MEASURING HERITAGE CONSERVATION PERFORMANCE
CECI - Centro de Estudos Avançados da Conservação Integrada
CALL FOR PAPERS
Dates and place:
29 to 31 March 2011 - Fundação Joaquim Nabuco, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil
Theme:
One of the great challenges for institutions and scholars of heritage conservation and protection has been to develop instruments for assessing the performance of the conservation actions of complex assets such as urban sites, cultural territories and landscapes and collections of many types of objects. UNESCO, for example, has been improving its Periodic Reports on the state of conservation of the assets on the World Heritage List in order to make the evaluations more transparent and less subject to distortions caused by technical and political constraints.
However, what remain at an incipient stage are monitoring and evaluation systems that allow the performance of conservation actions and their impacts to be identified, recorded and assessed, in an objective way. Ever since the Burra Charter, the theory of conservation has been undergoing a paradigm shift that sets the maintenance of significance as the central goal of heritage conservation. In addition to being informed by expert opinion, this change indicates that conservation of complex heritage assets must take into account the opinions of social actors directly involved with the assets (the stakeholders), and by doing so, this introduces cultural relativism and the use of subjectivity as an analytical tool. Also, the use of indicators has been suggested as a useful way to construct a monitoring instrument applicable to the different types of complex assets as this permits the performance of conservation actions to be evaluated, as well as the associated public policies to conservation as the economic valorization, the sustainability and the social inclusion.
The 6th Seminar will discuss this issue by analyzing both the theory and practice of evaluation of heritage conservation maintenance and of its impacts, and will respond to the following issues:
1. What are the consequences of the change in the theoretical paradigm for the development of monitoring and evaluation instruments for the conservation of complex assets such as urban sites, cultural territories and landscapes, and collections of various objects?
2. How can the performance of the conservation of heritage assets be evaluated over time? Can the performance of actions on different assets of the same kind or of different kinds be compared?
3. What lessons are to be learned from the use of indicators in the evaluation of conservation actions? Is it possible to estimate the efficiency and effectiveness of using these instruments for monitoring heritage conservation?
4. Have there been experiences of assessment or of use of conservation indicators which can contribute to the debate and so to the development of the theory and of the monitoring tools?
We invite all stakeholders in heritage conservation acting in the academic field and institution promoting the culture as a development factor to submit articles that present their ideas, proposals and studies which address these questions to the Scientific Committee of the 6th International Seminar on Urban Conservation
Languages: Spanish, Portuguese and English (USA) are the languages of the seminar. The presentation will be in any of the official languages. The papers must be written in English.
Organization:
Organizers
Centre for Advanced Studies in Integrated Conservation (CECI)
Graduate Program in Urban Development of the Federal University of Pernambuco (MDU/UFPE)
International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property (ICCROM) – LATAM Program, Economic Indicators Group
Partners
Historic and Artistic National Heritage Institute - IPHAN
Joaquim Nabuco Foundation– FUNDAJ
Regional Bureau for Culture for the Latin America and the Caribbean (UNESCO)
Executive Committee
Sílvio Mendes Zancheti (CECI)
Maria Ângela de Sousa (MDU/UFPE)
Katriina Simila (ICCROM)
Claudia Ranaboldo (Rimisp – Latin American Center for Rural Development)
Herman van Hooff (UNESCO)
Representative of (IPHAN)
Representative of (FUNDAJ)
Executive secretariat
Lúcia Tone Hidaka (CECI)
Rosane Piccolo (CECI)
Laura Alecrim (CECI)
Scientific Committee
To define
Deadlines
An abstract must to be submitted by 30 August 2010.
Notification of selected abstracts will be given by 20 September 2010.
Full papers should be submitted by 30 November 2010
The accepted papers will be announced by 30 December 2010.
Papers and publication
The seminar partners will publish the conference proceedings. Some selected papers would be considered for publishing in “City Time" (www.ct.ceci-br.org), the international journal of urban conservation.
Guidelines on abstracts submission
Abstract (between 800 – 1000 words) may be written in Spanish, Portuguese or English (USA) and submitted as electronic file (in PC Microsoft Word .DOC or .RTF formats) by e-mail to: 6seminar@ceci-br.org
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The first page of the document should contain only the following information:
- Title of Paper
- Author(s)
- Institutional Affiliation(s)
- Contact Person (if more than one author)
- Postal Address, e-mail address and contact number(s) (phone/fax) of contact person
Please note that at least one of the authors of accepted papers must attend and present the paper at the conference.
Guidelines on full-papers submission
The full paper must be written in English (USA) and should not exceed 5000 words and 6 pictures.
The format of your full paper manuscript shall be in PC's Microsoft Word .DOC or .RTF formats. Please download and use the paper template:
Your paper's file name should be: [YourLastName]_[PaperName].[
Ex.: (smith_indicatorcollections.
The file must be sent by e-mail as a mail attachment to: 6seminar@ceci-br.org
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Please ensure that all materials are complete and checked for accuracy.
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