Project facts
Presentation
The research aims at producing new local models capable of including the diversity of European Cultural Heritage and skills required in built heritage activities to support Planned Preventive Conservation, Maintenance and Monitoring (PPCCMM), by increasing understanding of:
- Conservation and valorization as preventive measures.
- Effectiveness of maintenance, involving relevant craftsmanship and expertise.
- Economic mechanisms underlying built heritage conservation in the context of the regional economy and the (wider) construction sector.
- Impact the knowledge gain and its dissemination on the smart economy for built heritage conservation, heritage management and for the construction sector.
The research will develop methods, technologies and procedures for sustainable long-term care as a strategy to manage changes, in the framework of a learning environment where heritage is understood in connection with people as a tool for the production of social and human capital.
Its specific mark is the investigation on changes which are ongoing in this context as the role itself of preservation in the societal context is changing so that it becomes mandatory on the one hand to investigate which strategies can make feasible the protection and management of an increasing cultural heritage, on the other hand, to investigate how cultural heritage can become a factor for a sustainable development
Impacts & Results
The project outcome includes the proposal for a funding scheme providing the conditions to support the transition toward a sustainable conservation process.
The interdisciplinary research will lead to advances in the understanding of cultural heritage as a driver of regional local inclusive and sustainable development. Other researchers will be involved in other disciplines not previously associated with research on cultural heritage.
The project works on the improvement of the practices currently implemented for safeguarding tangible cultural heritage, taking into account spillovers and benefits, as capacity building, training, preserving traditional skills which are among its associated intangible expressions.
Develop a twofold approach to Heritage activities :
preventive conservation will be investigated as a system able to avoid the costs of major repair, to make heritage properties a more functional infrastructure for timely cultural activities, to make heritage buildings and historic landscapes better protected and resilient against natural disasters.
The interdisciplinary analysis will allow the way to make cultural heritage preservation a production factor for sustainable and inclusive cultural policies for pluralistic and open societies.
To provide an analysis at the European level of advanced strategies of planned and preventive conservation based on diverse concepts.
To investigate this new understanding of heritage thoroughly as a tool for society at large.