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Heritage Conservation and Sustainability

Objectives

At the end, student will have acquired skills to understand:

-Concept of sustainability applied to the conservation of Cultural Heritage (CH)

-Current forms and methods to make conservation and restoration a sustainable action, from the laboratory to the management of collections and sites

-How can conservation of CH, tangible and intangible be seen as an effective action in the mitigation of natural disasters

-Various economic benefits generated by cultural heritage and its preservation (generation of jobs and increased circulation of capital, professional training and preservation of knowledge related to artisanal activities, revitalization of urban centers, tourism directed to heritage, etc.) and how management can be done in a sustainable way in several aspects

-How can the creation of new heritage linked to communities, be an effective action in the sustainability of sites and social environment: heritage and its preservation as a determining factor in well-being and social equality.

General characterization

Code

13311

Credits

3.0

Responsible teacher

Inês Alexandra Ramalho Coutinho, Joana Lia Antunes Ferreira

Hours

Weekly - 2

Total - 28

Teaching language

Português

Prerequisites

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Bibliography

- Gražulevičiūtė, I. (2006). Cultural Heritage in the Context of Sustainable Development. Environmental Research, Engineering and Management, 3(37), 74–79.

- Stubbs, M. (2004). Heritage-sustainability: Developing a methodology for the sustainable appraisal of the historic environment. Planning Practice and Research, 19(3), 285–305. https://doi.org/10.1080/0269745042000323229

-McGhie, H. A. (2019). Museums and the Sustainable Development Goals: a how-to guide for museums, galleries, the cultural sector and their partners. Curating Tomorrow, UK.

-Hernandez, C. (2013). THE GREEN CHALLENGE’: INCORPORATING SUSTAINABLE PRACTICES AND MATERIALS INTO COLLECTIONS CARE. Master Thesis, Fashion Institute of Technology.

Teaching method

Classes will have an initial expository part where concepts will be provided and explored: Sustainability and Preservation, eg, in order to provide the necessary bases for the student for the second part of the course, whose main teaching methodology is the analysis and discussion of case studies related to the tangible and intangible heritage and the role of creating new heritage in social well-being.

Case studies will be provided to the student, who will also be encouraged to seek and propose cases for analysis and discussion.

Evaluation method

The assessment will be carried out through 1 written report (max. 4000 words) of analysis and discussion of case studies and will be carried out in groups (referring to tangible heritage, intangible heritage, or the creation of new heritage and its role in social well-being ).

The final oral presentation of the report will be individual and followed by its discussion.

Classes 3, 5, 6 and 8, as well as the report, will be subject to self and hetero-assessment.

In the case of students with working-student status, participation, as well as attendance and punctuality, will be replaced by alternative assessment pieces.

The report will be delivered and presented on December 11th with a schedule to be defined. The report must be sent in PDF to jlaf@fct.unl.pt and icoutinho@fct.unl.pt by the start time of the presentations.

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Report (group) 40% + Presentation (individual) 40% + Participation 10% + Attendance and Punctuality 5% + Self and hetero-evaluation (5%)

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When carrying out any evaluation, students must also take into account the n.3 of 10th article of the Evaluation Rules of FCT NOVA, “When fraud or plagiarism is proven in any of the evaluation elements of a UC, students directly involved are outright disapproved (…).”

Subject matter

1 | 13 Sep: IC and JLF | Presentation. Agents of change: UNESCO, ICCROM, Ki Culture

2 | 20 Sep: Tomás Ramos | Definition and discussion of the concept of Sustainability. Examples of models

3 | 27 Sep: IC and JLF | Sustainability in Cultural Heritage. Exercise: pillars of sustainability

4 | 4 Oct: Magali Sehn | Heritage Decolonization and Sustainability

5 | 11 Oct: Magali Sehn | New Heritage and Well-being. Exercise with scenery

6 | 18 Oct: IC and JLF | Intangible Heritage. Exercise with scenario: cultural mapping

7 | 25 Oct: Catarina Pinheiro | Sustainability in the Laboratory

8 | 8 Nov: IC and JLF | Tangible Heritage. Exercise with scenario: application of toolkits

9 | 15 Nov: Graça Filipe | Site management: the case of the Vale Milhaços Gunpowder Factory - Seixal Ecomuseum

10 | 22 Nov: IC and JLF | Preventive Conservation and Sustainability: the case of the Mafra Royal Building Library

11 | 29 Nov: IC and JLF | Heritage and natural disaster mitigation

12 | 6 Dec: Luís Sebastian | Sustainability of data management policies