written by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on Thursday 01 July 2010
For the context, please check the previous news “The UNESCO Chair’s participation on the Silk Road Serial World Heritage Nomination”.
The Silk Road Cultural Heritage Resource Information System (CHRIS) initiative involves for the time being five Central Asian countries – the Republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan – in collaboration with China, a Belgian consortium supported by the Belgian Federal Science Policy Office (BELSPO) and headed by Raymond Lemaire International Centre for Conservation (RLICC), K.U.Leuven, and the Japanese Funds-in-Trust project at UNESCO, aiming at supporting the finalisation of the joint nomination dossier within the Framework of the Silk Roads World Heritage Serial and Transnational Nomination.
Please read the full article from RLICC newsletter.
For further information, please see the website of The Silk Road CHRIS.
written by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on Friday 05 March 2010
The first PhD seminar on preventive conservation has been organized in RLICC, K.U.Leuven on 25/02/2010
Four ongoing PhD researchers presented their progress.
For the agenda and content, please check the following website:
http://precomos.org/index.php/library/library_extended/agenda_and_handout_phd_seminar_25_02_2010_leuven/
written by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on Wednesday 03 March 2010
This seminar was organized by Monumentenwacht Vlaanderen – the core member of the PRECOMOS (Preventive Conservation, Monitoring and Maintenance of Monuments and Sites) network – at Antwerp, Belgium, 22-24 February 2010. Focusing on a very practical issue of preventive conservation, the main objective of this seminar was to exchange the methodologies and best practices of condition assessing and reporting system of built cultural heritage, which consequently lead to relevant cost calculation of maintenance and repair works. Professionals from Politecnico di Milano, K.U.Leuven and University of Cuenca were invited.
Please read the full article from RLICC newsletter.
A subsequent PhD seminar on preventive conservation was organized on 25 February 2010 in Leuven, please check the content on this webpage.
written by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on Wednesday 27 January 2010
By courtesy of the organizers, the poster contributions of the international conference “Planned conservation of XXth Century Architectural Heritage” (30-31/10/2009, Como, Italy) are now available online in the PRECOMOS website. Please check the following webpage:
http://precomos.org/index.php/library/library_extended/posters_planned_conservation_of_xxth_century_architectural_heritage/
written by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on Saturday 19 December 2009
As the “south launch” of the UNESCO Chair on preventive conservation, monitoring and maintenance of monuments and sites, the conference and the II Workshop for Heritage Specialists and Managers of Heritage Sites was held by The University of Cuenca (Ecuador) from 30.11.2009 to 02.12.2009.
Summary
This workshop gives continuity to the UNESCO intention of exchanging experiences on management of cultural and natural sites of the Andean region and also encourages the formulation of proposals to improve the management of these sites. Themes as: Policies and Legislations, Responsibility and social inclusion, as well as documentation and techniques for monitoring and preventive conservation would be taken in account by this workshop.
Information of the Event
The II Workshop for heritage Specialists and Managers of Heritage Sites inscribed or not in the World Heritage List (the first workshop took place between the 13th and 15th June 2007 in the same location) gives continuity to the initiative of the UNESCO about the exchange of experiences related with the management of cultural and natural heritage sites of the Andean region and to develop joint proposals to improve the management of heritage sites inscribed or not in the World Heritage list. The focus has been set on their efforts in the field of Monitoring and Preventive Conservation, also in view of the preparation of the periodic reporting required for sites on the World Heritage List.
Please read the full article from the RLICC newsletter.
written by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on Wednesday 25 November 2009
Sponsored by the Comune di Como, the conference was organized by DOCOMOMO Italia, Politecnico di Milano and the UNESCO Chair on preventive conservation, monitoring and maintenance of monuments and sites, in collaboration with Fondazione Cariplo. The delegation from Belgium included Monumentenwacht and RLICC staff and researchers.
Please read the full article from RLICC newsletter.
written by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on Thursday 19 November 2009
During 3-6 November 2009, Prof. Koen Van Balen participated to the First Meeting of the Coordinating Committee on the Serial World Heritage Nomination of the Silk Roads in Xi’an, China. The meeting brought together representatives from five Central Asian Countries (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan ) and China, the countries involved in the first phase of the Serial World Heritage Nomination of the Silk Roads, as well as representatives from Afghanistan, India, Iran, Italy, Japan, Nepal, South Korea, and relevant international and regional experts.
Please read the full article from RLICC newsletter.
written by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on Monday 02 November 2009
On 27 October 2009 the Belgian delegation at UNESCO headed by its recently appointed ambassador Her Excellency Mme France Chainaye together with the Flemish delegation headed by Mr Nick Vandemarliere organised a reception to present the UNESCO Chair on preventive conservation, monitoring and maintenance.
Please read the full article from RLICC newsletter.
written by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on Wednesday 30 September 2009
The conference “Preventive conservation: practice in the field of built heritage” was held on 3-4 September 2009 at Fribourg, Switzerland. It was the very topic of the 2009 annual congress and annual general meeting of the Swiss Association of Conservator-Restorers (SCR/SKR).
Please see the full article from RLICC newsletter.
written by Koen Van Balen on Thursday 09 April 2009
At the Forum UNESCO University and Heritage (FUUH (Hanoi (Viet Nam), 5-10 April 2009) the initiatives of PRECOMOS has been presented through presentation of a paper and subsequent discussions. In the discussion related to the topic of the Forum (Historic Urban Landscapes and more particularly heritage management of such sites) there was a great interest for better understanding the cost-benefit of a maintenance-based conservation approach of which the large number of population in Urban heritage sites can profit. Please read more details on RLICC’s and PRECOMOS’s participation in the RLICC newsletter article.
More information on the conference: http://universidadypatrimonio.net/SIFU/XII_Hanoi_2009/
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