As part of the Joint Programming Initiative in Cultural Heritage and Global Change (JPICH) a free workshop on Re-use and continued use of historic buildings, urban centres and landscapes is to be held at the University of Leicester. We would like to invite you to join the discussion and provide valuable insights which will feed into the development of a long-term strategy for the JPICH.

The workshop will include presentations and discussion on the following research areas:

• Conservation and Planning
• Diversity and Communities
• Immersive, multi-sensory engagement and virtual reality
• Contested Heritage

See here for more information and for tickets.

The IHBC London Branch is pleased to present the Creative Conservation Conference, taking place Thursday 4th October 2018 at:

Royal College of Physicians
11 St Andrews Place
Regent’s Park
London NW1 4LE

It is claimed in some quarters that the conservation battle has been won. Exemplary developments such as those at Kings Cross show how a conservation-led approach can bring both private and public benefits. But this is no reason to sit on our heritage laurels. There are still many who are sceptical about the value of the historic built environment. Our challenges range from continuing austerity, the disposal of public assets to the pressure for more housing.

How are we adapting and changing to meet these challenges, and what creative means are there to keep our profession at the forefront of protection of the historic environment? In this, the fourteenth of IHBC’s London Conferences, we will be looking at how national organisations such as Historic England and the National Trust are modernising their agendas; how funding bodies are responding to needs in the third sector and how we can do more to promote the sector.

A series of case studies will include how imaginative architectural solutions can increase density while protecting heritage assets, together with innovative ways of re-using Assets of Community Value.

This conference will be of relevance to conservation officers and other heritage professionals, town planners, urban designers, engineers, surveyors, architects and archaeologists, and as usual we intend the presentations to bear of nationwide interest, not solely London-focused.

Innovation & Technology in the Built Environment

We believe that the tools and processes now available have the power to change the future of the built environment and the world we live in. Our aim is to help you explore their potential and to understand how best to adopt and implement them to reduce costs and carbon emissions, improve profitability and efficiency, and create a smarter, more diverse industry. ​

The event series features a two day exhibition with interactive, hands-on demonstrations, free to attend seminars, workshops and classes. networking events, and a full two-day thought leadership conference programme.

Find out more information here.​

All courses are arranged as a mix of theory and application, with lessons every morning and independent individual/group every afternoon.  Laboratory works and site visits are planned for several of the courses.  The duration of each course is about one month.

For further information please contact the Course Secretariat at secretariat@msc-sahc.org.  Information is also available here.

Able to date the masonry of a cathedral, an abbey, a parish church or a castle or a medieval house will always be a major concern of the archaeologist of the frame. There are well known methods such as analysis of construction accounts (if they exist), architectural and stylistic experiments (if sufficiently reliable), dendrochronology (if wood is contemporary masonry), but nothing is obviously a relative or absolute chronology delivered by the same stones and especially size techniques.

This work, which covers Belgium, northern and central France and Burgundy, presents the evolution size techniques for various types of stones between the tenth and sixteenth centuries. This analysis is based on 370 buildings in which each element is listed chronologically distinctive in nine databases, which are drawn from the summary tables, working tools specifically designed for the archaeologist and essential to teach him to propose to her dating masonry study.

Reference work, it is the only in its field that combines the appearance of a manual with working as an innovative scientific work.

The study of the geographic distribution of pruning techniques not only allowed to sketch the evolution of pruning techniques throughout the study area, but also to define areas of innovation, migration, interactions, transfers technology, all solidly backed by an unusually high number of buildings studied, compared to other published research.

Reserve your copy by paying the sum of 95 € (89 € + 6 € for postage) to the bank account BE86 3101 4641 7950 with the “PREC04M” communication. The package will be shipped upon receipt of payment.

The European Commission – Directorate General for Research and Innovation – is organizing the event ‘Fair of European Innovators in Cultural Heritage’ in the frame of 2018 European Year of Cultural Heritage (EYCH).

When:

15 and 16 November 2018

Where:

The Egg, Rue Bara 175, 1070 Brussels, Belgium

The detailed Programme is now available here.

Participation will be confirmed after registration, within the limitations of available seats.

Virtual Multimodal Museum (ViMM) is a high-visibility and participative Coordination and Support Action (CSA), funded under the EU Horizon 2020 programme (CULT-COOP-8-2016). ViMM brings together Europe and the world’s leading public and private sector organisations working on Virtual Museums and in the wider sector of Digital Cultural Heritage, to support high quality policy development, decision making and the use of technical advances. The partner consortium is supported by an expert Advisory Group in building the ViMM Framework, involving decision-makers and expert practitioners in defining and resolving issues spread across 7 interlinked Thematic Areas (‘the 7 Ds’): Definitions – Directions – Documentation – Dimensions -Demand – Discovery – Decisions

See here for more information.

The “Initial Training Network for Digital Cultural Heritage: Projecting our Past to the Future” with acronym ITN-DCH, is the first and one of the largest Marie Curie fellowship projects in the area of the e-documentation / e-preservation and CH protection funded by the European Union under the FP7 PEOPLE research framework. The Project started on the 1st of October 2013 and its consortium comprising of 14 full partners and 10 associate members covering the entire spectrum of European CH actors, ranging from academia, research institutions, industry, museums, archives and libraries. The project aims to train 20 fellows (16 ESR’s and 4 ER’s – 500 person months) in the area of CH digital documentation, preservation and protection in order to create them a strong academic profile and market oriented skills which will significantly contribute to their career prospects. The consortium and the fellows training programme is supported by a prestigious advisory board (see below).

The project duration is 4 years and is coordinated by the Digital Heritage Research Lab of the Cyprus University of Technology. The total research funding is 3.71 MEuro.

ITN-DCH aims -for the first time worldwide- to analyze, design, research, develop and validate an innovative multi-disciplinary and inter-sectorial research training framework that covers the entire lifecycle of digital CH research for a cost–effective preservation, documentation, protection and presentation of cultural heritage. CH is an integral element of Europe and 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 design to be of a single-discipline, failing to cover the whole lifecycle of Digital Cultural Heritage (DCH) research, which is by nature a multi-disciplinary and inter-sectorial research agenda.

ITN-DCH targets all aspects of CH ranging from tangible (books, newspapers, images, drawings, manuscripts, uniforms, maps, artefacts, archaeological sites, monuments) to intangible content (e.g., music, performing arts, folklore, theatrical performances) and their inter-relationships. The project aims HTML Source Editor to boost the added value of CH assets by re-using them in real application environments (protection of CH, education, tourism industry, advertising, fashion, films, music, publishing, video games and TV) through research on (i) new personalized, interactive, mixed and augmented reality enabled e-services, (ii) new recommendations in data acquisition, (iii) new forms of representations (3D/4D) of both tangible /intangible assets and (iv) interoperable metadata forms that allow easy data exchange and archiving.