.betera.com/2013/04/02/la-torre-bofilla-de-betera-logra-el-premio-europa-nostra-por-su-conservacion/
5th CASA ÁFRICA Essay Prizes - Deadline: 15 July 2013
For the fi fth consecutive year Casa África is holding the Casa África Prizes for Essays on African Themes, with a view to
recognising, promoting and publicising original and unpublished essays that enhance the knowledge that people have of
the African continent.
The African city, its development, its present and future, are the main fi gures of this edition of the Casa África Essay
Prizes.
Under the title CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES OF URBAN DEVELOPMENT IN AFRICA, the theme covers a range of
disciplines, from town planning and architecture to demography, sustainability and environment, sociology and economy,
with the African city as the central focus.
+ info: http://www.casafrica.es/en/agenda_europa_africa.jsp?PROID=716507
La Fondation du Patrimoine, lauréate du Prix Europa Nostra - Remise des prix le 16 juin à
Athènes (Grèce)
Le Palmarès 2013 du Prix du patrimoine culturel de l’Union Européenne/Concours Europa Nostra
vient d’être dévoilé, et consacre la Fondation du Patrimoine dans la catégorie « Contributions
exceptionnelles », pour l’ensemble de son action.
La Fondation du Patrimoine est le seul organisme français restant en compétition après 200 projets
sélectionnés et 30 lauréats retenus.
Parmi les 30 projets qui seront récompensés à Athènes, six recevront un Grand Prix, et l'un des
projets lauréats se verra décerner le Prix du Public, à l'issue d'un vote en ligne organisé par Europa Nostra.
+ info: http://www.fondation-patrimoine.org/fr/national-0/actualites-3/detail-la-fondation-du-patrimoine-laureate-du-prixeuropa-nostra-1556
The Art Newspaper Russia Prizes
The Art Newspaper Russia is awarding prizes in the categories of Exhibition of the Year, Museum of the
Year, Book of the Year, Restoration of the Year and Personal Contribution for 2012.
The nominations correspond to the main sections of the publication (Museums, Books, Restoration, Art
Market) and are intended to shine a spotlight on the most striking and important events in artistic life,
as reflected in the pages of the newspaper. Many art world professionals are not well known to
Russians, let alone the international public, and deserve acknowledgement of their achievements.
The main selection criteria are recognition by the professional community, social significance, and
innovation.
The prize is not limited to any period of art or age group of persons, and is intended to acknowledge and encourage:
• events and people influencing the current artistic process
• the safeguarding of cultural heritage
• private initiatives in the art world.
Like The Art Newspaper Russia itself, the prize aims to encourage the development of the art market, promote Russian art
abroad and advance knowledge of international art in Russia.
+ info: http://www.theartnewspaper.com/newsletters/TAN-Russia-Prizes.html
Prix Le Monde de la recherche universitaire - France. Date limite: 1
mai 2013
Depuis seize ans, Le Monde soutient les jeunes chercheurs et la recherche.
Lancé en 1997, le Prix Le Monde de la recherche entend valoriser les premiers
travaux de jeunes chercheurs francophones susceptibles d’influencer notre
environnement scientifique, économique, social et/ou artistique.
Chaque année, à l’issue d’un concours présidé par le philosophe Edgar Morin
pour les sciences dites « humaines et sociales » et par l’académicien Pierre
Léna pour les sciences dites « dures » ce prix offre la possibilité à cinq docteurs récemment diplômés en sciences dites «
humaines et sociales » de publier leur thèse aux Presses universitaires de France et à cinq docteurs en sciences dites «
dures » de publier un résumé de leurs travaux dans le magazine Pour La Science et dans un ouvrage collectif publié aux
Editions Le Pommier. Par ailleurs, le quotidien Le Monde présentera l’ensemble de ces thèses dans un cahier spécial.
+ info: http://www.lemonde.fr/kiosque/recherche/
Germán Delibes de Castro, Premio Castilla y León de Restauración y Conservación del
Patrimonio 2012
Germán Delibes de Castro ha obtenido el Premio Castilla y León de Restauración y Conservación del
Patrimonio, en su edición correspondiente a 2012. El jurado ha acordado, por unanimidad conceder
este galardón a Germán Delibes de Castro por su labor investigadora y docente que ha contribuido a
desarrollar la arqueología de Castilla y León. Germán Delibes constituye una referencia nacional e
internacional en el ámbito de la arqueología, a la vez que ha propiciado la formación y consolidación
de una generación de profesionales de primera magnitud y ha contribuido intensamente a la
divulgación de los valores culturales y patrimoniales en la sociedad…
+ info: http://www.noticiascastillayleon.com/noticia/German-Delibes-de-Castro-Premio-Castilla-y-Leon-de-Restauracion-yConservacion-del-Patrimonio-2012/38903/3
Latest news about the European Heritage Label
The 2013 selection is reserved to Austria, Estonia, Denmark, Luxembourg and the Netherlands
who did not participate in the previous intergovernmental label and who wished to participate in
this new European Heritage Label.1
The European Commission will proceed with the final selection of sites in consultation with a panel
of independent experts in the coming months. This panel shall deliver its report by the end of 2013
and the Commission will award the Label on this basis in the beginning of 2014.
Every year, a list will be published with the sites pre-selected by the Member Statesand those
finally selected by the Commission to get the European Heritage Label.
+ info: http://ec.europa.eu/culture/our-programmes-and-actions/label/european-heritage-label_en.htm
The Jean-Paul-L'Allier Prize for Heritage. Deadline: 31 August 2013
This prize is awarded every second year by the Organization of World Heritage Cities (OWHC) to a city
that is a member in good standing of the OWHC, and that has distinguished itself by an achievement in
terms of conservation, enhancement or management of property inscribed on the World Heritage List,
and that is located on its territory.
To participate in this competition, the cities that are members in good standing of the OWHC must have
paid annually their contribution for the last three years. A city that has been on UNESCO’s World Heritage
List for less than three years may also register for this international competition, provided it has paid its
contribution annually to the OWHC since its was recognized by the UNESCO…
+ info: http://www.ovpm.org/en/jean_paul_lallier_prize_heritage
Fellowships
Becas Endesa para Iberoamérica de patrimonio cultural - Fecha límite: 22 abril 2013
Las becas convocadas tienen por objeto la participación en un programa de formación no reglada en
el ámbito del patrimonio cultural, que se desarrollará mediante estancias de prácticas de los becarios
en centros dependientes o adscritos al Ministerio de Educación Cultura y Deporte de España.
Se convocan nueve becas de nueve meses de duración (del 1 octubre de 2013 al 27 de junio de
2014) no renovables. Cada una de las becas estará dotada con nueve mensualidades de 1.000 euros
brutos, que se harán efectivos al comienzo de cada mes. Los becarios recibirán una ayuda de viaje e
instalación, pagadera de una sola vez, al comienzo del disfrute de la beca, por importe de 1.800
Euros. Asimismo, cada becario tendrá un seguro médico no farmacéutico durante el período de disfrute de la beca.
+ info: http://www.mcu.es/becas/FundacionEndesa2013.html
Competitions
International Video Production Competition "My City, Our World
Heritage"
The OWHC is proud to renew for a second time the international video
production competition entitled My City: Our World Heritage. This
competition is intended for young people of two age groups: those between
14 and 17 years of age and those between 18 and 21 years of age. At the
invitation of the cities that have registered, the young people will be called
upon to produce a video of a maximum duration of five minutes on the
world heritage city in which they live. The participating cities are free to invite the young people belonging to both age
groups or to only one of them. The videos must be realized in one of the following languages: French, English, or Spanish.
The competitors must obligatorily publish their videos on the YouTube site. There is no cost to realize this operation…
+ info: http://www.ovpm.org/en/my_city_our_world_heritage_international_video_production_competition
Museum of Underwater Antiquities Competition Entry / Charry C. Bougadellis &
Associate Architects + Georges Batzios Architects (Greece)
Designed by Charry C. Bougadellis & Associate Architects + Georges Batzios Architects,
their proposal for the Piraeus Museum of Underwater Antiquities, which received an
honorable mention, was divided in two elements based on the notion of ‘Viollet-le-Duc’:
the negative element being the void, whilst the positive being the vertical and horizontal
elements that define a space (walls and slabs). The link between these two elements,
which defines the unity of the space is man. Therefore, the architectural space cannot be
applied without the presence of man…
+ info: http://www.archdaily.com/346136
Museum and Educational Center of the Polytechnic Museum and Lomonosov
Moscow State University Design Competition Results
Organized by the Polytechnic Museum Development Foundation, the team of
MASSIMILIANO FUKSAS Architetto (Italy) and SPEECH (Russia) was recently
announced the winner of Architectural Concepts Competition for the Museum and
Educational Center of the Polytechnic Museum and Lomonosov Moscow State
University. The challenge was to create a museum and educational center for
demonstrating most recent scientific and technological discoveries using state-of-theart multimedia technologies for accommodating multiple displays and exhibitions as well as for conducting scientific
educational programs.
The winning project features a double height glass base 9,20m high, 3-storey upper volumes 25m high, a terrace level
approximately 6,40m high and 2 underground levels. It also has an airy, open-plan entrance hall with separate accesses to
the different zones…
The European Student Competition on Sustainable Architecture. Deadline: 15 October
2013
The european student competition on
sustainable architecture was launched
in 2006 by the Cité de l’architecture
& du patrimoine, together with a Europewide network of partner schools; “Leading
European Universities in Sustainable Architecture”. The schools of the network contribute to the
competition by organizing parallel activities: introductory lectures and seminars; joint workshops and summer schools on
the subject of the competition. Following on from the first three editions achieved by the presentation 1:1 prototypes
during the Venice Biennale and the publication of a book on the three competition rounds in 2006 to 2012, in August 2012,
the fourth session is now launched on subject “The subversive cottage”.
+ info: http://studentcompetition.citechaillot.fr/
Job Offers
Conseervation Officer - War Memorials Trust - Scotland (United Kingdom) Closing Date: 24
April 2013
War Memorials Trust (WMT) works for the protection and conservation of war memorials within the UK.
The Conservation Team, through the the three Conservation Officers, is responsible for delivering the
Trust’s Conservation Programme including administering grant schemes, providing advice and promoting
the important of good practice in war memorial conservation, maintenance and preservation. The team is
office based with occasional outreach work through site visits, talks and presentations.
To succeed as a Conservation Officer, you will need to have proven yourself as a team player and strong
administrator with experience in the heritage or conservation sectors…
+ info: http://www.warmemorials.org/vacancies/
The Heritage Lottery Fund - Programme Manager - Heritage Enterprise (United
Kingdom) Deadline for applications: 28 April 2013
The HLF is recruiting a new permanent post of Programme Manager – Heritage Enterprise. This
is an exciting opportunity to help lead HLF’s new multi-million pound grant programme,
Heritage Enterprise, specifically designed to stimulate local economic growth by providing
funding to unlock the latent commercial potential of unused historic buildings and sites across
the UK. The successful applicant will be responsible for both managing the new Heritage
Enterprise grant programme and for providing support to the Head of Historic Environment
Conservation to develop and deliver our historic environment policy for grant giving and advocacy…
+ info: https://forms.hlf.org.uk/applications/HLFJobs_PublicPortal.ofml
Head of Science in The Getty Conservation Institute, United States. Deadline: 15 June 2013
The Getty Conservation Institute (GCI), located in Los Angeles, California, and one of the operating programs of the J. Paul
Getty Trust, works internationally to advance conservation practice in the visual arts — broadly interpreted to include
objects, collections, architecture, and sites. The Institute serves the conservation community through scientific research,
education and training, model field projects, and the dissemination of the results of both its own work and the work of
others in the field. In a ll its endeavors, the GCI focuses on the creation and delivery of knowledge that will benefit the
professionals and organizations responsible for the conservation of the world's cultural heritage. The GCI is seeking a
Head of Science.
+ info: http://www.iccrom.org/eng/news_en/2013_en/field_en/04_02_HeadScience_US.pdf
Basingstoke and Deane – Conservation /Principal Conservation Officer - Closing date for applications: 19 April
2013
You will be a highly motivated individual with a passion for the historic environement, capable of working under your own
iniciative and delivering work on time.
With excellent project management, organisational and programming skills, you will have experience of assessment and
designation of conservation areas. You will need to demostrate an ability to communicate effectively with, and gain the
confidence of local communities, elected Members, staff and stakeholders. This will be matched with experience of leading
on public consultation with relevant parish councils and other stakeholders, including making presentations and hosting
public meetings. You will also have experience of reviewing, developing and implementing conservation polices and
strategies relating to conservation area appraisals.
+ info: http://ihbconline.co.uk/jobsetc/
Book Conservator in the Folger Shakespeare Library, United States. Deadline: 30 May 2013
The Folger Shakespeare Library, in Washington, D.C., is seeking qualified candidates for the permanent, fulltime, exempt
position as a Book Conservator to work in the Werner Gundersheimer Conservation Laboratory. The Book Conservator
works under the direction of the Eric Weinmann Head of Conservation and with a small team of conservators. The Book
Conservator will have primary responsibility for complex treatments of rare bound material items from the Folger’s printed
book and manuscript collection and participates in all activities carried out by the conservation lab including exhibition and
loan preparation and installation.
+ info: http://www.folger.edu/Content/About-Us/Employment-and-Internships/
Wildlife-TRAPS Project Leader - Deadline for applications: 3 May 2013
TRAFFIC is seeking a Project Leader for the USAID-funded ‘Wildlife Trafficking, Response, Assessment, Priority
Setting’ (Wildlife-TRAPS) initiative.
Wildlife TRAPS is likely to focus on achieving a high impact with a tightly focused group of species products (i.e. including
ivory and rhino horn) traded between Central and East & Southern Africa and East and South-East Asia.
The position will be based in Pretoria, South Africa
+ info: http://www.traffic.org/home/2013/4/9/vacancy-wildlife-traps-project-leader.html
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Découverte d'une phéromone qui pourrait permettre de lutter contre un papillon palmivore
Paysandisia archon, vous connaissez ? C'est un papillon palmivore qui a été introduit accidentellement dans les années 1990
en Europe, suite à l'importation de palmiers infestés d'Amérique du Sud. Après s'être répandu très rapidement en Italie, en
Espagne et en France, il sème aujourd'hui le trouble dans la zone méditerranéenne où il ravage les palmiers endémiques et
ornementaux. Dans le nord de l'Afrique, il menace les palmiers dattiers qui, rappelons-le, constituent une ressource
alimentaire importante. Dans ce contexte, les résultats des travaux des chercheurs de l'INRA, du CIRAD et du CNRS qui
viennent d'être publiés dans la revue Chemoecology ouvrent des perspectives prometteuses en matière de lutte intégrée
contre ce ravageur…
WWF Founder - Virtual GiftShop
WWF offers a range of solutions for any gift-giving occasion through our virtual gifts which are symbolic
donations towards activities that WWF does worldwide. This is a gift that truly means something, that truly
goes towards accomplishing great things for the amazing diversity of life on our one and only green & blue
planet. On that, you have our word.
You can get one of these fabulous and unusual gifts in less than 5 minutes. And to minimize paper and
postage, the Certificate is delivered to you immediately via email as PDF. You can then print this off or send
it by email yourself to the proud recipient, anywhere in the world, in seconds. How easy is that to make
someone smile?!
+ info: http://shop.panda.org/
The UNESCO World Heritage Marine Programme: A Community of Managers Driving Change in Ocean
Conservation
The 1972 World Heritage Convention is founded on the premise that certain places on our planet are of Outstanding
Universal Value and as such, should form part of the common heritage of humankind. On a planet of over 70 per cent ocean,
a huge amount of our heritage is located in marine areas.
Launched in 2005, the mission of the World Heritage Marine Programme is to establish effective conservation of existing and
potential marine areas of Outstanding Universal Value to make sure they will be maintained and thrive for generations to
come. Today, 46 sites are inscribed on the World Heritage List specifically in recognition of their exceptional beauty, geology,
ecosystem processes, biodiversity and habitat. They are located in 35 countries and cover about one quarter, by area, of all
marine protected areas (MPAs) on the planet…
+ info: http://biodiversity-l.iisd.org/guest-articles/the-unesco-world-heritage-marine-programme-a-community-of-managersdriving-change-in-ocean-conservation/
Espaces militaires : signature d'un protocole en faveur de la biodiversité - France
Dans la continuité des efforts engagés pour réduire les impacts, Jean-Yves Le Drian, ministre de la Défense a signé le 2 avril
2013 avec Delphine Batho, ministre de l'écologie, un nouveau protocole en faveur de la préservation de la biodiversité.
L'enjeu n'est pas négligeable : le ministère de la Défense possède 250.000 hectares, soit le deuxième domaine foncier de
France.
L'objectif annoncé serait de mettre en œuvre les objectifs de la conférence environnementale…
+ info: http://www.actu-environnement.com/ae/news/espaces-militaires-signature-protocole-biodiversite-18196.
php4#xtor=EPR-1
STMicroelectronics and University of Amsterdam Faculty of Science Cooperate to
Soar with Birds
STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM), a global semiconductor leader serving customers across the
Biodiversity
spectrum of electronics applications and the world’s top manufacturer of MEMS (MicroElectro-Mechanical Systems), and the University of Amsterdam (UvA) Faculty of Science
have announced that a sophisticated bird-tracking system developed by the university is
using advanced MEMS sensing technology from ST.
Weighing as little as a 20 euro cent coin or a US quarter and smaller than a car key so as not
to impede the birds’ flight, the tracking systems are sophisticated data loggers that can be attached to the back of the birds.
The trackers enable valuable scientific research on bird behavior by measuring GPS position every 3 seconds.
+ info: http://www.st.com/web/en/press/t3378
Biodiversity Month at Royal Ontario Museum - Toronto - Ontario - Canada - April
2013
Biodiversity Month at the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) presents a unique opportunity for
everyone to learn more about our natural world. Throughout the entire month of April,
visitors of all ages are encouraged to take an active role in conversations and experiences,
both online and onsite at the ROM. Interactive workshops, panels, family programming, and
up close opportunities with prominent biodiversity experts, including ROM curatorial and
research staff as well as renowned national and international guest speakers, will be featured.
The ROM will host the first Ontario Endangered Species Act Conference, featuring new Minister of Natural Resources, the
Honourable David Orazetti, and a ROM Biodiversity Family weekend, which includes the specially ticketed Earth Month Youth
Forum, featuring Dr. Roberta Bondar, Sebastião Salgado and Simon Jackson.
+ info: http://www.rom.on.ca/en/about-us/newsroom/press-releases/rom-biodiversity-month
La République tchèque, pays idéal pour le bison d'Europe
La République tchèque serait à l'heure actuelle le pays européen remplissant les conditions
les plus favorables pour le retour durable du bison d'Europe, une espèce en voie de
disparition. C'est ce qu'une équipe du centre de recherches biologiques de l'Académie des
sciences de la République tchèque a présenté lors d'une conférence de presse le mois dernier,
en s'appuyant sur une de leurs récentes études sur le retour du bison en République tchèque.
Alors que beaucoup pensaient que ce retour était impossible, cette équipe a démontré le
contraire.
Agenda
IV Symposium of Natural History Museums
08 - 12 July 2013 Havana. Cuba
Organizers: The Cuban National Museum of Natural History (MNHNC)
+ info: http://www.cubambiente.com
Fifth International Conference on Climate Change: Impacts and Responses
18 - 19 July 2013 Port Louis. Mauritius
Organizers: Common Ground Publishing
+ info: http://on-climate.com/the-conference
INTECOL 2013
18 - 23 August 2013 London. United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Organizers: The British Ecological Society and INTECOL
+ info: http://www.intecol2013.org/
Oaxaca 2013 - XII World Congress of the Organization of World Heritage Cities “Heritage Cities, Sustainable
Cities.”
19 - 22 November 2013 Oaxaca. Mexico
Organizers: The Organization of World Heritage Cities (OWHC)
DEADLINE: 31 mar 2013
+ info: http://ocpmoaxaca2013.org/?lang=en
Built Heritage
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Park Block Renovation, Luqiao Old Town / TM Studio - 2008 - Luqiao- Taizhou, Zhejiang
(China)
Park Block is sited within Luqiao Old Town, on the east of a 4km long historic street that is and was
vital to the town. With respect to the site’s existing conditions, the city’s park is located on the south,
and a busy street filled with retail outlets to its north, thus the park block is an intersection between
these two zones – allowing it to be a juncture with layered intents.
The project comprises of five buildings, with the design intent of making a connection between the
different urban fabric and scale of the surrounding environment. The spatial hierarchy and a use of
different textures allows for a layered visual medley. The patterned windows, reticulating walls, wedge-shaped openings and
window glasses, which are made in various materials and scales, can be appreciated independently as a single element, or
grouped together in twos or threes and appreciated in different configurations. The architecture elements are on a neutral
optical field, and are not in contest visually…
Grupo TIERRA - Universidad de Valladolid (España)
El grupo TIERRA es un grupo de investigación que forma parte de la Universidad de Valladolid, y se ocupa de todo lo que se
refiere a la TIERRA como material de construcción, tanto en la tradición como en la innovación. El grupo TIERRA está
formado por profesionales de áreas como la arquitectura, la ingeniería, la historia, y busca darse a conocer en el mundo para
fomentar así el uso de la TIERRA como material de construcción en la actualidad. Por eso hemos creado esta sección de
amigos del grupo TIERRA, para aquellas personas que estén interesadas en recibir información cuando se organice un nuevo
congreso, se realice alguna publicación o se organice cualquier otro tipo de actividad.
+ info: http://www5.uva.es/grupotierra/
UNESCO launches project to develop a flood risk mitigation plan for Ayutthaya World
Heritage Site
Report by India Education bureau, Bangkok: UNESCO is launching a project to develop a flood
risk mitigation plan for the World Heritage Site of Ayutthaya.
The launch event at UNESCO Bangkok on 22 March 2013 was attended by key players of
Thailand’s national flood risk reduction efforts and representatives from the embassies of
Germany, Japan, Portugal and the United States that have been actively involved in
Ayutthaya’s post-flood recovery in 2011 and 2012…
+ info: http://indiaeducationdiary.in/Showtodayhot.asp?newsid=21111
EUROPEAN AADIPA AWARD of intervention on architectural heritage.
Deadline: 15 April 2013
This award aims at spreading and differentiation of the works and quality related
speech at the Architectural Heritage. The awards are aimed at professionals and
institutions involved in the architectural heritage. In the current economy, and in
particular the construction sector, from our group, we think it’s important to
promote and encourage initiatives aimed at boosting the sector of restoration and
renovation of our heritage. For this reason, we propose you a collaboration to make
maximum publicity and this could be realized, always mutually, expand the network in exchanging links and logos for the
respective Web pages, spread among partners, share contacts and diffusion Newsletter or Twitter.
In this first edition are eligibles interventions and works made during the period e 2006-2012. The call is divided into four
categories:
A. Intervention in built heritage
B. Outdoor spaces
Built Heritage
C. Planning
D. Dissemination
The deadline for submission of documentation will be on April 15, 2013
+ info: http://www.premiaadipa.eu/en
Thais warn Cambodia on temple plan
Thailand is warning Cambodia against discussing its management plan for the Preah Vihear
temple until after the International Court of Justice ruling on the temple this year. Cambodia
is hosting the 37th World Heritage Committee (WHC) meeting from June 16-27.
Permanent secretary for natural resources and the environment Chote Trachoo said the Thai
delegation could walk out of the meeting room if the issue is raised.
The Thai committee, chaired by Natural Resources and Environment Minister Preecha
Rengsomboonsuk, yesterday called a meeting to outline the Thai stance on the issue…
+ info: http://www.khmerization.blogspot.in/2013/04/thais-warn-cambodia-on-temple-plan-why.html
SINGAPORE GARDENS aim for UNESCO heritage status
Singapore, one of the world's most densely populated countries, is campaigning to get its 154year-old Botanic Gardens declared a UNESCO world heritage site.
If selected by the UN cultural body, the lush and serene 74-hectare (182-acre) park on the
edge of downtown Singapore will join the Royal Botanic Gardens in London and the Orto
Botanico in Italy on the prestigious list…
+ info: http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-in-school/singapore-gardens-aim-for-unescoheritage-status/article4582694.ece
The Dome in the Desert - 1950 - Sonoran Desert Landscape - Arizona (USA)
A glass house in the desert? Was it an architectural caprice, a folly, or was it a solution to the problems of
desert living whose appropriateness is still not recognized? Having had the experience of living in The
Dome for a full year, through all the seasons, I felt it incumbent upon myself to take a fresh look at this
remarkable work of architecture…
Restoration of Ottoman-era Tower House in Gjirokastra, Albania, is completed
Adventures in Preservation (AiP) completed the Babameto House restoration project in the World Heritage Site of
Gjirokastra, Albania. Hands-on training and work sessions organized and led by Cultural Heritage without Borders (CHwB)
were instrumental to the overwhelming success of the project. Volunteers from Adventures in Preservation joined students
from Albania and other Balkan countries in learning and applying the traditional skills needed to complete this major building
conservation project…
+ info: http://www.balkans.com/open-news.php?uniquenumber=172976
Appel à candidature - Diplôme de spécialisation et d'approfondissement (DSA) de l'Ecole de Chaillot - Promotion
2013-2015 - Date limite: 7 juin 2013
Mention « Architecture & patrimoine » Vendredi 25 janvier 2013 - Vendredi 07 juin 2013.
Objectifs de la formation
Le DSA de l’École de Chaillot est une formation post-master de haut niveau, ouverte aux titulaires du diplôme d'Etat
d'architecte qui souhaitent se spécialiser dans la conservation et la restauration du patrimoine architectural, urbain et
territorial, en vue de sa mise en valeur et de son usage dans la société contemporaine. Ce diplôme du ministère de la culture
et de la communication est reconnu par le ministère de l’enseignement supérieur et de la recherche et correspond à 120
ECTS.
+ info: http://www.citechaillot.fr/fr/formation/dsa/25112-appel_a_candidature__diplome_de_specialisation_et_dapprofondissement_dsa_de_lecole_de_chaillot_-_promotion_2013-2015.html
Video: Architecture with capital letter A
From Frank Lloyd Wright to Oscar Niemeyer and the 2013 Pritzker Prize laureate Toyo Ito, this
short film features a series of excerpts from interviews, speeches and documentaries of the
most influential Architects from the past 70 years who have shaped the notion of Architecture.
As described by the video’s producer, viaViLi, “this accumulation of scenes some how expresses
the condition of Architecture today – its moments of Glory and Misery.”
Built Heritage
Land famine threatens Delhi's colonial heritage of Lutyens architecture
It was built as the capital of the jewel in the imperial crown and has survived monsoons,
droughts, riots, communist politicians and acid rain.
But now some of the stunning architecture of "Lutyens' Delhi", nearly 1,200 hectares
(3,000 acres) of government buildings, parks and homes named after the British architect
who masterminded their design, faces a new threat: a scheme by local authorities to relax
planning restrictions to allow high-rise constructions.
The change would affect the zone of elegant 1920s and 1930s bungalows built for the few
thousand civil servants who governed hundreds of millions of Indians under the British Raj…
+ info: http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2013/apr/22/edwin-lutyens-delhi-colonial-architecture
Mexican Temple Discovery Hints At Ancient Human Sacrifice
A newly discovered temple complex in the Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico, reveals
hints of a specialized hierarchy of priests — who may have committed human
sacrifice.
The evidence of such sacrifice is far from conclusive, but researchers did
uncover a human tooth and part of what may be a human limb bone from a
temple room scattered with animal sacrifice remains and obsidian blades. The
temple dates back to 300 B.C. or so, when it was in use by the Zapotec
civilization of what is now Oaxaca…
+ info: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/23/mexico-temple-discovery-human-sacrifice_n_3140287.html?
utm_hp_ref=science
Awards - Jacques Rougerie Foundation International Architecture Competition - Deadline
for entries: 28 May 2013
the Jacques Rougerie Foundation, has launched an International Competition which aspires to offer
a unique opportunity for students in architecture, engineering or design, from all around the world
to make their projects come true, or simply to reward their creativity. The competition aims to
reward the most innovative, creative and bold projects at the service of architectural innovation,
relative to topics that are dear to the foundation; Water and Space. The deadline for entries is May 28.
Incendio destruye antigua iglesia católica en suroeste de Colombia
La antigua iglesia católica de San Andrés de Pisimbalá, ubicada en un resguardo indígena del
municipio de Inzá (suroeste de Colombia), fue consumida este jueves por un incendio que
no dejó víctimas, en el inicio del feriado de Semana Santa.
La estructura religiosa, que había sido construida en el siglo XVIII y era la principal atracción
turística de la localidad, fue destruida por el fuego en un 90%, según explicó Mauricio
Castillo, alcalde de Inzá, departamento (provincia) del Cauca…
+ info: http://www.lr21.com.uy/mundo/1095458-incendio-destruye-antigua-iglesia-catolicaen-suroeste-de-colombia
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Built Heritage
The Woolworth Building @ 100 Exhibition
21 March - 14 July 2013 New York City, New York State. United States of America
Organizers: The Skyscraper Museum
+ info: http://www.skyscraper.org/EXHIBITIONS/WOOLWORTH/woolworth.htm
Curso de Perfeccionamiento: Patología de los Materiales en el Patrimonio Edificado
10 - 12 April 2013 Buenos Aires. Argentina
Organizers: El Centro Internacional para la Conservación del Patrimonio, Argentina
+ info: http://cicop.blogspot.com.es/2013/03/se-restaura-la-materia.html
ArquiMemória 4 – Encuentro Internacional sobre Preservación del Patrimonio Edificado
14 - 17 May 2013 Salvador de Bahía. Brazil
Organizers: El Instituto de Arquitetos do Brasil (IAB), a través del Departamento da Bahia (IAB-BA), conjuntamente con la
Faculdade de
Arquitetura (FAUFBA) y el Programa de Pós-Graduação em Arquitetura e Urbanismo de la Universidade Federal da Bahia
(PPG-AU/UFBA)
DEADLINE: 26 nov 2012
+ info: http://www.iab-ba.org.br/arquimemoria4/?lang=es
8th International Meeting: ‘City, Image and Memory: Heritage and its challenges in the 21st century’
21 - 24 May 2013 Santiago de Cuba. Cuba
Organizers: La Facultad de Construcciones y el Departamento de Arquitectura y Urbanismo de la Universidad de Oriente
+ info: http://eventos.uo.edu.cu/?p=225
I Congreso Nacional BIM
24 - 25 May 2013 Valencia. Spain
Organizers: Universitat Politècnica de València
+ info: http://eubim2013.webs.upv.es/
Posted by FUUH member: Oliver, Inmaculada
International Workshop: ‘Architecture, Education and Society. Creative Chronotopes, Cultural Landscapes and
Dialogical Imagination’ (Homage to Mikhail Bakhtin)
29 - 31 May 2013 Barcelona. Spain
Organizers: Research Group GIRAS-Polytechnic University of Catalonia; Catedra Blanca- Polytechnic University of Catalonia;
UNICEF Spain- Child Friendly Cities; Network Architectural Education for Children y la COAC. Association of Catalan Architects
+ info: http://www.arquitectonics.com/
Al-Andalus International Plannning Preservation Workshop
01 June - 22 July 2013 Gaucin, Malaga. Spain
Organizers: Grupo de Investigación Aedificatio, Universidad de Alicante and Ayuntamiento de Gaucín.
+ info: http://dca.ua.es/en/courses/ceclec/al-andalus/al-andalus-international-planning-preservation-workshop.html
9th annual international conference of the IIIRR
07 - 10 July 2013 Brisbane. Australia
Organizers: International Institute for Infrastructure Renewal and Reconstruction hosted by the University of Queensland
(UQ)
Contact: Dr Paul Barnes ([email protected])
+ info: http://i3r2conference2013.com/
Built Heritage
Second International Conference on Structures and Architecture - Structures of the XX Century: architectural
heritage and patrimonialization
24 - 26 July 2013 Guimaraes. Portugal
Organizers: University of Minho
+ info: http://www.icsa2013.arquitectura.uminho.pt/
13º Seminario Iberoamericano de Arquitectura y Construcción con Tierra: “Material Universal Realidades
Locales” (13 ° SIACOT)
28 - 30 August 2013 Valparaiso. Chile
Organizers: Duoc UC, Carrera de Restauración Patrimonial y la Red Iberoamericana PROTERRA
+ info: http://siacotchile2013.wordpress.com/
5th International conference on structural engineering, mechanics and computation
02 - 04 September 2013 Cape Town. South Africa
Organizers: University of Cape Town (UCT)
Contact: Prof. Abolhassan Astaneh-Asl, [email protected]
+ info: http://www.semc.uct.ac.za/seismic-behaviour-and-earthquake-resistant-design-of-long-period-structures/
12th Edition of The Best in Heritage
19 - 21 September 2013 Dubrovnik. Croatia
Organizers: The Best in Heritage Association in partnership with EUROPA NOSTRA under Special Patronage of ICOM
+ info: http://www.thebestinheritage.com/conference/programme/
X Congreso Ibérico de Arqueometría
16 - 18 October 2013 Castellón, Comunitat Valenciana. Spain
Organizers: Instituto Valenciano de Conservación y Restauración de Bienes Culturales (IVC+R), el Instituto del Patrimonio
Cultural de España (IPCE) y la Universitat de València
Contact: [email protected] - Clodoaldo Roldán
+ info: https://arqueometria.ivcr.es/site/arqueometria2013/
5ème Rencontres Internationales du Patrimoine Architectural Méditerranéen - RIPAM 2013
16 - 18 October 2013 Marseille. France
Organizers: Centre Interdisciplinaire de Conservation et de Restauration du Patrimoine (CICRP) avec le concours des
Archives municipales de Marseille
+ info: http://www.cicrp.fr/docs/ripam1.pdf
Conference - Problems and experience of the engineering protection of the urbanized territories and a
safeguarding of the heritage under conditions of the geo-ecological risk
05 - 07 November 2013 Kiev. Ukraine
Organizers: National Conservation Area “St. Sophia of Kyiv”; National Kyiv-Pechersk Historical Cultural Preserve & Charitable
organization "Charitable Fund St. Sophia’’
Contact: Mss.Vira Losytska - [email protected]
+ info: http://new.sophiakievska.org/en
Posted by FUUH member: Yuriy Maslov
International Conference Built Heritage 2013 "Monitoring Conservation Management"
18 - 20 November 2013 Milan. Italy
Organizers: Politecnico di Milano
+ info: http://www.bh2013.polimi.it
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Publications
Les chaux et les sables dans les enduits
Outil pédagogique pour l’entretien et la restauration des bâtiments anciens
Year: 2013
Cet ouvrage est le fruit d’une longue collaboration entre des partenaires institutionnels et un réseau
d’acteurs intervenant dans le domaine de la réhabilitation des bâtiments anciens en Bretagne et Pays
de la Loire.
Il résulte d’un partenariat entre le Conseil d’Architecture, d’Urbanisme et de l’Environnement de LoireAtlantique (CAUE44), la Confédération de l’Artisanat et des Petites Entreprises du Bâtiment des Pays de
la Loire (CAPEB) et l’association Tiez Breiz - Maisons et Paysages de Bretagne, avec le soutien financier des Régions et DRAC
Bretagne et Pays de la Loire.
Il complète et réactualise, en un seul manuel, les deux ouvrages précédemment édités et aujourd’hui épuisés : « Les sables
» (éd. 1998) et « Les chaux dans les enduits » (éd. 2000)…
+ info: http://www.caue44.com/Les-chaux-et-les-sables-dans-les.html
Il Conservatorio delle Verginelle in Catania
Alessandro Lo Faro
Editore: Aracne
ISBN: 978-88-548-5405-5
Year: 2012
L’ex Conservatorio delle Verginelle è un complesso di corpi di fabbrica inseriti in un contesto urbano di
elevatissima qualità ambientale, la collina di Montevergine, meritevole pertanto di tutte quelle attente e
rigorose analisi preliminari che sono lo strumento irrinunciabile per qualsiasi intervento sul costruito storico
che ambisca ad essere congruente e compatibile. La conoscenza del manufatto si è qui arricchita di una sequenza di fasi
operative tra loro correlate (un’estesa indagine storica, un rigoroso rilievo metrico e specifici protocolli diagnostici atti ad
accertare lo stato di conservazione e le capacità prestazionali di numerosi elementi di fabbrica) che hanno successivamente
guidato le scelte progettuali e le procedure riabilitative poste in essere nell’intervento di recupero, tracciando così un utile
iter metodologico a cui inspirarsi quando si interviene sulle fabbriche tradizionali.
+ info: http://www.aracneeditrice.it/aracneweb/index.php/catalogo/area/ingegneria-civile-e-architettura/9788854854055detail.html
Manual de materiais e técnicas tradicionais de assentamento de azulejos de fachada
Ovar: Câmara Municipal de Ovar. 38 p.
ISBN: 978-972-8174-40-8
Year: 2012
Ovar é conhecida como a cidade-museu do azulejo devido às magníficas fachadas azulejares que
ornamentan as casas do centro urbano da cidade, epíteto atribuído por Rafael Salinas Calado.
Com o objetivo de preservar este valioso património edificado, nas suas várias vertentes e sublinhar a
sua importância, pela quantidade e variedade da sua componente cerâmicam incidindo sobretudo no
azulejo de fachada, datado dos finais de século XIX e princípios do século XX, no ano 2000, a Câmara Municipal de Ovar
criou e implementou o Atelier de Conservaçao e Restauro do Azulejo (ACRA)
+ info: http://issuu.com/cmovar/docs/manual_v14/1?mode=a_p
Posted by FUUH member: García Vicente, José Javier
Patrimoine, culture et récit
Auteur : Étienne Berthold
Collection : Monde culturel
ISBN : 978-2-7637-9848-6
Year: 2012
Un autre ouvrage sur le patrimoine a également été publié au cours de la dernière année. Dans Patrimoine,
culture et récit : L’île d’Orléans et la place Royale de Québec, publié aux Presses de l’Université Laval,
Étienne Berthold aborde la construction et la déconstruction du patrimoine culturel en s’intéressant plus
particulièrement aux exemples de l’île ’Orléans
perçu comme berceau de la Nouvelle-France à partir du XIXe siècle et du processus de reconstruction de la place Royale à
Québec au XXe siècle. Dans les deux cas, c’est d’une part l’élaboration physique et symbolique de ces lieux de mémoire, puis
leur interprétation contemporaine qui sont questionnés. Ces processus répondent d’une quête d’identité qui mènent à des
constructions patrimoniales selon différents contextes et idéologies exprimant à la fois savoir et histoire.
+ info: http://www.pulaval.com/catalogue/patrimoine-culture-recit-ile-orleans-place-9843.html
ISBN: 978-88-548-5880-0
Year: 2013
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Publications
Les glaciers himalayens n'ont pas dit leur dernier mot
En combinant des mesures satellitaires et des mesures de terrain obtenues entre 1988 et 2010, une
équipe franco-indienne(1) vient de montrer que la masse des glaciers du Lahaul Spiti, une région
située au cœur de l’Himalaya dans le nord de l’Inde, avait légèrement augmenté entre 1988 et 1999
avant de diminuer et que leur perte de masse globale entre 1988 et 2010 était quasi six fois plus faible
que celle les glaciers alpins durant la même période. Ce résultat remet en question les compilations
précédentes qui laissaient entendre une perte de masse glaciaire continue et massive des glaciers de
l’Himalaya au cours des dernières décennies.
+ info: http://www.insu.cnrs.fr/node/4305
STMicroelectronics and University of Amsterdam Faculty of Science Cooperate to
Soar with Birds
STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM), a global semiconductor leader serving customers across the
spectrum of electronics applications and the world’s top manufacturer of MEMS (MicroElectro-Mechanical Systems), and the University of Amsterdam (UvA) Faculty of Science
have announced that a sophisticated bird-tracking system developed by the university is
using advanced MEMS sensing technology from ST.
Weighing as little as a 20 euro cent coin or a US quarter and smaller than a car key so as not
to impede the birds’ flight, the tracking systems are sophisticated data loggers that can be attached to the back of the birds.
The trackers enable valuable scientific research on bird behavior by measuring GPS position every 3 seconds.
+ info: http://www.st.com/web/en/press/t3378
29ème campagne en Antarctique du brise-glace chinois Xuelong
La Chine mène des recherches en Antarctique depuis 1984 et dispose à ce jour de trois stations (Changcheng "Grande
Muraille", Zhongshan "Montagne du Milieu" et Kunlun) sur ce continent. Depuis 2005, le rythme des expéditions polaires définies comme une priorité par le State Oceanic Administration (SOA) - s'est accéléré, à raison d'un voyage en Antarctique
chaque année…
Climate Change Threatens Global Wine Production
Climate change threatens the most famous wine production regions in the world with areas projected to shrink by as much
as 73% by 2050 prompting the opening of new areas to wine production in unusual places, according to a new study
published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).
Researchers led by Conservation International looked at nine major wine producing areas within the first global map of
future winemaking using multiple models of wine suitability. Areas analyzed in more detail included California, Western North
America, Chile, Mediterranean Europe, Northern Europe, Cape Floristic Region of South Africa, parts of Australia with
Mediterranean climate, parts of Australia with non-Mediterranean climate and New Zealand…
+ info: http://www.foodproductdesign.com/news/2013/04/climate-change-threatens-global-wine-production.aspx
Agenda
Workshop: PARNASSUS: Ensuring Integrity, Preserving Significance
17 May 2013 London. United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Organizers: University College London, United Kingdom
Contact: Dr Yasemin Aktas ([email protected])
+ info: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/parnassus/workshop
Symposium «Arctic: the major scientific issues»
03 - 05 June 2013 Paris. France
Organizers: French Arctic Initiative
+ info: http://www.chantier-arctique.fr/en/colloques-conference.php
Fifth International Conference on Climate Change: Impacts and Responses
18 - 19 July 2013 Port Louis. Mauritius
Organizers: Common Ground Publishing
DEADLINE: 11 dic 2012 (date extended)
+ info: http://on-climate.com/the-conference
3rd European Workshop on Cultural Heritage Preservation (EWCHP 2013)
16 - 18 September 2013 Bolzano. Italy
Organizers: The European Academy of Bozen/Bolzano (EURAC), Italy
+ info: http://www.3encult.eu/en/ewchp/
Global Congress on Integrated Coastal Management (EMECS 10 - MEDCOAST 2013 Joint Conference)
30 October - 03 November 2013 Marmaris. Turkey
Organizers: Fundación MEDCOAST
+ info: http://www.medcoast.org.tr/MC13/Global_Congress_Call_for_Abstracts_digital.pdf
Publications
Climate Change and Arctic Sustainable Development
Author: UNESCO
ISBN: 978-92-3-204139-5
Year: 2010
The Arctic is undergoing rapid and dramatic environmental and social transformations due to climate
change. This has ramifications for the entire planet, as change spreads through interconnected global
networks that are environmental, cultural, economic and political. Today, with the major thrust of research
shifting away from deciphering causes and monitoring trends, the central preoccupation of a growing circle
of actors has become the exploration of strategies for responding and adapting to climate change.
But to understand the far-reaching nature of climate change impacts and the complexities of adaptation, a truly
interdisciplinary approach is required. Unique in the UN system, UNESCO brings together the domains of natural sciences,
social sciences, culture, education and communication. Given this broad mandate, UNESCO favours integrated approaches
for monitoring and adapting to climate change in the Arctic, fostering dialogue among scientists, circumpolar communities
and decision-makers…
+ info: http://publishing.unesco.org/details.aspx?Code_Livre=4722
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Creative Cities: the Future of Urban Life Workshops - April and July
2013
The project funded by the International Visegrad Fund tackles the potential of
cultural heritage to inspire community life and strengthen local-regional
participation and identity. The assemblies of small and medium sized cities of
CEE could become the drivers of regional development, social-economic
cohesion, innovation and creativity in a novel and complex way. Our aim is to
build a strategic cooperation in a multi-stakeholder V4 network.
The titles of the forthcoming workshops in April: "Creative City: how complex strategic thinking is turned into practice" and
"Regional development – how creative cities support regional cooperation"
+ info: http://www.ises.hu/programmes/cultural-heritage-management/creative-cities
Association Rempart: Les chantiers d'été 2013 sont en ligne
Depuis ce matin, l'ensemble des chantiers et stages REMPART de l'été, en France et à l'étranger, pour les
adolescents et pour les majeurs, est en ligne.
Les chantiers adolescents se déroulent en France (et en Belgique). Les premiers chantiers sont ouverts à
partir de 13, 14 ou 15 ans. L'offre s'étoffe à partir de 16 ans.
Pour participer aux chantiers à l'étranger, il faut être majeur et il est souvent préférable d'avoir déjà une
expérience de chantier en France.
Etudiants, REMPART est en capacité de signer vos conventions de stage. Assurez-vous toutefois auprès de
votre école que le projet que vous avez choisi vous permettra de valider votre année…
+ info: http://www.rempart.com/actu-les-chantiers-d-ete-sont-en-ligne/11579
Postgraduate and Masters Programme in Cultural Heritage Management and
Sustainable Development - Deadline: 15 June 2013
ISES was awarded a UNESCO Chair in Cultural Heritage Management and Sustainable
Development in 2011. The UNESCO Chair complements the unique ISES – Corvinus
postgraduate programme, the first of its kind in Hungary.
The programme offers students the opportunity to become trained professionals with the
skills needed to preserve and protect cultural heritage for future generations. The
programme provides a solid, interdisciplinary foundation for specialization in cultural
heritage management and sustainable development.
The three-semester course starting in Autumn 2013 will focus on best practices of cultural heritage management in the
Visegrad countries. Two semesters are required for course work on campus and online plus one semester for thesis writing
and defense.
Deadline for applications: 15 June, 2013 (for students from Central-Europe: 15 September)
+ info: http://www.ises.hu/en/unesco-chair-in-cultural-heritage-management-and-sustainability
Réseau Art Nouveau Network – Newsletter Nº 29 - March 2013
The Réseau Art Nouveau Network is delighted to announce the membership of
Subotica (Serbia) voted during the General Assembly of the Association in
Aveiro on 25 January 2013.
The Network warmly thanks the international public which came to attend the
Historical lab 4 on the theme “Raw materials and Art Nouveau” which took place
on 26 January 2013, also in Aveiro.
The beginning of 2013 is really effervescent for the Network which had the
opportunity to present its activities during the colloquium organized by KIK-IRPA and the Royal Museums of Art and History
Cultural Heritage
in Brussels dedicated to the Art Nouveau heritage.
The end of year will be marked by the opening of the travelling exhibition “The Natures of Art Nouveau” in Helsinki and
Brussels in October.
While waiting for this big event, discover quickly the current or upcoming events!
+ info: http://www.artnouveau-net.eu/News/Events/Newsletter/Newsletter29/tabid/975/language/en-GB/Default.aspx
POSTULACIÓN AL PROGRAMA DE MAGÍSTER EN ARTE Y PATRIMONIO, VERSIÓN 20142015
El inicio del proceso de postulación al programa de magíster en arte y patrimonio, versión 20142015 quedará abierto desde el 2 de Mayo de 2013 al 30 de noviembre de 2013.
Los postulantes preseleccionados deberán concurrir, previa cita a definir, a una entrevista personal
con el Comité del Programa entre los días 11, 12 y 13 de diciembre de 2013.
Los resultados de postulaciones se darán a conocer el 16 de enero de 2014.
+ info: http://www.udec.cl/postgrado/
Posted by FUUH member: Ramírez Hinrichsen, Javier
Winners of 2013 EU Prize for Cultural Heritage Europa Nostra Awards announced
The winners of the 2013 European Union Prize for Cultural Heritage / Europa Nostra Awards were unveiled
today by the European Commission and Europa Nostra. The 30 winners, selected from nearly 200 nominated
projects, are honoured for their achievements in four areas: conservation, research, dedicated service, and
education, training and awareness-raising. The award ceremony will take place on 16 June at the Odeon of
Herodes Atticus in Athens, in the presence of Karolos Papoulias, the President of Greece, Androulla Vassiliou,
European Commissioner for Education, Culture, Multilingualism and Youth, and Plácido Domingo, the worldrenowned opera singer and Europa Nostra President. The event is held under the auspices of the Greek
President. Of the 30 winning projects, six will be named as grand prix laureates in Athens and one of the winners will receive
the public choice award, based on an online poll conducted by Europa Nostra.
online poll deadline: 26 May 2013: http://vote.europanostra.org/
+ info: http://www.europanostra.org/laureates-2013/
Prizes - La Fondation du Patrimoine, lauréate du Prix Europa Nostra - Remise des prix le 16
juin à Athènes (Grèce)
Le Palmarès 2013 du Prix du patrimoine culturel de l’Union Européenne/Concours Europa Nostra vient
d’être dévoilé, et consacre la Fondation du Patrimoine dans la catégorie « Contributions
Fondation du Patrimoine Newsletter No.50 | 02/04/2013 - France
The 'Fondation du Patrimoine' has been long aimed at saving and making value of rural heritages that are not protected.
Houses, churches, bridges, wash houses, mills, industrial heritage, furniture and the natural landscape…all kinds of relevant
heritage are admissible to the action of the Foundation. Besides the sector´s principal acts and statements, the foundation
helps the public land owners and associations to finance their projects, allows those private land owners to carry out all or
part of their works, and mobilizes the patronage of enterprises.
+ info: http://fondation-patrimoine.org/
Lawmakers call for preventive measures towards cultural heritage
The discussion on the draft law on Cultural Heritage Protection continued yesterday, during which the recent fire at Na Tcha
Temple was put on the table for discussion. Lawmakers believe the government is also responsible for protecting heritage
sites from damage.
The draft law stipulates that when heritage structures are confronted with danger or damage, it is the legal duty for owners,
tenants, users or holders to inform the Cultural Affairs Bureau immediately. However the AL Committee members that met
yesterday pointed out at the meeting that the Bureau itself is also liable to take preventive methods to protect buildings
against such damage. “Can the Bureau take the recent fire at Na Tcha Temple as an example? The government can place
fireproof boxes to store offerings or set up fire alarm systems in advance,” said Cheang Chi Keong, President of the 3rd
Standing Committee of the Legislative Assembly (AL)…
+ info: http://www.macaudailytimes.com.mo/macau/42719-lawmakers-call-for-preventive-measures-towards-culturalheritage.html
Launch of Euromed Heritage digital library
Euromed Heritage is happy to announce the launch of its digital library in collaboration with Manumed
project: http://culturalheritage.euromedheritage.net
The new virtual library constitutes a rich and sustainable resource centre for all documents produced
within Euromed Heritage Programme. The documents are accessible and downloadable from the Ecorpus platform, a digital comprehensive library for cultural heritage created in 2009. The library grows
incrementally and organizes and repertories a multiplicity of documents, more than 2.3 million to date,
introduced through more than 120,000 thematic summaries…
+ info: http://culturalheritage.euromedheritage.net/
Cultural Heritage
Luis Gonzalo Jaramillo Echeverri elegido representante de universidades para el
Consejo Nacional de Patrimonio
El Ministerio de Cultura adelantó la convocatoria para elegir al representante de las universidades
al Consejo Nacional de Patrimonio Cultural, dando así cumplimiento al Decreto 3322 del 5 de
septiembre de 2008, el cual modificó el artículo 3º del Decreto 1313 del 23 de abril de 2008. El
candidato elegido por los rectores de las universidades que propusieron candidatos fue, por
mayoría de votos, el doctor Luis Gonzalo Jaramillo Echeverri de la Universidad de Los Andes.
El doctor Jaramillo Echeverri es antropólogo de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Magíster
Antropología y Doctor en Arqueología de la Universidad de Pittsburgh, Estados Unidos. Es docente del Departamento de
Antropología de la Universidad de los Andes desde el año 2004. Fue profesor de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia, sede
Bogotá, y de la Universidad de Caldas en Manizales. Asimismo, fue jefe de la División de Arqueología y Parques
Arqueológicos del Instituto Colombiano de Antropología e Historia, ICANH.
+ info: http://www.notillano.com/index.php/vida-hoy/cultura/55-cultura/17850-elegido-representante-de-universidadespara-el-consejo-nacional-de-patrimonio.html
Summer Course - Russian Culture in Baltic Nature - Center for Environmental and
Technological History (CETH) at the European University at St. Petersburg (EUSP). Russian
Federation. July 2013 - Deadline for Applications: 20 April 2013
The first course, beginning in 2013, will be dedicated to Russian heritage in the Eastern Baltic. The
Baltic Sea is a key natural and cultural unifier of the lands of Eastern Europe and Russia and the course
will focus on local trans-border culture and nature. The Eastern Baltic is a place where nations and
peoples have been mixed for centuries and powerful empires have impacted one another. During the
summer session we will travel through three countries studying the Russian culture and heritage
dispersed here and there in unforgettable landscapes. This course is based on the idea of three continuities: continuity of
culture, nature and history across state borders. Finally we will try to answer a key question – is international heritage
management possible at all?...
+ info: http://www.eu.spb.ru/en/research-centers/ceth/projects/9019-baltic2013-en
Job Offers - The Heritage Lottery Fund - Programme Manager - Heritage Enterprise
(United Kingdom) Deadline for applications: 28 April 2013
The HLF is recruiting a new permanent post of Programme Manager – Heritage Enterprise. This
is an exciting opportunity to help lead HLF’s new multi-million pound grant programme, Heritage
Enterprise, specifically designed to stimulate local economic growth by providing funding to
unlock the latent commercial potential of unused historic buildings and sites across the UK. The
successful applicant will be responsible for both managing the new Heritage Enterprise grant
programme and for providing support to the Head of Historic Environment Conservation to
develop and deliver our historic environment policy for grant giving and advocacy…
+ info: https://forms.hlf.org.uk/applications/HLFJobs_PublicPortal.ofml
ISPAN Newsletter (Institut de sauvegarde du patrimoine national) N. 32 1er April 2013 (Haïti) In French
The Institute for the Conservation of National Heritage (ISPAN) is a technical entity independent of the Ministry of Culture
and Communication. It has as its mission the inventory and classification of the sites, monuments and architectural
complexes of the Republic of Haiti, and it is also in charge of carrying out of projects for the protection, restoration and
performance of monuments, sites and historical complexes, of securing the direction and control of the performance of such
projects, of aiding the promotion and development of public or private activities aimed at preserving the national heritage,
and lastly, of gathering, organizing and spreading all the information and documents related to the architectural heritage and
the monuments, both at a national and international level. We would like to thank you for encouraging your friends to
subscribe to the ISPAN BULLETIN at the following address : [email protected]
+ info: http://universityandheritage.net/doc/ISPAN_No_32.pdf
Training: Licence professionnelle en valorisation et sauvegarde du patrimoine. Deadline: 26 April 2013
L’Ecole du Patrimoine Africain-EPA sise à Porto-Novo au Bénin en partenariat avec l’Université d’Abomey-Calavi (UAC),
l’Université de Paris 1 et de l’ICCROM, et avec la
contribution financière de la Fondation Getty, lance un appel à candidatures pour la sélection de candidats devant participer
à la prochaine édition de sa licence destinée à la préparation de spécialistes de la valorisation et de la sauve garde du
patrimoine notamment des collections de musées, d’archives et de bibliothèques.
Cette formation professionnelle se déroulera à Porto- Novo (Bénin) sur deux années
académiques et a pour but de préparer des cadres compétents désirant s’investir dans la préservation et la valorisation du
patrimoine de leurs pays à travers l’initiation et la conduite des activités concrètes.
+ info: http://www.epa-prema.net/documents/APPEL-A-CANDIDATURES-CU-2013.pdf
Quang Nam Heritage Festival to take place in June
A heritage festival will be held in Quang Nam province from June 22-26 in a bid to boost
tourism in the central region and the country as a whole.
The 5th Quang Nam Heritage Festival, co-organised by the Ministry of Culture, Sports
and Tourism, and the Quang Nam Provincial People’s Committee, is expected to see the
participation of 18 provinces and cities that are home to world heritage sites and
biosphere reserves.
The festival aims to stimulate the province’s socio-economic development, according to a
plan announced at a working session held in Quang Nam on April 10 to prepare for the festival…
Cultural Heritage
+ info: http://english.vov.vn/Travel/Quang-Nam-Heritage-Festival-to-take-place-in-June/259154.vov
Padova teme per il cielo stellato di Giotto - Italy
Se dici Padova pensi subito alla Cappella degli Scrovegni, maestoso capolavoro realizzato da Giotto tra
il 1303 e il 1305 e raffigurante la storia della Madonna e di Cristo, sormontato da un cielo stellato di
inaudita bellezza.
Si può tranquillamente affermare che questa è la principale opera per cui la città veneta è famosa nel
mondo, visitata solo nel 2012 da oltre 356 mila persone provenienti da ogni dove.
La fragilità di questi importanti affreschi è però da sempre motivo di forte preoccupazione per i
restauratori, tanto che nel corso degli anni si sono succeduti diversi interventi, come quello di Botti e
Bertolli alla fine dell’800 e poi negli anni ’60 e ’70 con Tintori.
+ info: http://www.tafter.it/2013/04/10/padova-teme-per-il-cielo-stellato-di-giotto/
La Universidad estudia cómo restaurar sin dinero
La Facultad de Filosofía debate a partir de hoy la figura del conservador del patrimonio ante los nuevos retos que plantea la
crisis .
Restaurar sin dinero. Es el panorama que deben afrontar los conservadores del patrimonio y tema central del curso que
desde hoy y durante dos días acogerá la Facultad de Filosofía y Letras. Bajo la dirección de Jorge Martínez Montero y María
Cabezas, el curso tiene como objetivo primordial un acercamiento a las prácticas profesionales del conservador-restaurador.
Profesionales y docentes del sector de la conservación darán a conocer las principales aportaciones en la intervención de la
obra de arte, a través de experiencias de aplicación en diversos tipos de bienes culturales…
+ info: http://www.diariodeleon.es/noticias/cultura/la-universidad-estudia-como-restaurar-sin-dinero_786038.html
record.
+ info: www.archaeological.org/CPAC
Australian researchers develop 3D mapping system to protect cultural heritage sites
Australian researchers developed a mobile laser 3D mapping system called Zebedee to preserve some of the country's oldest
and most culturally significant heritage sites, CSIRO, Australia's national science agency, announced on Saturday.
According to a statement from CSIRO, this new joint research initiative between CSIRO and The University of Queensland
aims to collect detailed 3D maps of historic sites of Moreton Bay. With the assistance of Queensland Parks and Wildlife
Services, the research team has collected data from a number of heritage sites including the 19th century Brisbane River
defences at Fort Lytton and Peel Island's leper colony buildings…
+ info: http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/sci/2013-04/13/c_132305834.htm
Prizes - Latest news about the European Heritage Label
The 2013 selection is reserved to Austria, Estonia, Denmark, Luxembourg and the Netherlands who
did not participate in the previous intergovernmental label and who wished to participate in this new
European Heritage Label.1
The European Commission will proceed with the final selection of sites in consultation with a panel of
independent experts in the coming months. This panel shall deliver its report by the end of 2013 and
the Commission will award the Label on this basis in the beginning of 2014.
Every year, a list will be published with the sites pre-selected by the Member Statesand those finally
selected by the Commission to get the European Heritage Label.
+ info: http://ec.europa.eu/culture/our-programmes-and-actions/label/european-heritage-label_en.htm
Becas Endesa para Iberoamérica de patrimonio cultural - Fecha límite: 22 abril 2013
Las becas convocadas tienen por objeto la participación en un programa de formación no reglada en el
ámbito del patrimonio cultural, que se desarrollará mediante estancias de prácticas de los becarios en
centros dependientes o adscritos al Ministerio de Educación Cultura y Deporte de España.
Se convocan nueve becas de nueve meses de duración (del 1 octubre de 2013 al 27 de junio de 2014)
no renovables. Cada una de las becas estará dotada con nueve mensualidades de 1.000 euros brutos,
que se harán efectivos al comienzo de cada mes. Los becarios recibirán una ayuda de viaje e
instalación, pagadera de una sola vez, al comienzo del disfrute de la beca, por importe de 1.800 Euros.
Asimismo, cada becario tendrá un seguro médico no farmacéutico durante el período de disfrute de la beca.
+ info: http://www.mcu.es/becas/FundacionEndesa2013.html
Cultural Heritage
2013-2015 - Date limite: 7 juin 2013
ECTS.
Los restos confirman que la cabecera de la Catedral oculta la estructura original Zamora - Spain
Prácticamente arrasada al nivel de la sacristía actual se encuentran los restos de la antigua
cabecera de la Catedral de Zamora, vestigios medievales que no sobrevivieron a la constante
reforma del templo como si lo hicieron la Torre del Salvador, la cúpula gallonada y la Puerta
del Obispo, únicos elementos románicos que se pueden contemplar en la actualidad. Así lo
apuntó ayer la arqueóloga territorial, Hortensia Larrén, en una conferencia monográfica sobre
las sucesivas actuaciones que se han llevado a cabo en el edificio en las dos últimas décadas
en la Seo en la cuarta jornada del curso de arte románico que organiza la UNED…
+ info: http://www.laopiniondezamora.es/zamora/2013/04/12/restos-confirman-cabecera-catedral-oculta-estructuraoriginal/671631.html
This prize is awarded every second year by the Organization of World Heritage Cities (OWHC) to a city that
is a member in good standing of the OWHC, and that has distinguished itself by an achievement in terms of
conservation, enhancement or management of property inscribed on the World Heritage List, and that is
located on its territory.
Agenda
2013 International Day on Monuments and Sites on "Heritage of Education"
18 April 2013 -Organizers: ICOMOS
+ info: http://www.icomos.org/en/what-we-do/focus/18-april-international-day-for-monuments-and-sites
The Archaeology Channel Conference on Cultural Heritage Film
08 - 10 May 2013 Eugene, Oregon. United States of America
Organizers: Archaeological Legacy Institute
+ info: http://archaeologychannel.us/web/index.php?option=com_content
II Summer School on « Culture(s), Museum(s) and Society(ies) »
12 - 18 May 2013 Quebec. Canada
Organizers: The CÉLAT research center (Centre interuniversitaire d’études sur les lettres, les arts et les traditions) at
Université Laval (Quebec City, Canada) and the Musée de la civilisation (Quebec City, Canada)
+ info: http://www.celat.ulaval.ca/?page_id=3586
1st International Congress on History of Art and Archaeology. The Empire and the Hispaniae from Trajan to
Charles V: Classicism and Power in Spanish Art
13 - 14 May 2013 Bologna. Italy
Organizers: The Royal College of Spain in Bologna, in collaboration with the Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna
+ info: http://www.congresoartebolonia.com/#!__eng
Cultural Heritage
Workshop: PARNASSUS: Ensuring Integrity, Preserving Significance
17 May 2013 London. United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Organizers: University College London, United Kingdom
Contact: Dr Yasemin Aktas ([email protected])
+ info: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/parnassus/workshop
II Jornadas sobre "Gestión de la conservación del patrimonio religioso"
20 - 22 May 2013 Castellón, Valencia y Alicante. Spain
Organizers: Institut Valencià de Conservació i Restauració de Béns Culturals
+ info: http://www.ivcr.es/ivcr.php?area=congresos
II Encuentro Iberoamericano en Políticas, Gestión e Industrias Culturales. “Promocionando Derechos a Través
de la Cultura”
22 - 24 May 2013 Río Negro. Argentina
Organizers: Asociación Ecocultura Argentina, con el patrocinio del Museo Patagónico de Ciencias Naturales
+ info: http://iiencuentroiberoamericano.blogspot.com.ar/
Summer Program "PRESERVING THE PAST FOR THE FUTURE"
05 June - 15 July 2013 -- Prague (Czech Republic) and Kraków (Poland)
Organizers: Rutgers’ Program in Cultural Heritage and Preservation Studies in collaboration with the Dartmore Institute
Contact: Gregory Spear - [email protected]
+ info: https://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=202448
Colloque international des VMF - Un siècle de protection des Monuments historiques, pour quel avenir ?
Organizers: Vieilles Maisons Françaises - VMF
+ info: http://www.vmfpatrimoine.org/colloque-vmf-international-juin-2013-a-l-unesco/
The 2nd Heritage Forum of Central Europe "The Limits of Heritage"
12 - 14 June 2013 Krakow. Poland
Organizers: International Cultural Centre in Krakow
+ info: http://www.mck.krakow.pl/news/the-2nd-heritage-forum
2013 Arizona Historic Preservation Conference teams up with Traditional Cultural Places Workshop
12 - 14 June 2013 Mesa, Arizona. United States of America
Organizers: The Arizona State Historic Preservation Office, the Arizona Preservation Foundation, and the City of Mesa
+ info: http://www.azpreservation.com/
Cultural Heritage
An Esoteric Quest for Ancient, Arabic and Medieval Sicily
13 - 18 June 2013 Siracusa. Italy
Organizers: The New York Open Center
Contact: Andrea Lomanto - [email protected].
+ info: http://www.esotericquest.org/sicily
International Conference - "Sharing our natural and cultural heritage: interpretation can make us citizens of the
world"
15 - 18 June 2013 Sigtuna. Sweden
Organizers: Interpret Europe - European Association for Heritage Interpretation in colaboration with the Swedish Centre for
Nature Interpretation at the Swedish Agricultural University and the National Association for Interpretation (NAI)
+ info: http://www.interpret-europe.net/top/whats-on/events/international-conference-2013.html
Symposium Van Gogh’s Studio Practice - Call for papers
24 - 26 June 2013 Amsterdam. Netherlands
Organizers: Van Gogh Museum, in close collaboration with the Netherlands Institute for Cultural Heritage and Shell
+ info: http://www.iccrom.org/eng/news_en/2012_en/field_en/07_10symposiumVanGogh_NLD.pdf
CHL Summer School 2013 - Cultural Heritage Law Past, Present, and Future
24 June - 05 July 2013 Geneva. Switzerland
Organizers: University of Geneva
+ info: http://www.genevasummerschools.ch/pages/courses.php
International Congress in Modernism-Art Nouveau
26 - 29 June 2013 Barcelona. Spain
Organizers: Barcelona City Council (Urban Landscape Institute, IMPUiQV) and the University of Barcelona (Contemporary
and Modern Art Research Group, GRACMON)
+ info: http://www.artnouveau.eu/en/congress.php
3e conférence internationale PATRIMONIUM
29 - 30 June 2013 Shanghai. China
Organizers: East China University of Political science and Law
Contact: Aurélien Antoine - [email protected]
+ info: http://droit.u-clermont1.fr/patrimoine-historique-culturel-et-naturel-protection-conservation-et-valorisation.html
International Summer Academy: Understanding Heritage (ISAC)
July 2013. BTU Cottbus. Germany
Organizers: Cottbus University in cooperation with the German Commission for UNESCO
+ info: http://www.tu-cottbus.de/interkulturalitaet/summer-academy/
10 - 13 July 2013 Evora. Portugal
Organizers: Hercules Laboratory – University of Evora, Portugal
Posted by FUUH member: Candeias, António
Formation intensive "Construire ensemble l'avenir des sites patrimoniaux :Elaborer et mettre en oeuvre une
gestion durable"
Cultural Heritage
septembre/octobre 2013 à Cluny en Bourgogne. France
Organizers: Réseau des Grands Sites de France (RGSF)/Pole inyernational francophone (PIF)
Contact: Lucie Para - [email protected]
+ info: http://www.polepatrimoine.org/activites/ateliers-et-formations-a-venir
XXIV International CIPA Symposium "Recording, Documentation and Cooperation for Cultural Heritage"
02 - 06 September 2013 Strasbourg. France
Organizers: CIPA, ICOMOS, ISPRS, SFPT and INSA Strasbourg
+ info: http://www.cipa2013.org/
International Conference "Art Nouveau and Asia"
26 - 28 September 2013 Nice. France
Organizers: The FEDERPAC program of IrASIA, Aix-Marseille University in collaboration with the Réseau Art Nouveau
Européen and the University of Nice.
DEADLINE: 30 sep 2012
+ info: http://www.google.es/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=conference
LATAN - Curso internacional de gestión de riesgos para el patrimonio cultural
07 - 25 October 2013 Santiago de Chile. Chile
Organizers: El ICCROM (International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property); la
Dirección de Bibliotecas, Archivos y Museos de Chile (dibam) y el Centro Nacional de Conservación y Restauración de Chile
(CNCR)
+ info: http://www.iccrom.org/eng/01train_en/announce_en/2013_10latam_risk_CHL_en.shtml
Call for Abstracts - Post-Conflict, Cultural Heritage and Regional Development: An International Conference
09 - 11 October 2013 Wageningen. Netherlands
Organizers: The Liberation Day Committee 1945 Wageningen (as member of the European Network of Places of Peace),
Wageningen University and Inholland University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands
+ info: http://www.peaceconference.org/call_for_abstracts
Colloque international : Les photographes et la commande industrielle en Europe au XXe siècle
10 - 13 October 2013 Saint-Etienne. France
Organizers: CIEREC (Centre Interdisciplinaire d’Etude et de Recherches sur l’Expression contemporaine) de l’Université Jean
Monnet, et par le Musée d’Art Moderne de Saint-Etienne.
Contact: Danièle Méaux - [email protected]
+ info: http://portail.univ-st-etienne.fr/bienvenue/actualites/cierec-colloque-international-les-photographes-et-la-commandeindustrielle-en-europe-au-xxe-siecle--408855.kjsp?RH=actu
Posted by FUUH member: PIERROT, Nicolas. France
Master in World Heritage and Cultural projects for Development
Cultural Heritage
14 October 2013 - 30 September 2014 -- distant learning and face to face learning in Turin, Italy
Organizers: University of barcelona, University of Torino, the Politecnico di Torino, the International Training Centre of the
ILO (ITCILO), and the UNESCO World Heritage Centre.
+ info: http://worldheritage.itcilo.org/home
12th Conference «European Culture»
24 - 26 October 2013 Barcelona. Spain
Organizers: The Charlemagne Institute of European Studies. Universitat Internacional de Catalunya
+ info: http://www.uic.es/es/cultura-europea
7th Young Cultural Policy Researchers Forum 2013
04 - 05 November 2013 Brussels. Belgium
Organizers: The European Cultural Foundation, ECF and ENCATC
Contact: Elizabeth Darley ([email protected])
Posted by FUUH member: COGLIANDRO, Giannalia. Belgium
Cities.”
Publications
Museums, Heritage, and International Development
Edited by Paul Basu and Wayne Modest
Year: 2013
Along with other areas of "culture for development," the relationship between museums, heritage and international
development has been underexamined from a critical and comparative perspective. This edited volume fills this lacuna and
inaugurates a new, important debate across these and other disciplines, identifying the distinct contribution of museums and
heritage to international development agendas, engaging with the politics of museums and heritage for development, and
identifying the specific challenges facing this sector within development practice. Grounded in particular case studies which
range geographically from Africa, to South, East and South-East Asia, to South America and the Caribbean, the volume aims
at a rethinking of both international museum and development practice.
+ info: http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415659512/
CIPA Heritage documentation - best practices and applications
Edited by Efstratios Stylianidis, Petros Patias and Mario Santana Quintero.
CIPA. 103 p. (Series 1, 2007 & 2009)
ISSN: 1682-1777
Year: 2011
The ICOMOS Scientific Committee, CIPA Heritage Documentation, is proud to present this first in a series of
publications presenting state-of-the-art research and applications in the discipline of Cultural Heritage
documentation. The intention of this publication is to record and archive the progress in documentation
techniques and products during the two-year cycle of the CIPA symposia. In addition, the CIPA-HD Board would like to
acknowledge the important contributions made during these symposia which, besides their theoretical and technical rigor,
also provide examples of good practice or important applications in Cultural Heritage documentation.
+ info: http://cipa.icomos.org/fileadmin/template/doc/RELATED%20LITERATURE/CIPA_Series_1__2007-9.pdf
The Books that Shaped Art History - From Gombrich and Greenberg to Alpers and Krauss
Edited by Richard Shone and John-Paul Stonard
Cultural Heritage
ISBN 9780500238950
Year: 2013
This pioneering volume is a concise and brilliant study of the discipline of Art History and an invaluable
resource for students, teachers, bibliophiles and all those interested in visual culture.
It provides an invaluable roadmap of the field by reassessing the impact of several of the most important
works of art history. Each chapter, focusing on a single title, is written by a leading art historian, curator or one of the
promising scholars of today, presenting a varied and invaluable overview •
of the history of art, told through its seminal texts…
+ info: http://www.thamesandhudson.com/The_Books_that_Shaped_Art_History/9780500238950
Infolettre del LAMIC Vol,4 - marzo 2013 (in French)
The Laboratory of Museology and Culture Engineering (LAMIC) - Laval University. Quebec, Canada
Year: 2013
Infolettre du LAMIC (Laboratoire de Muséologie et d'Ingénierie de la Culture) - Université Laval. Quebec,
Canada (in French)
The Laboratory of Museology and Culture Engineering (LAMIC) is a research infrastructure specialized in
experimental museology that focuses its scientific activities on the ways of culture transmission in a museum
context. It is a technological platform which explores relationships between artefacts, visitors and space
where protagonists gather for an unprecedented meeting by means of a trajectory called an exhibition. This particular
dimension is what interests us and the one we explore in multiple ways, under and from different angles. The museum
experience ethnography summarizes, to a certain extent, the way we approach a phenomenon that has not yet been totally
figured out.
+ info: http://thenhier.ca/sites/default/files/Infolettre-vol4no1.pdf
ISBN : 978-2-7637-9848-6
Year: 2012
Patrimoine et histoire de l'art au Québec : enjeux et perspectives
Auteur : Étienne Berthold, Nathalie Miglioli
Collection : Chaire Fernand-Dumont sur la culture
ISBN : 978-2-7637-9635-2
Year: 2012
Le patrimoine culturel connaît actuellement un petit âge d’or qui se manifeste autant par la multiplication des
objets et des héritages immatériels que par le développement des institutions patrimoniales ou encore par
l’adoption de politiques du patrimoine. À l’université, le patrimoine gagne sans cesse en popularité. En
général, les chercheurs l’abordent non plus comme un « donné » qu’il s’agirait de décrire et de caractériser, mais plutôt
comme une manifestation dynamique résultant d’une construction sociale empreinte de représentations et d’idéologies. La
première partie de cet ouvrage explore les multiples questions que pose le patrimoine dans les domaines de l’histoire, de
l’ethnologie, de la géographie et de la philosophie. La deuxième partie revisite, pour sa part, des acteurs, des concepts et
des catégories discursives qui ont structuré l’histoire de l’art du Québec, proposant ainsi une réflexion épistémologique
novatrice dont la discipline ne saurait faire l’économie.
+ info: http://www.pulaval.com/catalogue/patrimoine-histoire-art-quebec-enjeux-perspectives-9735.html
Ceramica contemporanea all’aperto. Studi sulla conservazione e il restauro
A cura di Luca Bochicchio, Franco Sborgi
Editore: Aracne
ISBN: 978-88-548-5936-4
Year: 2013
Questo volume contiene gli interventi della Giornata Internazionale di Studi sulla Conservazione della
Ceramica Contemporanea all?Aperto, svoltasi ad Albissola Marina il 14 Ottobre 2011 nell?ambito del
progetto di sviluppo del Museo Diffuso di Albissola Marina.
Promosso da: Comune di Albissola Marina ? Assessorato alla Cultura Università degli Studi di Genova ? Dipartimento di
Italianistica Romanistica Antichistica Arti e Spettacolo In collaborazione con: Soprintendenza per i Beni Architettonici e
Paesaggistici della Liguria Soprintendenza per i Beni Storici, Artistici, ed Etnoantropologici della Liguria Corso di Laurea
Magistrale in Metodologie per la Conservazione e il Restauro dei Beni Culturali, Università degli Studi di Genova Medaglia del
Presidente della Repubblica Italiana Con il patrocinio di: Regione Liguria Provincia di Savona Centro Ligure per la Storia della
Ceramica Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, dell?Ambiente e della Vita Università di Genova AdAC Archivio d?Arte
Contemporanea Università di Genova
Cultural Heritage
ISBN: 978-88-548-5880-0
Year: 2013
construido.
Issue 2 of the Journal of Research and Development Culture Wale'keru, an initiative of the
Laboratory for Research and Innovation in Culture and Development
Year: 2013
It is a pleasure to inform you of the publication of Issue 2 of the Journal of Research and Development
Culture Wale'keru, an initiative of the Laboratory for Research and Innovation in Culture and Development
(L + iD), created by the University of Girona, Spain (UdG) and the Universidad Tecnológica de Bolívar,
Colombia (UTB).
In this second issue you can read articles from Arturo Escobar, Xavier Greffe, Wilder Guerra and Fernando
Vicario and reviews and notices of interest.
This is a free digital publication that can be read online or downloaded in PDF or E-Pub
+ info: http://www.edu-library.com/es/walekeru
Difusión y protección del patrimonio religioso en América Latina
La Cátedra UNESCO de Turismo Cultural Untref-Aamnba, de la Universidad de Tres de Febrero,
provincia de Buenos Aires
Year: 2013
La obra recoge las ponencias del Seminario Internacional "Difusión y protección del patrimonio
religioso en América Latina", proyecto aprobado por el Programa de Participación 2010-2011 de
la UNESCO y organizado por la Cátedra Untref-Aamnba del 3 al 5 de octubre de 2011.
Un panel integrado por el Arq. Ramón Gutiérrez, del Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones
Científicas y Técnicas de Argentina, el Arq. Carlos Moreno, Vocal de la Comisión Nacional de Museos, Monumentos y Lugares
Históricos, así como el Presbítero Ernesto Salvia, Párroco de la Iglesia San Pedro Telmo y Presidente de la Junta de Historia
Eclesiástica Argentina, tendrán a su cargo la presentación del libro.
+ info: http://www.unesco.lacult.org/noticias/showitem.php?uid_ext=aurora_3&getipr=NjYuMjQ5Ljc2LjU3&lg=1&id=3549
Conosci Roma? Tutto quello che devi assolutamente sapere
By Lauretta Colonnelli
Editore: Clichy
ISBN-13: 9788862943048
Year: 2013
Quanti sono gli obelischi di Roma? Dove morì Michelangelo Buonarroti nel 1564? Dove si trova il centro esatto
di Roma? In quale teatro i Beatles si sono esibiti nel loro primo concerto a Roma il 27 giugno 1965? Chi era il
grande scrittore russo che tra il 1838 e il 1842 abitò nel palazzo in via Sistina 125 e vi scrisse il suo
capolavoro? Che origine ha il nome di via del Pellegrino? Dove sono sepolti i grandi poeti romaneschi Belli, Pascarella e
Trilussa? Quanti sono gli animali raffigurati nella basilica di San Pietro? Roma è la città eterna, una delle città più antiche del
mondo e più ricche di storie e di misteri. Riprendendo lo schema di "Conosci Parigi?", l'"invenzione" dello scrittore francese
Raymond Queneau, la giornalista del Corriere della Sera Lauretta Colonnelli ci accompagna in una passeggiata nel passato e
nel presente di Roma. Prefazione di Paolo Portoghesi.
+ info: http://www.edizioniclichy.it/index.php?file=scheda_libro&id_pubblicazione=11
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Démolition suspendue de la Halle de Fontainebleau - France
Chef-d’œuvre architectural du XXème siècle, la Halle du marché de Fontainebleau (Seineet-Marne) est menacée de démolition. Cette destruction a été ordonnée dans le cadre
d’une opération de « re-qualification » de la place de la République. Peu apprécié, cet
édifice n’a jamais beaucoup intéressé alors qu’il est en assez bon état et toujours en
fonction. Cependant, il s’avère que cette halle est en fait un ouvrage de Nicolas Esquillan,
grand ingénieur français qui participa notamment à la réalisation du CNIT de la Défence…
+ info: http://patrimoine-environnement.fr/demolition-suspendue-de-la-halle-de-
fontainebleau/
Exploration of hydrocarbons has been suspended on the Coffee Cultural Landscape,
Colombia.
Thanks to Quindío being declared as part of the UNESCO World Heritage property, Coffee
Cultural Landscape (Colombia), the exploration of hydrocarbons in this area has been stopped
by order of the Council of State. The decree was issued less than eight days ago and demands
the suspension of all exploration by the National Agency of Hydrocarbons and the Drilling
2010 consortium in the Quindío region, an exploration project which covers a large area.
Presented by Quindío’s Office of the Ombudsman, the decree supports the concerns of many
of the region’s landowners regarding land access and deterioration which would be brought about by the proposed drilling of
15 metre deep holes and insertion of an explosive product, Sismigel Plus. The project is on hold awaiting a statement by the
National Government. It must be remembered that President Juan Manuel Santos ordered that no mining projects be carried
out on property declared as UNESCO World Heritage.
+ info: http://whc.unesco.org/en/news/844/
Posted by FUUH member: GREEN, Patricia Elaine. Jamaica
Kew Palace and the Royal Kitchens - Kew Royal Botanic Gardens (United
Kingdom)
Kew Palace has a rich history spanning nearly 400 years – from its modest beginnings as
the home to a rich Flemish merchant, through to the arrival of the royal family and the
‘madness' of King George III. Step inside and explore this intimate and beautiful royal
retreat.
The first royal residents were George II, his wife Queen Charlotte and their ever-growing
family. However, Kew Palace will always be associated with the ‘madness’ of George III.
The palace was purchased by the Georgian King as an annex to the White House (which sadly no longer stands) to
accommodate his expanding family, and somewhere for George III to be shut away during his infamous episodes of
‘madness’. Come and decided for yourself if the King really was mad.
+ info: http://www.kew.org/visit-kew-gardens/garden-attractions-A-Z/Kew-Palace.htm
Madinat Al Zahara Museum / Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos -2009 - Cordoba (Spain)
The remains of the old Hispano-Muslim city suggested a dialogue with those who a thousand years
earlier had conceived and built it, but also with the patient work of archaeologists and with the
surrounding agrarian landscape, to which the geometry of the ruins gave an unexpected abstract
quality. The terrain of the archaeological site for the museum stirred, however, contrasting feelings.
On the one hand, the yearning for a remote past yet to be discovered pervaded the landscape
stretching all the way to the mountain ranges of Córdoba. On the other hand, the disorderly growth
of new constructions lurked over the old city. Our first reaction when we arrived at the place would
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determine, from the very first moment, our proposal: we should not build in that landscape…
Belvedere For Koblenz / Dethier Architectures- 2011 - Koblenz - Germany
In 2011, Koblenz was chosen as the site for the Bundesgartenschau, a biennial horticultural
show that drew 3.6 million visitors. Various structures were erected for the occasion, including
a belvedere designed by Dethier Architectures. In addition to providing a lookout point, the
belvedere has become a symbol of the city.
The Bundesgartenschau is a large-scale event, and the city of Koblenz needed an
infrastructure capable of meeting the challenge. Part of the preparations involved an
international competition for the construction of a belvedere, to be built on the site of the
Ehrenbreitstein Fortress, which overlooks the confluence of the Moselle and Rhine rivers. The fortress is an outstanding site
that became a popular tourist attraction after the First World War, and it has been placed on UNESCO’s World Heritage List…
Climate Change Threatens Global Wine Production
Climate change threatens the most famous wine production regions in the world with areas projected to shrink by as much
as 73% by 2050 prompting the opening of new areas to wine production in unusual places, according to a new study
published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).
Researchers led by Conservation International looked at nine major wine producing areas within the first global map of
future winemaking using multiple models of wine suitability. Areas analyzed in more detail included California, Western North
America, Chile, Mediterranean Europe, Northern Europe, Cape Floristic Region of South Africa, parts of Australia with
Mediterranean climate, parts of Australia with non-Mediterranean climate and New Zealand…
+ info: http://www.foodproductdesign.com/news/2013/04/climate-change-threatens-global-wine-production.aspx
Development plans threaten Haag’s Battelle Memorial Institute- Talaris Conference Centre Seattle - Washington State (USA)
Richard Haag’s Modernist campus, the former Battelle Memorial Institute site, has kept its integrity for
nearly a half-century. Today known as the “Talaris site” and conference center, the campus, an oasis
of tranquility in the Laurelhurst community in Northeast Seattle, is the topic of early-stage
development plans, which threaten the integrity of its Modernist design.
Seattle’s Laurelhurst emerged from farm-like settlements to become a platted residential
neighborhood in the early 1900s. Developed in tracts over its 100 year history, it was an early
attraction to Seattle residents seeking less developed areas of the city for their homes. As families moved into the area,
Laurelhurst began to take on the character of a community. Long a swampy extension of the shore of nearby Lake
Washington and Union Bay, the Battelle site was owned briefly by a group planning to develop a golf course, which never
materialized. In the 1960s, Battelle Memorial Institute obtained the land to create the Battelle Seattle Research Center…
+ info: http://tclf.org/landslides/battelle-memorial-institute
Celebrating the Golden Gate National Parks - San Francisco - California (USA)
San Francisco is home to an exceptional number of talented landscape architects, designers, and
others who have all designed projects for the Golden Gate National Parks – their collective
achievements and the skilled stewardship of the park system by the Golden Gate National Parks
Conservancy, The Presidio Trust and the National Park Service were the focus of several events in
early April.
On Thursday, April 4, Stewardship Excellence Awards were given to the three park stewards at
an elegant reception at the Bently Reserve attended by more than 225 people…
+ info: http://tclf.org/news/features/celebrating-golden-gate-national-parks
Andalusia - Bensalem Township - Pennsylvania (USA)
The landscape has evolved during more than two centuries of Biddle family ownership. The masonry
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walls of the graperies now enclose a formal holly and rose garden with gravel paths and wisteria
arbors. A woodland walk leads to a clearing set with rustic furniture. In the 1960s, James Biddle
designed the Green Walk, a collection of dwarf conifers and perennial beds with spring flowering trees
and bulbs, and added a swimming pool with a pavilion edged with perennial beds. In 1980, Biddle
created the Andalusia Foundation to preserve his ancestral home, which was designated a National
Historic Landmark in 1966.
+ info: http://tclf.org/landscapes/andalusia
space junk.
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DNA.italia, la Rassegna dedicata al B2B della cultura
18 - 19 April 2013 Torino. Italy
Organizers: Italia-Lingotto Fiere, con il contributo della Camera di commercio di Torino e la supervisione scientifica di
Monti&Taft.
+ info: http://www.dnaitalia.it/it/la-rassegna.html
Charles Birnbaum Lecture
24 April 2013 Los Angeles, California. United States of America
Organizers: University of Southern California
+ info: http://arch.usc.edu/calendar/lecture-charles-birnbaum
International Scientific Conference "Landscape and Imagination"
02 - 04 May 2013 Paris. France
Organizers: UNISCAPE and Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Paris-La Villette
Contact: Tessa Goodman - [email protected]
+ info: http://www.uniscape.eu
Colloque annuelle du CELAT « Lieux de passage et vivre-ensemble »
Organizers: CELAT (Centre interuniversitaire d’Études sur les Lettres, les Arts et les Traditions) propose de tenir son colloque
annuel à l’ACFAS
Contact: [email protected] - Célia Forget
Civic Horticulture Conference in the University Of The Arts of Philadelphia
16 - 17 May 2013 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. United States of America
Organizers: The Cultural Landscape Foundation & Pennsylvania Horticultural Society With Support From: Landscape Forms in
collaboration with the University of Arts of Philadelphia (PA)
+ info: http://tclf.org/sites/default/files/microsites/civic-horticulture/index.html
VII Latin American Symposium on Conservation of the Industrial Heritage, in the III International Seminar of
TICCIH Mexico
27 May - 02 June 2013 Zacatecas. Mexico
Organizers: TICCIH Mexico, AC, the Government of the State of Zacatecas through the Junta de Protección y Conservación
de Monumentos y Zonas Típicas del Estado de Zacatecas and the Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas, in cooperation with
the Archivo Histórico y Museo de Minería, A.C., the Sociedad Española de Historia de las Ciencias y de las Técnicas and the
Association de Patrimoine Industriel de Champagne-Ardenne (France)
+ info: http://blogdelaamhe.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/first-call-for-papers-ticcih-zacatecas-2013.pdf
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Conference MINaH 2013 "Balancing untouched nature with local cultures"
11 - 13 September 2013 Clermont-Ferrand. France
Organizers: Clermont University's pole for Research and Higher Education; Auvergne Institute for Country Developping;
Local council of the Puy-de-Dôme; et Auvergne Volcanoes Regional Park
Contact: Yves Michelin, professor at VetAgroSup: [email protected]
+ info: http://minah.vetagro-sup.fr/sites/en/
COIBRECOPA 2013 - III Congreso Iberoamericano - XI Jornada "Técnicas de Restauración y Conservación del
Patrimonio"
16 - 18 October 2013 La Plata. Argentina
Organizers: CIC - LEMIT en colaboración con la provincia de Buenos Aires y el Instituto Andaluz del Patrimonio Histórico de
España
+ info: http://www.coibrecopa.com.ar/
International Scientific Workshop: VERSUS - Vernacular Heritage Sustainable Architecture (CIAV 2013)
16 - 20 October 2013 Vila Nova de Cerveira. Portugal
Organizers: Escola Superior Gallaecia & ICOMOS-CIAV
+ info: http://www.esg.pt/ciav2013/
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¿Qué es el paisaje urbano?
Year: 2013
Guía N°3 de la Comisión para la Preservación del Patrimonio Histórico Cultural
de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires.
+ info: http://issuu.com/fabiomarquez/docs/qu__es_el_paisaje_urbano
Posted by FUUH member: MÁRQUEZ, Fabio
Urban Morphology Journal, April 2013
Year: 2013
ISUF was created to rectify the lack of a common forum for researchers and practitioners concerned with
urban form. In the early decades after the Second World War urban research expanded greatly. It did so
within a wide range of disciplines and specialisms – architecture, archaeology, geography, history, planning,
urban design, spatial analysis, space syntax and heritage studies – to name a few. But research and interest
groups tended to function in isolation from one another. The problem was made worse by language barriers.
ISUF’s aim is the international and interdisciplinary sharing of ideas, methods and findings concerned with
urban form. Beginning in 1994 with the coming together of some 20 architects, geographers, planners and historians,
representing four different language areas, it now has some 600 individual and institutional members from about 50
countries.
+ info: http://www.urbanform.org/journal.html
Posted by FUUH member: WHITEHAND, Jeremy William Richard
Constructive Conservation
Publication Date: 11 Mar 2013
Product Code: 51814
Year: 2013
This latest volume of Constructive Conservation shows the many ways in which historic buildings can
contribute to job creation, business growth and economic prosperity. It explains what can be achieved when
English Heritage is among a multi-disciplined problem-solving team taking a positive and collaborative
approach to conservation and managing change. By demonstrating our philosophy of Constructive
Conservation in action, these case studies emphasise the balance between understanding significance and accommodating
necessary alterations to ensure the continued use and enjoyment of historic buildings, monuments and landscapes.
+ info: http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/professional/advice/conservation-principles/constructive-conservation/
constructive-conservation-sustainable-growth
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Cultural Routes & Itineraries, Linear Heritage (Routes, Canals,
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Amazing video of Pontcysyllte Aqueduct ….as you’ve never seen it before!
This is an amazing video of Pontcysyllte aqueduct in the snow as you’ve never seen it
before……from helicopter drone surveying the structure. This demonstrates how
innovative digital technologies can be used for data capture, interpretation and
dissemination of heritage sites and artifacts using the latest technical survey and
interpretation techniques and their practical application in heritage interpretation,
education and conservation.
Waterways Forward partner Canal & River Trust (Formerly British Waterways) has
worked with local communities to develop the World Heritage Status of the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct.
+ info: http://waterwaysforward.wordpress.com/2013/03/04/amazing-video-of-pontcysyllte-aqueduct-as-youve-never-seenit-before/?goback=.gde_65409_member_219315548
Crainte de déclassement pour le canal du Midi ? - France
Mardi 19 mars 2013, Robert Marconis, géographe et professeur émérite des Universités, a
animé une conférence sur le canal du Midi intitulée : « Canal du Midi : un avenir incertain pour
une voie d’eau historique ». Ce spécialiste d’urbanisme et de questions de transports dresse un
constat pessimiste sur l’avenir du canal. « Les crédits ne sont pas suffisants pour la remise en
état du canal et de ses ouvrages d’art et aucun leadership ne s’est réellement dégagé, en
l’absence d’un projet global et cohérent »…
+ info: http://patrimoine-environnement.fr/crainte-de-declassement-pour-le-canal-du-midi/
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"Planting" China's Green Wall to fight off desertification
Desertification or the slow march of deserts into the plains and valleys represents a growing
problem for China. While the country has made regular efforts to tackle the problem, lots
more needs to be done.
On Tuesday, members of the media, Chinese citizens and foreigners got together at an event
organised by the State General Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television
to plant trees as their contribution to dealing with the problem. CCTV reporter Su Yuting
brings us this report on the effort to build China’s "Green Wall"…
+ info: http://english.cntv.cn/program/newshour/20130403/104791.shtml
Fighting desertification is part of Western Canada’s heritage
When I went to the barber in Swift Current in the summer of 1937 to get a haircut and shave, he said the haircut was OK
but he had quit shaving people. I asked “how come” and he said he couldn’t keep an edge on the razor anymore. With the
terrible dust and the shortage of water, he said sharp particles of sand got imbedded in the skin, or stuck to the surface
somehow. Despite the extra honing he gave his razors, a couple of strokes down the side of a customer’s face took off the
edge…•
The statistics tell the story of the “Dirty ’30s” in Western Canada — miserable yields, negative net farm income and
thousands of families forced to pack up and leave their farms. But somehow that quote from Olaf Field in James Gray’s 1964
book Men Against the Desert is even more effective in illustrating just how serious the drought had become…
+ info: http://www.agcanada.com/albertafarmer/2013/04/18/fighting-desertification-is-part-of-western-canadas-heritage/
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Aymara Indian Perspectives on Development in the Andes
Author: Amy Eisenberg, Ph.D. United States of America
Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
ISBN: 978-0-8173-1791-1
Year: 2013
Aymara Indian Perspectives on Development in the Andes explores the relationship between indigenous
people, the management of natural resources, and the development process in a modernizing region of
Chile.
Aymara Indians are indigenous people living in the Andes Mountains near the Atacama Desert, one of the most arid regions
of the world. Amy Eisenberg bases Aymara Indian Perspectives on Development in the Andes on a framework of
collaborative research and a detailed understanding of issues from the native point of view.
For Andean people, economic, spiritual, and social life are inextricably tied to land and water. The Aymara of Chile comprise
a small, geographically isolated minority of the northern border Region XV, Arica y Parinacota, who are struggling to
maintain their sustainable and traditional systems of irrigation water distribution, agriculture, and pastoralism in the
Atacama Desert. Eisenberg explores the ethnoecological dimensions of the conflict between rapid economic growth and a
sensitive cultural and natural resource base. This book is based on a framework of collaborative research and a detailed
understanding of issues from the native point of view, and the author conducted ethnographic interviews with Aymara people
in more than sixteen Andean villages.
+ info: http://universidadypatrimonio.net/doc/Eisenberg-Aymara.pdf
Posted by FUUH member: Eisenberg, Amy
Proceeding of the Ninth International SUMAMAD Workshop (14-19 December 2011, Bobo
Dioulasso, Burkina Faso)
Year: 2012
Within the framework of the second phase of the Project “Sustainable Management of Marginal
Drylands” (SUMAMAD-2), UNESCO, the UNESCO National Commission of Burkina Faso, the National
Committee of Burkina Faso for the Man and the Biosphere (MAB) Programme and the National Center of
Scientific and Technological Research (CNRST) organized the project’s Ninth International Workshop which
was held in Bobo Dioulasso (Burkina Faso) from 14-19 December 2011.
The Ninth International SUMAMAD Workshop brought together the designated national project coordinators from Bolivia,
Burkina Faso, China, Egypt, India, Jordan, Pakistan, Tunisia and the members of the project’s core management group. The
workshop’s objectives were to review the implementation of the SUMAMAD project and its national field project activities
since 2010 and to discuss technical issues for the implementation of the SUMAMAD project in 2011 and the future project
activities planned for 2012.
+ info: http://www.unesco.org/new/en/natural-sciences/environment/ecological-sciences/specific-ecosystems/drylandsdesertification/sumamad/publications/proceeding-of-the-ninth-sumamad-workshop/
New insights on managing drylands: 8th international workshop, Alexandria (Egypt), 6-9
November 2010
© UNESCO 2012
ISBN 978-92-3-001050-8
Year: 2012
The Eighth International SUMAMAD Project Workshop was held in Alexandria, Egypt, on 6–9 November
2010 at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, and was held back-to-back with the ‘First Students’ Sciences
Conference’ focusing on the theme of biodiversity. The SUMAMAD team leader for Egypt, Prof. Boshra
Salem, in collaboration with the UNESCO-Cairo Office, organized both the workshop and the conference. A one-day field trip
was organized to Omayed Biosphere Reserve. I wish to thank our colleague Prof. Boshra Salem for her excellent efforts in
making this workshop a great success. The workshop proceedings provide information on the manifold activities and
accomplishment achieved by the project so far.
+ info: http://www.unesco.org/new/fileadmin/MULTIMEDIA/HQ/SC/pdf/SUMAMAD_Eighth
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UNESCO launches project to develop a flood risk mitigation plan for Ayutthaya World
Heritage Site
Report by India Education bureau, Bangkok: UNESCO is launching a project to develop a flood
risk mitigation plan for the World Heritage Site of Ayutthaya.
The launch event at UNESCO Bangkok on 22 March 2013 was attended by key players of
Thailand’s national flood risk reduction efforts and representatives from the embassies of
Germany, Japan, Portugal and the United States that have been actively involved in
Ayutthaya’s post-flood recovery in 2011 and 2012…
+ info: http://indiaeducationdiary.in/Showtodayhot.asp?newsid=21111
Ancient Syrian Synagogue, Monuments Hit By Looting, Shelling
Theft and shelling have damaged a 2,000-year-old synagogue in Damascus, one of the
oldest in the world, Syrian government and opposition activist sources said on Monday.
Syria's historic monuments have increasingly become a casualty of the civil war has killed
more than 70,000 people. Parts of Aleppo's medieval stone-vaulted souk have been
reduced to rubble, and many ancient markets, mosques and churches across the country
are threatened with destruction.
The damage has so far been light at the Jobar Synagogue, built in honor of the biblical
prophet Elijah, according to Mamoun Abdulkarim, the head of Syria's antiquities department…
+ info: http://www.voanews.com/content/ancient-syrian-synagogue-monuments-hit-by-looting-shelling/1632748.html
Polémiques dans le Morvan : quand la préservation de la planète entre en conflit
avec la protection du patrimoine naturel - France
La région Bourgogne est en plein débat. Entre le projet d’incinérateur aux portes du parc
régional naturel du Morvan et l’avancement des projets éoliens, les associations de
défense de l’environnement lèvent la voix pour préserver l’écosystème et les paysages de
la région… Encore faut-il que ces voix soient prises en compte…
+ info: http://patrimoine-environnement.fr/polemiques-dans-le-morvan-quand-lapreservation-de-la-planete-entre-en-conflit-avec-la-protection-du-patrimoine-naturel/
L’Aquila staggers towards recovery on fourth anniversary of quake - Italy
… Meanwhile, art historians have been invited to meet in L’Aquila on 5 May to discuss the
state of the town and the country's heritage in general. Tomaso Montanari, a prominent art
historian and a noted campaigner for Italy's heritage, says there is a “visible difference” now
that the works have started, but that it is only the beginning. “You can't really gauge the level
of damage through photographs,” he continues, but he has faith in the town's rebirth because
of its university, which “will continue to attract young people”.
The amount of damage to the town's historic centre and the surrounding area is so vast that
works are expected to carry on at least until 2021. Restoration will involve around 485 separate sites and will cost an
estimated €525m.
+ info: http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/LAquila
Chelsea's future in question after New York flood map is redrawn - New York City (USA)
The future of Chelsea is in question. Most of its galleries, which number around 200, now sit
squarely in one of the worst flood-hazard zones in New York City, according to a new map released
by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema). This is expected to cause a steep rise in
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insurance costs—if flood insurance is available to these galleries at all—while property values could
also be hard hit…
+ info: http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/Chelseas
Dans le 14ème arrondissement de Paris, non pas un, mais deux sites historiques… menacés de
destruction - France
A quelques pas de Denfert-Rochereau, au 26 rue de laTombe-Issoire, la ferme Montsouris est le dernier
vestige de la ruralité parisienne et ses sous-sols, la carrière Port-Mahon, la dernière carrière souterraine
médiévale à Paris qui nous soit parvenue intacte, mais pour combien de temps encore ?...
+ info: http://patrimoine-environnement.fr/dans-14eme-arrondissement-de-paris-non-pas-un-mais-deuxsites-historiques-menaces-de-destruction/
102 cultural relics sites damaged
A total of 102 cultural relics protection units had been damaged after Saturday's 7.0-magnitude earthquake hit Lushan in
southwest China's Sichuan Province, according to the State Administration of Cultural Heritage.
Among these units were 24 sites at national level and 61 at provincial level. The quake had also damaged another 12
museums, where 274 cultural relics items were affected, according to the administration as of 2 p.m. Sunday.
The administration said it will continue to verify the situations of local cultural relics with the cooperation of Sichuan's
provincial cultural heritage department, and sent special personnel to conduct field survey once conditions permit…
+ info: http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2013-04/21/c_132328236.htm
Incendio destruye antigua iglesia católica en suroeste de Colombia
La antigua iglesia católica de San Andrés de Pisimbalá, ubicada en un resguardo indígena del
municipio de Inzá (suroeste de Colombia), fue consumida este jueves por un incendio que
no dejó víctimas, en el inicio del feriado de Semana Santa.
La estructura religiosa, que había sido construida en el siglo XVIII y era la principal atracción
turística de la localidad, fue destruida por el fuego en un 90%, según explicó Mauricio
Castillo, alcalde de Inzá, departamento (provincia) del Cauca…
+ info: http://www.lr21.com.uy/mundo/1095458-incendio-destruye-antigua-iglesia-catolicaen-suroeste-de-colombia
Agenda
4th Session of the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction: 'Invest Today for a Safer Tomorrow'
19 - 23 May 2013 Geneva. Switzerland
Organizers: United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction Secretariat (UNISDR)
+ info: http://www.preventionweb.net/globalplatform/2013/
Training: Seminar on risk management
21 June 2013 Cambridge. United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Organizers: University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
+ info: http://onlinesales.admin.cam.ac.uk/browse/extra_info.asp
(UQ)
3rd international conference on disaster management and human health: Reducing risk, improving outcomes
09 - 11 July 2013 A Coruña. Spain
Organizers: Wessex Institute of Technology
Contact: Irene Moreno - [email protected]
+ info: http://www.wessex.ac.uk/13-conferences/disaster-management-2013.html
International Training Course on Disaster Risk Management of Cultural Heritage 2013
07 - 21 September 2013 Kyoto, Kobe, Tohoku. Japan
Organizers: UNESCO Chair Program on Cultural Heritage and Risk Management in cooperation with UNESCO World Heritage
Centre, ICCROM, ICOMOS
+ info: http://www.rits-dmuch.jp/en/project/itc_2013.html
17th Triennial Conference: "Building Strong Culture through Conservation"
15 - 19 September 2013 Melbourne. Australia
Organizers: ICOM-CC
+ info: http://www.icom-cc2014.org/
(CNCR)
Organizers: MEDCOAST Foundation
Publications
Synthesis report on consultations on the post-2015 framework on disaster risk reduction
(HFA2)
Source(s): United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR)
Year: 2013
Following UN General Assembly Resolution 67/209, the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR)
was requested to facilitate the development of a post-2015 framework for disaster risk reduction (referred
to as Hyogo Framework for Action 2 or HFA2). Since the consultative process was launched in March 2012,
governments and wide-range of stakeholders have carried out targeted consultations at global, regional,
national and local levels and have communicated their views through the National HFA Monitor, online dialogues and other
mechanisms.
This Synthesis Report provides an overview of the issues emerging to date and provides a basis for continued consultations,
including at the Fourth Session of the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction to be held 19-23 May in Geneva.
+ info: http://www.preventionweb.net/english/professional/publications/v.php?id=32535
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Documentary/Audiovisual Heritage & Archives
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Proyecto RIMAR - Curso de especialización en Proyectos de Digitalización
Personal técnico del Instituto Andaluz del Patrimonio Histórico (IAPH) se desplazó la pasada
semana a la Biblioteca General y Archivos de Tetuán para impartir el segundo curso de
formación en Proyectos de Digitalización, en el marco del Proyecto de Cooperación RIMAR
(Recuperación de la Memoria Andalucía - Marruecos a través del a fotografía Histórica" )
cofinanciado por el FEDER en un 75% en el marco del Programa de Cooperación
Transfronteriza España - Fronteras Exteriores. En esta ocasión el curso, al que asistieron las
personas vinculados a los trabajos que se desarrollan en dicha Biblioteca, fue eminentemente
práctico y en él se impartieron nociones sobre digitalización de patrimonio documental fotográfico: instalación de equipos,
flujo de trabajo, captura, tratamiento, gestión de la imagen digital y almacenamiento; conservación del material fotográfico:
limpieza e instalación en contenedores especializados; y descripción y catalogación de las imágenes fotográficas.
+ info: http://www.proyectorimar.org/actualidad/
Stolen Historical Documents Case
The National Archives hosts a discussion on a 2011 case involving stolen historical documents. Investigators recovered over
ten thousand documents from a Manhattan residence after two robbers were caught stealing documents from the Maryland
Historical Society. To curb future theft, the National Archives formed the Holdings Protection Team to raise awareness and
improve communication of security issues among employees.
+ info: http://www.c-span.org/History/Events/Stolen-Historical-Documents-Case/10737438907/?goback=.
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Call for nominations: Memory of the World Register for Latin America and the Caribbean. Deadline. 31 August
2013
The Regional Committee for Latin America and the Caribbean (MOWLAC) of the Memory of the World Programme is seeking
nominations of documents or sets of documents from archives, libraries, including audiovisual, of any format and kind for
inscription on the Memory of the World Register for Latin America and the Caribbean.
All interested public and private institutions (libraries, archives, museums), international associations, private companies and
individuals are invited to send their proposals to the regional register…
+ info: http://www.unesco.org/new/en/communication-and-information/resources/news-and-in-focus-articles/all-news/news/
call_for_nominations_memory_of_the_world_register_for_latin_america_and_the_caribbean/
within Euromed Heritage Programme. The documents are accessible and downloadable from the Ecorpus platform, a digital comprehensive library for cultural heritage created in 2009. The library grows
incrementally and organizes and repertories a multiplicity of documents, more than 2.3 million to date,
introduced through more than 120,000 thematic summaries…
crisis .
Rock Art Studies Bibliographic Database
Rock Art Studies: A Bibliographic Database is a compilation in progress which was begun in
March, 1993. Currently the database contains over 27,000 citations to the world's rock art
literature, with an emphasis on English language and North American citations. Over 9500 of
these citations are held in the compiler's personal library. These and many others were reviewed
for annotation. With the "r11" release, the database became available on the Internet as a
project of the Bay Area Rock Art Research Association Archive, Bancroft Library, University of
California, Berkeley.
+ info: http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/collections/rockart.html
Job Offer - Book Conservator in the Folger Shakespeare Library, United States. Deadline: 30 May 2013
The Folger Shakespeare Library, in Washington, D.C., is seeking qualified candidates for the permanent, fulltime, exempt
position as a Book Conservator to work in the Werner Gundersheimer Conservation Laboratory. The Book Conservator works
under the direction of the Eric Weinmann Head of Conservation and with a small team of conservators. The Book
Conservator will have primary responsibility for complex treatments of rare bound material items from the Folger’s printed
book and manuscript collection and participates in all activities carried out by the conservation lab including exhibition and
loan preparation and installation.
+ info: http://www.folger.edu/Content/About-Us/Employment-and-Internships/
Agenda
Between Princely India and the British Raj: The Photography of Raja Deen Dayal
20 April 2013 - 12 January 2014 Toronto, Ontario. Canada
Organizers: Royal Ontario Museum
+ info: http://www.rom.on.ca/en/about-us/newsroom/press-releases/between-princely-india-the-british-raj-thephotography-of-raja-deen
The Archaeology Channel Conference on Cultural Heritage Film
08 - 10 May 2013 Eugene, Oregon. United States of America
Organizers: Archaeological Legacy Institute
+ info: http://archaeologychannel.us/web/index.php?option=com_content&view=&layout=blog&id=124&Itemid=565
TICCIH Mexico
Taller ILAM - Registro y Catalogación de Colecciones
26 July - 06 September 2013 -- Modalidad virtual - Profesor: Fernando Almarza
Organizers: La Fundación ILAM
+ info: http://ilam.org/component/content/959.html?task=view
SOIMA 2013: Safeguarding sound and image collections
23 September - 16 October 2013 Nairobi. Kenya
Organizers: ICCROM (International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property) & Trust for
African Rock Art (TARA) In cooperation with National Museums of Kenya
+ info: http://www.iccrom.org/eng/01train_en/announce_en/2013_09SoimaKEN_en.shtml
Taller ILAM - Uso del software ABC para la optimización de tu Centro de Documentación
27 September - 08 November 2013 -- Modalidad virtual - Profesor: Álvaro Agudo Guevara
Taller ILAM - Como marcar y preservar bienes culturales en depósito
18 October - 29 November 2013 -- Modalidad virtual
Workshop: Managing indoor climate risks
20 - 25 October 2013 Yogyakarta. Indonesia
Organizers: The Directorate of Heritage Conservation and Museums Indonesia and the The Gadjah Mada University in
collaboration with the Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands (RCE) and the Tropen Museum Amsterdam
+ info: http://www.cultureelerfgoed.nl/en/managing-indoor-climate-risks
Publications
CIPA Heritage documentation - best practices and applications
Edited by Efstratios Stylianidis, Petros Patias and Mario Santana Quintero.
CIPA. 103 p. (Series 1, 2007 & 2009)
ISSN: 1682-1777
Year: 2011
The ICOMOS Scientific Committee, CIPA Heritage Documentation, is proud to present this first in a series of
publications presenting state-of-the-art research and applications in the discipline of Cultural Heritage
documentation. The intention of this publication is to record and archive the progress in documentation
techniques and products during the two-year cycle of the CIPA symposia. In addition, the CIPA-HD Board would like to
acknowledge the important contributions made during these symposia which, besides their theoretical and technical rigor,
also provide examples of good practice or important applications in Cultural Heritage documentation.
+ info: http://cipa.icomos.org/fileadmin/template/doc/RELATED%20LITERATURE/CIPA_Series_1__2007-9.pdf
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Earthen Architecture
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Red Iberoamericana PROTERRA
Esta red es un colectivo internacional y multilateral de cooperación técnica que promueve la
investigación y desarrollo de la construcción con tierra en los sectores productivos, académicos y
sociales de la región. Las actividades son desarrolladas por especialistas provenientes de
universidades, centros de investigación y empresas públicas y privadas, dedicadas al estudio y
aplicación de la tierra como material de construcción. La Red Iberoamericana PROTERRA cuenta
actualmente con más de 100 miembros procedentes de Argentina, Brasil, Bolivia, Colombia, Cuba,
Chile, Ecuador, El Salvador, España, Guatemala, Honduras, México, Nicaragua, Perú, Portugal, Uruguay
y Venezuela.
+ info: http://redproterra.org
L’association Asterre
Fondée en décembre 2006, elle est née du désir de collaboration et du besoin de communication entre
des partenaires qui, pour certains, œuvrent depuis plus de vingt ans à la reconnaissance de
l’architecture de terre. Leurs initiatives régionales ou locales de réalisations, de promotion et de
formation commencent à porter leurs fruits. Ces dernières années ont vu un développement significatif
de l’intérêt porté à l’entretien et à la réhabilitation des patrimoines bâtis en terre.
+ info: http://www.asterre.org/
Fundación JOFRÉ - Culturas de tierra (Chile)
El objetivo de la fundación es el de constituirse en un referente en Chile, vinculado a
otras entidades nacionales e internacionales en una gestión integrada. Creando e
impulsando conciencia patrimonial, profundizando la identidad de los pueblos y el
sentido de pertenencia de sus habitantes, entendiendo el patrimonio como materia cercana y tangible.
Difundir el Patrimonio Cultural, poniendo énfasis en generar desarrollo y mejorar la calidad de vida en las comunidades en
que la fundación interviene.
+ info: http://www.fundacionjofre.cl
Auroville Earth Institute
The Auroville Earth Institute is researching, developing, promoting and
transferring earth-based technologies, which are cost and energy effective.
These technologies are disseminated through training courses, seminars,
workshops, manuals and documents. The Institute is also offering various
services, and provides consultancy within and outside India.
The emphasis is focused on the research and development of earth based technologies and their dissemination through
training courses. The most promoted technology today is Compressed Stabilised Earth Blocks (CSEB).
One of the aims of the Auroville Earth Institute is to give people the possibility to create and build for themselves their own
habitat, while using earth techniques.
+ info: http://www.earth-auroville.com
Programa de investigación ARCONTI
El campo temático del Programa es la Arquitectura y la Tecnología de Construcción con Tierra en la Argentina y la región; en
particular dos aspectos: el estudio de las Arquitecturas de Tierra en la Argentina, y el desarrollo de alternativas edilicias y
constructivas sustentables en el espacio nacional. Se habla de arquitectura y construcción “de tierra”, “en tierra” o “con
tierra” en referencia a todas aquellas manifestaciones tecnológicas, arquitectónicas, arqueológicas y urbanísticas que
emplean a la tierra cruda como el único o el principal material constructivo.
+ info: http://www.iaa.fadu.uba.ar/?page_id=3666
Grupo TIERRA - Universidad de Valladolid (España)
El grupo TIERRA es un grupo de investigación que forma parte de la Universidad de Valladolid, y se ocupa de todo lo que se
refiere a la TIERRA como material de construcción, tanto en la tradición como en la innovación. El grupo TIERRA está
formado por profesionales de áreas como la arquitectura, la ingeniería, la historia, y busca darse a conocer en el mundo para
fomentar así el uso de la TIERRA como material de construcción en la actualidad. Por eso hemos creado esta sección de
amigos del grupo TIERRA, para aquellas personas que estén interesadas en recibir información cuando se organice un nuevo
congreso, se realice alguna publicación o se organice cualquier otro tipo de actividad.
+ info: http://www5.uva.es/grupotierra/
Mexican archaeologists study cave paintings found in the northeast part of Argentina
A hill in the northeast part of Argentina that holds various cave paintings, which was
considered to be a sacred place before the Incan conquest of the region in the XV century,
was identified by Mexican investigator Luis Alberto Martos Lopez from the National Institute of
Anthropology and History (INAH), as part of an archaeological salvage. The exploration of this
space is within a much wider project destined to the excavation and restoration of the Incan
site known as Potrero de Payogasta, in the wide and contrasting Valle Calchaquí, in Argentina;
this is an initiative which has been supported by the Cultural Patrimony of the Salta province.
Also, this Project is funded by the National Geographic Society…
+ info: http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=62162#.UXpvBMqU_Z5
Agenda
I Taller internacional RIGPAC 2013 - Mundos factibles - Mundos posibles: Hábitat popular y construcción
territorial. Una mirada transdisciplinar
01 - 18 July 2013 -- España / Marruecos
Organizers: La Red Internacional de Pensamiento Crítico sobre Globalización y Patrimonio Construido (RIGPAC)
Contact: Prof. Bernardino Lindez: [email protected] & Dra. María Martín: [email protected]
+ info: http://www.esempidiarchitettura.it/ebcms2.lm.php?mod=news&modAzione=scheda&o_nome=news&o_id=578_ITA
13º SIACOT - XIII Seminario Internacional de Arquitectura y Construcción en Tierra
28 - 30 August 2013 Valparaíso. Chile
Organizers: Red Iberoamericana PROTERRA y organizado por el instituto profesional Duoc UC de la Pontificia Universidad
Católica de Chile
+ info: http://www.siacotchile2013.cl/
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Building Capacities on World Heritage across Caribbean Small Islands
The workshop Management of Caribbean cultural resources in a natural environment: Sites of
Memory and participation of local communities, trained 20 participants from Barbados, Curaçao,
Grenada, Jamaica and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines to foster the best involvement of local
communities in World Heritage. Released near the Historic Bridgetown and its Garrison, World
Heritage site in Barbados from 11 to 15 March 2013, the workshop contributed to enhance
mechanisms for the participation of local communities in Heritage sites, implementing also an
agreement reached in June 2011 on the Caribbean Capacity Building Programme (CCBP), for
World Heritage, between the University of the West Indies and UNESCO…
+ info: http://www.unesco.org/new/en/media-services/single-view/news/
building_capacities_on_world_heritage_across_caribbean_small_islands/
Association Rempart: Les chantiers d'été 2013 sont en ligne
Depuis ce matin, l'ensemble des chantiers et stages REMPART de l'été, en France et à l'étranger, pour les
adolescents et pour les majeurs, est en ligne.
Les chantiers adolescents se déroulent en France (et en Belgique). Les premiers chantiers sont ouverts à
partir de 13, 14 ou 15 ans. L'offre s'étoffe à partir de 16 ans.
Pour participer aux chantiers à l'étranger, il faut être majeur et il est souvent préférable d'avoir déjà une
expérience de chantier en France.
Etudiants, REMPART est en capacité de signer vos conventions de stage. Assurez-vous toutefois auprès de
votre école que le projet que vous avez choisi vous permettra de valider votre année…
+ info: http://www.rempart.com/actu-les-chantiers-d-ete-sont-en-ligne/11579
Muséocom, la jeune agence - Université d'Avignon, France
MuséoCom, ce sont 30 étudiants du Master Médiations de la Culture et du Patrimoine, organisés en équipes
projets, accompagnés par des scientifiques et des professionnels.
MuséoCom, c’est un gage de multicompétence, de dynamisme et de professionnalisme.
+ info: http://www.univ-avignon.fr/fileadmin/documents/Users/Fiches_FOR/Plaquette-MuseoCom.pdf
Postgraduate and Masters Programme in Cultural Heritage
Management and Sustainable Development - Deadline: 15 June
2013
ISES was awarded a UNESCO Chair in Cultural Heritage Management and
Sustainable Development in 2011. The UNESCO Chair complements the
unique ISES – Corvinus postgraduate programme, the first of its kind in
Hungary.
The programme offers students the opportunity to become trained
professionals with the skills needed to preserve and protect cultural heritage for future generations. The programme
provides a solid, interdisciplinary foundation for specialization in cultural heritage management and sustainable development.
The three-semester course starting in Autumn 2013 will focus on best practices of cultural heritage management in the
Visegrad countries. Two semesters are required for course work on campus and online plus one semester for thesis writing
and defense.
Deadline for applications: 15 June, 2013 (for students from Central-Europe: 15 September)
+ info: http://www.ises.hu/en/unesco-chair-in-cultural-heritage-management-and-sustainability
Creative Cities: the Future of
Urban Life Workshops - April
and July 2013
The project funded by the
International Visegrad Fund tackles
the potential of cultural heritage to
inspire community life and
strengthen local-regional
participation and identity. The assemblies of small and medium sized cities of CEE could become the drivers of regional
development, social-economic cohesion, innovation and creativity in a novel and complex way. Our aim is to build a strategic
cooperation in a multi-stakeholder V4 network.
Référentiel des métiers du patrimoine
La gestion d'un Grand Site : une activité à multiple facettes mobilisant des savoir-faire très larges.
37 métiers différents ont en effet été identifiés comme concourant à la bonne gestion des Grands Sites : ….
Ils composent le "référentiel métiers des Grands Sites de France" réalisé en 2011-2012 par l'Atelier technique des Espaces
naturels (ATEN), groupement d'intérêt public dont le Réseau de Grands Sites de France est membre. www.espaces-naturels.fr
Découvrez les….
+ info: http://www.grandsitedefrance.com/fr/metiers/referentiel-metiers.html
TRAFFIC - Engaging China’s youth in protecting marine turtles
TRAFFIC has taken steps to engage the next generation of Chinese society in a campaign
focused on preventing illegal trade of marine turtle products in Guangxi Province, bordering
Viet Nam.
Themed as “Small Hands and Big Hands, Hand in Hand”, the campaign has reached out to
elementary school students in Daxin County and two other cities, namely Dongxing City and
Pinxiang City, both historically important market locations for wildlife products…
+ info: http://www.traffic.org/home/2013/3/26/engaging-chinas-youth-in-protecting-marineturtles.html
Prix Le Monde de la recherche universitaire - France. Date limite: 1 mai
2013
Depuis seize ans, Le Monde soutient les jeunes chercheurs et la recherche.
Lancé en 1997, le Prix Le Monde de la recherche entend valoriser les premiers
travaux de jeunes chercheurs francophones susceptibles d’influencer notre
environnement scientifique, économique, social et/ou artistique.
Chaque année, à l’issue d’un concours présidé par le philosophe Edgar Morin
pour les sciences dites « humaines et sociales » et par l’académicien Pierre
Léna pour les sciences dites « dures » ce prix offre la possibilité à cinq docteurs récemment diplômés en sciences dites «
humaines et sociales » de publier leur thèse aux Presses universitaires de France et à cinq docteurs en sciences dites « dures
» de publier un résumé de leurs travaux dans le magazine Pour La Science et dans un ouvrage collectif publié aux Editions
Le Pommier. Par ailleurs, le quotidien Le Monde présentera l’ensemble de ces thèses dans un cahier spécial.
+ info: http://www.lemonde.fr/kiosque/recherche/
Heritage"
production competition entitled My City: Our World Heritage. This competition
is intended for young people of two age groups: those between 14 and 17
years of age and those between 18 and 21 years of age. At the invitation of
the cities that have registered, the young people will be called upon to
produce a video of a maximum duration of five minutes on the world heritage
city in which they live. The participating cities are free to invite the young people belonging to both age groups or to only
one of them. The videos must be realized in one of the following languages: French, English, or Spanish. The competitors
must obligatorily publish their videos on the YouTube site. There is no cost to realize this operation…
La recherche en Italie a son site internet
ResearchItaly est le nouveau portail internet promu par Ministère de l'Instruction, de
l'Université et de la Recherche (MIUR) qui a l'objectif de présenter, encourager et
promouvoir la recherche italienne, qu'elle soit réalisée en Italie, en Europe ou dans le
monde. Le projet, développé par le consortium CINECA, place la recherche au centre
d'un nouveau plan de croissance culturel et économique de l'Italie. Il présente ce que
l'Italie est capable de produire de mieux dans les différents domaines du savoir, en
adéquations avec les bonnes pratiques développées au niveau européen.
Course on Architecture - Interior Design and for Authonomy - AIDA-eng - Faculty of Architecture
Luigi Vanvitelli - Naples (Italy)
The degree course in Architecture - Interior Design and for Autonomy is part of the second level courses
provided by the 'Luigi Vanvitelli' Faculty of Architecture of SUN (Second University of Naples). Successful
students are awarded second level degrees in Architecture. The course is aimed at graduates who have
completed the first level three-year degree course in Scienze dell'Architettura e dell'Ingegneria (Architectural
and Engineering Sciences) and graduates who have completed the first level three-year degree course in
Disegno Industriale (Industrial design) and foreign students who have obtained equivalent level qualifications
abroad…
+ info: http://www.architettura.unina2.it/didattica/internationaldegree.asp
Training: Licence professionnelle en valorisation et sauvegarde du patrimoine. Deadline: 26 April 2013
L’Ecole du Patrimoine Africain-EPA sise à Porto-Novo au Bénin en partenariat avec l’Université d’Abomey-Calavi (UAC),
l’Université de Paris 1 et de l’ICCROM, et avec la
contribution financière de la Fondation Getty, lance un appel à candidatures pour la sélection de candidats devant participer
à la prochaine édition de sa licence destinée à la préparation de spécialistes de la valorisation et de la sauve garde du
patrimoine notamment des collections de musées, d’archives et de bibliothèques.
Cette formation professionnelle se déroulera à Porto- Novo (Bénin) sur deux années
académiques et a pour but de préparer des cadres compétents désirant s’investir dans la préservation et la valorisation du
patrimoine de leurs pays à travers l’initiation et la conduite des activités concrètes.
+ info: http://www.epa-prema.net/documents/APPEL-A-CANDIDATURES-CU-2013.pdf
Caribbean Training Course in the Preparation of Nomination Dossiers. St.
Mary's, Antigua & Barbuda, 24-28 March 2013
The UNESCO World Heritage Centre in Paris, the UNESCO Offices in Kingston and
Havana in collaboration with the Antigua & Barbuda National Commission for
UNESCO organized this training exercise, which was designed within the framework
of the Japanese Funds-in-Trust project "Capacity Building to Support the
Conservation of World Heritage Sites and Enhance Sustainable Development of Local
Communities in Small Island Developing States (SIDS)".
The official opening of the training took place on 24 March 2013 at the Jolly Beach Hotel & Spa in Antigua in the presence of
Hon. Prime Minister, Dr. Winston Baldwin Spencer, Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda; Hon. Winston Williams, Acting
Minister of Education, Sports, Youth and Gender Affairs of Antigua and Barbuda; H. E. Yoshimasa Tezuka, Japanese
Ambassador in Trinidad & Tobago; Ms Alissandra Cummins, Chairperson of UNESCO Executive Board and the Barbados
National Commission for UNESCO as well as Representatives from UNESCO World Heritage Centre, and UNESCO Offices in
Kingston and Havana…
+ info: http://www.unesco.lacult.org/proyectos/showitem.php?lg=2&id=168&paginasweb=29&idtitulo=1589
MASSIMILIANO FUKSAS Architetto (Italy) and SPEECH (Russia) was recently announced
the winner of Architectural Concepts Competition for the Museum and Educational
Center of the Polytechnic Museum and Lomonosov Moscow State University. The
challenge was to create a museum and educational center for demonstrating most
recent scientific and technological discoveries using state-of-the-art multimedia
technologies for accommodating multiple displays and exhibitions as well as for conducting scientific educational programs.
El Observatorio del Patrimonio de Cantabria (España) pide que se incluya esta
materia en la ESO y Bachiller
El Aula de Patrimonio de la UC advierte que el desconocimiento genera falta de
sensibilidad y repercute en la conservación.
El Observatorio del Patrimonio en Cantabria, puesto en marcha por el Aula de Patrimonio
de la Universidad, ha iniciado su andadura con un diagnóstico sobre la situación del
patrimonio cultural en la Enseñanza Secundaria (ESO) y Bachiller. En sus conclusiones,
advierte de la falta de contenidos sobre esta materia en los actuales planes docentes y
pide cambios en la normativa educativa para revertir esta situación…
+ info: http://www.europapress.es/cantabria/noticia-observatorio-patrimonio-cantabria-pide-incluya-materia-planesdocentes-eso-bachiller-20130417120157.html
2013-2015 - Date limite: 7 juin 2013
ECTS.
Moscow Polytechnic Museum and Educational Center Competition Entry / 3XN Russian Federation
With the aim to be a meaningful building beyond its iconic form, the new Museum &
Educational Center (MEC), designed by 3XN, is about connecting with people, while
opening up the world of science, technology, innovation and Russia’s extraordinary
achievements in these domains. Through both an internal and external architectural
expression of flexibility, this proposal, which was a finalist in the international
competition, recognizes that architecture shapes behavior.
As technology develops and we enter deeper into the 21st century, the convergence of Science and Art becomes even more
relevant in our everyday interactions. Today’s society seeks ways that Science and Mathematics can be viewed as
approachable disciplines, in order to understand the full potential of technology, and its applications in making our world a
better place. The new MEC will be a gateway to this world, challenging and evolving visitors’ perception of science and
technology…
We are looking for volunteers for the summer land-based survey on fin whales 2013.
Algeciras, Cádiz (España)
3 to 24 June 2013.
24 June to 15 July 2013.
We give you the opportunity to participate in a scientific project with application to the
conservation of these species. Stays are for a duration of three weeks minimum, but may be of
six weeks. Besides the knowledge to be gained in the field, we will offer informative talks on
cetaceans of the Strait of Gibraltar, based on the research that CIRCE has been carrying out
since 1998 in the area. CIRCE will provide accommodation for the project. As a volunteer, you will get a volunteer insurance
as required by the Spanish Law on Volunteers 6/1996.
To participate in the project you need to be a friend of CIRCE. If you are not a friend of CIRCE yet, in the registration form
that you will find the bottom of this page, you will have the option to become one. Your commitment will be to help us in the
active search of fin whales and sperm whales from land, through the use of binoculars and telescopes, as well as keep track
of them using a theodolite connected to a notebook computer for live data collection.
+ info: http://www.circe.biz/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=93&Itemid=236&lang=en
2nd South East Europe World Heritage Youth Forum for peace and sustainable
development held
The 2nd South East European (SEE) World Heritage Youth Forum for peace and sustainable
development was held from 6 to 11 April 2013 in Zajecar, eastern Serbia, home of the
Gamzigrad – Felix Romuliana / Palace of Galerius World Heritage site.
At the opening ceremony on 7 April, the message delivered on behalf of Irina Bokova,
Director General of UNESCO, stated: "Our theme today is forward looking -- peace and
sustainable development. This relates to the benefits peoples can gain from living in peace,
preserving their heritage and caring for the heritage of their neighbors, while making sure that this heritage contributes to
the sustainable development of their living environment and their future. Young people carry this future in their hands.”…
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CURSO - ¿A DÓNDE VAN LAS CIUDADES?
08 April - 27 May 2013 Buenos Aires. Argentina
Por Arq. Silvia Fajre y profesores invitados.
Organizers: La Asociación Amigos del Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (AAMNBA)
+ info: http://www.aamnba.org.ar/esp/cursos_patrimonio_2013.html
2013 International Day on Monuments and Sites on "Heritage of Education"
18 April 2013 -- Around the world
Organizers: ICOMOS
+ info: http://www.icomos.org/en/what-we-do/focus/18-april-international-day-for-monuments-and-sites
Charles Birnbaum Lecture
24 April 2013 Los Angeles, California. United States of America
Organizers: University of Southern California
+ info: http://arch.usc.edu/calendar/lecture-charles-birnbaum
Course: Underwater Cultural Heritage
20 - 24 May 2013 Florence. Italy
+ info: http://courses.bournemouth.ac.uk/courses/training-course/underwater-cultural-heritage/short-course/3981/
course_information-course_overview/
Summer Program "PRESERVING THE PAST FOR THE FUTURE"
05 June - 15 July 2013 -- Prague (Czech Republic) and Kraków (Poland)
Organizers: Rutgers’ Program in Cultural Heritage and Preservation Studies in collaboration with the Dartmore Institute
Contact: Gregory Spear - [email protected]
+ info: https://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=202448
world"
8th Iberian Conference on Information Systems and Technologies
19 - 22 June 2013 Lisboa. Portugal
Organizers: AISTI - Associação Ibérica de Sistemas e Tecnologias de Informação & ISEGI / Universidade Nova de Lisboa
+ info: http://www.aisti.eu/cisti2013
Training: Seminar on risk management
21 June 2013 Cambridge. United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Organizers: University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
+ info: http://onlinesales.admin.cam.ac.uk/browse/extra_info.asp
Jornadas técnicas sobre momias. Métodos y propuestas para su preservación
24 - 26 June 2013 Madrid. Spain
Organizers: Instituto del Patrimonio Cultural de España
+ info: http://ipce.mcu.es/pdfs/ProgramaMomiasFinal.pdf
International Course on Conservation of Japanese Paper 2013
26 August - 13 September 2013 Tokyo. Japan
Organizers: National Research Institute for Cultural Properties, Tokyo & ICCROM (International Centre for the Study of the
Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property)
+ info: http://www.iccrom.org/eng/01train_en/announce_en/2013_08jpc_en.shtml
gestion durable"
International Training Course on Disaster Risk Management of Cultural Heritage 2013
07 - 21 September 2013 Kyoto, Kobe, Tohoku. Japan
Organizers: UNESCO Chair Program on Cultural Heritage and Risk Management in cooperation with UNESCO World Heritage
Centre, ICCROM, ICOMOS
+ info: http://www.rits-dmuch.jp/en/project/itc_2013.html
(CNCR)
Curso de especialización - Curso Superior de Intervención en Bienes Muebles: el Proyecto de Conservación
17 October - 27 June 2013 Sevilla. Spain
Organizers: El Instituto Andaluz del Patrimonio Histórico (IAPH)
+ info: http://www.iaph.es/web/canales/formacion/cursos/detalle.jsp?curso=3104
Call for Volunteers - Australia International Council on Monuments and Sites 2013 Centenary of Canberra Museum of Australian Democracy
30 October - 03 November 2013 Canberra, Australian Capital Territory. Australia
Organizers: Australia ICOMOS
Contact: Tracy Ireland - [email protected]
+ info: http://australia.icomos.org/e-news/australia-icomos-e-mail-news-no-528/#9.
XIII Edizione - Corso EuroMediterraneo di Giornalismo Ambientale Laura Conti
04 November - 13 December 2013 Savona. Italy
Organizers: Organizzata in collaborazione con Legambiente e in partenariato con l’Istituto Nazionale di Geologia e
Vulcanologia
+ info: http://www.corsolauraconti.it/
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Polémiques dans le Morvan : quand la préservation de la planète entre en conflit
avec la protection du patrimoine naturel - France
La région Bourgogne est en plein débat. Entre le projet d’incinérateur aux portes du parc
régional naturel du Morvan et l’avancement des projets éoliens, les associations de
défense de l’environnement lèvent la voix pour préserver l’écosystème et les paysages de
la région… Encore faut-il que ces voix soient prises en compte…
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Federation of Genealogical Societies 2013 Conference "Journey through Generations"
21 - 24 August 2013. Fort Wayne, Indiana (USA)
Organizers: Federation of Genealogical Societies and hosted by the Allen County Public Library and the Allen County
Genealogical Society
+ info: http://www.fgs.org/upload/files/FGS2013_Conference_Flyer.pdf
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Fonds marins : nouvel "El Dorado" ?
Une grande quantité de métaux et de terres rares est nécessaire pour la fabrication d'équipements industriels et
électroniques, et, en particulier, dans le domaine des nouvelles technologies (smartphones, panneaux photovoltaïques,...).
"Jusqu'à présent, ces matières étaient extraites sur les continents, mais face à la demande croissante en matières minérales
et grâce à l'augmentation de leur valeur, l'exploitation de nouveaux gisements dont ceux que l'on trouve au fond des mers
devient une opportunité très sérieuse", affirme Colin Devey, géologue au GEOMAR, le Centre Helmholtz pour la recherche
océanique situé à Kiel (Schleswig-Holstein).
Découverte d'un nouveau volcan au large de la Calabre
Au cours d'une étude océanographique au large de Tropea (Calabre), une importante bioconstruction a été détectée au
sommet de ce qui s'avérerait un volcan sous-marin: des organismes tels que des oursins, des huitres et des coraux y vivent
et se développent à proximité des cheminées.
Méditerranée : une histoire de tsunami - 1600-1622 av. J.C.
Une équipe de scientifiques italiens, dirigée par Alina Polonia de l'Institut des sciences marines du Conseil national des
recherches (Ismar-Cnr), a identifié au large des côtes siciliennes, les traces d'un important tsunami, qui a eu lieu en
Méditerranée il y a environ 1600 ans. L'étude, publiée dans la revue du groupe Nature, Scientific Reports, s'est intéressée à
une zone sédimentaire marine composée de dépôts grossiers charriés par les courants de densité et atteignant jusqu'à 25
mètres d'épaisseur…
El Hierro pic makes NASA Earth Photo final - Spain
The image of the volcanic eruption shows a swirl of lighter blue sea off the south coast of the Canary
chain's smallest and most most westerly island.
This striking picture took top spot in the Events category of NASA's Earth 2013, an internet poll where
readers could select their favourite NASA satellite photo of the year.
In a competition structured as a series of duels between competing photos, 91 percent of internet voters
chose the El Hierro eruption picture as the best photo in the final photo face off.
The other contender was an image of a crack in Antarctica’s Pine Island Glacier.
El Hierro experienced intense earthquake experience in 2011 and 2012 as part of volcanic activity just off the island's coast.
Submarine volcanic eruptions from October 2011 to March 2012 saw residents of La Restinga evacuated twice and dead fish
were found in ocean waters.
The island has also recently experienced intense seismic activity in recent times.
A quake measuring 4.9 on the Richter scale rocked the island on March 31st, Spain's National Geographic Institute said.
+ info: http://www.islandconnections.eu/1000003/1000043/0/39360/daily-news-article.html
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X Reunión Científica de la Comisión de Patrimonio Geológico (SGE)
10 - 15 June 2013 Segovia. Spain
Organizers: Sociedad Geológica de España, Instituto Geológico y Minero de España, Asociación Geología de Segovia.
+ info: http://www.patrimoniogeologico.es/
Posted by FUUH member: Dr. Enrique Díaz Martínez
24e édition de la Réunion des Sciences de la Terre
27 - 31 October 2014 Pau. France
Organizers: L’Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour, sous l’égide de la Société de la Société Géologique de France
Contact: Charles Aubourg - [email protected]
+ info: http://www.insu.cnrs.fr/node/4285?utm_source=DNI&utm_medium=Newsletters
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Carte mondiale de la profondeur des eaux sous-terraines
Year: 2013
Les chercheurs de l'Université Rutgers (New Jersey, USA) et de l'Université de
Santiago de Compostela (USC en Espagne) ont développé une carte mondiale
de la profondeur des eaux sous-terraines. Ce travail publié dans la revue
Science compile des observations de toute la planète à partir d'informations
d'archives gouvernementales et de littérature existante.
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PH asking US to pay $1.4M for reef damage
THE Philippines will ask the United States to pay P58 million ($1.4 million) in compensation for damage caused by a US
warship to a protected coral reef, the manager of the heritage site said Saturday.
The amount is based on studies by Philippine agencies including the coast guard that found the USS Guardian damaged at
least 2,345 square metres (25,240 square feet) of the protected Tubbataha reef.
According to park superintendent Angelique Songco, a letter requesting compensation would be sent to the US embassy next
week, stressing this is the amount required by a law passed to protect the reef, a UNESCO World Heritage site in a remote
area of the Sulu Sea…
+ info: http://www.manilatimes.net/index.php/news/top-stories/44900-ph-asking-us-to-pay-1-4m-for-reef-damage
Pecios de la I Guerra Mundial, en la Unesco
A partir de 2014 el patrimonio sumergido que remonta al período 1914-18 (I Guerra Mundial), comenzará a entrar en el
ámbito de la Convención de la UNESCO de 2001 sobre la Protección del Patrimonio Cultural Subacuático y los Estados
miembros han sido invitados por el Director General a apoyar esta iniciativa.
Las grandes pérdidas humanas y el trauma colectivo fue algo trágico en la historia de la Humanidad. Muchos de los barcos
se encuentran sumergidos en sitios arqueológicos llamados “sitios-tumbas”. Se debe prestar atención a la importancia
histórica del conflicto y a los aspectos globales y humanitarios de esta guerra naval, y evitar también al extenso saqueo y la
explotación comercial de los pecios. Por fin, el Consejo Consultivo y Técnico de la Convención ha recomendado obtener
información y material relacionado con el patrimonio subacuático de la I Guerra Mundial para la educación del público…
+ info: http://abcblogs.abc.es/espejo-de-navegantes/2013/04/09/pecios-de-la-i-guerra-mundial-en-la-unesco/
UNESCO Director-General deplores continuing destruction of ancient Aleppo, a
World Heritage site
UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova expressed her deep distress over reports of the
continuing destruction which has severely damaged the ancient city of Aleppo, a UNESCO
World Heritage site since 1986. Today, the minaret of one of Syria's most famous mosques
was destroyed during clashes in the northern city of Aleppo.
The mosque, which is located within the UNESCO World Heritage site, has been devastated
during the clashes and its minaret was reduced to debris.
The Great Mosque, at the heart of the ancient city of Aleppo, had already been badly damaged by fire during heavy fighting
in the ancient city in October 2012. On that occasion, the Director-General reminded all parties of the country’s obligations
under the 1954 Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict, to which Syria is a
signatory.
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Conference - Cultural Policies and Corridors in the Balkans and Turkey
15 April 2013 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. United States of America
Organizers: Penn Cultural Heritage Center
+ info: http://www.penn.museum/events-calendar/details/1047-policies-corridors.html
Workshop "Risk assessment and management of collections"
15 - 17 May 2013 Neuchâtel. Switzerland
Organizers: Haute Ecole Arc Conservation-restauration
Contact: Nathalie Ducatel: [email protected]
+ info: http://conservation-restauration.he-arc.ch/cor-formation-continue/risk-assesment
Posted by FUUH member: WALLER, Robert
Call for Abstracts - Post-Conflict, Cultural Heritage and Regional Development: An International Conference
09 - 11 October 2013 Wageningen. Netherlands
Organizers: The Liberation Day Committee 1945 Wageningen (as member of the European Network of Places of Peace),
Wageningen University and Inholland University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands
+ info: http://www.peaceconference.org/call_for_abstracts
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WWF Founder - Virtual GiftShop
WWF offers a range of solutions for any gift-giving occasion through our virtual gifts which are symbolic
donations towards activities that WWF does worldwide. This is a gift that truly means something, that truly
goes towards accomplishing great things for the amazing diversity of life on our one and only green & blue
planet. On that, you have our word.
You can get one of these fabulous and unusual gifts in less than 5 minutes. And to minimize paper and
postage, the Certificate is delivered to you immediately via email as PDF. You can then print this off or send
it by email yourself to the proud recipient, anywhere in the world, in seconds. How easy is that to make
someone smile?!
+ info: http://shop.panda.org/
Prizes - La Fondation du Patrimoine, lauréate du Prix Europa Nostra - Remise des prix le 16
juin à Athènes (Grèce)
Le Palmarès 2013 du Prix du patrimoine culturel de l’Union Européenne/Concours Europa Nostra vient
d’être dévoilé, et consacre la Fondation du Patrimoine dans la catégorie « Contributions
Siena’s cultural organisations threatened by banking scandal - Italy
The banking scandal that threatens to sink the Monte dei Paschi di Siena (MPS), the oldest
continuously operating bank in the world (founded in 1472), and its eponymous foundation
spells trouble for the region’s art and heritage. The Fondazione Monte dei Paschi di Siena,
which was founded in 1995 and is the bank’s biggest shareholder with a 35% stake, is facing
debts of €350m and a wave of criticism of the bank, the third largest in Italy, which it has
effectively controlled since the mid-1990s. Until recently, the foundation was a ubiquitous
patron of the arts throughout the city and the region, having contributed a total of around
€400m to Siena and Tuscany’s heritage since its inception…
+ info: http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/Sienas+cultural+organisations+threatened+by+banking+scandal/29231
People Not Stones Project - Crowdfunding Project
Is it possible to protect archaeological sites and cultural heritage for future generations while
enhancing the economic status of the communities in which they are based? A new idea from the folks
at the Sustainable Preservation Initiative thinks they can do just that. They have come up with a
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unique paradigm that alleviates poverty by empowering entrepreneurs and creating jobs through local
businesses whose financial success is dependent upon the preservation of archaeological sites.
+ info: http://pastpreservers.blogspot.fr/2013/03/help-save-archaeological-sites-and.html?goback=.
gde_2564264_member_223737197
biosphere reserves.
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3rd international conference on disaster management and human health: Reducing risk, improving outcomes
09 - 11 July 2013 A Coruña. Spain
Organizers: Wessex Institute of Technology
Contact: Irene Moreno - [email protected]
+ info: http://www.wessex.ac.uk/13-conferences/disaster-management-2013.html
Patrimonio"
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Year: 2013
Chile.
Heritage Economics
Patrimoine et histoire de l'art au Québec : enjeux et perspectives
Auteur : Étienne Berthold, Nathalie Miglioli
Collection : Chaire Fernand-Dumont sur la culture
ISBN : 978-2-7637-9635-2
Year: 2012
Le patrimoine culturel connaît actuellement un petit âge d’or qui se manifeste autant par la multiplication des
objets et des héritages immatériels que par le développement des institutions patrimoniales ou encore par
l’adoption de politiques du patrimoine. À l’université, le patrimoine gagne sans cesse en popularité. En
général, les chercheurs l’abordent non plus comme un « donné » qu’il s’agirait de décrire et de caractériser, mais plutôt
comme une manifestation dynamique résultant d’une construction sociale empreinte de représentations et d’idéologies. La
première partie de cet ouvrage explore les multiples questions que pose le patrimoine dans les domaines de l’histoire, de
l’ethnologie, de la géographie et de la philosophie. La deuxième partie revisite, pour sa part, des acteurs, des concepts et
des catégories discursives qui ont structuré l’histoire de l’art du Québec, proposant ainsi une réflexion épistémologique
novatrice dont la discipline ne saurait faire l’économie.
+ info: http://www.pulaval.com/catalogue/patrimoine-histoire-art-quebec-enjeux-perspectives-9735.html
Revista ICOM España nº 7 - Recursos audiovisuales en museos: pros y contras
Revista del Comité Español de ICOM
Coordinador del número por ICOM Javier Martí Oltra
ISSN 2173 - 9250
Year: 2013
Las llamadas nuevas tecnologías se han convertido en parte de nuestra realidad cotidiana hasta un punto
que difícilmente podíamos imaginar hace apenas una década. Como no podía ser menos, los museos, que
son reflejo de la sociedad, han acogido las innovaciones, incorporándolas como un recurso más en sus
exposiciones y montajes permanentes. En particular, la tecnología audiovisual ha “colonizado” en gran medida los museos de
historia y arqueología, los de etnología o los de ciencias, si bien todavía es minoritaria en los de arte, salvo en el caso de
obras de arte electrónico, multimedia o net.art.ico…
+ info: http://www.icom-ce.org/recursos/ICOM_CE_Digital/07/ICOM%20CE%20Digital%2007.pdf
ISBN: 978-88-548-5880-0
Year: 2013
construido.
Constructive Conservation
Publication Date: 11 Mar 2013
Product Code: 51814
Year: 2013
This latest volume of Constructive Conservation shows the many ways in which historic buildings can
contribute to job creation, business growth and economic prosperity. It explains what can be achieved when
English Heritage is among a multi-disciplined problem-solving team taking a positive and collaborative
approach to conservation and managing change. By demonstrating our philosophy of Constructive
Conservation in action, these case studies emphasise the balance between understanding significance and accommodating
necessary alterations to ensure the continued use and enjoyment of historic buildings, monuments and landscapes.
+ info: http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/professional/advice/conservation-principles/constructive-conservation/
constructive-conservation-sustainable-growth
Year: 2013
Colombia (UTB).
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Quang Nam tries to save ethnic culture
Rapid modernisation and modern lifestyles are threatening the survival of the ancient Cham
culture and other ethnic traditions in central Quang Nam Province, home to two UNESCO
world heritage sites and a world biosphere reserve.
The subject was the main focus of a conference in the province yesterday, April 3.
The meeting was told that 337 physical relics, mostly buildings, and 120 cultural festivals
were in danger of disappearing because of the increasing demands of economic
development…
+ info: http://english.vietnamnet.vn/fms/art-entertainment/70551/quang-nam-tries-to-save-ethnic-culture.html
People Not Stones Project - Crowdfunding Project
Is it possible to protect archaeological sites and cultural heritage for future generations while
enhancing the economic status of the communities in which they are based? A new idea from the folks
at the Sustainable Preservation Initiative thinks they can do just that. They have come up with a
unique paradigm that alleviates poverty by empowering entrepreneurs and creating jobs through local
businesses whose financial success is dependent upon the preservation of archaeological sites.
+ info: http://pastpreservers.blogspot.fr/2013/03/help-save-archaeological-sites-and.html?goback=.
gde_2564264_member_223737197
biosphere reserves.
World Heritage in the Caribbean: updating the Kingston Action Plan 20122013
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UNESCO organized the Caribbean Training Course in the Preparation of Nomination
Dossiers, in St. Mary's, Antigua & Barbuda from 24 to 28 March 2013. This training
exercise was designed within the framework of the Japanese Funds-in-Trust project
"Capacity Building to Support the Conservation of World Heritage Sites and Enhance
Sustainable Development of Local Communities in Small Island Developing States (SIDS)"…
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Connecting to Collections - Online Community
Their goal is to help smaller museums, libraries, archives, and
historical societies get answers to collections care questions and
quickly locate reliable preservation resources and to help staff
members network with their colleagues. They know how many
responsibilities you have and how helpful it can be to network
with conservation professionals and museums and library
colleagues. This online community will be a source of solid
information and, occasionally, inspiration to help you make the right connections to care for your collections.
+ info: http://www.connectingtocollections.org/
development held
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Curso a distancia de "Turismo Sostenible y Desarrollo Local" (solo en español)
Asistente de Programa: Erika Valdebenito
Organizers: Delnet del Centro Internacional de Formación de la Organización Internacional del Trabajo (OIT)
+ info: http://www.delnetitcilo.net/es/specialisations/curso-de-turismo-sostenible-y-desarrollo-local/informacionesgenerales/introduccion
DEADLINE: 15 June 2013
Organizers: ICOM-CC
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Chile.
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Lawmakers call for preventive measures towards cultural heritage
The discussion on the draft law on Cultural Heritage Protection continued yesterday, during which the recent fire at Na Tcha
Temple was put on the table for discussion. Lawmakers believe the government is also responsible for protecting heritage
sites from damage.
The draft law stipulates that when heritage structures are confronted with danger or damage, it is the legal duty for owners,
tenants, users or holders to inform the Cultural Affairs Bureau immediately. However the AL Committee members that met
yesterday pointed out at the meeting that the Bureau itself is also liable to take preventive methods to protect buildings
against such damage. “Can the Bureau take the recent fire at Na Tcha Temple as an example? The government can place
fireproof boxes to store offerings or set up fire alarm systems in advance,” said Cheang Chi Keong, President of the 3rd
Standing Committee of the Legislative Assembly (AL)…
+ info: http://www.macaudailytimes.com.mo/macau/42719-lawmakers-call-for-preventive-measures-towards-culturalheritage.html
« Un choc de simplification »
… En matière d’environnement et d’urbanisme, on propose qu’un texte oblige le préfet de région à
signer lui-même ses arrêtés au lieu du Dreal : mais n’est-ce pas le préfet qui délègue ses pouvoirs
au Dreal et faut-il un nouveau texte pour qu’il reprenne cette délégation ? Une fois de plus, on
veut modifier les pouvoirs des ABF en confiant au préfet du département l’examen de l’appel des
décisions de ces fonctionnaires jusqu’ici confié au préfet de région.
Les auteurs oublient que les préfets de département sont désormais soumis au pouvoir
hiérarchique des préfets de région et que les ABF sont pour leur part soumis au pouvoir
hiérarchique des DRAC : n’est-ce pas créer une nouvelle norme aberrante que de renvoyer au département ce qui dépend
hiérarchiquement du niveau régional…
+ info: http://patrimoine-environnement.fr/un-choc-de-simplification/
L'écocide : la difficile reconnaissance des crimes environnementaux
"Le terme d'écocide doit être réservé aux cas les plus graves d'atteintes à l'environnement, car il renvoie à l'homicide et au
génocide", indique Laurent Neyret, professeur de droit privé à l'Université d'Artois, lors d'une conférence à l'Assemblée
nationale consacrée au droit de l'excellence environnementale. L'écocide relèverait selon lui d'une criminalité
"extraordinaire", laquelle serait en pleine expansion à l'échelle internationale. Le professeur évoque notamment l'agent
orange utilisé par l'armée américaine au Vietnam, tout en précisant que l'écocide ne doit pas être limité aux temps de
guerre…
+ info: http://www.actu-environnement.com/ae/news/ecocide-difficile-reconnaissance-crimes-environnementaux-18174.
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Resource Manual 'Preparing World Heritage Nominations' available online
Year: 2011
The second title within the World Heritage Resource Manuals Preparing World Heritage Nominations (First
Edition, 2010) series has just been published. It is a joint undertaking by the three Advisory Bodies of the
World Heritage Convention (ICCROM, ICOMOS and IUCN) and the UNESCO World Heritage Centre. The aim
of this Resource Manual is to help States Parties to achieve good quality World Heritage nominations.
So far, this manual exists in English and in French. The titles in this series are produced as PDF online
documents which can be downloaded free of charge below. There is no hard copy version of this manual.
+ info: http://whc.unesco.org/en/resourcemanuals/
ISBN: 978-88-548-5880-0
Year: 2013
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2013
Russia’s Historic Mariinsky Theatre to Celebrate Grand Opening of Mariinsky II.
Saint -Petersburg (Russian Federation)
On May 2, Russia’s preeminent Mariinsky Theatre will celebrate the grand opening of a new,
851,575 square foot addition on a neighboring site, just west of the company’s original 1860
theatre and 2006 concert hall, in the heart St. Petersburg. Designed by Toronto-based
Diamond Schmitt Architects, Mariinsky II will be one of the largest theatre and concert venues
in the world, providing a 2000-seat auditorium, state-of-the-art production facilities, and
naturally lit rehearsal rooms, along with a rooftop amphitheatre and terrace.
The seven story structure compliments the surrounding 19th century context with a facade clad in beige Jura limestone,
while its interior creates a timeless atmosphere with rear-lit onyx stone walls and marble floors surrounding the wood-lined
auditorium…
Heritage"
Who Cares for Chilean Cities? - Columbia University - New York City (USA)
“Assess: Chile at Columbia” is an initiative led by the Latin Lab at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and
Preservation’s (GSAPP) of Columbia University that discusses, in several formats, the state of contemporary cities in the
southern country by addressing the question: who cares for Chilean cities?
This project aims to raise questions and skip external, often patronizing understandings of Chilean practices. To do so,
“Assess: Chile at Columbia” invites Chilean scholars who— closely in touch with both national practices and international
debates in the fields of architecture, public space, and urban projects—are uniquely positioned to initiate a critical
conversation…
Semana da Rehabilitaçao Urbana - Porto - Portugal - 3-10 de Abril de 2013
O Porto aposta com força na Reabilitação Urbana, com uma estratégia de longo prazo que
apresenta sinais da renovação urbana e social. A Vida Imobiliária e a Promevi, em parceria com
a Câmara Municipal do Porto, propõem uma Semana da Reabilitação Urbana, plena de eventos,
que marque a agenda da cidade e do país. Um conjunto de iniciativas, tendo como palco as
áreas e edifícios recuperados da cidade, atraindo profissionais e publico em geral, residentes e
visitantes, para destacar o impacto social da Reabilitação Urbana.
Uma Semana da Reabilitação Urbana na agenda mediática do país, com uma forte comunicação
e uma imagem unificada e marcante!
+ info: http://www.pt.vidaimobiliaria.com/semanadareabilitacao/
Crean en Cuba Red de Oficinas del Historiador y del Conservador de las Ciudades
Patrimoniales
El Consejo de Estado de la República de Cuba acordó el pasado mes de enero instituir la Red
de Oficinas del Historiador y del Conservador de las Ciudades Patrimoniales de la nación
caribeña.
La Red estará integrada por las Oficinas del Historiador de las ciudades de La Habana y
Camagüey, las del Conservador de las ciudades de Santiago de Cuba, Cienfuegos y Trinidad,
así como por las que se creen en las ciudades patrimoniales de Sancti Spíritus, San Salvador
de Bayamo, San Juan de los Remedios y Nuestra Señora de la Asunción de Baracoa. También formarán parte de ella las
ciudades que sean autorizadas en lo adelante en atención a sus méritos históricos y patrimoniales.
El Dr. Eusebio Leal Spengler, Historiador de la Ciudad de La Habana, presidirá la Red, cuya misión fundamental es fomentar
el intercambio y transferencia de experiencias y conocimientos en materia de rehabilitación urbana y recuperación
patrimonial.
+ info: http://www.unesco.lacult.org/noticias/showitem.php?uid_ext=e&getipr=NjYuMjQ5Ljc2LjU3&lg=1&id=3541
City Council Approves Redevelopment of NYC’s Historic Pier 57 - New York City
(USA)
New York’s City Council have unanimously backed a proposed plan to restore and redevelop
the aging giant that is Pier 57. Built in 1952, the 300,000 square foot pier was hailed by
Popular Mechanics as a ‘SuperPier’ for its vast size and unconventional construction, as most
of the pier’s weight is supported by ‘floating’ air-filled concrete cassions. The pier was
originally used as a bus depot by the New York City Transit Authority, however it has been
lying vacant since 2003. The latest decision brings a concrete end to years of speculation as
to what the fate of the pier would be…
Report Suggests Demolishing Unsustainable Mid-Century Skyscrapers in New York City (USA)
Mayor Bloomberg’s controversial plans to rezone midtown New York, allowing for bigger and bolder
skyscrapers, has found an unlikely ally in the form of environmentalists.
Re-zoning midtown would ultimately lead to the demolition of the corporate steel and glass skyscrapers,
which preservationists argue are emblematic of the cutting edge modernism that swept 1950′s America.
However, landlords contest that – for the most part – they are poorly built copycats of seminal landmarks
such as the Seagram and Lever buildings and are not particularly significant or suited for modern needs…
This prize is awarded every second year by the Organization of World Heritage Cities (OWHC) to a city that
is a member in good standing of the OWHC, and that has distinguished itself by an achievement in terms of
conservation, enhancement or management of property inscribed on the World Heritage List, and that is
located on its territory.
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Congreso: “El Centro Histórico de la Ciudad de México: 25 años de haber sido nominado por la UNESCO como
Patrimonio Cultural de la Humanidad: balance y perspectivas”
15 - 19 April 2013 Ciudad de México. Mexico
Organizers: La Universidad Autónoma de la Ciudad de México (UACM) a través de la Coordinación Académica y del Colegio
de Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales
Contact: Alberto Zárate: [email protected]
+ info: http://www.h-mexico.unam.mx/node/11043
Posted by FUUH member: Niglio, Olimpia
16th Annual US/ICOMOS International Symposium: The Historic Centre and the Next City - Envisioning Urban
Heritage Evolution
01 - 04 May 2013 Savannah, Georgia. United States of America
Organizers: ICOMOS & Savannah College of Art and Design
Contact: Donald Jones at [email protected]
+ info: http://www.usicomos.org/symposium
SCUPAD (Salzburg Congress on Urban Planning and Development)
09 - 12 May 2013 Salzburg. Austria
Organizers: SCUPAD International Network
+ info: http://www.scupad.org/web/content/papers-2013
Civic Horticulture Conference in the University Of The Arts of Philadelphia
16 - 17 May 2013 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. United States of America
Organizers: The Cultural Landscape Foundation & Pennsylvania Horticultural Society With Support From: Landscape Forms
+ info: http://tclf.org/sites/default/files/microsites/civic-horticulture/index.html
Cities and heritage meeting: “Changing Cities and Heritage Management: New Players? New Practices?”
22 - 24 May 2013 Lyon. France
Organizers: The city of Lyon (France) and the Organization of World Heritage Cities (OWHC)
+ info: http://www.ovpm.org/en/news/cities_and_heritage_meeting_may_22_23_and_24_2013
Twin Conference: 2nd International Conference on Civil Engineering Towards a better Environment & 5th
International Conference on the Concrete Future
26 - 28 May 2013 Covilhã. Portugal
Organizers: University of Beira Interior, University of Coimbra and CI Premier
+ info: http://www.uc.pt/en/iii/novidades/2012/twinconferencesucubi
International Conference - The Architecture of Southeast Asian Cities: how do architectural and urban
expressions of modernity relate to heritage?
Organizers: Contemporary Asian Architecture and Cities: Heritage and Projects research group, based in Paris
+ info: http://australia.icomos.org/wp-content/uploads/Call-for-papers_Architecture-SEA-Cities.pdf
Call for Volunteers - Australia International Council on Monuments and Sites 2013 Centenary of Canberra Museum of Australian Democracy
30 October - 03 November 2013 Canberra, Australian Capital Territory. Australia
Organizers: Australia ICOMOS
Contact: Tracy Ireland - [email protected]
+ info: http://australia.icomos.org/e-news/australia-icomos-e-mail-news-no-528/#9.
Cities.”
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Urban Morphology Journal, April 2013
Year: 2013
ISUF was created to rectify the lack of a common forum for researchers and practitioners concerned with
urban form. In the early decades after the Second World War urban research expanded greatly. It did so
within a wide range of disciplines and specialisms – architecture, archaeology, geography, history, planning,
urban design, spatial analysis, space syntax and heritage studies – to name a few. But research and interest
groups tended to function in isolation from one another. The problem was made worse by language barriers.
ISUF’s aim is the international and interdisciplinary sharing of ideas, methods and findings concerned with
urban form. Beginning in 1994 with the coming together of some 20 architects, geographers, planners and historians,
representing four different language areas, it now has some 600 individual and institutional members from about 50
countries.
+ info: http://www.urbanform.org/journal.html
Posted by FUUH member: WHITEHAND, Jeremy William Richard
Prontuario delle Istituzioni e delle Magistrature di Venezia
Emiliano Balistreri, Egle Renata Trincanato
Editore: Aracne
ISBN: 978-88-548-5800-8
Year: 2013
Con una cronologia storica in sintesi dalle origini alla caduta della Repubblica Serenissima.
Il volume propone un prontuario delle Istituzioni e delle Magistrature dello Stato veneziano, integrato da una
cronologia storica in sintesi e da schede esplicative sui commerci e sulla flotta della città lagunare; per
fornire al lettore una più ampia introduzione alla storia di Venezia si presentano inoltre, quali appendici,unitamente ai testi
dell’autore, un saggio di Egle Renata Trincanato sulla conformazione del Palazzo Ducale ed uno scritto di Corrado Balistreri
sull’assetto edilizio ed architettonico dell’Arsenale.
“European Capitals of Culture and Everyday Cultural Diversity: A Comparison of
Liverpool (UK) and Marseilles (France)”
Author: Claire Bullen
Editor: Diane Dodd
Published by the European Cultural Foundation
ISBN/EAN 978-90-6282-059-7
Year: 2013
This publication is the result of an ethnographic field research in Liverpool and Marseilles.
Collaborating with local art organisations, community groups and individuals, Claire Bullen investigates how narratives about
cultural policies within and across European member states are put into practice in particular European cities, and how these
circulating dynamics might influence everyday social relations in and across urban neighbourhoods.
Cultural Policy Research Award is a programme by European Cultural Foundation (ECF) and Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (RJ)
for supporting young (under 35) researchers from across Europe to carry out applied, policy-relevant research with a
European dimension.
The programme is carried out in close collaboration with ENCATC.
+ info: http://www.encatc.org/pages/fileadmin/user_upload/2011_CPRA/2010_CPRA_Winner_Publication_Claire_Bullen.pdf
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Largest seizure of Critically Endangered Ploughshare Tortoises made in Thailand
Just a day after the close a global wildlife trade conference here, authorities at Suvarnabhumi
International Airport made two big seizures, discovering hundreds of threatened tortoises and
apprehending two smugglers. Among the tortoises seized were some of the rarest in the world.
On Friday, authorities arrested a 38-year-old Thai man as he was attempting to collect a bag
containing tortoises from Madagascar, from a luggage carousel, at the airport. The bag was
registered to a 25-year-old woman who had flown from Madagascar to Bangkok via Nairobi the
same day…
+ info: http://www.traffic.org/home/2013/3/19/largest-seizure-of-critically-endangered-ploughshare-tortois.html
Il Museo Etrusco di Roma derubato dei suoi gioielli - Rome - Italy
Il Museo Etrusco di Villa Giulia a Roma, dove è in corso fino al 4 aprile la mostra “Ambra. Dalle rive
del Baltico all’Etruria”, è stato tra i centri culturali a prevedere l’apertura straordinaria durante le
giornate di Pasqua e Pasquetta, dalle 8e 30 del mattino, fino alla sera.
Proprio nella notte del 31 marzo il Museo romano è stato però vittima di un grave furto che ha
impoverito la sua importante collezione: tre ladri incappucciati, ripresi dalle telecamere di sicurezza,
hanno infatti violato due teche della Sala degli Ori, al secondo piano dell’edificio appartenuto a Papa
Giulio III, per prelevarne gli oggetti esposti…
+ info: http://www.tafter.it/2013/04/03/il-museo-etrusco-di-roma-derubato-dei-suoi-gioielli/
VACANCY: Wildlife-TRAPS Project Leader - Deadline for applications: 3 May 2013
TRAFFIC is seeking a Project Leader for the USAID-funded ‘Wildlife Trafficking, Response, Assessment, Priority
Setting’ (Wildlife-TRAPS) initiative.
Wildlife TRAPS is likely to focus on achieving a high impact with a tightly focused group of species products (i.e. including
ivory and rhino horn) traded between Central and East & Southern Africa and East and South-East Asia.
The position will be based in Pretoria, South Africa
+ info: http://www.traffic.org/home/2013/4/9/vacancy-wildlife-traps-project-leader.html
French court allows auction of sacred Hopi masks - Paris (France)
A French court on Friday rejected a request for an injunction against the auction in
Paris of ceremonial masks originating from Arizona’s Hopi tribe, despite opponents
saying the sale amounted to “sacrilege”.
A French lawyer for the tribe, Pierre Servan-Schreiber, told AFP the court had refused
to halt the sale of around 70 brightly coloured “Kachina” visages and headdresses by
auction house Neret-Minet, which was due to start at 1230 GMT.
High-profile figures including actor Robert Redford and the US ambassador to Paris had
called for the sale to be cancelled or delayed, saying the masks are sacred objects to the Native American tribe…
+ info: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/04/12/french-court-allows-auction-of-sacred-hopi-masks/?goback=.
gde_120234_member_231735627
Italian police recover painting by Marc Chagall stolen from United States yacht
more than a decade ago
A painting by Marc Chagall stolen from a US yacht moored in Italy has been recovered more
than a decade later in a private collector's home, Italy's art theft police division said on
Monday. The Russian-born Jewish painter's "Le Nu au Bouquet" was stolen in 2002 while the
boat was being repaired in the port of Savona in northern Italy and was replaced with a
forgery. The work, which was bought by an unnamed wealthy US national for his yacht in
1998, is valued at more than 1.0 million euros ($1.3 million)…
+ info: http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=61825#.UX5F9MqU_Z5
Trafic illicite des biens culturels en Afrique de l’Ouest : LA NECESSITE D’UNE
REPONSE TRANSFRONTALIERE
Une trentaine de policiers, de douaniers et de gendarmes du Burkina Faso, de Côte d’Ivoire,
du Mali, de Mauritanie, du Niger, du Sénégal et du Togo participent en ce moment à un
atelier sous-régional pour le renforcement des capacités et la sensibilisation sur la lutte
contre le trafic illicite de biens culturels du Mali. La rencontre s’est ouverte hier dans la salle
polyvalente du Musée national sous la présidence du ministre de la Culture, Bruno Maïga. A
l’atelier prennent également part des spécialistes du patrimoine culturel du Mali, de l’Unesco,
et de Interpol. En plus des travaux théoriques, des visites de terrain sont au programme de la session qui s’achève
demain…
+ info: http://www.essorml.com/trafic-illicite-des-biens-culturels-en-afrique-de-louest-la-necessite-dune-reponsetransfrontaliere.html
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Extraordinary Meeting of States Parties to the 1970 Convention
01 - 02 July 2013 Paris. France
Organizers: UNESCO
+ info: http://www.unesco.org/new/en/culture/themes/movable-heritage-and-museums/illicit-traffic-of-cultural-property/
meetings/
Taller ILAM - Acciones para combatir el tráfico Ilícito de Bienes Patrimoniales
05 July - 16 August 2013 -- Modalidad virtual - Profesora: Cecilia Bákula Bunge
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+ info: http://waterwaysforward.wordpress.com/2013/03/04/amazing-video-of-pontcysyllte-aqueduct-as-youve-neverseen-it-before/?goback=.gde_65409_member_219315548
2013
The Regional Committee for Latin America and the Caribbean (MOWLAC) of the Memory of the World Programme is
seeking nominations of documents or sets of documents from archives, libraries, including audiovisual, of any format and
kind for inscription on the Memory of the World Register for Latin America and the Caribbean.
All interested public and private institutions (libraries, archives, museums), international associations, private companies
and individuals are invited to send their proposals to the regional register…
+ info: http://www.unesco.org/new/en/communication-and-information/resources/news-and-in-focus-articles/all-news/
news/call_for_nominations_memory_of_the_world_register_for_latin_america_and_the_caribbean/
within Euromed Heritage Programme. The documents are accessible and downloadable from the Ecorpus platform, a digital comprehensive library for cultural heritage created in 2009. The library
grows incrementally and organizes and repertories a multiplicity of documents, more than 2.3 million
to date, introduced through more than 120,000 thematic summaries…
Appel de candidatures: Si la cybermuséologie à caractère sociale vous
intéresse
L’Espace participation sociale est un projet de micro-musée virtuel du Réseau
international sur le Processus de production du handicap (RIPPH) présentant tout le
potentiel d’une société inclusive pour les personnes ayant des incapacités et leurs
familles. Initiative à la fois scientifique et populaire, elle vise à présenter l’environnement social et physique comme un
médium pouvant être structuré et manipulé de telle sorte à ce qu’il puisse leur offrir des opportunités de réaliser leurs
habitudes de vie et de mener une vie satisfaisante, et ce, au même titre que les autres. L’Espace participation sociale sera
notamment l’occasion de montrer de quelles manières les réseaux de transport, les milieux scolaires et d’emplois, les
attitudes et les valeurs, de même que les milieux résidentiels peuvent réduire les obstacles et proposer des facilitateurs à
la participation sociale.
Francis Charrier, Coordonnateur du RIPPH. Courriel : [email protected]
+ info: http://www.ripph.qc.ca/projets-en-cours/espace-participation-sociale
Australian researchers developed a mobile laser 3D mapping system called Zebedee to preserve some of the country's
oldest and most culturally significant heritage sites, CSIRO, Australia's national science agency, announced on Saturday.
La tecnología actual y la conservación del patrimonio: aplicación en la catedral
de Coria
En el salón de actos de la Escuela Politécnica de la Universidad de Extremadura, en
Cáceres, se desarrolló el día 9 de abril la jornada dedicada a la aplicación de las
tecnologías actuales en materia de conservación de patrimonio a la Catedral de Coria, al
que asistió un numeroso público que llenó a rebosar el recinto. El contenido estrictamente
académico de la Jornada constó de cuatro ponencias principales:
1) “La Catedral de Coria, una historia llena de patologías”, a cargo de D. Florencio J.
García Mogollón,
2) “Tecnologías del láser escáner y termografía aplicadas a la Catedral de Coria”, por D. Fernando Berenguer Sempere,
3) “Estudio patológico integral del complejo ladera-estructura de la Catedral de Coria” desarrollada por D. Emilio González
Abril,
4) “Conclusiones y previsiones de futuro sobre la Catedral de Coria”, que siendo presentada por D. Ignacio Dols Juste.
Finalizadas las conferencias, y habida cuenta del retraso acumulado sobre el horario previsto, el coloquio se redujo en
extensión, a pesar de lo cual pudieron efectuarse valiosas aportaciones.
+ info: http://www.camineo.info/news/174/ARTICLE/26263/2013-04-13.html
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nous vous invitons à « aimer » la page Facebook du LAMIC. Vous pourrez bientôt y trouver les plus
récentes Infolettres du LAMIC.
Le LAMIC est un laboratoire spécialisé en muséologie expérimentale prenant appui sur les
technologies de l'information et de la communication (TIC).
Le LAMIC se veut une plaque tournante de réflexion et de recherche expérimentale, qui accompagne
les musées dans une redéfinition de leurs pratiques, en leur permettant d'effectuer des choix
d'équipements de haute technologie plus éclairés et en leur fournissant les outils nécessaires à la création d'expériences
muséales évolutives, mieux adaptées et adaptables à leurs publics. Les travaux du LAMIC, son rôle d'observatoire des
publics et de veille technologique favorisent le maintien du Canada et du Québec à l'avant-plan de l'innovation de la
muséologie internationale.
+ info: https://www.facebook.com/lamiculaval
Roman Fresco Found Beneath Nineteenth-Century Painting
The imaging technology used in airport security scanners has detected a previously unknown ancient
Roman image beneath a nineteenth-century fresco in the collection at the Louvre Museum. “We could not
believe our eyes as the image materialized on the screen. Underneath the top painting of the folds of a
man’s tunic, we saw an eye, a nose, and then a mouth appear. We were seeing what likely was part of an
ancient Roman fresco, thousands of years old,” said J. Bianca Jackson of the University of Rochester. The
technology is now being applied to other ancient works of art.
Musei social. Sì, ma quanto?
Anche i musei, come molte realtà e soggetti, devono ormai fare i conti con la loro dimensione social e l’appeal che
generano all’interno della comunità 2.0.
Lontani erano i tempi in cui gli istituti culturali misuravano il loro indice di gradimento unicamente con il numero di
visitatori, sebbene classifiche di tal genere continuino ad accaparrarsi la loro fetta di interesse…
+ info: http://www.tafter.it/2013/04/15/musei-social-si-ma-quanto/
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Monti&Taft.
8th Iberian Conference on Information Systems and Technologies
19 - 22 June 2013 Lisboa. Portugal
Organizers: AISTI - Associação Ibérica de Sistemas e Tecnologias de Informação & ISEGI / Universidade Nova de Lisboa
+ info: http://www.aisti.eu/cisti2013
South-east European Virtual heritage School Digital Storytelling for Virtual Museums
24 - 28 June 2013 Sarajevo. Bosnia and Herzegovina
Organizers: Faculty of Electrical Engineering Sarajevo
+ info: http://v-must.net/schools/south-east-european-virtual-heritage-school-digital-storytelling-virtual-museums
Organizers: ICOM-CC
Taller ILAM - Uso del software ABC para la optimización de tu Centro de Documentación
27 September - 08 November 2013 -- Modalidad virtual - Profesor: Álvaro Agudo Guevara
Publications
ISSN 2173 - 9250
Year: 2013
exposiciones y montajes permanentes. En particular, la tecnología audiovisual ha “colonizado” en gran medida los museos
de historia y arqueología, los de etnología o los de ciencias, si bien todavía es minoritaria en los de arte, salvo en el caso
de obras de arte electrónico, multimedia o net.art.ico…
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Brooklyn Navy Yard / workshop apd + Beyer Blinder Belle-2012 - Brooklyn - New York State
(USA)
Workshop/apd, in collaboration with Beyer Blinder Belle Architects & Planners LLP, transformed Building 92
at the Brooklyn Navy Yard into a premier tourist destination in Brooklyn. For the first time in its 210-year
history, the once cloistered Yard opens its gates to the public, celebrating the Yard’s storied past and
prosperous future.
Once the country’s top shipbuilding facility, the Navy Yard is now slated for redevelopment as a 21stcentury industrial park. Located at the compound’s main entrance, the Center occupies the historic US
Marine Corps Commandant’s residence, which was fully restored, and a new 20,000 square-foot addition that achieves LEED
platinum certification with sustainable technologies. Inside are exhibition areas, space for job training programs, offices and
cafe.
space junk.
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Taller ILAM - El Patrimonio industrial como patrimonio intangible: más allá de su arquitectura
19 April - 31 May 2013 -- Modalidad virtual - Profesora: Patricia Ceci
+ info: http://ilam.org/capacitacion/talleres-ilam-2013.html
séminaire « L’industrie, patrimoine et culture »
19 April 2013 Paris. France
Organizers: Région Île-de-France et l'Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne
+ info: http://www.iledefrance.fr/patrimoines-et-inventaire/actualites/evenement/lindustrie-patrimoine-et-culture-2013/
VII Latin American Symposium on Conservation of the Industrial Heritage, CfP
de Monumentos y Zonas Típicas del Estado de Zacatecas and the Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas
+ info: http://www.mnactec.cat/~public/docs/MexicoInternationalSeminar.pdf
VI Congreso sobre Patrimonio Industrial y Obra Pública de TICCIH-España "El patrimonio industrial en el
contexto histórico del Franquismo (1939-1975): territorios, arquitectura, obras públicas, empresas, sindicatos y
vida obrera"
Organizers: TICCIH Spain
+ info: http://www.ticcih.es/
Colloque international : Les photographes et la commande industrielle en Europe au XXe siècle
10 - 13 October 2013 Saint-Etienne. France
Organizers: CIEREC (Centre Interdisciplinaire d’Etude et de Recherches sur l’Expression contemporaine) de l’Université Jean
Monnet, et par le Musée d’Art Moderne de Saint-Etienne.
Contact: Danièle Méaux - [email protected]
+ info: http://portail.univ-st-etienne.fr/bienvenue/actualites/cierec-colloque-international-les-photographes-et-la-commandeindustrielle-en-europe-au-xxe-siecle--408855.kjsp?RH=actu
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Séminaire "Mettre en tourisme le patrimoine industriel"
22 March 2013 Paris. France
Organizers: La Région Île-de-France et l’Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne
+ info: http://www.iledefrance.fr/patrimoines-et-inventaire/actualites/evenement/mettre-en-tourisme-le-patrimoineindustriel/
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development…
Prof. François GROS, to be awarded the Kural Peedam Award for Classical Tamil
studies
In recognition of his eminent scholarly works on Classical Tamil language, Prof François
GROS, who was a Director of Studies in South Indian Philology and History at the Ecole
Pratique des Hautes Etudes (EPHE), Professor-researcher at the French Institute of
Pondicherry (IFP) collaborating with many programs in the Indology Department, and
Director of the French School for Asian Studies (EFEO) from 1977 to 1989, has been selected
to receive the Kural Peedam Award (Foreigner Award) for the year 2008-2009, from the
hands of the President of India at the Investiture Ceremony that will be held on December 21, 2012 at the Rashtrapati
Bhawan, New Delhi.
+ info: http://www.ifpindia.org/+Prof-Francois-GROS-to-be-awarded-the-Kural-Peedam-Award-for-Classical-Tamil-studies+.
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The phylogeography of Y-Chromosome haplogroup H1a1a-M82 reveals the likely
Indian origin of the European Romani populations
The Romani populations — known as gypsies in England — are descendants of people who were
ancestors of the present scheduled tribes and scheduled caste populations of northwest India,
researchers report1.
Romanis are distributed widely within Europe including the Balkans and Scandinavia as well as
throughout the Near East.
+ info: http://www.nature.com/nindia/2012/121201/full/nindia.2012.179.html?WT.
ec_id=NINDIA-20121205
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Breath of Life Archival Institute for Indigenous Languages
10 - 21 June 2013 Washington, DC. United States of America
Organizers: National Science Foundation. Partners include the National Museum of Natural History, The National Museum of
the American Indian, the Library of Congress, The Endangered Language Fund and Yale University
+ info: http://www.endangeredlanguagefund.org/BOL_2013_home.php
Language Endangerment: Language Policy and Planning
26 July 2013 Cambridge. United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Organizers: Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Cambridge
Contact: Mari Jones - [email protected]
+ info: http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2163
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Universal Value and as such, should form part of the common heritage of humankind. On a planet of over 70 per cent
ocean, a huge amount of our heritage is located in marine areas.
Launched in 2005, the mission of the World Heritage Marine Programme is to establish effective conservation of existing
and potential marine areas of Outstanding Universal Value to make sure they will be maintained and thrive for generations
to come. Today, 46 sites are inscribed on the World Heritage List specifically in recognition of their exceptional beauty,
geology, ecosystem processes, biodiversity and habitat. They are located in 35 countries and cover about one quarter, by
area, of all marine protected areas (MPAs) on the planet…
+ info: http://biodiversity-l.iisd.org/guest-articles/the-unesco-world-heritage-marine-programme-a-community-ofmanagers-driving-change-in-ocean-conservation/
TRAFFIC - Engaging China’s youth in protecting marine turtles
TRAFFIC has taken steps to engage the next generation of Chinese society in a campaign
focused on preventing illegal trade of marine turtle products in Guangxi Province, bordering
Viet Nam.
Themed as “Small Hands and Big Hands, Hand in Hand”, the campaign has reached out to
elementary school students in Daxin County and two other cities, namely Dongxing City and
Pinxiang City, both historically important market locations for wildlife products…
+ info: http://www.traffic.org/home/2013/3/26/engaging-chinas-youth-in-protectingmarine-turtles.html
Gombessa Coelacanth Expedition
On the 5th April 2013 at 20h30, the diver and naturalist Laurent Ballesta, accompanied by a
team of deep-sea divers, researchers from the South African Institute of Aquatic Biodiversity
(SAIAB) and six scientists from the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle (MNHN - the
National Museum of Natural History in Paris) and the Centre National de la Recherche
Scientifique (CNRS - National Center for Scientific Research) in France, left for South Africa
for 40 days of diving to find a mythical animal: the coelacanth.
Known in that area as 'gombessa', this peaceful 2 m long giant, thought to be extinct for 70
million years and rediscovered alive in 1938, is considered the greatest zoological discovery of the twentieth century.
The coelacanth unleashed heated debates for nearly a century between creationists and scientists. This is probably the wild
animal that has been the most deliberated in the world, yet we know almost nothing about its behaviour.
+ info: http://www.saiab.ac.za/features/gombessa-coelacanth-expedition.htm
Fonds marins : nouvel "El Dorado" ?
Une grande quantité de métaux et de terres rares est nécessaire pour la fabrication d'équipements industriels et
électroniques, et, en particulier, dans le domaine des nouvelles technologies (smartphones, panneaux photovoltaïques,...).
"Jusqu'à présent, ces matières étaient extraites sur les continents, mais face à la demande croissante en matières
minérales et grâce à l'augmentation de leur valeur, l'exploitation de nouveaux gisements dont ceux que l'on trouve au fond
des mers devient une opportunité très sérieuse", affirme Colin Devey, géologue au GEOMAR, le Centre Helmholtz pour la
recherche océanique situé à Kiel (Schleswig-Holstein).
Découverte d'un nouveau volcan au large de la Calabre
Au cours d'une étude océanographique au large de Tropea (Calabre), une importante bioconstruction a été détectée au
sommet de ce qui s'avérerait un volcan sous-marin: des organismes tels que des oursins, des huitres et des coraux y
vivent et se développent à proximité des cheminées.
We are looking for volunteers for the summer land-based survey on fin whales 2013.
Algeciras, Cádiz (España)
3 to 24 June 2013.
24 June to 15 July 2013.
We give you the opportunity to participate in a scientific project with application to the
conservation of these species. Stays are for a duration of three weeks minimum, but may be of
six weeks. Besides the knowledge to be gained in the field, we will offer informative talks on
cetaceans of the Strait of Gibraltar, based on the research that CIRCE has been carrying out
since 1998 in the area. CIRCE will provide accommodation for the project. As a volunteer, you will get a volunteer
insurance as required by the Spanish Law on Volunteers 6/1996.
To participate in the project you need to be a friend of CIRCE. If you are not a friend of CIRCE yet, in the registration form
that you will find the bottom of this page, you will have the option to become one. Your commitment will be to help us in
the active search of fin whales and sperm whales from land, through the use of binoculars and telescopes, as well as keep
track of them using a theodolite connected to a notebook computer for live data collection.
+ info: http://www.circe.biz/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=93&Itemid=236&lang=en
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Dans la continuité des efforts engagés pour réduire les impacts, Jean-Yves Le Drian, ministre de la Défense a signé le 2 avril
2013 avec Delphine Batho, ministre de l'écologie, un nouveau protocole en faveur de la préservation de la biodiversité.
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Job Offers - Conseervation Officer - War Memorials Trust - Scotland (United Kingdom) Closing
Date: 24 April 2013
War Memorials Trust (WMT) works for the protection and conservation of war memorials within the UK. The
Conservation Team, through the the three Conservation Officers, is responsible for delivering the Trust’s
Conservation Programme including administering grant schemes, providing advice and promoting the
important of good practice in war memorial conservation, maintenance and preservation. The team is office
based with occasional outreach work through site visits, talks and presentations.
To succeed as a Conservation Officer, you will need to have proven yourself as a team player and strong
administrator with experience in the heritage or conservation sectors…
+ info: http://www.warmemorials.org/vacancies/
City Council Approves Redevelopment of NYC’s Historic
Pier 57 - New York City (USA)
New York’s City Council have unanimously backed a
proposed plan to restore and redevelop the aging giant that
is Pier 57. Built in 1952, the 300,000 square foot pier was
hailed by Popular Mechanics as a ‘SuperPier’ for its vast size
and unconventional construction, as most of the pier’s weight
is supported by ‘floating’ air-filled concrete cassions. The pier
was originally used as a bus depot by the New York City Transit Authority, however it has been lying vacant since 2003. The
latest decision brings a concrete end to years of speculation as to what the fate of the pier would be…
Restoring Sea and Romance to a French Treasure
A dispatch in The New York Times in August 1944 described the view of Mont-St.-Michel that
American soldiers saw, “racing their tanks across the Norman hills into Avranches.” Built “for
war as well as worship,” the writer noted, the Mont “seems to float on the sea as gracefully as
a ship under full sail, catching all the changing colors of the clouds.”
But in the years since then, the sea has dumped tons of silt around the island, slowly
attaching it to the land. The main culprit appears to be a solid causeway, built in 1879, that
linked the monastery to the mainland but disrupted the movement of the waters. The problem
was worsened in 1969, when the government built a dam on the Couesnon River to protect farmlands from high tide, but
one result was to further reduce the power of the river to push the silt back into the sea…
+ info: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/24/world/europe/restoring-the-sea-and-the-romance-to-mont-st-michel.html?
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Démolition suspendue de la Halle de Fontainebleau - France
Chef-d’œuvre architectural du XXème siècle, la Halle du marché de Fontainebleau (Seineet-Marne) est menacée de démolition. Cette destruction a été ordonnée dans le cadre
d’une opération de « re-qualification » de la place de la République. Peu apprécié, cet
édifice n’a jamais beaucoup intéressé alors qu’il est en assez bon état et toujours en
fonction. Cependant, il s’avère que cette halle est en fait un ouvrage de Nicolas Esquillan,
grand ingénieur français qui participa notamment à la réalisation du CNIT de la Défence…
+ info: http://patrimoine-environnement.fr/demolition-suspendue-de-la-halle-de-
fontainebleau/
Maison Louis Carré / Alvar Aalto - 1959 - Bazoches sur Guyonnes - France
In the commune of Bazoches-sur-Guyonnes, about 40 kilometers southwest of Paris, sits one of the
most important private houses designed by Alvar Aalto: Maison Louis Carré. The client, Louis Carré,
was a prominent French art dealer who was also very interested in architecture. He desired a house
that would be able to accommodate many guests for art viewings, but also incorporated a private
component. He commissioned Aalto to design his house in 1956, and Louis Carré and his wife, Olga,
were able to move into their new home three years later…
Le Corbusier’s Cité Radieuse Rooftop to Host Contemporary Art Center - Marseilles
(France)
When the gym and solarium on the 20-century’s most famous rooftop terrace – elevated 18stories above Le Corbusier’s Cité Radieuse - went up for sale in 2010, French designer Ito
Morabito of Ora-ïto immediately jumped on the opportunity and purchased the space. With
the support of the Foundation Le Corbusier, Ora-ïto initiated a campaign to restore the
1950‘s structure to its original state, by removing an addition that blocked the spaces 360degree views of the city, and transform it into a contemporary art center, named the MAMO
for “Marseille Modulor” – as a nod to New York’s MOMA…
residence is complete…
Preserving Modern Architecture in the Midwest - USA
On April 24th and 25th, Cincinnati Preservation Association (CPA) will celebrate
the gift and the restoration of the Frederick and Harriet Rauh House, designed
by pioneering Cincinnati Modernist John Becker in Woodlawn, by hosting
“Preserving Modern Architecture,” a two-day symposium at the house. In
September 2011, CPA launched the restoration of the 1938 Rauh House with a
festive celebration honoring Emily Rauh Pulitzer, donor of the house and funder
of the work. A year later, the restoration of this pioneering International Style
Swiss Pavilion / Le Corbusier - 1931 - Cité internationale universitaire - Paris (France)
In 1930, Le Corbusier was tasked with designing a dormitory that would house Swiss students at the
Cité Internationale Universitaire in Paris. At first the architect and Pierre Jeanneret, his partner at the
time, refused to take on the project due to tensions with the Swiss after their handling of the
architects’ proposal for the League of Nations competition. Eventually, however, they agreed to see it
through and worked on a very limited budget, which led the building to become a summation of Le
Corbusier’s modern principles, forcing him to focus on dwelling before all else…
Video: Architecture with capital letter A
From Frank Lloyd Wright to Oscar Niemeyer and the 2013 Pritzker Prize laureate Toyo Ito, this
short film features a series of excerpts from interviews, speeches and documentaries of the
most influential Architects from the past 70 years who have shaped the notion of Architecture.
As described by the video’s producer, viaViLi, “this accumulation of scenes some how expresses
the condition of Architecture today – its moments of Glory and Misery.”
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Exhibition - Le Corbusier: An Atlas of Modern Landscapes
09 June - 23 September 2013 New York City, New York State. United States of America
Organizers: MoMA (Museum of Modern Art)
+ info: http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/exhibitions/1321
International Congress in Modernism-Art Nouveau
26 - 29 June 2013 Barcelona. Spain
Organizers: Barcelona City Council (Urban Landscape Institute, IMPUiQV) and the University of Barcelona (Contemporary
and Modern Art Research Group, GRACMON)
+ info: http://www.artnouveau.eu/en/congress.php
24 July - 26 July 2013 Guimaraes. Portugal
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Les glaciers himalayens n'ont pas dit leur dernier mot
En combinant des mesures satellitaires et des mesures de terrain obtenues entre 1988 et 2010, une
équipe franco-indienne(1) vient de montrer que la masse des glaciers du Lahaul Spiti, une région
située au cœur de l’Himalaya dans le nord de l’Inde, avait légèrement augmenté entre 1988 et 1999
avant de diminuer et que leur perte de masse globale entre 1988 et 2010 était quasi six fois plus faible
que celle les glaciers alpins durant la même période. Ce résultat remet en question les compilations
précédentes qui laissaient entendre une perte de masse glaciaire continue et massive des glaciers de
l’Himalaya au cours des dernières décennies.
+ info: http://www.insu.cnrs.fr/node/4305
Potential New Antarctica Bacteria Actually Contamination
A new type of microbe has been found at a lake buried under Antarctica's thick ice, according to
news reports. The find may unveil clues of the surrounding environment in the lake, according to
scientists.
The bacteria, said to be only 86 percent similar to other types known to exist on Earth, was
discovered in a water sample taken from Lake Vostok, which sits under more than 2 miles (3
kilometers) of Antarctic ice. The freshwater lakehas likely been buried, unaltered, under the ice
for the past million years…
+ info: http://www.mnn.com/green-tech/research-innovations/stories/new-bacteria-found-in-antarcticas-lake-vostok
29ème campagne en Antarctique du brise-glace chinois Xuelong
La Chine mène des recherches en Antarctique depuis 1984 et dispose à ce jour de trois stations (Changcheng "Grande
Muraille", Zhongshan "Montagne du Milieu" et Kunlun) sur ce continent. Depuis 2005, le rythme des expéditions polaires définies comme une priorité par le State Oceanic Administration (SOA) - s'est accéléré, à raison d'un voyage en Antarctique
chaque année…
The Franklin Expedition - Royal Ontario Museum - Toronto - Ontario (Canada)
Find out about fascinating new research into the Franklin Expedition. Why did the
Expedition fail, and where are the remains of the lost vessels today? Marc-André Bernier
and Ryan Harris will share information and artifacts from Parks Canada's underwater
archaeology search for HMS Erebus and HMS Terror. Ken Lister will describe the
provisioning of Arctic expeditions and present ROM research and artifacts investigating
the possibility of lead poisoning of the Franklin Expedition’s crew.
+ info: www.rom.on.ca/en/activities-programs/events-calendar/the-franklin-expedition
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Colloque franco-japonais - Productivité marine: perturbation et résilience des socio-éco-systèmes côtiers
17 - 18 October 2013 Boulogne-sur-mer. France
Organizers: SFJO France; l’Universit é de Kinki; Fisheries Research Agency; l’Ifremer; CNRS et Nausicaa
+ info: http://wwz.ifremer.fr/productivite_marine_2013/Le-colloque-franco-japonais-d-Oceanographie-de-Boulogne-1
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Climate Change and Arctic Sustainable Development
Author: UNESCO
ISBN: 978-92-3-204139-5
Year: 2010
The Arctic is undergoing rapid and dramatic environmental and social transformations due to climate
change. This has ramifications for the entire planet, as change spreads through interconnected global
networks that are environmental, cultural, economic and political. Today, with the major thrust of research
shifting away from deciphering causes and monitoring trends, the central preoccupation of a growing circle
of actors has become the exploration of strategies for responding and adapting to climate change.
But to understand the far-reaching nature of climate change impacts and the complexities of adaptation, a truly
interdisciplinary approach is required. Unique in the UN system, UNESCO brings together the domains of natural sciences,
social sciences, culture, education and communication. Given this broad mandate, UNESCO favours integrated approaches
for monitoring and adapting to climate change in the Arctic, fostering dialogue among scientists, circumpolar communities
and decision-makers…
+ info: http://publishing.unesco.org/details.aspx?Code_Livre=4722
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Karuizawa Museum Complex / Yasui Hideo Atelier - 2011 - Karuizawa (Japan)
I was requested, after winning through the competition, to design a facility accompanied to
the museum of Hiroshi SENJU, a world-famous Japanese painter/artist. Before I started the
actual planning, I prioritized building my conceptual work first ( i.e. geometrical shape
containing both traditional and modern forms ) in order to make my design coexist on the
same site with the museum that had a curved form interpreting Karuizawa ’s nature in a
elegant way.
I built the design concept form Japanese art culture in order to create an architecture suited
to the museum having art pieces appraised internationally. Such Japanese craft as ‘Origami’, ‘ Sensu fan ‘, or ‘Byobu screen ‘
are created from just one piece of paper, having an infinite possibility to be shaped in various forms. They also have
similarity to western geometric design, which are even led to modern art with their originality and beauty…
Muséocom, la jeune agence - Université d'Avignon, France
MuséoCom, ce sont 30 étudiants du Master Médiations de la Culture et du Patrimoine, organisés en équipes
projets, accompagnés par des scientifiques et des professionnels.
MuséoCom, c’est un gage de multicompétence, de dynamisme et de professionnalisme.
+ info: http://www.univ-avignon.fr/fileadmin/documents/Users/Fiches_FOR/Plaquette-MuseoCom.pdf
Amazing video of Pontcysyllte Aqueduct ….as you’ve never seen
it before!
This is an amazing video of Pontcysyllte aqueduct in the snow as you’ve
never seen it before……from helicopter drone surveying the structure.
This demonstrates how innovative digital technologies can be used for
data capture, interpretation and dissemination of heritage sites and
artifacts using the latest technical survey and interpretation techniques
and their practical application in heritage interpretation, education and
conservation.
Waterways Forward partner Canal & River Trust (Formerly British Waterways) has worked with local communities to develop
the World Heritage Status of the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct.
Jornada Museo de la Cal de Morón: oportunidades para el desarrollo a través de la
colaboración público-privada en el sector cultural
Este encuentro ha sido organizado por la Fundación INNOVES con la colaboración de la
Agencia Andaluza de Instituciones Culturales, el Instituto Andaluz de Patrimonio Histórico y
el Museo Cal de Morón con objeto de dar a conocer las actividades y servicios que este
Museo puede ofrecer a centros educativos, organizaciones públicas y privadas de su entorno,
profesionales con necesidades de reconversión hacia sectores de mayor empleabilidad, así
como a empresas interesadas en convertirse en colaboradoras…
+ info: http://www.iaph.es/web/portal/actualidad/contenido/130313_jornadamuseodelacal.html
Yatsushiro Municipal Museum / Toyo Ito - 1991 (Japan)
The city of Yatsushiro is known in Japan as a home for exemplary architecture – the legacy
at least in part of Artpolis, a plan by the government of the Kumamoto Prefecture to seek
out a range of talented architects to design cultural buildings in the cities of the region.
Though the Artpolis scheme has been running for the past 22 years, perhaps its most
successful building was completed back in 1991, with the construction of Toyo Ito‘s
Yatsushiro Municipal Museum.
The selection of Toyo Ito for this particular project was seen as particularly risky, considering
his commitment to contemporary and often technological design, as the site is directly opposite the historic Shohinken Villa
and near to the ruins of Yatsushiro Castle. However, Ito did not shy away from his progressive convictions, designing a sleek
glass pavilion with a complex, billowing steel canopy…
Market) and are intended to shine a spotlight on the most striking and important events in artistic life, as
reflected in the pages of the newspaper. Many art world professionals are not well known to Russians, let
alone the international public, and deserve acknowledgement of their achievements.
innovation.
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam / Benthem Crouwel Architects - 2012 - Amsterdam
(The Netherlands)
The Stedelijk Museum is internationally known and renowned for its commendable collection
of contemporary art. Although her collection is equivalent with the international top museums
in this field, the building was outdated. The position on the Museumplein (Museum square) in
Amsterdam, where the Rijksmuseum, the Van Gogh Museum and the Concertgebouw also are
situated, created all options to be back at the top of the museums with a renovated and
expanded building…
Il Museo Etrusco di Roma derubato dei suoi gioielli - Rome - Italy
Il Museo Etrusco di Villa Giulia a Roma, dove è in corso fino al 4 aprile la mostra “Ambra. Dalle rive del
Baltico all’Etruria”, è stato tra i centri culturali a prevedere l’apertura straordinaria durante le giornate
di Pasqua e Pasquetta, dalle 8e 30 del mattino, fino alla sera.
Proprio nella notte del 31 marzo il Museo romano è stato però vittima di un grave furto che ha
impoverito la sua importante collezione: tre ladri incappucciati, ripresi dalle telecamere di sicurezza,
hanno infatti violato due teche della Sala degli Ori, al secondo piano dell’edificio appartenuto a Papa
Giulio III, per prelevarne gli oggetti esposti…
+ info: http://www.tafter.it/2013/04/03/il-museo-etrusco-di-roma-derubato-dei-suoi-gioielli/
Madinat Al Zahara Museum / Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos -2009 - Cordoba (Spain)
The remains of the old Hispano-Muslim city suggested a dialogue with those who a thousand years
earlier had conceived and built it, but also with the patient work of archaeologists and with the
surrounding agrarian landscape, to which the geometry of the ruins gave an unexpected abstract
quality. The terrain of the archaeological site for the museum stirred, however, contrasting feelings.
On the one hand, the yearning for a remote past yet to be discovered pervaded the landscape
stretching all the way to the mountain ranges of Córdoba. On the other hand, the disorderly growth
of new constructions lurked over the old city. Our first reaction when we arrived at the place would
determine, from the very first moment, our proposal: we should not build in that landscape…
honorable mention, was divided in two elements based on the notion of ‘Viollet-le-Duc’: the
negative element being the void, whilst the positive being the vertical and horizontal
elements that define a space (walls and slabs). The link between these two elements, which
defines the unity of the space is man. Therefore, the architectural space cannot be applied
without the presence of man…
Revealing hidden paint layers in oil paintings by means of scanning macro-XRF: a mock-up study based on
Rembrandt's “An old man in military costume”
Over the past several decades the oeuvre of Rembrandt has been the subject of extensive art historical and scientific
investigations. One of the most striking features to emerge is his frequent re-use of canvases and panels. The painting An
Old Man in Military Costume (78.PB.246), in the collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum, is an example of such a re-used
panel. Conventional imaging techniques revealed the presence of a second portrait under the surface portrait, but the details
of this hidden portrait have not yet been revealed. Vermilion (HgS) has been identified to have been used nearly exclusively
in the flesh tones of the lower painting, suggesting that element-specific XRF imaging might successfully image the hidden
portrait. To test this hypothesis, a full-scale mock-up of the painting was created, including a “free impression” of the hidden
portrait, reproducing as closely as possible the pigments and paint stratigraphy of the original painting. XRF imaging of the
mock-up painting was conducted using three different XRF imaging systems: a mobile X-ray tube based system and two
synchrotron-based setups (one equipped with multiple SDDs and one equipped with a Maia detector). The sensitivity, limits
of detection and imaging capabilities of each system under the chosen experimental conditions are evaluated and compared.
The results indicate that an investigation of the original painting by this method would have an excellent chance of success.
+ info: http://pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/ArticleLanding/2013/JA/C2JA30119A
Amsterdam Museum / Benthem Crouwel Architekten - 2012 - Amsterdam (The
Netherlands)
In the first phase of the renovation the Amsterdam Museum is enriched with a short tour;
‘Amsterdam DNA’. Due to this short tour visitors are able to get a good impression of
Amsterdam’s history in less than an hour, making a visit to the Amsterdam Museum more
accessible. To create the short tour a design is made for a section of the museum. Keeping in
mind the expected increase in the number of visitors, the functionality of the whole complex
has been taken into account. A master plan is made, wherein the current routing will be
alternated.
The Amsterdam Museum is a building with a long history. The former convent and orphanage has been converted into a
museum in the late 60s of last century. In subsequent decades small adjustments were made to the building regularly.
Hence, the building has illogical routing and is an accumulation of styles from different periods. To leave the building as
intact as possible and to prevent more contemporary elements to be added, a modest, neutral approach is opted for the new
design…
Lille Modern Art Museum / Manuelle Gautrand Architecture - 2010 - Villeneuve
d'Ascq (France)
The project concerns the refurbishment and the extension of the Lille Modern Art Museum in a
magnificent park at Villeneuve d’Ascq. The existing building, designed by Roland Simounet in
1983, is already on the Historic monuments list.
The project aims at building up the museum as a continuous and fluid entity, this by adding
new galleries dedicated to a collection of Art Brut works, from a travelling movement that
extrapolates existing spaces. A complete refurbishment of the existing building was next
required, some parts were very worn…
Interpretation Center / dra arquitectos - 2010 - Valdemeca (Spain)
Breaking the geometry of the place deliberately, some forms monolithic concrete facts,
formwork wood duplex with wooden slats and colored tinted sandstone, looks the
landscape, integrating the irregular geometry of nature.
In the proyect, the landscape becomes the generating element of the architecture, and the
memory of the place will help us contemporizing the typical houses of the locality. All the
rooms of the interpretation halls have large windows that look to the place.
2013
research staff as well as renowned national and international guest speakers, will be featured.
Honourable David Orazetti, and a ROM Biodiversity Family weekend, which includes the specially ticketed Earth Month Youth
Forum, featuring Dr. Roberta Bondar, Sebastião Salgado and Simon Jackson.
Museos en Vivo - Programa de Radio (Colombia)
Realizo por: Paola Linares.
Es un programa del Sistema de Patrimonio Cultural y Museos (SPM) de la Universidad Nacional de
Colombia.
Este espacio busca ampliar la accesibilidad pública al patrimonio cultural de la UN, proponiendo
nuevos horizontes en la gestión del patrimonio cultural, concebidos en cultura científica, memoria
histórica y conciencia ambiental para la sociedad.
+ info: http://www.unradio.unal.edu.co/nc/categoria/cat/museos-en-vivo.html
Appel de candidatures: Si la cybermuséologie à caractère sociale vous intéresse
L’Espace participation sociale est un projet de micro-musée virtuel du Réseau international
sur le Processus de production du handicap (RIPPH) présentant tout le potentiel d’une
société inclusive pour les personnes ayant des incapacités et leurs familles. Initiative à la
fois scientifique et populaire, elle vise à présenter l’environnement social et physique comme un médium pouvant être
structuré et manipulé de telle sorte à ce qu’il puisse leur offrir des opportunités de réaliser leurs habitudes de vie et de
mener une vie satisfaisante, et ce, au même titre que les autres. L’Espace participation sociale sera notamment l’occasion de
montrer de quelles manières les réseaux de transport, les milieux scolaires et d’emplois, les attitudes et les valeurs, de
même que les milieux résidentiels peuvent réduire les obstacles et proposer des facilitateurs à la participation sociale.
Francis Charrier, Coordonnateur du RIPPH. Courriel : [email protected]
+ info: http://www.ripph.qc.ca/projets-en-cours/espace-participation-sociale
Rijksmuseum / Cruz y Ortiz Arquitectos - 2000 - Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
Following a European tender process, Spanish architects Cruz y Ortiz Arquitectos of Seville were
chosen by a committee chaired by the chief government architect Jo Coenen to lead the
transformation of the Rijksmuseum. Cruz y Ortiz proposed minimal alterations to the building itself.
The firm has recreated the clear layout conceived by the museum’s original architect, Pierre
Cuypers, stripping the building of its later additions to ensure that it is once again a coherent whole.
The result transforms the 19th century building into a bright and spacious 21st century museum.
The new Rijksmuseum features an impressive new entrance area; a new Asian Pavilion; a new
outdoor exhibition space and garden; state-of-the-art facilities including new dining spaces, a shop, a restored library and
auditorium; renewed education facilities, a new service entrance, a separate building for the conservation of the collection;
and climate-control and security features, which are in line with today’s requirements…
Connecting to Collections - Online Community
Their goal is to help smaller museums, libraries, archives, and historical
societies get answers to collections care questions and quickly locate reliable
preservation resources and to help staff members network with their
colleagues. They know how many responsibilities you have and how helpful it
can be to network with conservation professionals and museums and library
colleagues. This online community will be a source of solid information and, occasionally, inspiration to help you make the
right connections to care for your collections.
+ info: http://www.connectingtocollections.org/
crisis .
Kimbell Announces Acquisition of Two Major Maya Sculptures - Fort Worth - Texas - USA
On April 12, 2013, the Kimbell Art Museum announced the acquisition of two rare Maya Palenquestyle ceramic censer stands. Typical of the Maya late Classic period (A.D. 600–900) and dated to
about A.D. 690–720, Censer Stand with the Head of the Jaguar God of the Underworld and Censer
Stand with the Head of a Supernatural Being with a Kan Cross will be on view in the Museum’s
north galleries on Sunday, April 21st. Admission is always free to view works in the Kimbell’s
permanent collection.
Palenque-style ceramic censer stands (incensarios) are among the largest and most sophisticated
freestanding sculptures created by Maya artists. There are very few in either public or private collections in the U.S.
Measuring nearly four feet tall, the Kimbell censer stands are exceptional for their remarkable condition and superb quality of
execution…
+ info: https://www.kimbellart.org/collections/recent-acquisitions/maya-censers
MAR – Rio Art Museum / Bernardes + Jacobsen Arquitetura - 2013 - Rio de Janeiro
(Brasil)
Our challenge was to unite tree existing buildings with different architectural characteristics to
house the Museu de Arte do Rio, the school “A Escola do Olhar” as well as cultural and leisure
spaces. The existing buildings, the palace Palacete Dom João”, the police building and the old
central bus station of Rio, connected shall be part of the major urban redevelopment in the
historic downtown of Rio de Janeiro. For each construction we analysed different levels of
preservation.
The first step was to establish a flow system allowing the Museum and school to work in an integrated and efficient manner.
Therefore we proposed the creation of a suspended square on the police building rooftop, which will unite all accesses and
host a bar and an area for cultural events and leisure. Consequently, the visitation will be from top to bottom…
Designers React to Folk Art Museum’s Imminent Demolition - New York City (USA)
As we reported yesterday, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) has announced their plans to
demolish the 12-year old American Folk Art Museum, designed by Tod Williams & Bille Tsien. The
MoMA, which has planned a new expansion on either side of Williams & Tsien’s building, claims that
the building will prevent the floors from lining up and thus must be demolished. Moreover, officials
claim that the building’s opaque facade isn’t in keeping with the MOMA’s glass aesthetic.
Designers and architects, outraged by the MoMA’s decision to destroy such a young and
architecturally important part of New York’s urban fabric, are now challenging the validity of the
MoMA’s claim. Not only has a petition been started to prevent the demolition, but many are pleading with MoMa to consider
how the Folk Art Museum could be integrated into the new expansion. In fact, a Tumblr – crowdsourcing ideas for potential
re-designs - has even been set-up…
V Seminario sobre la recuperación del patrimonio histórico educativo
El próximo día 15 de mayo, tendrá lugar en el salón de actos de la Facultad de Ciencias de la Educación de
la Universidad de Sevilla, el V Seminario sobre la recuperación del patrimonio histórico educativo: "La
memoria oral en los museos pedagógicos: Materiales intangibles"; un evento organizado por el Museo
Pedagógico de la Facultad de Ciencias de la Educación de la Universidad de Sevilla, bajo la dirección de la
directora del mismo, Dra. María Nieves Gómez García, y la coordinación del Dr. Pablo Álvarez Domínguez,
coordinador técnico y secretario del museo. Subvencionado por Extensión Universitaria. Vicerrectorado de
Relaciones Institucionales de la Universidad de Sevilla. Colaboran: Asociación Universitaria para la
Conservación y Estudio del Patrimonio Educativo (AUCEPE) y Facultad de Ciencias de la Educación de la Universidad.
Vicedecanato de Infraestructuras y Extensión Cultural.
Inscripción gratuita. Confirmar nombre, apellidos y DNI en el mail: [email protected]
+ info: http://www.patrimonioeducativo.es/2013/03/v-seminario-sobre-la-recuperacion-del.html
Posted by FUUH member: ÁLVAREZ DOMíNGUEZ, Pablo
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Le LAMIC est un laboratoire spécialisé en muséologie expérimentale prenant appui sur les technologies
de l'information et de la communication (TIC).
Le LAMIC se veut une plaque tournante de réflexion et de recherche expérimentale, qui accompagne
les musées dans une redéfinition de leurs pratiques, en leur permettant d'effectuer des choix
d'équipements de haute technologie plus éclairés et en leur fournissant les outils nécessaires à la création d'expériences
muséales évolutives, mieux adaptées et adaptables à leurs publics. Les travaux du LAMIC, son rôle d'observatoire des
publics et de veille technologique favorisent le maintien du Canada et du Québec à l'avant-plan de l'innovation de la
muséologie internationale.
+ info: https://www.facebook.com/lamiculaval
MASSIMILIANO FUKSAS Architetto (Italy) and SPEECH (Russia) was recently announced
the winner of Architectural Concepts Competition for the Museum and Educational
Center of the Polytechnic Museum and Lomonosov Moscow State University. The
challenge was to create a museum and educational center for demonstrating most
recent scientific and technological discoveries using state-of-the-art multimedia
technologies for accommodating multiple displays and exhibitions as well as for conducting scientific educational programs.
China Wood Sculpture Museum / MAD Architects-2013- Harbin (China)
Appearing so evident amidst a thriving metropolitan district of Harbin, China, spanning 200
meters in length, the China Wood Sculpture Museum sits as a locational anomaly, seemingly
out of place, surrounded by a densely populated Chinese-style neighborhood and residential
complexes. The museum embodies some of the foremost conceptual and formal ideals that
define the work of MAD, bringing out an expression and abstraction of nature to an otherwise
quotidian surrounding. The boundaries between solid and liquid are blurred throughout this
13,000 sqm building, referencing the local natural scenery and landscape…
Awards - Museum of Moving Image Wins 2013 Red Dot Design Award - New
York City (USA)
LEESER Architecture’s design for the Museum of Moving Image has recently been
announced as the winner of the 2013 Red Dot Design Award in its highly competitive
Architecture and Urban Design category. Completed in 2011, the Museum of the Moving
Image houses a comprehensive collection dedicated to educating the public about the
art, history, technique, and technology of film, television, and digital media.The existing
structure is seamlessly integrated with the substantial new addition through a grand
lobby which connects the two…
Musei social. Sì, ma quanto?
Anche i musei, come molte realtà e soggetti, devono ormai fare i conti con la loro dimensione social e l’appeal che generano
all’interno della comunità 2.0.
Lontani erano i tempi in cui gli istituti culturali misuravano il loro indice di gradimento unicamente con il numero di visitatori,
sebbene classifiche di tal genere continuino ad accaparrarsi la loro fetta di interesse…
+ info: http://www.tafter.it/2013/04/15/musei-social-si-ma-quanto/
Motion Picture Academy Unveils Designs for Renzo Piano-Designed Museum - Los
Angeles - California (USA)
It’s surprising to think that Los Angeles - the home of the U.S film industry – doesn’t have a
museum solely dedicated to its homegrown artform. However, all that is about to change
should the Academy of Motion Pictures have their way.
Last Thursday, plans were unveiled for the long-touted Academy Museum of Motion
Pictures, a new museum designed by Renzo Piano and native Los Angeleno architect Zoltan
Pali, which will be located in the streamline-moderne Wiltshire May Company building at
Wilshire Boulevard and Fairfax Avenue, on the campus of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). Although the
designs are at an early stage, the released drawings propose to convert the historic building into a museum, while marrying
it with a 140-foot-diameter glass dome.
Kauwi Interpretive Centre / Woodhead - 2012 - Lonsdale - Adelaide (Australie)
The interpretive centre is a state-of-the art facility with an interactive learning space
which aims to inform and engage the community on desalination, sustainability, cultural
heritage and water resource management in South Australia.
Woodhead worked closely with client SA Water and AdelaideAqua in producing the
spectacular, yet sensitive insertion into the rolling coastal landscape south of Adelaide.
The building connects an ancient landscape to 21st century water technology. The name
‘Kauwi’ can be translated as ‘water’, and comes from the local Kaurna Aboriginal
language…
Moscow Polytechnic Museum and Educational Center Competition Entry / 3XN Russian Federation
With the aim to be a meaningful building beyond its iconic form, the new Museum &
Educational Center (MEC), designed by 3XN, is about connecting with people, while
opening up the world of science, technology, innovation and Russia’s extraordinary
achievements in these domains. Through both an internal and external architectural
expression of flexibility, this proposal, which was a finalist in the international
competition, recognizes that architecture shapes behavior.
As technology develops and we enter deeper into the 21st century, the convergence of Science and Art becomes even more
relevant in our everyday interactions. Today’s society seeks ways that Science and Mathematics can be viewed as
approachable disciplines, in order to understand the full potential of technology, and its applications in making our world a
better place. The new MEC will be a gateway to this world, challenging and evolving visitors’ perception of science and
technology…
Barry Bergdoll Breaks Silence About American Folk Art Museum - New York City (USA)
Among the many ironies of the MoMA’s decision to demolish Ted Williams and Billie Tsien’s 12-year old
building for the American Folk Art Museum, is the most obvious: as a cultural institution, the MoMA is meant
to value and protect, not demolish, architecture.
Critics such as Justin Davidson and Martin Filler have pointed out that the irony is particularly acute
considering the MoMA’s “distinguished” and “revivified” department of architecture and design, curated by
Barry Bergdoll. They note that Bergdoll, who they both praise highly as “visionary”, has remained
conspicuously silent on the decision. Davidson even claims that the MoMA can only appreciate such
innovative “individuality [such as Bergdoll's] under glass.”…
Agenda
CURSO - ¿A DÓNDE VAN LAS CIUDADES?
Por Arq. Silvia Fajre y profesores invitados.
08 April - 27 May 2013 Buenos Aires. Argentina
Organizers: La Asociación Amigos del Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (AAMNBA)
+ info: http://www.aamnba.org.ar/esp/cursos_patrimonio_2013.html
Exhibition: El Sexe a l'epoca romana
11 April - 30 June 2013 Barcelona, Catalunya. Spain
Organizers: Museo de Badalona
+ info: http://www.museudebadalona.cat/exposicio.php?id=41
V Seminario sobre la recuperación del patrimonio histórico educativo
15 April 2013 Sevilla. Spain
Organizers: Facultad de Ciencias de la Educación . Universidad de Sevilla
+ info: http://www.patrimonioeducativo.es/2013/03/v-seminario-sobre-la-recuperacion-del.html
Posted by FUUH member: ÁLVAREZ DOMíNGUEZ, Pablo
31st Annual Maya Weekend
19 April - 20 April 2013 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. United States of America
Organizers: Penn Museum
+ info: http://www.penn.museum/events-calendar/details/1034-Maya-Weekend-2013.html
Between Princely India and the British Raj: The Photography of Raja Deen Dayal
20 April 2013 - 12 January 2014 Toronto, Ontario. Canada
Organizers: Royal Ontario Museum
+ info: http://www.rom.on.ca/en/about-us/newsroom/press-releases/between-princely-india-the-british-raj-thephotography-of-raja-deen
Taller ILAM - Comisariado de Exposiciones
03 May - 14 June 2013 -- Modalidad virtual - Profesora: Julieta Manzano
TICCIH Mexico
Symposium - Conserving Outdoor Painted Sculpture meeting 2013
04 - 05 June 2013 Otterlo. Netherlands
Organizers: The Modern Materials and Contemporary Art (MMCA) & ICOM-CC
+ info: http://www.incca.nl/opsmeeting2013
Exhibition - Le Corbusier: An Atlas of Modern Landscapes
09 June - 23 September 2013 New York City, New York State. United States of America
Organizers: MoMA (Museum of Modern Art)
+ info: http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/exhibitions/1321
Taller ILAM - Planificación Estratégica para museos y otras organizaciones culturales
14 June - 26 June 2013 -- Modalidad virtual - Profesores: Claudio Gómez
world"
South-east European Virtual heritage School Digital Storytelling for Virtual Museums
24 - 28 June 2013 Sarajevo. Bosnia and Herzegovina
Organizers: Faculty of Electrical Engineering Sarajevo
+ info: http://v-must.net/schools/south-east-european-virtual-heritage-school-digital-storytelling-virtual-museums
July 2013
BTU Cottbus. Germany
Taller ILAM - Interacciones de calidad: La experiencia educativa del museo
16 August - 27 September 2013 -- Modalidad virtual - Profesor: Ricardo Rubiales García
13º SIACOT - XIII Seminario Internacional de Arquitectura y Construcción en Tierra
28 - 30 August 2013 Valparaíso. Chile
Organizers: Red Iberoamericana PROTERRA y organizado por el instituto profesional Duoc UC de la Pontificia Universidad
Católica de Chile
+ info: http://www.siacotchile2013.cl/
SOIMA 2013: Safeguarding sound and image collections
23 September - 16 October 2013 Nairobi. Kenya
Organizers: ICCROM (International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property) & Trust for
African Rock Art (TARA) In cooperation with National Museums of Kenya
+ info: http://www.iccrom.org/eng/01train_en/announce_en/2013_09SoimaKEN_en.shtml
IX Congreso "Museos y espacios patrimoniales: conociendo a los públicos"
17 - 18 October 2013 San Sebastián, Guipúzcoa. Spain
Organizers: Museo Romano Oiasso y la Facultad de Filosofía y Ciencias de la Educación. Universidad del País Vasco
+ info: http://www.irun.org/oiasso/home.aspx?tabid=1020
Posted by FUUH member: DOMíNGUEZ, Pablo ÁLVAREZ
Taller ILAM - Como marcar y preservar bienes culturales en depósito
18 October - 29 November 2013 -- Modalidad virtual
Taller ILAM - Del guión científico al guión museográfico
08 - 18 December 2013 -- Modalidad virtual - Profesores: Carlos Vázquez y David García
Publications
Museums, Heritage, and International Development
Edited by Paul Basu and Wayne Modest
Year: 2013
Along with other areas of "culture for development," the relationship between museums, heritage and international
development has been underexamined from a critical and comparative perspective. This edited volume fills this lacuna and
inaugurates a new, important debate across these and other disciplines, identifying the distinct contribution of museums and
heritage to international development agendas, engaging with the politics of museums and heritage for development, and
identifying the specific challenges facing this sector within development practice. Grounded in particular case studies which
range geographically from Africa, to South, East and South-East Asia, to South America and the Caribbean, the volume aims
at a rethinking of both international museum and development practice.
+ info: http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415659512/
Actas del 7° Encuentro Internacional "Actualidad en museografia"
Del 1 al 3 de diciembre de 2011. Madrid (España)
ICOM España. 240 p.
Year: 2013
El VII Encuentro Internacional de ICOM-España sobre Actualidad en Museografía, cuyas Actas se publican
ahora, tuvo lugar gracias al decidido apoyo del Ayuntamiento de Madrid; apoyo que, además de ofrecer su
afable hospitalidad, promovió activamente la organización de unas jornadas que ya constituyen una cita
anual y esperada en nuestro mundo de los museos, posibilitando su celebración del 1 al 3 de diciembre de
2011.
+ info: http://www.icom-ce.org/recursos/Encuentros/07/ICOM_Actas_7_2011.pdf
Infolettre del LAMIC Vol,4 - marzo 2013 (in French)
The Laboratory of Museology and Culture Engineering (LAMIC) - Laval University. Quebec, Canada
Year: 2013
Infolettre du LAMIC (Laboratoire de Muséologie et d'Ingénierie de la Culture) - Université Laval. Quebec,
Canada (in French)
The Laboratory of Museology and Culture Engineering (LAMIC) is a research infrastructure specialized in
experimental museology that focuses its scientific activities on the ways of culture transmission in a museum
context. It is a technological platform which explores relationships between artefacts, visitors and space
where protagonists gather for an unprecedented meeting by means of a trajectory called an exhibition. This particular
dimension is what interests us and the one we explore in multiple ways, under and from different angles. The museum
experience ethnography summarizes, to a certain extent, the way we approach a phenomenon that has not yet been totally
figured out.
+ info: http://thenhier.ca/sites/default/files/Infolettre-vol4no1.pdf
ISSN 2173 - 9250
Year: 2013
exposiciones y montajes permanentes. En particular, la tecnología audiovisual ha “colonizado” en gran medida los museos de
historia y arqueología, los de etnología o los de ciencias, si bien todavía es minoritaria en los de arte, salvo en el caso de
obras de arte electrónico, multimedia o net.art.ico…
Editore: Aracne
ISBN: 978-88-548-5936-4
Year: 2013
Visiteurs photographes au musée
ISBN : 978-2-11-009212-0
Auteurs: Serge Chaumier, Anne Krebs et Melanie Roustan. Centre de Recherche sur les Liens
sociaux (CERLIS)
Editeur : La Documentation française
Year: 2013
Interdire, autoriser ou encourager la pratique photographique des visiteurs ? Quelle vision
d’eux-mêmes et de leurs missions les musées livrent-ils à travers les choix qu’ils opèrent ? La
photographie amateur, apparue dans les musées au xixe siècle, s’est généralisée avec la démocratisation de son usage
privé, le développement du tourisme et le renouvellement des technologies. Elle fait aujourd’hui l’objet d’une controverse
concernant les biens relevant du domaine public.
Cet ouvrage pluridisciplinaire fait d’abord le point sur les ressorts juridiques du débat et dévoile des enjeux de légitimité
plutôt que de légalité. Puis, l’attention se porte sur l’expérience des visiteurs et sur la pluralité des usages de la photographie
dans les musées : instrument de travail, support d’apprentissage et de formation du regard, mémoire de la visite ou source
d’expression. Plusieurs études de cas s’intéressent aux formes d’appropriation des images numériques et explorent des
pistes quant à leur intégration à une politique des publics ouverte au partage des savoirs ou à la créativité. Des interludes
photographiques ponctuent les textes et portent un autre regard sur cette question.
+ info: http://www.ladocumentationfrancaise.fr/catalogue/9782110092120/index.shtml
Posted by FUUH member: M. Serge CHAUMIER
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Le projet de Parc Naturel Régional du Bocage gâtinais est sur la bonne voie France
Depuis 2003 l’AHVOL œuvre à l’obtention du titre de PNR (parc naturel régional) pour le
bocage gâtinais. Situé à la frontière de trois régions : l’Île-de-France, la Bourgogne et le
Centre, entouré par la Seine, l’Yonne et le Loing, et traversé par quatre petites rivières
(Orvanne, Lunain, Betz et Cléry), le territoire rural s’étend sur 110 000 hectares, compte 77
communes et 55 000 habitants. Composé de bocages, de buttes et de petits bois, cet
écosystème varié abritant une riche biodiversité offre deux sites culturels marquants : le
jardin musée Dufet- Bourdelle à Egreville (77) et le musée du Verre et de ses Métiers à Dordives (45).
+ info: http://patrimoine-environnement.fr/le-projet-de-parc-naturel-regional-du-bocage-gatinais-est-sur-la-bonne-voie/
Polémiques dans le Morvan : quand la préservation de la planète entre en
conflit avec la protection du patrimoine naturel - France
La région Bourgogne est en plein débat. Entre le projet d’incinérateur aux portes du
parc régional naturel du Morvan et l’avancement des projets éoliens, les associations de
défense de l’environnement lèvent la voix pour préserver l’écosystème et les paysages
de la région… Encore faut-il que ces voix soient prises en compte…
« Un choc de simplification »
… En matière d’environnement et d’urbanisme, on propose qu’un texte oblige le préfet de région
à signer lui-même ses arrêtés au lieu du Dreal : mais n’est-ce pas le préfet qui délègue ses
pouvoirs au Dreal et faut-il un nouveau texte pour qu’il reprenne cette délégation ? Une fois de
plus, on veut modifier les pouvoirs des ABF en confiant au préfet du département l’examen de
l’appel des décisions de ces fonctionnaires jusqu’ici confié au préfet de région.
Les auteurs oublient que les préfets de département sont désormais soumis au pouvoir
hiérarchique des préfets de région et que les ABF sont pour leur part soumis au pouvoir
hiérarchique des DRAC : n’est-ce pas créer une nouvelle norme aberrante que de renvoyer au département ce qui dépend
hiérarchiquement du niveau régional…
+ info: http://patrimoine-environnement.fr/un-choc-de-simplification/
les Parcs naturels régionaux assembliers des politiques publiques - France
Biodiversité, urbanisme, exploitation du sous-sol... Jean-Louis Joseph*, président de la Fédération des
Parcs naturels régionaux de France et président du Parc naturel régional du Luberon (Vaucluse), revient
sur le rôle que souhaitent jouer les PNR dans leurs territoires.
+ info: http://www.actu-environnement.com/ae/news/parc-naturel-regional-charte-biodiversite-18195.
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Dans la continuité des efforts engagés pour réduire les impacts, Jean-Yves Le Drian, ministre de la Défense a signé le 2
avril 2013 avec Delphine Batho, ministre de l'écologie, un nouveau protocole en faveur de la préservation de la biodiversité.
France.
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L'écocide : la difficile reconnaissance des crimes environnementaux
"Le terme d'écocide doit être réservé aux cas les plus graves d'atteintes à l'environnement, car il renvoie à l'homicide et au
génocide", indique Laurent Neyret, professeur de droit privé à l'Université d'Artois, lors d'une conférence à l'Assemblée
nationale consacrée au droit de l'excellence environnementale. L'écocide relèverait selon lui d'une criminalité
"extraordinaire", laquelle serait en pleine expansion à l'échelle internationale. Le professeur évoque notamment l'agent
orange utilisé par l'armée américaine au Vietnam, tout en précisant que l'écocide ne doit pas être limité aux temps de
guerre…
+ info: http://www.actu-environnement.com/ae/news/ecocide-difficile-reconnaissance-crimes-environnementaux-18174.
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Baltic Sea is a key natural and cultural unifier of the lands of Eastern Europe and Russia and the
course will focus on local trans-border culture and nature. The Eastern Baltic is a place where nations
and peoples have been mixed for centuries and powerful empires have impacted one another. During
the summer session we will travel through three countries studying the Russian culture and heritage
2013
research staff as well as renowned national and international guest speakers, will be
featured.
Honourable David Orazetti, and a ROM Biodiversity Family weekend, which includes the specially ticketed Earth Month
Youth Forum, featuring Dr. Roberta Bondar, Sebastião Salgado and Simon Jackson.
Avancées et enseignements pour la valorisation des services rendus par les zones humides
Cette publication synthétise les leçons tirées suite à plusieurs études menées par le CGDD sur la
valorisation économique des services rendus par les zones humides. Trois sites tests localisés dans le
bassin Seine-Normandie couvrant une grande diversité de typologies de zones humides (marais, estuaires,
tourbières, lacs et étangs, etc.) ont servi de base à ces travaux : le Parc Naturel Régional des marais du
Cotentin et du Bessin, la plaine alluviale de la Bassée et la moyenne vallée de l’Oise.
Ces études ont permis une avancée méthodologique significative : la valorisation économique des services
rendus est de plus en plus élaborée et exhaustive. Les résultats monétaires obtenus sur ces trois sites
s’inscrivent dans un même ordre de grandeur et pourraient donc servir à la construction de valeurs de référence pour ce
type de milieu naturel.
+ info: http://www.developpement-durable.gouv.fr/IMG/pdf/LPS157.pdf
Protect beautiful natural wetland habitat in Europe - sign our petition
Help us get the Bosnia & Herzegovina government to save one of the most valuable habitats for people and nature in the
Western Balkans. Sign the petition now.
In just 10 days time, on Earth Day, WWF will handover the petition to the Minister of Trade, Tourism and Environment ,
Mr. Semin Borić.
+ info: http://action.panda.org/ea-action/action?ea.client.id=1773
Celebrating the Golden Gate National Parks - San Francisco - California (USA)
San Francisco is home to an exceptional number of talented landscape architects, designers,
and others who have all designed projects for the Golden Gate National Parks – their collective
achievements and the skilled stewardship of the park system by the Golden Gate National Parks
Conservancy, The Presidio Trust and the National Park Service were the focus of several events
in early April.
On Thursday, April 4, Stewardship Excellence Awards were given to the three park stewards at
an elegant reception at the Bently Reserve attended by more than 225 people…
+ info: http://tclf.org/news/features/celebrating-golden-gate-national-parks
Awards - Jacques Rougerie Foundation International Architecture Competition Deadline for entries: 28 May 2013
the Jacques Rougerie Foundation, has launched an International Competition which aspires to
offer a unique opportunity for students in architecture, engineering or design, from all around the
world to make their projects come true, or simply to reward their creativity. The competition aims
to reward the most innovative, creative and bold projects at the service of architectural innovation, relative to topics that
are dear to the foundation; Water and Space. The deadline for entries is May 28.
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International Conference - "Sharing our natural and cultural heritage: interpretation can make us citizens of
the world"
July 2013. BTU Cottbus. Germany
INTECOL 2013
18 - 23 August 2013 London. United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Organizers: The British Ecological Society and INTECOL
+ info: http://www.intecol2013.org/
gestion durable"
DEADLINE: 15 June 2013
XIII Edizione - Corso EuroMediterraneo di Giornalismo Ambientale Laura Conti
04 November - 13 December 2013 Savona. Italy
Organizers: Organizzata in collaborazione con Legambiente e in partenariato con l’Istituto Nazionale di Geologia e
Vulcanologia
+ info: http://www.corsolauraconti.it/
Organizers: National Conservation Area “St. Sophia of Kyiv”; National Kyiv-Pechersk Historical Cultural Preserve &
Charitable organization "Charitable Fund St. Sophia’’
Cities.”
Publications
ISBN: 978-0-8173-1791-1
Year: 2013
Aymara Indian Perspectives on Development in the Andes explores the relationship between
indigenous people, the management of natural resources, and the development process in a
modernizing region of Chile.
Aymara Indians are indigenous people living in the Andes Mountains near the Atacama Desert, one of the most arid
regions of the world. Amy Eisenberg bases Aymara Indian Perspectives on Development in the Andes on a framework of
For Andean people, economic, spiritual, and social life are inextricably tied to land and water. The Aymara of Chile
comprise a small, geographically isolated minority of the northern border Region XV, Arica y Parinacota, who are struggling
to maintain their sustainable and traditional systems of irrigation water distribution, agriculture, and pastoralism in the
understanding of issues from the native point of view, and the author conducted ethnographic interviews with Aymara
people in more than sixteen Andean villages.
El patrimonio inmaterial: valores culturales y espirituales. Manual para su incorporación en las
áreas protegidas
Mallarach, J.M.; Comas, E.; Armas, A. de
Madrid: Fundación Fernando González Bernáldez, 2012. 146 p.
Year: 2012
Manual impulsado por la sección española de EUROPARC que contiene las directrices para incorporar los
valores inmateriales a la planificación y la gestión de las áreas naturales protegidas. El manual define
estos valores, propone métodos para inventariarlos y ofrece unas recomendaciones para integrarlos en el
desarrollo del área protegida.
+ info: http://www.redeuroparc.org/img/publicaciones/manual10.pdf
Mission d'appui au parc national du Mercantour - France
Rapports du Conseil général de l'Environment et du Développement durable.
Établi par: Emmanuel Rébeillé-Borgella et Eric Verlhac.
Inspecteur général de l'administration du développement durable
Year: 2012
La mission d’appui au parc national du Mercantour devait analyser « le positionnement des acteurs du territoire » et «
l’importance des difficultés rencontrées en matière de préservation de la nature » , mais aussi de faire des propositions
pour « permettre aux acteurs locaux de renouer le dialogue. » Elle ne formule pas de pronostic à propos du nombre de
communes qui décideront d’adhérer mais elle préconise que soient réaffirmés les effets des conventions entre les
communes et l’établissement public sur les possibilités de conduire des projets de développement. La mission souligne
deux types d’éléments significatifs. Le fait que, pour certains acteurs, subsiste une perception critique à l’égard des
activités du parc national du Mercantour. Puis, la raison d’être et les finalités de la charte sont parfois mal comprises ou
perçues. La mission identifie comme un facteur clé pour les équilibres internes au parc et pour le devenir de celui-ci les
modalités de la mise en oeuvre de la police de l’environnement par les agents du parc. Celles-ci conditionnent les
appréciations actuelles sur la charte, sur le fonctionnement de l’établissement public et sur son apport aux territoires. La
mission estime que des évolutions sont indispensables dans l’organisation et les méthodes en matière de police de
l’environnement.
+ info: http://www.cgedd.developpement-durable.gouv.fr/IMG/pdf/008567-01_rapport_cle2fa1c7.pdf
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Chemistry of Lime Mortar | Neighborhood Preservation in Philadelphia - USA
This week, the Chemical Heritage Foundation released an episode of their award winning podcast
“Distillations.” In this episode, Randy Ruth of LimeWorks.us discusses the chemistry behind lime mortar,
historic masonry buildings and the ongoing efforts to preserve one of the finest works of notable Philadelphia
architect Frank Furness. The 19th Street Baptist Church located in South Philadelphia has been in a state of
disrepair for decades, this episode sheds light on the chemistry behind its construction and the ongoing
preparation to save it.
+ info: www.limeworks.us/blog/index.php/chemistry-of-lime-mortar-neighborhood-preservation-inphiladelphia/
2013
Revealing hidden paint layers in oil paintings by means of scanning macro-XRF: a mock-up study based on
Rembrandt's “An old man in military costume”
Over the past several decades the oeuvre of Rembrandt has been the subject of extensive art historical and scientific
investigations. One of the most striking features to emerge is his frequent re-use of canvases and panels. The painting An
Old Man in Military Costume (78.PB.246), in the collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum, is an example of such a re-used
panel. Conventional imaging techniques revealed the presence of a second portrait under the surface portrait, but the details
of this hidden portrait have not yet been revealed. Vermilion (HgS) has been identified to have been used nearly exclusively
in the flesh tones of the lower painting, suggesting that element-specific XRF imaging might successfully image the hidden
portrait. To test this hypothesis, a full-scale mock-up of the painting was created, including a “free impression” of the hidden
portrait, reproducing as closely as possible the pigments and paint stratigraphy of the original painting. XRF imaging of the
mock-up painting was conducted using three different XRF imaging systems: a mobile X-ray tube based system and two
synchrotron-based setups (one equipped with multiple SDDs and one equipped with a Maia detector). The sensitivity, limits
of detection and imaging capabilities of each system under the chosen experimental conditions are evaluated and compared.
The results indicate that an investigation of the original painting by this method would have an excellent chance of success.
+ info: http://pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/ArticleLanding/2013/JA/C2JA30119A
Australian researchers developed a mobile laser 3D mapping system called Zebedee to preserve some of the country's oldest
and most culturally significant heritage sites, CSIRO, Australia's national science agency, announced on Saturday.
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Asian Lacquer International Symposium
20 - 24 May 2013 Buffalo, New York State. United States of America
Organizers: State University of New York College at Buffalo (Buffalo State) Art Conservation and Design Departments and
the Burchfield Penney Art Center.
Contact: Rogge, Corina E - [email protected]
+ info: http://iccrom.org/eng/news_en/2012_en/field_en/07_23_AsianLacquerInternSymp_US.pdf
39th Annual CAC Conference and Workshops “Revealing Lost Content: Digital Forensics for the Bench
Conservator”
21 - 25 May 2013 Saint John, New Brunswick. Canada
Organizers: Canadian Association for Conservation (CAC), Canada
Contact: Danielle Allard - [email protected]
+ info: https://www.cac-accr.ca/conferences
1st International School on the Characterization of Archaeological and Historical Mortars and Plasters.
Archaeology, Archaeometry and Conservation (1st-ISCARM)
03 - 07 June 2013 Calabria. Italy
Organizers: The DiBEST (Dipartimento di Biologia, Ecologia e Scienze della Terra, Calabria University, Italy under the
patronage of: Associazione italiana di Archeometria
+ info: http://www.smfn.unical.it/iscarm/
X Congreso Nacional del Color
Organizers: La Sociedad Española de Óptica y el Grupo de Investigación del Color de la Universitat Politècnica de València
+ info: http://congresonacionaldelcolor2013.blogs.upv.es
10 - 13 July 2013 Evora. Portugal
Organizers: Hercules Laboratory – University of Evora, Portugal
Posted by FUUH member: Candeias, António
24 - 26 July 2013 Guimaraes. Portugal
2ème Conférence internationale sur l'évaluation de l'état des structures en bois (SHATIS’13)
04 - 06 September 2013 Trento. Italy
Organizers: Trento University Department of Mechanical and Structural Engineering and the Trees and Timber Institute of
the National Research Council, and co-organized by COST ACTION FP 1101 ”Assessment, Reinforcement and Monitoring of
Timber Structures”.
+ info: http://events.unitn.it/en/shatis13
Organizers: ICOM-CC
Conference - RECENT ADVANCES IN GLASS, STAINED GLASS, AND CERAMICS CONSERVATION
07 - 10 October 2013 Amsterdam. Netherlands
Organizers: ICOM-CC Glass and Ceramics Working Group and Corpus Vitrearum-ICOMOS
+ info: http://www.icomcorpus2013.nu/
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AICCM National Conference "Contexts for Conservation"
23 - 25 October 2013 Adelaide, SA. Australia
Organizers: The Australian Institute for the Conservation of Cultural Material (AICCM), Australie
+ info: http://tasted13.mywepundit.com/browser.php?indx=7962993&item=32
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40th International Symposium on Archaeometry (ISA)
19 - 23 May 2014 Los Angeles. United States of America
Organizers: The Getty Conservation Institute (GCI) and the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), United States
+ info: http://www.archaeometry2014.com/
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Year: 2013
de la Loire.
ISBN: 978-972-8174-40-8
Year: 2012
Editore: Aracne
ISBN: 978-88-548-5936-4
Year: 2013
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Refurbishment of Deusto University / ACXT - 2012. Bilbao, Vizcaya (Spain)
The University of Duesto decided to renew its Central Building, known as “La Literaria” (The Literary). This
aim of this refurbishment project undertaken within the framework of the Strategic Plan (2011-2014) has
been to achieve professional excellence while offering a better service to students and society as a whole.
ACXT was awarded the contract for the project. The works commenced in 2011 and have recently been
completed.
The main objective of the architectural design was to respect and enhance the spatial, aesthetical and
functional qualities of the original building, designed by the architect Francisco de Cubas in 1886, and
declared a monument of cultural interest.
The decision to renew the central building has meant the restoration of the galleries on the noble floors, as a fundamental
element of reference, coupled with the symbolic nature of the space of the cloisters and the semi-interior space that has
been achieved by the construction of two new ceilings covering the courtyard; making this, the new nerve centre of
university life on the campus of Duesto.
(China)
Sekeping Kong Heng / Seksan Design - 2012- Ipoh (Malaysia)
Sekeping Kong Heng, in the charming old town of Ipoh, is the latest addition to the Sekeping family of
retreats. It is located in a 3 storey neo-classical building which also houses a famous coffee shop of the
same name on the ground floor that serves great coffee and the best local dishes in town. All effort has
been made to preserve as much of the character of the existing building as possible in contrast to the
surrounding new architectural interventions. In addition, an extension has been added at the back, tucked
away to reveal an inner courtyard with a dramatic stairway to take guests up to their rooms…
Proyecto RIMAR - Curso de especialización en Proyectos de Digitalización
Personal técnico del Instituto Andaluz del Patrimonio Histórico (IAPH) se desplazó la pasada
semana a la Biblioteca General y Archivos de Tetuán para impartir el segundo curso de
formación en Proyectos de Digitalización, en el marco del Proyecto de Cooperación RIMAR
(Recuperación de la Memoria Andalucía - Marruecos a través del a fotografía Histórica" )
cofinanciado por el FEDER en un 75% en el marco del Programa de Cooperación
Transfronteriza España - Fronteras Exteriores. En esta ocasión el curso, al que asistieron las
personas vinculados a los trabajos que se desarrollan en dicha Biblioteca, fue eminentemente
práctico y en él se impartieron nociones sobre digitalización de patrimonio documental fotográfico: instalación de equipos,
flujo de trabajo, captura, tratamiento, gestión de la imagen digital y almacenamiento; conservación del material fotográfico:
limpieza e instalación en contenedores especializados; y descripción y catalogación de las imágenes fotográficas.
+ info: http://www.proyectorimar.org/actualidad/
Jornada Museo de la Cal de Morón: oportunidades para el desarrollo a través de la
colaboración público-privada en el sector cultural
Este encuentro ha sido organizado por la Fundación INNOVES con la colaboración de la
Agencia Andaluza de Instituciones Culturales, el Instituto Andaluz de Patrimonio Histórico y
el Museo Cal de Morón con objeto de dar a conocer las actividades y servicios que este
Museo puede ofrecer a centros educativos, organizaciones públicas y privadas de su entorno,
profesionales con necesidades de reconversión hacia sectores de mayor empleabilidad, así
como a empresas interesadas en convertirse en colaboradoras…
+ info: http://www.iaph.es/web/portal/actualidad/contenido/130313_jornadamuseodelacal.html
Mención Especial Europa Nostra a la restauración de la Torre Bofilla. Valencia
(España)
La Torre Bofilla de Bétera está de enhorabuena, su restauración realizada en 2009 ha sido
reconocida con una mención especial en la categoría de conservación del patrimonio por los
Premios Europa Nostra 2013, un prestigioso galardón europeo logrado gracias a la labor
realizada por los profesores Camilla Mileto y Fernando Vegas, investigadores del Instituto de
Restauración del Patrimonio.
Los galardones Europa Nostra están considerados “los más prestigiosos que se conceden en
Europa para proyectos para la conservación, la difusión y la restauración de bienes culturales”, según ha informado la
Universitat Politècnica de València…
+ info: http://www.betera.com/2013/04/02/la-torre-bofilla-de-betera-logra-el-premio-europa-nostra-por-su-conservacion/
(USA)
prosperous future.
cafe.
Market) and are intended to shine a spotlight on the most striking and important events in artistic life, as
reflected in the pages of the newspaper. Many art world professionals are not well known to Russians, let
alone the international public, and deserve acknowledgement of their achievements.
innovation.
Semana da Rehabilitaçao Urbana - Porto - Portugal - 3-10 de Abril de 2013
O Porto aposta com força na Reabilitação Urbana, com uma estratégia de longo prazo que
apresenta sinais da renovação urbana e social. A Vida Imobiliária e a Promevi, em parceria com
a Câmara Municipal do Porto, propõem uma Semana da Reabilitação Urbana, plena de eventos,
que marque a agenda da cidade e do país. Um conjunto de iniciativas, tendo como palco as
áreas e edifícios recuperados da cidade, atraindo profissionais e publico em geral, residentes e
visitantes, para destacar o impacto social da Reabilitação Urbana.
Uma Semana da Reabilitação Urbana na agenda mediática do país, com uma forte comunicação
e uma imagem unificada e marcante!
+ info: http://www.pt.vidaimobiliaria.com/semanadareabilitacao/
Rijksmuseum / Cruz y Ortiz Arquitectos - 2000 - Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
Following a European tender process, Spanish architects Cruz y Ortiz Arquitectos of Seville were
chosen by a committee chaired by the chief government architect Jo Coenen to lead the
transformation of the Rijksmuseum. Cruz y Ortiz proposed minimal alterations to the building itself.
The firm has recreated the clear layout conceived by the museum’s original architect, Pierre
Cuypers, stripping the building of its later additions to ensure that it is once again a coherent whole.
The result transforms the 19th century building into a bright and spacious 21st century museum.
The new Rijksmuseum features an impressive new entrance area; a new Asian Pavilion; a new
outdoor exhibition space and garden; state-of-the-art facilities including new dining spaces, a shop, a restored library and
auditorium; renewed education facilities, a new service entrance, a separate building for the conservation of the collection;
and climate-control and security features, which are in line with today’s requirements…
crisis .
Louviers Music School Rehabilitation and Extension / Opus 5 Architectes-2012 Louviers (France)
The antique convent of the Penitents, in the city center of Louviers -Normandy, is a very
exceptional example of “cloister on water”, made of a complex assembly of successive
constructions. The monastery was built between 1646 and 1659 for the Franciscan brethren.
There used to be a church in the west and two conventual wings surrounding the central
building. The cloister was sold in 1789 as a national fortune: the conventual parts were
transformed into prisons and the church into a tribunal. In 1827, the church was demolished
and the tribunal was transferred in anew part of the edifice. The prison closed in 1934 while the old south wing started falling
down. The building, partially amputated, was reused as a music school in 1990. The remains of the cloister above the river
‘L’Epervier’ are formingan ‘Impressionist’ picture combining stone, vegetation and water in a beautiful harmony. This
landscape value has been highlighted and interpreted in the rehabilitation project…
La tecnología actual y la conservación del patrimonio: aplicación en la catedral de
Coria
En el salón de actos de la Escuela Politécnica de la Universidad de Extremadura, en
Cáceres, se desarrolló el día 9 de abril la jornada dedicada a la aplicación de las tecnologías
actuales en materia de conservación de patrimonio a la Catedral de Coria, al que asistió un
numeroso público que llenó a rebosar el recinto. El contenido estrictamente académico de
la Jornada constó de cuatro ponencias principales:
1) “La Catedral de Coria, una historia llena de patologías”, a cargo de D. Florencio J. García
Mogollón,
2) “Tecnologías del láser escáner y termografía aplicadas a la Catedral de Coria”, por D. Fernando Berenguer Sempere,
3) “Estudio patológico integral del complejo ladera-estructura de la Catedral de Coria” desarrollada por D. Emilio González
Abril,
4) “Conclusiones y previsiones de futuro sobre la Catedral de Coria”, que siendo presentada por D. Ignacio Dols Juste.
Finalizadas las conferencias, y habida cuenta del retraso acumulado sobre el horario previsto, el coloquio se redujo en
extensión, a pesar de lo cual pudieron efectuarse valiosas aportaciones.
+ info: http://www.camineo.info/news/174/ARTICLE/26263/2013-04-13.html
St. Paul’s Episcopal Church (1962) Renovation / atelierjones - 2012. Seattle,
Washington State (USA)
The project is a renovation of and design of a new entry addition to an iconic mid-century
Northwest Modernist church, designed by Steinhart/Theriault in 1962. The worn 50 year old
structure required a new liturgical space for gatherings around a new full-immersion
baptismal artist-designed font, as well as accessibility, structural and energy upgrades.
Careful choices about stripping away the years of accumulated renovations that had marred
the powerful space were required.
A new transparent entry out to the very urban, gritty commercial street creates a new public oriented space for gatherings
around the new font. Geometries from the dramatic roof are subtly used in the new addition to create a relationship to the
existing structure, without imitating its iconic drama. A new shingled art glass wall evoking detailing of the powerful copper
shingles of the exterior replaces the existing cheap, 1960’s plastic film coated-single pane glass. The project was initiated
and completed during the recent economic downturn, with extreme energy from the congregation, on budget at $85/sf…
City Council Approves Redevelopment of NYC’s Historic Pier 57 - New York City
(USA)
New York’s City Council have unanimously backed a proposed plan to restore and redevelop
the aging giant that is Pier 57. Built in 1952, the 300,000 square foot pier was hailed by
Popular Mechanics as a ‘SuperPier’ for its vast size and unconventional construction, as most
of the pier’s weight is supported by ‘floating’ air-filled concrete cassions. The pier was
originally used as a bus depot by the New York City Transit Authority, however it has been
lying vacant since 2003. The latest decision brings a concrete end to years of speculation as
to what the fate of the pier would be…
Manor House Stables / AR Design Studio - 2013 - Headbourne Worthy. Winchester
(United Kingdom)
Friday April 5th 1946, on a beautifully clear Spring afternoon crowds cheered as the 25/1
racehorse, “Lovely Cottage”, strode triumphantly past the finishing post to be crowned winner
of the Grand National, the UKs largest horse race. Trained by Tommy Rayson and ridden by
Captain Robert Petre at the first true Aintree Grand National race since 1940, after the Second
World War, and the last to take place on a Friday, which had been the tradition since 1876.
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Monti&Taft.
II Jornadas sobre "Gestión de la conservación del patrimonio religioso"
20 - 22 May 2013 Castellón, Valencia y Alicante. Spain
Organizers: Institut Valencià de Conservació i Restauració de Béns Culturals
+ info: http://www.ivcr.es/ivcr.php?area=congresos
39th Annual CAC Conference and Workshops “Revealing Lost Content: Digital Forensics for the Bench
Conservator”
21 - 25 May 2013 Saint John, New Brunswick. Canada
Organizers: Canadian Association for Conservation (CAC), Canada
Contact: Danielle Allard - [email protected]
+ info: https://www.cac-accr.ca/conferences
X Congreso Nacional del Color
Organizers: La Sociedad Española de Óptica y el Grupo de Investigación del Color de la Universitat Politècnica de València
+ info: http://congresonacionaldelcolor2013.blogs.upv.es
(UQ)
International Course on Conservation of Japanese Paper 2013
26 August - 13 September 2013 Tokyo. Japan
Organizers: National Research Institute for Cultural Properties, Tokyo & ICCROM (International Centre for the Study of the
Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property)
+ info: http://www.iccrom.org/eng/01train_en/announce_en/2013_08jpc_en.shtml
V Jornadas de Conservación y Restauración
30 - 31 August 2013 Lima. Peru
Organizers: Instituto Superior de Conservación y Restauración Yachay Wasi
+ info: http://www.yachaywasi.org/rejora.htm
I Congress of Students of Art Conservation/Restoration
30 - 31 August 2013 Lima. Peru
Organizers: The Yachay Wasi Conservation and Restoration Institute, Peru
+ info: http://www.iccrom.org/eng/news_en/2013_en/field_en/02_15_Call%20for%20Posters_PER.pdf
2ème Conférence internationale sur l'évaluation de l'état des structures en bois (SHATIS’13)
04 - 06 September 2013 Trento. Italy
Organizers: Trento University Department of Mechanical and Structural Engineering and the Trees and Timber Institute of
the National Research Council, and co-organized by COST ACTION FP 1101 ”Assessment, Reinforcement and Monitoring of
Timber Structures”.
+ info: http://events.unitn.it/en/shatis13
Organizers: ICOM-CC
Organizers: ICOM-CC
Conference: ‘Separated – reunited!’ -Conservation and Restoration in Central Europe during the time of the iron
curtain and today
25 - 28 September 2013 Hildesheim. Germany
Organizers: Hornemann Institute
DEADLINE: 31 ago 2012
+ info: http://www.hornemann-institut.de/english/conference_separated_reunited.php
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AICCM National Conference "Contexts for Conservation"
23 - 25 October 2013 Adelaide, SA. Australia
Organizers: The Australian Institute for the Conservation of Cultural Material (AICCM), Australie
+ info: http://tasted13.mywepundit.com/browser.php?indx=7962993&item=32
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Il Conservatorio delle Verginelle in Catania
Alessandro Lo Faro
Editore: Aracne
ISBN: 978-88-548-5405-5
Year: 2012
L’ex Conservatorio delle Verginelle è un complesso di corpi di fabbrica inseriti in un contesto urbano di
elevatissima qualità ambientale, la collina di Montevergine, meritevole pertanto di tutte quelle attente e
rigorose analisi preliminari che sono lo strumento irrinunciabile per qualsiasi intervento sul costruito storico
che ambisca ad essere congruente e compatibile. La conoscenza del manufatto si è qui arricchita di una sequenza di fasi
operative tra loro correlate (un’estesa indagine storica, un rigoroso rilievo metrico e specifici protocolli diagnostici atti ad
accertare lo stato di conservazione e le capacità prestazionali di numerosi elementi di fabbrica) che hanno successivamente
guidato le scelte progettuali e le procedure riabilitative poste in essere nell’intervento di recupero, tracciando così un utile
iter metodologico a cui inspirarsi quando si interviene sulle fabbriche tradizionali.
Year: 2013
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ISBN: 978-972-8174-40-8
Year: 2012
ISBN : 978-2-7637-9848-6
Year: 2012
Editore: Aracne
ISBN: 978-88-548-5936-4
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Mission archéologique Monaco - Mongolie
Etude d'un site archéologique de la fin de l'âge du
Bronze et du début de l'âge du Fer situé au centre de
la Mongolie dans la province de l'Arkhangaï. Ce site est
composé d'une nécropole, d'un site d'art rupestre et
d'une trentaine de stèles ornées. Tous les ans une
mission est organisée avec l'Institut d'Archéologie de
l'Académie des Sciences de Mongolie sur ce terrain.
Etude des gravures du site du Mont Bego, Vallées des Merveilles et de Fontanalbe.
+ info: http://archeo-steppe.com
Rock Art Studies Bibliographic Database
Rock Art Studies: A Bibliographic Database is a compilation in progress which was begun in
March, 1993. Currently the database contains over 27,000 citations to the world's rock art
literature, with an emphasis on English language and North American citations. Over 9500 of
these citations are held in the compiler's personal library. These and many others were
reviewed for annotation. With the "r11" release, the database became available on the
Internet as a project of the Bay Area Rock Art Research Association Archive, Bancroft Library,
University of California, Berkeley.
+ info: http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/collections/rockart.html
Rock Art, Burials Found in Sumatra’s Harimau Cave
The 3,000-year-old burials of 66 people, in addition to chicken, dog, and pig bones, have
been found in Sumatra’s Harimau Cave by Truman Simanjuntak of Indonesia’s National
Research and Development Center for Archaeology. “It means that this cave was occupied
intensely by humans and they continued to occupy it for a very, very long time,” he said.
The cave also contains the first rock art to be discovered in Sumatra. “Up to now we have
encountered up to 50 caves in the area and most of the caves contain archaeological
evidence,” Simanjuntak added. Scientists from Australia’s University of Wollongong will
join the National Research and Development Center for Archaeology in the continued study of Harimau Cave.
+ info: http://www.illawarramercury.com.au/story/1423599/art-bodies-found-in-ancient-caves/?cs=300
Agenda
International Rock Art Congress "Ancient Hands Around the World"
26 - 31 May 2013 Alburquerque, New Mexico. United States of America
Organizers: IFRAO and hosted by American Rock Art Research Association (ARARA)
+ info: http://www.ifrao2013.org/
Exhibition - Dinosaure, la vie en grand
jusqu'au 24 juin 2013. Paris. France
Organizers: Museum national d'histoire naturelle
+ info: http://dinosaure.mnhn.fr/
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Sekeping Kong Heng / Seksan Design - 2012- Ipoh (Malaysia)
Sekeping Kong Heng, in the charming old town of Ipoh, is the latest addition to the Sekeping family of
retreats. It is located in a 3 storey neo-classical building which also houses a famous coffee shop of the
same name on the ground floor that serves great coffee and the best local dishes in town. All effort has
been made to preserve as much of the character of the existing building as possible in contrast to the
surrounding new architectural interventions. In addition, an extension has been added at the back, tucked
away to reveal an inner courtyard with a dramatic stairway to take guests up to their rooms…
Fondazione Romualdo Del Bianco®-Life Beyond Tourism® published on the League of the
International Historical Cities Review
We are pleased to inform about the recent article by the Foundation’s President, Mr Paolo Del Bianco,
published on the prestigious League of the International Historical Cities Review, whose President is Mr
Daisaku Kadokawa, Mayor of the City of Kyoto (Japan).
During his recent meeting in Kyoto (October 2012) with the Mayor Mr Daisaku Kadokawa, Mr Del Bianco
introduced the latest development of the Foundation’s Life Beyond Tourism philosophy and its contribution in
stimulating a widespread sense of civic belonging and of responsibility in safeguarding and enhancing the
Historical Urban Landscape, precisely in its capacity as an expression of that whole. Accordingly, Mr Kadokawa invited Mr Del
Bianco to present the main features of Life Beyond Tourism on the League of the International Historical Cities Review.
+ info: http://new.lifebeyondtourism.org/magazine/364/LBT-published-on-the-%22League-of-the-International-HistoricalCities-Review%22
Posted by FUUH member: Mr. Paolo DEL BIANCO
I benefici della bici - Italy
La bella stagione che sta per cominciare è un ulteriore buon motivo per muovesi
all’aria aperta sulle due ruote: la bicicletta consente infatti di spostarsi
agilmente, facendo una sana attività fisica e contribuendo alla riduzione di
emissioni di CO2 provocate dagli abusati mezzi a motore; per non parlare dei
vantaggi in termini economici grazie al risparmio di denaro altrimenti destinato
al carburante!
Molte sono le iniziative volte a favorire il ricorso a questo mezzo di trasporto,
soprattutto con l’arrivo della primavera…
+ info: http://www.tafter.it/2013/04/02/i-benefici-della-bici/
Agenda
Curso a distancia de "Turismo Sostenible y Desarrollo Local" (solo en español)
Asistente de Programa: Erika Valdebenito
Organizers: Delnet del Centro Internacional de Formación de la Organización Internacional del Trabajo (OIT)
+ info: http://www.delnetitcilo.net/es/specialisations/curso-de-turismo-sostenible-y-desarrollo-local/informacionesgenerales/introduccion
Monti&Taft.
Taller ILAM - Hacer turismo especializado en el espacio patrimonial
24 May - 05 July 2013 -- Modalidad virtual - Profesora: Karina Durand
TICCIH Mexico
Workshop: Heritage and tourism. Policy and practice for maximising benefits
17 - 21 June 2013 London. United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Organizers: Public Administration International, United Kingdom
+ info: http://www.public-admin.co.uk/seminars/heritage/heritage13b.htm
Taller ILAM - Emprendedurismo turístico: como desarrollar tu Plan de Negocios
06 September - 18 October 2013 -- Modalidad virtual - Profesor: Luis Gustavo Patrucco
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Year: 2010
Conosci Roma? Tutto quello che devi assolutamente sapere
By Lauretta Colonnelli
Editore: Clichy
ISBN-13: 9788862943048
Year: 2013
Quanti sono gli obelischi di Roma? Dove morì Michelangelo Buonarroti nel 1564? Dove si trova il centro esatto
di Roma? In quale teatro i Beatles si sono esibiti nel loro primo concerto a Roma il 27 giugno 1965? Chi era il
grande scrittore russo che tra il 1838 e il 1842 abitò nel palazzo in via Sistina 125 e vi scrisse il suo
capolavoro? Che origine ha il nome di via del Pellegrino? Dove sono sepolti i grandi poeti romaneschi Belli, Pascarella e
Trilussa? Quanti sono gli animali raffigurati nella basilica di San Pietro? Roma è la città eterna, una delle città più antiche del
mondo e più ricche di storie e di misteri. Riprendendo lo schema di "Conosci Parigi?", l'"invenzione" dello scrittore francese
Raymond Queneau, la giornalista del Corriere della Sera Lauretta Colonnelli ci accompagna in una passeggiata nel passato e
nel presente di Roma. Prefazione di Paolo Portoghesi.
+ info: http://www.edizioniclichy.it/index.php?file=scheda_libro&id_pubblicazione=11
Actes « Quand le tourisme questionne la mémoire »
Actes de la journée du 21 février 2013
Bruxelles – © asbl Tourisme autrement
Year: 2013
Comme suite à la journée scientifique du 21 février dernier consacrée au tourisme de mémoire, l’asbl
Tourisme autrement a récolté les textes et recommandations présentés par les orateurs, lors de cette
journée très enrichissante. Ces Actes sont dès à présent disponibles gratuitement sur la page d’accueil de
notre site internet.
Nous espérons que ces textes contribueront à nourrir votre réflexion sur ce thème et vous aideront à poursuivre vos projets.
Nous profitons de la présente pour vous rappeler que vous pouvez également télécharger l’ABCdaire du Tourisme autrement
sur ce même site.
Merci de mentionner clairement l’asbl Tourisme autrement à chaque réutilisation de ce document.
+ info: http://www.tourisme-autrement.be/images/DOSSIER/Actes.pdf
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honorable mention, was divided in two elements based on the notion of ‘Viollet-le-Duc’: the
negative element being the void, whilst the positive being the vertical and horizontal
elements that define a space (walls and slabs). The link between these two elements, which
defines the unity of the space is man. Therefore, the architectural space cannot be applied
without the presence of man…
Pecios de la I Guerra Mundial, en la Unesco
A partir de 2014 el patrimonio sumergido que remonta al período 1914-18 (I Guerra Mundial), comenzará a entrar en el
ámbito de la Convención de la UNESCO de 2001 sobre la Protección del Patrimonio Cultural Subacuático y los Estados
miembros han sido invitados por el Director General a apoyar esta iniciativa.
Las grandes pérdidas humanas y el trauma colectivo fue algo trágico en la historia de la Humanidad. Muchos de los barcos
se encuentran sumergidos en sitios arqueológicos llamados “sitios-tumbas”. Se debe prestar atención a la importancia
histórica del conflicto y a los aspectos globales y humanitarios de esta guerra naval, y evitar también al extenso saqueo y la
explotación comercial de los pecios. Por fin, el Consejo Consultivo y Técnico de la Convención ha recomendado obtener
información y material relacionado con el patrimonio subacuático de la I Guerra Mundial para la educación del público…
+ info: http://abcblogs.abc.es/espejo-de-navegantes/2013/04/09/pecios-de-la-i-guerra-mundial-en-la-unesco/
Ancient undersea stone structure was made by man; what was it?
Archaeologists in Israel have discovered a mysterious stone monument weighing 60,000 tons and
rising 32 feet above the bottom of the Sea of Galilee.
Scientists don't know who built the structure, or why, but in a recent paper in the International
Journal of Nautical Archaeology the researchers shared a few hypotheses before concluding that
further study is needed.
The mystery rock pile was first discovered in 2003 during a sonar survey of the bottom of the
southwestern part of the sea. The sonar revealed a pile of boulders arranged in a circular shape,
lying on the sea floor…
+ info: http://www.latimes.com/news/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-mystery-monument-found-on-the-sea-floor20130412,0,2957527.story?track=rss
Awards - Jacques Rougerie Foundation International Architecture Competition - Deadline
for entries: 28 May 2013
the Jacques Rougerie Foundation, has launched an International Competition which aspires to offer
a unique opportunity for students in architecture, engineering or design, from all around the world
to make their projects come true, or simply to reward their creativity. The competition aims to
reward the most innovative, creative and bold projects at the service of architectural innovation,
relative to topics that are dear to the foundation; Water and Space. The deadline for entries is May 28.
Agenda
1st Meeting of the UNITWIN Network for Underwater Archaeology
16 - 19 May 2013 Kemer & Antalya. Turkey
Organizers: UNESCO UNITWIN Network for Underwater Archaeology / Selcuk University
Contact: [email protected] - Dr.Hakan Oniz
+ info: http://www.unesco.org/new/fileadmin/MULTIMEDIA/HQ/CLT/pdf/1st_unitwin_meet_agenda_rev.pdf
Course: Underwater Cultural Heritage
20 - 24 May 2013 Florence. Italy
+ info: http://courses.bournemouth.ac.uk/courses/training-course/underwater-cultural-heritage/short-course/3981/
course_information-course_overview/
4th Meeting of States Parties to the 2001 Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage
28 - 29 May 2013 Paris. France
Organizers: UNESCO
+ info: http://www.unesco.org/new/en/unesco/events/underwater-events/?tx_browser_pi1[showUid]
=7348&cHash=591a0839f4
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Congress Ikuwa V “Heritage for Humanity”
15 - 19 October 2014 Cartagena. Spain
Organizers: Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deporte y el Museo Nacional de Arqueología Subacuática (ARQUA)
+ info: http://en.museoarqua.mcu.es/actividades/ikuwa/index.html
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Irina Bokova, Director-General of Unesco interview by France 24 (video)
From lack of funding due to the financial crisis to her trip to Mali with President Hollande, UNESCO head Irina Bokova
discusses the problems the organisation is tackling today. She also talks about the deplorable social situation in her
country Bulgaria, where people have resorted to self-immolation out of desperation.
A programme produced in partnership with The Robert Schuman Foundation.
+ info: http://www.france24.com/en/20130413-en-talking-europe-unesco-manuscripts-syria-citadel-souk
World Heritage site
The Great Mosque, at the heart of the ancient city of Aleppo, had already been badly damaged by fire during heavy
fighting in the ancient city in October 2012. On that occasion, the Director-General reminded all parties of the country’s
obligations under the 1954 Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict, to
which Syria is a signatory.
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development…
Dans le 14ème arrondissement de Paris, non pas un, mais deux sites historiques… menacés de
destruction - France
A quelques pas de Denfert-Rochereau, au 26 rue de laTombe-Issoire, la ferme Montsouris est le dernier
vestige de la ruralité parisienne et ses sous-sols, la carrière Port-Mahon, la dernière carrière souterraine
médiévale à Paris qui nous soit parvenue intacte, mais pour combien de temps encore ?...
+ info: http://patrimoine-environnement.fr/dans-14eme-arrondissement-de-paris-non-pas-un-mais-deuxsites-historiques-menaces-de-destruction/
biosphere reserves.
Manor House Stables / AR Design Studio - 2013 - Headbourne Worthy. Winchester
(United Kingdom)
Friday April 5th 1946, on a beautifully clear Spring afternoon crowds cheered as the 25/1
racehorse, “Lovely Cottage”, strode triumphantly past the finishing post to be crowned winner
of the Grand National, the UKs largest horse race. Trained by Tommy Rayson and ridden by
Captain Robert Petre at the first true Aintree Grand National race since 1940, after the Second
World War, and the last to take place on a Friday, which had been the tradition since 1876.
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Journées du Patrimoine de Pays et des Moulins : le Patrimoine ROND
Organizers: Ces Journées sont coordonnées nationalement et grâce à l’action de délégations locales de PatrimoineEnvironnement, des Maisons Paysannes de France, de la Fédération Française des Associations de sauvegarde des Moulins,
la l’AFMA, de la CAPEB et des Architectes du patrimoine.
+ info: http://patrimoine-environnement.fr/nos-actions/connaitre/journees-du-patrimoine-de-pays-et-des-moulins/
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ISBN: 978-88-548-5880-0
Year: 2013
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Building Capacities on World Heritage across Caribbean Small Islands
The workshop Management of Caribbean cultural resources in a natural environment: Sites of
Memory and participation of local communities, trained 20 participants from Barbados, Curaçao,
Grenada, Jamaica and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines to foster the best involvement of local
communities in World Heritage. Released near the Historic Bridgetown and its Garrison, World
Heritage site in Barbados from 11 to 15 March 2013, the workshop contributed to enhance
mechanisms for the participation of local communities in Heritage sites, implementing also an
agreement reached in June 2011 on the Caribbean Capacity Building Programme (CCBP), for
World Heritage, between the University of the West Indies and UNESCO…
building_capacities_on_world_heritage_across_caribbean_small_islands/
Conservation
Exploration of hydrocarbons has been suspended on the Coffee Cultural Landscape,
Colombia.
Thanks to Quindío being declared as part of the UNESCO World Heritage property, Coffee
Cultural Landscape (Colombia), the exploration of hydrocarbons in this area has been stopped
by order of the Council of State. The decree was issued less than eight days ago and demands
the suspension of all exploration by the National Agency of Hydrocarbons and the Drilling
2010 consortium in the Quindío region, an exploration project which covers a large area.
Presented by Quindío’s Office of the Ombudsman, the decree supports the concerns of many
of the region’s landowners regarding land access and deterioration which would be brought about by the proposed drilling of
World Heritage
15 metre deep holes and insertion of an explosive product, Sismigel Plus. The project is on hold awaiting a statement by the
National Government. It must be remembered that President Juan Manuel Santos ordered that no mining projects be carried
out on property declared as UNESCO World Heritage.
+ info: http://whc.unesco.org/en/news/844/
Posted by FUUH member: GREEN, Patricia Elaine. Jamaica
Kew Palace and the Royal Kitchens - Kew Royal Botanic Gardens (United
Kingdom)
Kew Palace has a rich history spanning nearly 400 years – from its modest beginnings as
the home to a rich Flemish merchant, through to the arrival of the royal family and the
‘madness' of King George III. Step inside and explore this intimate and beautiful royal
retreat.
The first royal residents were George II, his wife Queen Charlotte and their ever-growing
family. However, Kew Palace will always be associated with the ‘madness’ of George III.
The palace was purchased by the Georgian King as an annex to the White House (which sadly no longer stands) to
accommodate his expanding family, and somewhere for George III to be shut away during his infamous episodes of
‘madness’. Come and decided for yourself if the King really was mad.
+ info: http://www.kew.org/visit-kew-gardens/garden-attractions-A-Z/Kew-Palace.htm
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Russia’s Historic Mariinsky Theatre to Celebrate Grand Opening of Mariinsky II.
Saint -Petersburg (Russian Federation)
On May 2, Russia’s preeminent Mariinsky Theatre will celebrate the grand opening of a new,
851,575 square foot addition on a neighboring site, just west of the company’s original 1860
theatre and 2006 concert hall, in the heart St. Petersburg. Designed by Toronto-based
Diamond Schmitt Architects, Mariinsky II will be one of the largest theatre and concert venues
in the world, providing a 2000-seat auditorium, state-of-the-art production facilities, and
naturally lit rehearsal rooms, along with a rooftop amphitheatre and terrace.
The seven story structure compliments the surrounding 19th century context with a facade clad in beige Jura limestone,
while its interior creates a timeless atmosphere with rear-lit onyx stone walls and marble floors surrounding the wood-lined
auditorium…
Crainte de déclassement pour le canal du Midi ? - France
Mardi 19 mars 2013, Robert Marconis, géographe et professeur émérite des Universités, a
animé une conférence sur le canal du Midi intitulée : « Canal du Midi : un avenir incertain pour
une voie d’eau historique ». Ce spécialiste d’urbanisme et de questions de transports dresse un
constat pessimiste sur l’avenir du canal. « Les crédits ne sont pas suffisants pour la remise en
état du canal et de ses ouvrages d’art et aucun leadership ne s’est réellement dégagé, en
l’absence d’un projet global et cohérent »…
+ info: http://patrimoine-environnement.fr/crainte-de-declassement-pour-le-canal-du-midi/
Belvedere For Koblenz / Dethier Architectures- 2011 - Koblenz - Germany
In 2011, Koblenz was chosen as the site for the Bundesgartenschau, a biennial horticultural
show that drew 3.6 million visitors. Various structures were erected for the occasion, including
a belvedere designed by Dethier Architectures. In addition to providing a lookout point, the
belvedere has become a symbol of the city.
The Bundesgartenschau is a large-scale event, and the city of Koblenz needed an
infrastructure capable of meeting the challenge. Part of the preparations involved an
international competition for the construction of a belvedere, to be built on the site of the
Ehrenbreitstein Fortress, which overlooks the confluence of the Moselle and Rhine rivers. The fortress is an outstanding site
that became a popular tourist attraction after the First World War, and it has been placed on UNESCO’s World Heritage List…
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ISPAN Newsletter (Institut de sauvegarde du patrimoine national) N. 32 1er April 2013 (Haïti) In French
The Institute for the Conservation of National Heritage (ISPAN) is a technical entity independent of the Ministry of Culture
and Communication. It has as its mission the inventory and classification of the sites, monuments and architectural
complexes of the Republic of Haiti, and it is also in charge of carrying out of projects for the protection, restoration and
performance of monuments, sites and historical complexes, of securing the direction and control of the performance of such
projects, of aiding the promotion and development of public or private activities aimed at preserving the national heritage,
and lastly, of gathering, organizing and spreading all the information and documents related to the architectural heritage and
the monuments, both at a national and international level. We would like to thank you for encouraging your friends to
subscribe to the ISPAN BULLETIN at the following address : [email protected]
+ info: http://universityandheritage.net/doc/ISPAN_No_32.pdf
World Heritage in the Caribbean: updating the Kingston Action Plan 20122013
UNESCO organized the Caribbean Training Course in the Preparation of Nomination
Dossiers, in St. Mary's, Antigua & Barbuda from 24 to 28 March 2013. This training
exercise was designed within the framework of the Japanese Funds-in-Trust project
"Capacity Building to Support the Conservation of World Heritage Sites and Enhance
Sustainable Development of Local Communities in Small Island Developing States (SIDS)"…
world_heritage_in_the_caribbean_updating_the_kingston_action_plan_2012_2013/
Crean en Cuba Red de Oficinas del Historiador y del Conservador de las Ciudades
Patrimoniales
El Consejo de Estado de la República de Cuba acordó el pasado mes de enero instituir la Red
de Oficinas del Historiador y del Conservador de las Ciudades Patrimoniales de la nación
caribeña.
La Red estará integrada por las Oficinas del Historiador de las ciudades de La Habana y
Camagüey, las del Conservador de las ciudades de Santiago de Cuba, Cienfuegos y Trinidad,
así como por las que se creen en las ciudades patrimoniales de Sancti Spíritus, San Salvador
de Bayamo, San Juan de los Remedios y Nuestra Señora de la Asunción de Baracoa. También formarán parte de ella las
ciudades que sean autorizadas en lo adelante en atención a sus méritos históricos y patrimoniales.
El Dr. Eusebio Leal Spengler, Historiador de la Ciudad de La Habana, presidirá la Red, cuya misión fundamental es fomentar
el intercambio y transferencia de experiencias y conocimientos en materia de rehabilitación urbana y recuperación
patrimonial.
+ info: http://www.unesco.lacult.org/noticias/showitem.php?uid_ext=e&getipr=NjYuMjQ5Ljc2LjU3&lg=1&id=3541
biosphere reserves.
record.
World Heritage
+ info: www.archaeological.org/CPAC
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World Heritage site
The Great Mosque, at the heart of the ancient city of Aleppo, had already been badly damaged by fire during heavy fighting
in the ancient city in October 2012. On that occasion, the Director-General reminded all parties of the country’s obligations
under the 1954 Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict, to which Syria is a
signatory.
development held
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Congreso: “El Centro Histórico de la Ciudad de México: 25 años de haber sido nominado por la UNESCO como
Patrimonio Cultural de la Humanidad: balance y perspectivas”
15 - 19 April 2013 Ciudad de México. Mexico
Organizers: La Universidad Autónoma de la Ciudad de México (UACM) a través de la Coordinación Académica y del Colegio
de Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales
Contact: Alberto Zárate: [email protected]
+ info: http://www.h-mexico.unam.mx/node/11043
Posted by FUUH member: Niglio, Olimpia
Cities and heritage meeting: “Changing Cities and Heritage Management: New Players? New Practices?”
22 - 24 May 2013 Lyon. France
Organizers: The city of Lyon (France) and the Organization of World Heritage Cities (OWHC)
+ info: http://www.ovpm.org/en/news/cities_and_heritage_meeting_may_22_23_and_24_2013
37th session of the World Heritage Committee
17 -27 June 2013. Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Organizers: World Heritage Centre of UNESCO
+ info: http://whc.unesco.org/en/sessions/37COM/
gestion durable"
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Congress Ikuwa V “Heritage for Humanity”
15 - 19 October 2014 Cartagena. Spain
Organizers: Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deporte y el Museo Nacional de Arqueología Subacuática (ARQUA)
+ info: http://en.museoarqua.mcu.es/actividades/ikuwa/index.html
Call for Papers - Conference: “Between dream and reality: Debating the impact of World Heritage Listing”
14 - 15 November 2013 Oslo. Norway
Organizers: University of Oslo
Contact: Beate Trandem - [email protected]
+ info: http://www.uio.no/forskning/tverrfak/kultrans/aktuelt/konferanser/world-heritage/cfp/?goback=.
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Resource Manual 'Preparing World Heritage Nominations' available online
Year: 2011
The second title within the World Heritage Resource Manuals Preparing World Heritage Nominations (First
Edition, 2010) series has just been published. It is a joint undertaking by the three Advisory Bodies of the
World Heritage Convention (ICCROM, ICOMOS and IUCN) and the UNESCO World Heritage Centre. The aim
of this Resource Manual is to help States Parties to achieve good quality World Heritage nominations.
So far, this manual exists in English and in French. The titles in this series are produced as PDF online
documents which can be downloaded free of charge below. There is no hard copy version of this manual.
+ info: http://whc.unesco.org/en/resourcemanuals/
“European Capitals of Culture and Everyday Cultural Diversity: A Comparison of Liverpool (UK)
and Marseilles (France)”
Author: Claire Bullen
Editor: Diane Dodd
Published by the European Cultural Foundation
ISBN/EAN 978-90-6282-059-7
Year: 2013
This publication is the result of an ethnographic field research in Liverpool and Marseilles. Collaborating with
local art organisations, community groups and individuals, Claire Bullen investigates how narratives about cultural policies
within and across European member states are put into practice in particular European cities, and how these circulating
dynamics might influence everyday social relations in and across urban neighbourhoods.
Cultural Policy Research Award is a programme by European Cultural Foundation (ECF) and Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (RJ)
for supporting young (under 35) researchers from across Europe to carry out applied, policy-relevant research with a
European dimension.
The programme is carried out in close collaboration with ENCATC.
+ info: http://www.encatc.org/pages/fileadmin/user_upload/2011_CPRA/2010_CPRA_Winner_Publication_Claire_Bullen.pdf
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Year: 2010
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