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10 December

• Australia ICOMOS Executive Committee
  The final meeting of the outgoing Executive Committee (EC) was held in Adelaide on 13 November, in conjunction with the Annual General Meeting (AGM) and the first meeting of the new Executive (held 14 November2009). We said farewell to retiring EC members Graeme Wiffen, David Bridgman, Helen Lardner, Peter Phillips and Liz Vines and welcomed newly elected members: Michael Queale, Tracy Ireland, Megan McDougall and Natica Schmeder. They will join continuing members Susan McIntyre-Tamwoy, Jane Harrington, Anita Krivickas, Timothy Hubbard, Anthony Coupe, Helen Wilson, Peter Romey, Catherine Brouwer and Anne Brake. At the first meeting of the new Executive, the officer bearers elected for the coming year were Susan McIntyre-Tamwoy (President), Jane Harrington (Vice-President), Helen Wilson (Secretary) and Anita Krivickas (Treasurer).
  More information: http://www.icomos.org/australia/images/Email_News_2009/E-Mail_News_No._415_Australia_ICOMOS_Inc.htm

• The Australian Bungalow in Malta Working Group – call for Expressions of Interest
  Call for Expressions of Interest for a new project based Working Group – The Australian Bungalow in Malta Working Group
  • Prepare a schedule of emergency maintenance works need to be prepared and funding needs to be sourced to ensure that the building is stabilised
  • Finalise the draft CMP prepared by volunteers but unfinished
  • Assess potential for listing on the National Heritage List and if appropriate prepare listing proposal.
  • Prepare estimates of cost for conservation works and secure funding.
  This working group will need to liaise with Heritage Malta to ensure that proposals developed are appropriate. Heritage Malta and ICOMOS Malta have indicated in principle support for this project. If you are interested in participating in this working group please send a brief 200 word bio to Georgia Meros at austicomos@deakin.edu.au by COB Thursday 17 December.We really need a couple of keen and committed members who are willing to do a short burst of work to get this project underway before the building deteriorates to a point where it is not salvageable. Please consider devoting your time to this project. Susan McIntyre-Tamwoy. President, Australia ICOMOS

  More information: http://www.icomos.org/australia/images/Email_News_2009/E-Mail_News_No._416_Australia_ICOMOS_Inc.htm

9 December

• Ancestral games of the Towns Natives of Abya Yala. Paper by Stela Maris FERRARESE CAPETTINI. University of Comahue (Argentina)
  The project is begin with the objective of recovering ancestral games of the natives peoples from Abya Yala (baptized America for the Europeans) that during the invasion and the following centuries of dominance they were prohibited, lost, and of those games which to be lonely some few ones as daily practice with modifications of the cultural imposition that the same ones suffered like part of the suppression and cultural, social and economic imposition that it was given to these Towns from the invasion begun in 1492. To recover the games means to accompany the process of recovery of the own ethnic identity with the other cultural components of which the games form part.
  More information: http://universidadypatrimonio.net/doc/FUUH/200912_stela_en.pdf

• Docomomo International relocating in Barcelona
  After a seven-year mandate in France at the Cité de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine, Docomomo International is relocating to Spain at the Mies van der Rohe Foundation (Barcelona). Docomomo International new headquarters will be operating on January 1st, 2010. Please make sure to note our new address and contacts:
  Docomomo International
  Ana Tostões, chair
  Ivan Blasi, secretary general
  Fundació Mies van der Rohe
  calle Provença 318 pral 2
  ESP-08037 Barcelona
  Phone: 34 932151011
  Fax: 34 934883685
  E-mail: docomomo@miesbcn.com
  Website: http://www.docomomo.com/

8 December

• First National Rating System for Sustainable Landscapes
  The Sustainable Sites Initiative™ released the first voluntary, scientifically researched rating system and guidelines for design, construction, and maintenance of sustainable landscapes, with or without buildings. A partnership of the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA), the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center and the U.S. Botanic Garden, the Initiative's rating system represents four years of work by dozens of the country's leading sustainability experts, scientists and design professionals, as well as public input from hundreds of individuals and dozens of organizations to create this essential missing link in green design. The rating system works on a 250-point scale, with levels of achievement for obtaining 40, 50, 60, or 80 percent of available points, recognized with one through four stars, respectively. If prerequisites are met, points are awarded through the 51 credits covering areas such as the use of greenfields, brownfields, or greyfields; materials; soils and vegetation; construction and maintenance.
  More information: http://ns22304.ovh.net/~iflaonli/administrator/components/
  com_tevent/files/49/IFLA_NEWSBRIEF_26.pdf (Page 2)

• Building Montréal - UNESCO Chair in Landscape and Environmental Design
  The UNESCO Chair in Landscape and Environmental Design at the Université de Montreal (CUPEUM) and the City of Montreal’s Design office are launching the English Web site of Building Montréal UNESCO City of design: http://realisonsmontreal.com/en/. The Web site’s aims are to promote activities from the project Building Montréal UNESCO City of Design as well as design and architecture competitions, part of the implementation of urban projects in Montréal. This project is supported by four major financial partners: the Ville de Montréal, the Ministère des Affaires municipales, des Régions et de l’Occupation du territoire, the Ministère de la Culture, des Communications et de la Condition féminine (under the Agreement on the Cultural Development of Montréal) and the Conférence régionale des élus de Montréal. The Building Montréal UNESCO City of Design project aims, over the next three years, to stimulate opportunities for creation and highlight initiatives by the design industry that give vital and tangible expression to Montréal’s status as a UNESCO City of Design.
  More information: http://ns22304.ovh.net/~iflaonli/administrator/components/
  com_tevent/files/49/IFLA_NEWSBRIEF_26.pdf (Page 2)

7 December

• (in Italian) Corso post diploma gratuito in “Conservazione, valorizzazione e fruizione dei beni culturali”
  “De Marco”, Università del Salento, Politecnico Bari, Formapulia e Cetma propongono un corso di istruzione e Formazione Tecnica Superiore (IFTS) per il tecnico Superiore per la Comunicazione e il Multimedia nel settore “conservazione, valorizzazione e fruizione dei beni culturali” interamente finanziato dalla Regione Puglia e dal MIUR. Il corso è riservato a 25 corsisti (uomini e donne) diplomati, disoccupati o inoccupati (età 18-29), e avrà una durata di 1200 ore, di cui 620 in aula/laboratorio e 580 di stage, ed è completamente gratuito. La scadenza per le iscrizioni è fissata al 16 dicembre 2009. I test di selezione avverranno il 19 e il 21 dicembre alle ore 9.00.
  More information: http://www.ipsscdemarco.it/

• Architectural Records, Inventories, and Information Systems for Conservation (ARIS)
  The Architectural Records, Inventories, and Information Systems for Conservation (ARIS) course is designed to lead to better-informed conservation decisions through the use of appropriate tools and techniques of documentation. Specific objectives include understanding emerging technologies, organizing data for easy access and use, and applying the most appropriate form of recording for conservation. Jointly sponsored by the International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property (ICCROM) and the Getty Conservation Institute, this advanced international course in architectural conservation, heritage recording, and information management is unique among conservation training courses because it examines the conservation of built heritage through the use of high-technology documentation tools and through easy-to-use techniques and research. The course looks at the proper use of these technologies to ensure that the tool selection is determined by conservation needs.
  More information: http://www.getty.edu/conservation/field_projects/aris/index.html?cid=gci009

4 December

• UNESCO saddened by loss of Goodwill Ambassador Professor Ikuo Hirayama
  Irina Bokova, Director-General of UNESCO, expressed her deep sadness at the death of Professor Ikuo Hirayama, UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador, on 2 December at the age of 79. “UNESCO has lost a friend,” she said. “For more than 20 years, Professor Hirayama lent his tireless support to the Organization’s projects, especially in the fields of education, emergency relief and reconstruction. He was particularly concerned with making people aware of the value of cultural heritage as a basis for mutual understanding. He will be missed and remembered fondly by all at UNESCO.”
  More information: http://portal.unesco.org/en/ev.php-URL_ID=47023&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html

• On line Exhibition: "Heroes of Horticulture" The Cultural Landscape Foundation
  The horticultural features that surround us everyday are living reminders of our country’s heritage. These formal and vernacular trees and plantings are associated with historically important people and events that have shaped the development of communities and cultures. They stand as living witnesses to our country’s past and have the potential to bear witness to coming generations. For this, these natural elements command the same awe and admiration that our culture bequeaths upon brilliant artists, poets, and scholars. In order to honor and help preserve our country’s horticultural heritage, the 2007 Landslide theme: Heroes of Horticulture seeks to highlight significant horticultural features that have stood steadfast in the face of almost insurmountable natural and cultural odds and because of that, born witness to the heritage of our nation.
  More information: http://tclf.org/sites/default/files/landslide/2007/index.html

• On line Exhibition: "Marvels of Modernism" The Cultural Landscape Foundation
  Modernist landscapes with boomerang curves, reservoirs inspired by Joan Miro paintings, animated fountains, soaring roof gardens, geometric earthworks, futuristic fair grounds, and sunken and expansive plazas all became celebrated design elements during the nation’s massive post-World War II development. These experimental and innovative expressions became a catalyst for inserting Modern design sensibilities into newly minted public and private spaces. During this period, designers, their clients, and patrons utilized revolutionary and experimental materials and subdued transitions between indoor and outdoor spaces to infuse Modern forms into classic sensibilities. However, until recently, many of these designs have been misunderstood and under appreciated. To draw attention to these irreplaceable works, the 2008 Landslide theme: Marvels of Modernism, spotlights our diverse postwar garden and landscape heritage.
  More information: http://tclf.org/sites/default/files/landslide/2008/index.html

2 December

• Conservation and Management of the Tomb of Tutankhamen (GCI)
  The Getty Conservation Institute has entered into a five-year partnership with Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) to collaborate on a project for the conservation and management of the tomb of Tutankhamen (KV62). Located in the Valley of the Kings, within the World Heritage Site of Ancient Thebes with its Necropolis, the tomb of Tutankhamen is perhaps the most famous of Egypt's pharaonic tombs. In November 1922, when British archaeologist Howard Carter discovered the treasure-filled tomb, the short-lived eighteenth-dynasty pharaoh attained instant and lasting fame. Though KV62 is the smallest of the royal tombs in the Valley of the Kings, it was found with its spectacular funerary contents virtually intact and was scientifically excavated over a ten-year period, thus it is of great historic and cultural value.
  More information: http://www.getty.edu/conservation/field_projects/tut/index.html?cid=gci009

1 December

• Abstracts of the 4th European Industrial and Technical Heritage Weekend. Calais (France) November 2009
  The Fourth European Industrial and Technical Heritage Weekend took place at the brand new Cité Internationale de la Dentelle et de la Mode in Calais. The museum on the history and technology of mechanical lace production, and the use of lace in fashion, was opened just before the summer season. It is housed in a marvellously restored and for museum purposes adapted old lace factory. Although the city was much damaged during the war, Calais kept a lot of interesting features witnessing its industrial and transport history, including its harbour.
  More information: http://www.e-faith.org/WE200901/documents/PAPERS.pdf

• Article by Prof. Anna LOBOVIKOV-KATZ on Heritage Education for Heritage Conservation - A Teaching Approach (Contribution of Educational Codes to Study of Deterioration of Natural Building Stone in Historic Monuments)
  The study of the physical state of historic monuments – the main content of the first and decisive stage in the process of their conservation, is a frequently treated topic in two distinct areas: scientific research and university courses. Can the two be combined to their mutual benefit? This paper examines a specific part of this question: whether students' output on completion of their courses can be used by scientists and conservationists in material deterioration study and research on historic monuments. An approach applicable to non-conservational curricula is outlined in brief, with a view to narrowing the existing gap between educational tradition and the needs of contemporary conservation.
  More information: http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/121521743/abstract

IFLA Newsletter - Community Collaboration
Articles featuring different levels of community ownership have been contributed from the Americas (Cecilia B. Herzog on a collaborative team in Rio de Janeiro and Beata Dreksler rescuing a central Guatemala City park), and from Europe (Thomas Knoll on transnational collaboration). Others come from Asia and the Pacific: Iran (Mohammad Motallebi on national action on tree planting), Japan (Mayumi Hayashi on community input into urban reconstruction after earthquake devastation), New Zealand (Dennis Scott) and Australia. The issue is introduced by Greg Grabasch who describes two examples of engagement with local communities in the far northwest of Western Australia. Whereas interventions in the past in this region have tended to occur regardless of community wishes, a new approach has allowed local ownership of landscape developments and a better result for visitors alike.
http://ns22304.ovh.net/~iflaonli/administrator/components/
com_tevent/files/32/IFLANews_83_July09.pdf

IFLA Newsletter - Competitions issue
From South America, Rafael Dodera and Martha Cohen, and then Carlos Pellegrino, write about moving memorials that have attracted lasting recognition and competition success, and Ana Rosa de Oliveira highlights that even award winning and famous interventions can come under threat. More recent competition activity is reported from around the world by Maria Goula (European Landscape Biennial, Barcelona), Inês Pereira de Lima (Portugal), and Andreja Tutundzic for a group effort in Belgrade (Serbia). Tong Mahn Ahn and Xiaoming Liu (Asia-Pacific Region) report on the development and success of the 2009 IFLA Asia Pacific Region Awards, and the excitement of this year's IFLA Student Competition is captured by Beverly Sandalack & Saide Kahtouni.
http://ns22304.ovh.net/~iflaonli/administrator/components/
com_tevent/files/47/IFLANews85.pdf

IFLA Newsletter - Cultural Landscapes
With roots back into landscape history, cultural geography, sociology, and environmental justice, the field of cultural landscape preservation continues to develop in scope and complexity. As landscape architects we are called upon to understand and intervene appropriately in the evolution of cultural landscapes bringing our skills and insights to those of the place and its peoples. While past landscape architectural training was generally directed toward transformational change of landscapes adding value in the process, today many universities and continuing education opportunities direct toward understanding and intervening in careful ways in already valued landscapes. These cultural landscapes are repositories of tangible and intangible resources with complex stakeholders and critical needs to assure their vibrant future.
http://ns22304.ovh.net/~iflaonli/administrator/components/com_tevent/
files/6/IFLANews_81_March09.pdf

IFLA Newsletter - IFLA Americas Region
Articles from eleven Americas associations are in this issue, plus one on Education in the Americas. Regardless of the diversity of natural and cultural resources, places, people and cultures, what binds all of us together is our passion for landscape architecture - which is wonderfully represented in this issue.
http://ns22304.ovh.net/~iflaonli/administrator/components/com_tevent/
files/14/IFLA_News_82_05-09.pdf

IFLA Newsletter - In Search of Sustainability
Whatever the approach in our articles and in the wealth of perspectives in presentations to be shown in Rio de Janeiro, we landscape architects have a duty to our clients, to the people who are affected by our designs and to biodiversity itself, to act as stewards of landscapes. Our duty is to conserve and enhance landscapes so that they function and endure. Certainly, we design for beauty, but that is not the end of it. We also design for sustenance, health, diversity and connectivity, and so that community rights in our landscapes are maintained.
http://ns22304.ovh.net/~iflaonli/administrator/components/com_tevent/
files/44/IFLANews_84_Oct09.pdf

ICOMOS International Secretariat e-news n° 52, 27 November 2009
A compendium of news received from various sources including organisations other than ICOMOS and re-transmitted (unedited and only in the original language received) for the benefit of ICOMOS Committees and members. The ICOMOS International Secretariat is not responsible for the accuracy of any of the information provided. Opinions expressed in the ICOMOS International e-news are not necessarily those of ICOMOS or its Executive Committee and events announced are not automatically endorsed by ICOMOS.
http://www.international.icomos.org/publications/e-news/2009/E-news_52_20091127.pdf

Industrial Arqueology
On 31 December, 1959 the new Industry Gallery of the National Museum of Wales at Cardiff opened, with exhibits ranging over a century and a half of Welsh industry. The growing interest in industrial archaeology in the last fm years was made manifest by the formation by the Council for British Archaeology of a Research Committee on Industrial Archaeology, and the holding of a one-day Conference on this subject at London University on 12 December, 1959. In this article Dr E. R. R. Green, Lecturer in the Department of History at Manchester University, summarizes the work of the Conference and writes on the potential and necessary developments in this new $eld of archaeology.
http://antiquity.ac.uk/ant/034/0043/Ant0340043.pdf

Is Prehistory Practical?
By V. Gordon Childe. Abercromby Professor of Prehistoric Archaeology, Edinburgh University.
N 1933 it can hardly be alleged that Prehistory is a useless study, wholely remote from and irrelevant to practical life. In one great country at least, interpretations of supposed facts of Prehistory, imperfectly apprehended by an untrained mind of undoubted genius, have revolutionized the whole structure of society. No one who has read Mein Kampf, or even the extracts therefrom in The Times, can fail to appreciate the profound effect which theories of the racial superiority of ' Aryans ' have exercised on contemporary Germany. In the name of these theories men are being exiled from public life and shut up in concentration camps, books are being burned and expression of opinions stifled just as, in the name of religious ideas, they were during fifteen long centuries of darkness.
http://antiquity.ac.uk/ant/007/0410/Ant0070410.pdf

Mass cannibalism in the Linear Pottery Culture at Herxheim (Palatinate, Germany)
By Bruno Boulestin, Andrea Zeeb-Lanz, Christian Jeunesse, Fabian Haack, Rose-Marie Arbogast and Anthony Denaire
The Early Neolithic central place at Herxheim is defined by a perimeter of elongated pits containing fragments of human bone, together with pottery imported from areas several hundred kilometres distant. This article offers a context for the centre, advancing strong evidence that the site was dedicated to ritual activities in which cannibalism played an important part.
http://antiquity.ac.uk/ant/083/ant0830968.htm

The Getty November 2009 Newsletter
With this edition, the Getty Conservation Institute’s newsletter —which first appeared in 1986 —takes another step in its evolution. Now called Conservation Perspectives, The GCI Newsletter, the publication has been both renamed and redesigned. These changes are the result, in part, of an extensive evaluation of the newsletter conducted last year, which included interviews with conservation professionals and a survey of the newsletter’s readership (we are grateful to the hundreds of subscribers who generously provided us with feedback). We hope that Conservation Perspectives, in look and content, will further our readers’ understanding of the work of the GCI by providing a more in-depth view of our current projects and programs, as well as by offering articles that seek to increase awareness of challenges and advances in the field of conservation. As part of our effort to enhance content, we have added a new section to the publication that provides information on key resources related to the particular theme of each newsletter.
http://www.getty.edu/conservation/publications/newsletters/pdf/v24n2.pdf

Cultural heritage of the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia presented in four publications
Engelbert Ruoss, Director of the UNESCO Office in Venice, attended the promotion of four publications related to the cultural heritage of the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, funded by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and UNESCO Venice. The promotion took place at the Daut Pasha Hamam in Skopje on 12 November 2009 in the presence of Elizabeta Kanceska-Milevska, Minister of Culture and Pasko Kuzman, Director of the Cultural Heritage Protection Office in Skopje.
http://portal.unesco.org/en/ev.php-URL_ID=46922&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html

ICCROM New publication - 'Conserving the authentic: essays in honour of Jukka Jokilehto'
A surprise celebration was held on 6 November to commemorate the lifetime achievements of Jukka Jokilehto through the publication of a book, 'Conserving the authentic: essays in honour of Jukka Jokilehto'. This also marks the 10th volume of the ICCROM Conservation Studies series. The creation of this volume is the result of two years of compiling information and written contributions, unbeknownst to Jukka, who was only made aware of the book’s existence at the surprise launch last Friday. Guests included the Ambassador of Finland, H.E. Pauli Mäkelä; the Ambassador of Croatia to the Holy See, H.E. Emilio Marin, Prof Jussi Hanska, Finnish Academy in Rome; longstanding conservation colleagues in Italy; friends and family. Short presentations were made by the Director-General, as well as the book’s editors, Nicholas Stanley-Price and Joseph King.
http://www.iccrom.org/eng/news_en/2009_en/various_en/11_09pubJukka_en.shtml