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NSERC CREATE Heritage Engineering will host a Workshop on Ethics and Heritage Conservation on April 27, 2017 from 9:00am to 12:30pm at Carleton Immersive Media Studio (CIMS).
The morning workshop will be followed by an afternoon Forum on International Research at CIMS from 2:00 to 5:00pm, featuring recent research projects in Myanmar, Nepal, Egypt, St. Lucia and Bahrain.
The workshop and forum are free of cost and open to all students, collaborators, partners and friends of NSERC CREATE Heritage Engineering. Please register by clicking on the link here.
Workshop on Ethics and Heritage Conservation – 9:00am-12:30pm:
The workshop agenda and background readings are available here: Agenda – NSERC CREATE Ethics Workshop – 27 April 2016
Professional codes of ethics have been created internationally for those involved in heritage conservation, ranging from museums to intangible cultural heritage. In Canada, there are codes of ethics for archaeologists, conservators and heritage professionals guided by the principles outlined by ICOMOS. The formulation and treatment of important themes within these documents can provide useful guidance in thinking about possible ethical stances in various contexts or situations.
Current practice in heritage conservation offers example of challenging ethical situations. Heritage consultants are sometimes required to provide the advice that paying clients desire that in fact negate heritage significance and justify destruction of recognized historic places. On other occasions, political pressure from elected officials over-rules the professional commitment of heritage planners to care for heritage. In other cases, professionals who carry out work for clients are unable to share their reports with successor consultants because of perceived confidentiality and ownership of such materials.
The workshop presents the context, guidelines and principles for an ethical approach to heritage conservation followed by case studies that illustrate ethical problems that have been encountered in practice. Participants will be encouraged to comment on the theory and practical examples, and to suggest other approaches to address these situations.
Forum on International Research at CIMS – 2:00-5:00pm:
The forum will feature the following speakers presenting on research projects in Myanmar, Nepal, St. Lucia, Egypt and Bahrain:
- Davide Mezzino on “Digital workflows for risk preparedness, rapid assessment and conservation of Bagan’s built heritage”.
- Sujan Shrestha, Miquel Reina Ortiz and Michael Gutland, “Research in Nepal”
- Damiano Aiello and Simone Fallica, “Documenting the Cathedral of Castries Using Advanced Digital Workflows”
- Alex Federman, “Conservation in Luxor: Digital Documentation Workflows of QV66 and KV62”
- Dr. Luigi Barazzetti, “Capacity building for digital documentation along the Bahrain pearling trail”
Damiano Aiello is visiting Carleton University from the University of Catania, located in Italy. He is currently on exchange in Ottawa, finishing the last year of his master graduate and composing his thesis in Civil Engineering and Architecture.
Simone Fallica is visiting Carleton University from the University of Catania, located in Italy. He is currently on exchange in Ottawa, finishing the last year of his master graduate and composing his thesis in Civil Engineering and Architecture.
Luigi Barazzetti received a PhD in Geomatics and Infrastructures from Politecnico di Milano and is currently assistant professor of Engineering Surveying. Since 2007 he has been directly concerned with the work of the Geomatics, IC&T and Gicarus Labs at the Politecnico di Milano. His research activities are based around remote sensing, vision metrology, and geospatial data processing. He has had more than 150 papers published on both national and international levels. He is a visiting scholar to CIMS from March to May, 2017.
Alex Federman is a Master’s student in Heritage Engineering at Carleton University. He graduated from Carleton with a Bachelors of Engineering in Architectural Conservation and Sustainability. His research is focused on exploring digital heritage workflows for the production of outcomes useful to the heritage engineering community.