MIDIENDO EL DESEMPEÑO DE LA CONSERVACIÓN DEL PATRIMONIO

Program preliminar y resúmenes

1 Fechas y lugar

29 a 31 de marzo de 2011

Fundación Joaquim Nabuco, Recife, Pernambuco, Brasil

2 Tema

Uno de los grandes desafíos para las instituciones y los estudiosos de la conservación y protección del patrimonio ha sido el desarrollo de instrumentos para evaluar el desempeño de acciones de conservación de bienes complejos tales como sitios urbanos, territorios y paisajes culturales y colecciones. UNESCO, por ejemplo, ha mejorado sus Informes Periódicos sobre el estado de conservación de los bienes en la Lista del Patrimonio Cultural, con el fin de realizar evaluaciones más transparentes y menos sujetas a distorsiones causadas por elementos técnicos o políticos.

Sin embargo, lo que aún se encuentra en un nivel incipiente son los sistemas de monitoreo y evaluación que permitan identificar, registrar y evaluar, de manera objetiva, el desempeño de las acciones de conservación y sus impactos. Desde la Carta de Burra, la teoría de la conservación ha tenido un cambio paradigmático que coloca al mantenimiento del significado como el objetivo central de la conservación del patrimonio. Además de la información aportada por especialistas, este cambio indica que la conservación de bienes culturales complejos debe tomar en cuenta las opiniones de los actores sociales directamente involucrados con los bienes (grupos de interés), y con ello, se han introducido el relativismo cultural y el uso de la subjetividad como herramientas analíticas. Así mismo, el uso de indicadores se ha sugerido como una manera útil para construir un instrumento de monitoreo aplicable a diferentes tipos de bienes complejos, ya que permite la medición del desempeño de las acciones de conservación y de las políticas públicas relacionadas con la conservación como la valorización económica, la sostenibilidad y la inclusión social.

El 6^o Seminario discutirá este tema, analizando tanto la teoría como la práctica de la evaluación de la conservación y mantenimiento del patrimonio así como de sus impactos, y responderá a las siguientes cuestiones:

¿Cuáles son las consecuencias del cambio de paradigma teórico para el desarrollo de instrumentos de monitoreo y evaluación para la conservación de bienes complejos tales como sitios urbanos, paisajes culturales, rutas culturales y colecciones de diversos objetos?

¿Cómo se puede evaluar el desempeño de la conservación de los bienes culturales a lo largo del tiempo? ¿Se puede comparar el desempeño de acciones sobre diferentes bienes de un mismo tipo o de diferentes tipos?

¿Qué lecciones se pueden aprender del uso de indicadores en la evaluación de acciones de conservación? ¿Es posible estimar la eficacia y la efectividad del uso de esos instrumentos para el monitoreo de la conservación del patrimonio?

¿Existen experiencias para la evaluación o en el uso de indicadores de conservación que puedan contribuir al debate, y por ello al desarrollo de la teoría y de las herramientas de monitoreo?

Se invita a todos los grupos de interés en la conservación del patrimonio que trabajan en el mundo académico y en las instituciones para la promoción de la cultura como factor de desarrollo a someter artículos que presenten sus ideas, propuestas y estudios que traten estas cuestiones al Comité Científico del 6º Seminario Internacional sobre Conservación Urbana.

3 Idiomas

Los idiomas del Seminario serán el español, portugués e inglés.

4 Organización

4.1. Organizadores

§ Centro de Estudios Avanzados en Conservación Integrada (CECI)

§ Programa de Pos-Grado en Desarrollo Urbano de la Universidad Federal de Pernambuco (MDU/UFPE)

§ Centro Internacional de Estudios para la Conservación y Restauración de Bienes Culturales (ICCROM) – Programa LATAM, Grupo de Indicadores Económicos

4.2. Socios

§ Instituto del Patrimonio Histórico y Artístico Nacional (IPHAN)

§ Fundación Joaquim Nabuco (FUNDAJ)

§ UNESCO - Oficina Regional de Cultura para América Latina y el Caribe

4.3. Comité Ejecutivo

§ Sílvio Mendes Zancheti (CECI)

§ Maria Ângela de Sousa (MDU/UFPE)

§ Claudia Ranaboldo (Rimisp – Centro Latinoamericano para el Desarrollo Rural)

§ Katriina Similä (ICCROM)

§ Herman van Hooff (UNESCO - Oficina Regional de Cultura para América Latina y el Caribe)

§ Claudia Bastos do Nascimento (IPHAN)

§ Rita de Cássia Araújo (FUNDAJ)

4.4. Secretaria Ejecutiva

§ Lúcia Tone Hidaka (CECI)

§ Rosane Piccolo (CECI)

§ Laura Alecrim (CECI)

4.5. Comité Científico

§ Ana Jara Casco (Instituto do Patrimônio Histórico e Artístico Nacional, Brasil)

§ Ana Pereira Roders (Eindhoven University of Technology, Holanda)

§ Angel Cabeza (Dirección Nacional de Arquitectura del Ministerio de Obras Públicas, Chile)

§ Dora Arizaga (Universidade Andina Simon Bolivar, Equador)

§ Fátima Furtado (Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brasil)

§ Flaviana Lira (Instituto do Patrimônio Histórico e Artístico Nacional, Brasil)

§ Flaviana Lira (Instituto do Patrimônio Histórico e Artístico Nacional, Brasil)

§ Heleni Porfyriou (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Itália)

Isabel Villaseñor (México)

§ Jeremy Wells (Historic Preservation Lead, City and County of DenverUSA)

§ Luís Amorim (Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brasil)

§ Lúcia Hidaka (Universidade Federal de Alagoas, Brasil)

§ Marcelo Magadan (Magadan & Ass., Argentina)

Norma Lacerda (Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brasil)

Paulius Kulikauskas (City&Time, Lituânia)

§ Sueli Schiffer (Universidade de São Paulo, Brasil)

§ Valerie Magar (Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, México)

§ Virgínia Pontual (Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brasil)

MEASURING HERITAGE CONSERVATION PERFORMANCE

Preliminary program and abstracts

1 Dates and place

29 to 31 March 2011

Fundação Joaquim Nabuco, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil

2 Theme

One of the great challenges for institutions and scholars of heritage conservation and protection has been to develop instruments for assessing the performance of the conservation actions of complex assets such as urban sites, cultural territories and landscapes and collections of many types of objects. UNESCO, for example, has been improving its Periodic Reports on the state of conservation of the assets on the World Heritage List in order to make the evaluations more transparent and less subject to distortions caused by technical and political constraints.

However, what remain at an incipient stage are monitoring and evaluation systems that allow the performance of conservation actions and their impacts to be identified, recorded and assessed, in an objective way. Ever since the Burra Charter, the theory of conservation has been undergoing a paradigm shift that sets the maintenance of significance as the central goal of heritage conservation. In addition to being informed by expert opinion, this change indicates that conservation of complex heritage assets must take into account the opinions of social actors directly involved with the assets (the stakeholders), and by doing so, this introduces cultural relativism and the use of subjectivity as an analytical tool. Also, the use of indicators has been suggested as a useful way to construct a monitoring instrument applicable to the different types of complex assets as this permits the performance of conservation actions to be evaluated, as well as the associated public policies to conservation as the economic valorization, the sustainability and the social inclusion.

The 6th Seminar will discuss this issue by analyzing both the theory and practice of evaluation of heritage conservation maintenance and of its impacts, and will respond to the following issues:

1) What are the consequences of the change in the theoretical paradigm for the development of monitoring and evaluation instruments for the conservation of complex assets such as urban sites, cultural territories and landscapes, and collections of various objects?

2) How can the performance of the conservation of heritage assets be evaluated over time? Can the performance of actions on different assets of the same kind or of different kinds be compared?

3) What lessons are to be learned from the use of indicators in the evaluation of conservation actions? Is it possible to estimate the efficiency and effectiveness of using these instruments for monitoring heritage conservation?

4) Have there been experiences of assessment or of use of conservation indicators which can contribute to the debate and so to the development of the theory and of the monitoring tools?

We invite all stakeholders in heritage conservation acting in the academic field and institution promoting the culture as a development factor to submit articles that present their ideas, proposals and studies which address these questions to the Scientific Committee of the 6^th International Seminar on Urban Conservation

3 Languages

Spanish, Portuguese and English (USA) are the languages of the seminar.

4 Organization

4.1. Organizers

§ Centre for Advanced Studies in Integrated Conservation (CECI)

§ Graduate Program in Urban Development of the Federal University of Pernambuco (MDU/UFPE)

§ International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property (ICCROM) – LATAM Program, Economic Indicators Group

4.2. Partners

§ Historic and Artistic National Heritage Institute - IPHAN

§ Joaquim Nabuco Foundation– FUNDAJ

§ Regional Bureau for Culture for the Latin America and the Caribbean (UNESCO)

4.3. Executive Committee

§ Sílvio Mendes Zancheti (CECI)

§ Maria Ângela de Sousa (MDU/UFPE)

§ Katriina Simila (ICCROM)

§ Claudia Ranaboldo (Rimisp – Latin American Center for Rural Development))

§ Herman van Hooff (UNESCO)

§ Claudia Bastos do Nascimento (IPHAN)

§ Rita de Cássia Araujo (FUNDAJ)

4.4. Executive secretariat

§ Lúcia Tone Hidaka (CECI)

§ Rosane Piccolo (CECI)

§ Laura Alecrim (CECI)

4.5. Scientific Committee

§ Ana Jara Casco (Instituto do Patrimônio Histórico e Artístico Nacional, Brasil)

§ Ana Pereira Roders (Eindhoven University of Technology, Holanda)

§ Angel Cabeza (Dirección Nacional de Arquitectura del Ministerio de Obras Públicas, Chile)

§ Dora Arizaga (Universidade Andina Simon Bolivar, Equador)

§ Fátima Furtado (Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brasil)

§ Flaviana Lira (Instituto do Patrimônio Histórico e Artístico Nacional, Brasil)

§ Flaviana Lira (Instituto do Patrimônio Histórico e Artístico Nacional, Brasil)

§ Heleni Porfyriou (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Itália)

Isabel Villaseñor (México)

§ Jeremy Wells (Historic Preservation Lead, City and County of DenverUSA)

§ Luís Amorim (Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brasil)

§ Lúcia Hidaka (Universidade Federal de Alagoas, Brasil)

§ Marcelo Magadan (Magadan & Ass., Argentina)

Norma Lacerda (Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brasil)

Paulius Kulikauskas (City&Time, Lituânia)

§ Sueli Schiffer (Universidade de São Paulo, Brasil)

§ Valerie Magar (Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, México)

§ Virgínia Pontual (Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brasil)

Measuring heritage conservation performance

6^th international Seminar on urban Conservation

1 Dates and place

29 to 31 March 2011

Fundação Joaquim Nabuco, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil

2 Theme

One of the great challenges for institutions and scholars of heritage conservation and protection has been to develop instruments for assessing the performance of the conservation actions of complex assets such as urban sites, cultural territories and landscapes and collections of many types of objects. UNESCO, for example, has been improving its Periodic Reports on the state of conservation of the assets on the World Heritage List in order to make the evaluations more transparent and less subject to distortions caused by technical and political constraints.

However, what remain at an incipient stage are monitoring and evaluation systems that allow the performance of conservation actions and their impacts to be identified, recorded and assessed, in an objective way. Ever since the Burra Charter, the theory of conservation has been undergoing a paradigm shift that sets the maintenance of significance as the central goal of heritage conservation. In addition to being informed by expert opinion, this change indicates that conservation of complex heritage assets must take into account the opinions of social actors directly involved with the assets (the stakeholders), and by doing so, this introduces cultural relativism and the use of subjectivity as an analytical tool. Also, the use of indicators has been suggested as a useful way to construct a monitoring instrument applicable to the different types of complex assets as this permits the performance of conservation actions to be evaluated, as well as the associated public policies to conservation as the economic valorization, the sustainability and the social inclusion.

The 6th Seminar will discuss this issue by analyzing both the theory and practice of evaluation of heritage conservation maintenance and of its impacts, and will respond to the following issues:

1) What are the consequences of the change in the theoretical paradigm for the development of monitoring and evaluation instruments for the conservation of complex assets such as urban sites, cultural territories and landscapes, and collections of various objects?

2) How can the performance of the conservation of heritage assets be evaluated over time? Can the performance of actions on different assets of the same kind or of different kinds be compared?

3) What lessons are to be learned from the use of indicators in the evaluation of conservation actions? Is it possible to estimate the efficiency and effectiveness of using these instruments for monitoring heritage conservation?

4) Have there been experiences of assessment or of use of conservation indicators which can contribute to the debate and so to the development of the theory and of the monitoring tools?

We invite all stakeholders in heritage conservation acting in the academic field and institution promoting the culture as a development factor to submit articles that present their ideas, proposals and studies which address these questions to the Scientific Committee of the 6^th International Seminar on Urban Conservation

3 Languages

Spanish, Portuguese and English (USA) are the languages of the seminar. The presentation will be in any of the official languages. The papers must be written in English.

4 Organization

4.1. Organizers

§ Centre for Advanced Studies in Integrated Conservation (CECI)

§ Graduate Program in Urban Development of the Federal University of Pernambuco (MDU/UFPE)

§ International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property (ICCROM) – LATAM Program, Economic Indicators Group

4.2. Partners

§ Historic and Artistic National Heritage Institute - IPHAN

§ Joaquim Nabuco Foundation– FUNDAJ

§ Regional Bureau for Culture for the Latin America and the Caribbean (UNESCO)

4.3. Executive Committee

§ Sílvio Mendes Zancheti (CECI)

§ Maria Ângela de Sousa (MDU/UFPE)

§ Katriina Simila (ICCROM)

§ Claudia Ranaboldo (Rimisp – Latin American Center for Rural Development))

§ Herman van Hooff (UNESCO)

§ Representative of (IPHAN)

§ Representative of (FUNDAJ)

4.4. Executive secretariat

§ Lúcia Tone Hidaka (CECI)

§ Rosane Piccolo (CECI)

§ Laura Alecrim (CECI)

4.5. Scientific Committee

To define

5 Deadlines

An abstract must to be submitted by 30 August 2010.

Notification of selected abstracts will be given by 20 September 2010.

Full papers should be submitted by 30 November 2010

The accepted papers will be announced by 30 December 2010.

6 Papers and publication

The seminar partners will publish the conference proceedings. Some selected papers would be considered for publishing in “City & Time" (www.ct.ceci-br.org), the international journal of urban conservation.

6.1. Guidelines on abstracts submission

Abstract (between 800 – 1000 words) may be written in Spanish, Portuguese or English (USA) and submitted as electronic file (in PC Microsoft Word .DOC or .RTF formats) by e-mail to: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

The first page of the document should contain only the following information:

• Title of Paper
• Author(s)
• Institutional Affiliation(s)
• Contact Person (if more than one author)
• Postal Address, e-mail address and contact number(s) (phone/fax) of contact person

Please note that at least one of the authors of accepted papers must attend and present the paper at the conference.

6.2. Guidelines on full-papers submission

The full paper must be written in English (USA) and should not exceed 5000 words and 6 pictures.

The format of your full paper manuscript shall be in PC's Microsoft Word .DOC or .RTF formats. Please download and use the paper template here: Template

Your paper's file name should be: [YourLastName]_[PaperName].[Extension] Ex.: (smith_indicatorcollections.doc).

The file must be sent by e-mail as a mail attachment to: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Please ensure that all materials are complete and checked for accuracy.