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2006 << 11th International Seminar >> Florence

  
   
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Thematic areas

1. DOCUMENTATION TOOLS FOR MANAGEMENT OF CULTURAL HERITAGE

• Legislation, legal framework and normative action for cultural and natural heritage conservation (national, regional and international)
• Policies and strategies for natural and cultural World Heritage listing
• Documentation for risk-mitigation and risk management in situations of human and natural disasters for the conservation of sites
• Higher education policies for conservation and development
• The role of international / intergovernmental and non governmental organisations in conservation and development.

2. DOCUMENTATION FOR SUSTAINABLE CONSERVATION OF BUILT HERITAGE

• Managing historic buildings, monuments and their context
• Inventory and monitoring documentation and technologies
• Vernacular architecture and traditional building techniques
• Traditional knowledge and techniques and information technologies
• Documentation and information technologies for site interpretation and promotion
• New technologies used for sustainability of conservation
• Architecture and modelling
• Virtual reality in architectural development
• Graphics and visual arts for architecture
• Architecture and lighting

3. DOCUMENTATION FOR THE CONSERVATION OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL PROPERTIES

• Non destructive techniques : applications and development
• Information and documentation technologies in archaeology
• Photo-interpretation, remote-sensing and new technological systems for monitoring and exploration

4. DOCUMENTATION FOR THE CONSERVATION OF HISTORIC CENTRES, CITIES AND URBANSCAPES

• Historic centres, documentation and conservation policies
• Conservation and innovation in diachronic urban sites
• Documentation technologies and methodologies for the management of townscapes and cultural landscapes

5. DOCUMENTATION FOR MUSEUM CONSERVATION AND INTERPRETATION

• New technologies for interpretation
• virtual museum science
• Eco-museums, archaeological parks and interpretation centres
• New technologies for museum management
• Paintings, sculptures for qualifying architectural space
• Ornamental and painted architecture, scenography

6. EVALUATION TOOLS TO EVALUATE THE SOCIO-ECONOMIC IMPACT OF WORLD HERITAGE LISTING

• Measuring the role of heritage conservation in sustainable development
• Evaluating site carrying capacity, for the benefit of conservation, measuring over-visitation and exhaustion
• Building a matrix of socio-economic indicators as a decision-making tool for conservation and site management
• Evaluating the impact of tourism, site visitation and over-visitation
• Cultural Landscapes and city/townscapes as an economic resource
• Tourism and economic sustainability
• Measuring / Evaluating the social, economic and cultural impacts of World Heritage inscription

7. DOCUMENTATION FOR CONSERVATION OF INTANGIBLE HERITAGE

• New technologies applied to identification, inventorying and conservation of practices, representations, oral traditions and expressions, including languages, knowledge and skills, performing arts, social practices, rituals and festive events, knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe
• New technologies applied to intangible heritage dissemination
• Oenological and gastronomic traditions
• Traditional craftsmanship: transmission and adaptation to new economic patterns

 

    
   

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