Between Home and History: Managing the interface between preservation and development of living historic places

Tuesday, 21st September, 2010, 18:30, the Seed, Sakip Sabanci Museum, 42 Sakip Sabanci Caddesi, Emirgan 34467, Istanbul

At the upcoming IIC congress in Istanbul the next event in the IIC initiative Dialogues for the New Century will explore the conflicts that emerge when pressures of development, gentrification or regeneration challenge our desire to preserve places of historic value that are also home to living communities.

If a place has value as both a historic memory and as a home, how can all these values be preserved? When a neighborhood, district or region of historic significance is preserved, what are we preserving? Is our concern solely with the material remains which serve as memory prompts… or is there more? Where does the dynamic function of home fit within the preservation plan? How is the community, along with its ongoing way of life, incorporated into the preservation of a place?

This Round Table will explore these and many other issues as the panelists gather, with you, at the interface between preservation and development… between home and history.

IIC Congress 2010 – ‘Conservation and the Eastern Mediterranean’

Registration is now open for IIC’s twenty-third international Congress, which will take place in Istanbul from the 20th to the 24th of September 2010. Full details, including the technical programme, are available at the Congress pages of this site.

The Congress will focus on the conservation of moveable and immoveable heritage in or from the Eastern Mediterranean. This will include material held in collections around the world, the care and conservation of works of art, artifacts and sites, and the preservation of architecture, all reflecting the influences that have made this region one of the world’s richest centres of heritage.

Over 40 speakers will report on contemporary thinking, current research and examples of best practice on a wide range of topics including:

• Conservation and management of archaeological and heritage urban sites
• Conservation of painted interiors, mosaics and wall paintings
• Study and conservation of manuscripts and bookbindings
• Textiles and carpets, dyes and embroidery: research and conservation
• Earthquake damage and cultural heritage
• Fans, glass, sandals: examples of conservation practice

The conference will bring together the international professional community to present and exchange ideas, to debate conservation practices and cutting-edge research, to consider exciting new developments and thought-provoking challenges, and to make new connections between this region and all corners of the world.

Book now to secure your place at what promises to be a popular event.

News in Conservation, June and August 2010 issues

The June and August 2010 issues of News in Conservation have been published, and are available as free PDFs (July and August) for members.

Both issues have information about the programme and poster sessions at the IIC Congress in September. In addition June’s issue includes an interview with Musa Dağdeviren, a Turkish chef who works to preserve traditional foods and their association with rituals and occasions as well as supporting traditional food production methods. There are also articles on the development of a trolley to treat fungal outbreaks and on a very successful conservation outreach programme.

In August’s issue there is a report from a 2009 IIC Gabo Trust Scholar as well as an article looking at how conservation treatment of a painting contributed to its reattribution. An Austro-Indian collaborative textile conservation training workshop is also featured.

News in Conservation was launched in 2007. PDFs of back issues are available to members. If you are not a member you can download a limited number of past editions.