| Architectural Records, Inventories and Information Systems for Conservation - ARIS07
International course in architectural conservation, heritage recording and information management
Dates: 12 September - 12 October 2007
Place: Rome, Italy
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The Course
Good conservation decisions are made with knowledge of the significance, history, past interventions, and current conditions of cultural resources.
This international course on architectural records, inventories, and information systems for the conservation of cultural heritage will address the needs, methodology, and techniques for acquiring and using this knowledge. The course will draw upon the vast wealth of cultural material in Rome and will be taught by leading experts in the field. Records, inventories, and information management tools are continuously being developed and must be considered as a fundamental part of the conservation process.
Course objectives, content, and educational strategies will be designed in partnership by ICCROM and the Getty Conservation Institute.
Course Objectives
The ARIS07 Course aims to improve architectural conservation practice through the use of methods and tools of recording, documentation, inventories and information management by:
- Approaching architectural records and information management from the point of view of planning, practice, access and dissemination;
- Reviewing the theory of documentation and recording and its relation to specific situations;
- Addressing recording practice based on specific case studies;
- Promoting discussion among specialists in these fields;
- Enabling participants to transmit documentation knowledge and skills.
Course Programme
The course will feature a range of learning strategies that will draw upon participants’ own professional knowledge while adding new information and skills through readings, discussions, and a number of collaborative practical exercises.
The course will include a required preparatory phase prior to arrival at ICCROM. This preparatory phase will allow participants to increase their background knowledge in key topic areas through readings and exercises that they will undertake while in their home countries.
The course will be structured around three main blocks of knowledge, through four weeks of study, on specific matters relating to:
- Documentation: principles, theory, guidelines;
- Recording practice: Practical workshop about generating records (direct, topographic, photogrammetric, 3D laser scanning, GPS), archival research (historic, archaeological, structural, condition), dissemination (computer graphics, multimedia)
Including topics such as:
- Architectural recording, emphasizing the relationship between representation and content.
- Architectural recording, as a discipline, supported by all the sciences and techniques that are able to contribute to the understanding, measurement and analysis of architecture from a morphological, material and structural standpoint.
- Architectural recording as a research activity combined with the bibliographic and documentation investigation.
- Architectural recording as an open knowledge system, aiming at obtaining the most comprehensive understanding of the structure under investigation and the collection, over time, of critical records of all relevant elements.
- Architecture and context.
- Demonstrations and presentations of technical developments in recording
- Information management : planning, practice, access and dissemination
The course will stress the notion of ‘inventory’ as the core element of information systems to be able to establish links between the various aspects and fields relating to architectural documentation processes. The notion of ‘information management systems’ will include:
- Principles, design and management of records in data base systems (GIS).
- Methods to process architectural records and related information.
Participants
This international course is designed for a maximum of 18 architectural conservation professionals. The course will be for conservators, architects, planners, engineers, archaeologists, historians, topographers,photogrammetrists, surveyors, cartographers, restorers, documentalists, and other conservation professionals involved in the field of recording, documentation and inventories through information management systems.
Admissions
Candidates are required to provide evidence of computer knowledge in the use of software for: Internet access, data base management, CAD-based graphics tools, and digital image management.
Preference will be given to candidates working in positions in which they can share, transmit and disseminate the skills and information gained during the course.
Preference will be given to applicants from ICCROM Member States.
Applications for observer status or partial attendance will not be considered.
Teaching team
Teaching staff will be composed of recognized heritage conservation professionals having both practical/theoretical experience and knowledge in training. They will represent a broad international perspective in their fields of expertise, coming from organizations and institutions such as ICCROM, GCI, EEA-CSIC-Spain, DGEMN-Portugal, University of Rome La Sapienza-Italy and other associated professionals.
Working language: The official language of the course will be English. Participants are required to certify proficiency knowledge of the official language.
Certificate: A certificate of attendance will be awarded to participants who satisfactorily complete the course.
Course fee: 900 € (Euro).
Travel, Accommodation and Living Expenses
Participants will be responsible for their round trip travel costs to and from Rome. In order to cover accommodation and living expenses in Rome during the course, participants should plan for a minimum total allowance of Euros 1500. Candidates are strongly encouraged to seek financial support from sources such as governmental institutions, employers and funding agencies. ICCROM may be able to offer a limited number of scholarships to selected candidates who have been unable to secure funding.
Application
Please fill the ICCROM application form. and send it together with the following by mail to the contact address below:
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A full professional curriculum vitae (in English)
Please note that only original endorsed applications will be considered.
ICCROM - Sites Unit
Via di San Michele 13
I-00153 ROME RM, ITALY
Tel (+39) 06 585531
Fax (+39) 06 58553349
E-mail:aris07course (at) iccrom.org
Web Site: www.iccrom.org
Application deadline:
Applications should reach ICCROM by 16 February 2007 to ensure inclusion in our selection process.
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