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The intensive Life Beyond Tourism^® Training for Trainers course provides a 5-day high-level professional preparation for education, tourism and heritage professionals willing to upgrade their specialization with the Life Beyond Tourism^® philosophy and movement.

At the end of the course participants will receive a certificate enabling to teach Life Beyond Tourism^® in their own institution valid for one year. The next 5th edition of Training for Trainers Life Beyond Tourism is scheduled for June 17-21, 2019.

In the framework of the Life Beyond Tourism vision, a new model of tourism based on another ethics and not only on services and consumption, the course will address such themes as travel and cultural heritage as opportunities for dialogue, sustainable territorial development, conscious management of natural and cultural heritage for contributing to intercultural dialogue and peace in the world.

For more information including on how to register, see here.

The International Conference Florence Heri-tech: the Future of Heritage Science and Technologies, involves a large number of researches and scholars from around the world and puts the industry’s current issues under spotlight, specifically on issues related to innovative techniques and technologies for Cultural Heritage. The Conference is part of the Florence International Biennial for Art and Restoration, an international event attracting prestigious institutions and companies and creating a unique opportunity to bring together the academic word with industry. The Conference will be a significant opportunity to bring together the academic world with industry.

Heri-Tech is the first International Conference to welcome major researchers and scholars from all over the world, focusing on current and future issues in the field on issues related to innovative techniques and technologies. The city of Florence will therefore be the international heart of Restoration and Cultural and Environmental assets as well as a forum for meeting and discussing for experts, operators and enthusiasts from around the world. The Conference will be a significant opportunity for exchange between researchers and companies for the promotion of productive excellence, technological evolution, the greater use of culture for younger sections of the population and specialization in the educational field for graduates and PhD students.

The final objectives are:

To foster European mobility and co-operation between students and staff; to enhance Europe’s development as a multi-cultural society and to encourage the concept that scientific-cultural research must be an integral part of society; to promote international networks between universities, training institutes and companies to create long-term collaboration opportunities; to create favourable conditions for young graduates to enter the world of work; to demonstrate the influence of new technologies in the arts and how they can be used for innovative teaching and learning; and to establish contacts and cooperation between Institutions in the Academic world and the world of work.

For more information including important dates, see here.

Ghent University, Belgium

August 27-30, 2019

This four-day workshop for students, early-career researchers, and professionals will cover the principles and methods for understanding stone weathering and conservation within their environment. An international team will lecture on material characterisation, laboratory and specialised testing, climate change, air pollution, modelling approaches, and on-site evaluation. This will be contextualised within wider challenges of research and relevance, and supplemented by local excursions to share insight, discuss practical challenges, and opportunities for innovation.

For more information, see here.

Cultural Heritage (CH) is an integral element of Europe, vital for the creation of a common European identity and one of the greatest assets for steering Europe’s social, economic development and job creation. However, the current research training activities in CH are fragmented and mostly designed as single-discipline, failing to cover the whole lifecycle of Digital Cultural Heritage (DCH) research, which is by nature a multi-disciplinary and intersectorial agenda. The CHANGE project will train a new generation of early stage researchers towards a common goal, namely the assessment of changes in tangible cultural heritage objects and their monitoring in the atmosphere and/or during their conservation treatment, using multimodal imaging techniques to complement more traditional analytical techniques. Their research will consist in optimizing capture of data and their analysis, visualisation and management, to ensure a better documentation and long-term preservation of our common European cultural heritage. This work will be carried out within an interdisciplinary environment involving 5 CH and 4 ICT beneficiary institutions as well as 9 CH, ICT and industrial partners from 8 EU countries.

Find out more about this position here.

Historic England (HE) are an Executive Non-Departmental Public Body (NDPB) sponsored by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS). They were established on 1 April 1984 by the National Heritage Act 1983 and protect, champion and save the places that define who we are and where we’ve come from as a nation. HE is also the sole member of a charity – The English Heritage Trust, trading as English Heritage (EH). EH manages the National Heritage Collection of more than 400 historic sites and monuments under the nation’s ownership or protection, under a licence from HE that runs to 2023, and cares for these places and opens them to the public.

In line with Cabinet Office requirements the Tailored Review (TR) of HE will provide robust challenge to and assurance on the continuing need for the organisation and, where appropriate, make recommendations for improvement.

Read more here about the Tailored Review.

The weathering and deterioration of historic buildings, masonry, monuments, sculptures, etc using natural stones is a well-known problem since antiquity. The STONE 2020 Conference will bring together geoscientists, architects, building specialists, engineers, conservators, restorators, monument curators and building owners.

It will take place 7th – 12th September, 2020, in Gottingen, Germany.

To register for the Conference, visit here.

You can also submit an Abstract through 1 July, 2019, here.

This one day masterclass looks at all aspects of masonry arch bridge construction and the materials utilized to determine the most appropriate repair schemes. It is suitable for building professionals, contractors, engineers and others involved in heritage work.

Trainers: Bill Harvey, Gary Salter, David Wiggins, Steve Wood, Gordon Cartwright & Rosamond Artis

Date: 24 May 2019
Time: 09.30 – 16.30
Venue: Charlestown Workshops, Fife
Cost: £190 + vat …… Remember if you are a BLF, IHBC, RIBA or RIAS member you are eligible for 20% discount on this seminar. Please just give us a call with your member number.

To book a place on this course, please click here, call 01383 872722 or email admin@scotlime.org

We are pleased to welcome back Mike Parrett, one of the world’s leading building pathologists and co-author of the RICS’ bestselling book ‘Diagnosing Damp’, recognised as the primary reference work on dampness in buildings.

Building failure needs to be looked at holistically. Dampness, in particular, is poorly understood and widely misdiagnosed. The tendency is to treat the symptoms and not the causes. And after decades of sales-led solutions like injecting and spraying horrid and useless chemicals, Mike Parrett’s back to basics approach gets to grips with where damp comes from – and offers real, practical advice on how to deal with it. While working at Lewisham Council, he solved the damp problems in over 30,000 properties without once injecting a chemical DPC!

Get the latest knowledge on damp in buildings from the expert and:

• Check you have the right equipment to investigate damp problems;
• Feel confident you are adopting the right approach;
• Correctly identify damp problems;
• Gain real world knowledge through case studies;
• Use checklists to verify your diagnosis;
• Don’t ever take advice from a company with a vested interest in undertaking damp treatment work that you don’t need and doesn’t work anyway!

Date: 6 September 2019
Time: 09.30 – 16.30
Venue: Charlestown Workshops, Fife
Cost: £190 + vat …… Remember if you are a BLF, IHBC, RIBA or RIAS member you are eligible for 20% discount on this seminar. Please just give us a call with your member number.

To book a place on this course, please click here, call 01383 872722 or email admin@scotlime.org

The Section on Architectural Records of the International Council on Archives (ICA-SAR) and the Distrital Archive of Braga of University of Minho (UM-ADB) are pleased to announce the holding of an International Congress on Architectural Archives ‘Professional Experiences in Cultural Diversity’ at Braga (Portugal), 25 to 27 September 2019.

The aim of the Congress is to examine issues relating to the production and management of the records of architecture and the built environment, their preservation, authentication and use in the service of humanity. The Congress will bring together archivists and other professionals concerned with architectural archival heritage from around the world, with diverse cultural backgrounds, experiences and work traditions.

The Congress Programme Committee invites you to submit proposals for papers, presentations or case-studies with the aim of encouraging discussion and debate throughout each session. Proposals should reflect theory and practice in archival activities as they relate to the acquisition, preservation, and management of architectural records. See the attached flyer for more information.

Last year the National Heritage Ironwork Group held an 4 day Festival of Ironwork in Bath called BathIRON. The event was a spectacular coming together of hundreds of blacksmiths to live forge a gift for the city of Bath. The teams wanted to inspire and leave a legacy that raised awareness of the importance of the fast disappearing heritage skill of the blacksmith.

Now all the amazing ironwork that was created during that 4 day event is coming together, it is near completion and almost ready for installation. We are having a volunteers painting party to get the notes painted this weekend at Ironart of Bath and then we are having a final celebration of the whole project, called FireFOLK on 26th May around the bandstand where the balustrade will be installed in Parade Gardens, Bath in all it’s glory!

We welcome you to join us at FireFOLK which will be a micro folk festival with local folk bands playing on the bandstand, live forging all evening, bar, local food stalls and an auction of hand forged musical themed objects made during BathIRON and by blacksmiths during the evening of FireFOLK.