Project facts
Duration:
2015-05-01 -
2018-04-30
Project coordinator: University of Copenhagen
Project consortium: Alexandru Ioan Cuza University (Romania); Osrodek Badan Europy Srodkowo-Wschodniej (Poland); Università degli Studi di Bologna (Italy); Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek museum (Denmark); Fudan University, Shanghai (China); Centro Ricerche Archeologiche e Scavi di Torino per il Medio Oriente e l’Asia (Italy); IULM university, Archeoframe Lab (Italy); Politecnico di Milano (Italy).
Funding bodies:
JPI CH
Subject areas:
History, Tangible Heritage, Intangible Heritage, Monuments & sites, Objects, Technologies/ scientific processes, Methods/procedures, Mediation / Education, Heritage values & identity, Threats & changing environments, Heritage Management
Budget: 64.062.00€
Presentation
To address the situation of threats to objects, sites and practices deemed « heritage » by stakeholders through :
- Systematic analysis of threats to and through heritage in different geo-cultural locations.
- The production of a sophisticated cross-cultural typology of threat in the form of practical manuals for use, among others, by governmental organs, global organizations, NGOs and peace-keeping forces.
- Small and thought-provoking exhibition(s) to popularise academic findings.
The project is collaborative, transnational and interdisciplinary. It brings together scholarly results and insights gained from research in four different localities and situations: the Near East between crisis and development; Poland and memory in times of change; Romania and « knowledge » registers that save/create or destroy/erase objects, sites and practices; Italy and construction that inevitably endangers traces of a past that is considered important.
Impacts & Results
- Creation of manuals of threat.
- Exhibitions that will: raise awareness among the general public in Europe of the issues at stake in situations that threaten their and other’s cultural heritage and provide reliable knowledge of heritage issues that derive from scholarly analysis and without ideological bias.
- Development of strong partnerships between academic and non-academic communities; between museums and universities within a European setting.
- Access to the newly formed COBBRA group of European museums.
- Development of online and GIS research tools for landscape and heritage management.
- Development of a wide and content-rich communication strategy.
- Important cross-cultural exchanges and opportunities to talk with colleagues from other cultural backgrounds.
- The production and transfer of useful and reliable practical knowledge for non-academic circles.
- A review process for academic findings that includes non-academic partners.
- A long-term vision of awareness-raising for cross-cultural heritage issues through training courses for museum professionals, the general public and university students.
- The pooling of European and non-European expertise in cultural heritage and the threats to it and intrinsic to it.
- The findings of the project will contribute to scholarly insights and discussions in the field of heritage studies.
- The concrete results of the project aim at closing the gap between heritage research and heritage policy, decision making and knowledge.