Deadline for abstracts submission extended to September 30

Virtual activity, 4 to 6 December 2024

More information on https://bit.ly/CICCA2024

The International Congress of Culture in Climate Action will be held online on 4, 5 and 6 December 2024. This event is organized by the Institute for Sustainable Urban and Territorial Development of the City of La Plata Foundation, Sustainable Heritage Forum, Heritage and Climate Change Initiative, Climate Heritage Network. The congress is sponsored by ICOMOS Argentina, ICOMOS Uruguay, ICOMOS Brazil, ICOMOS Climate Action Working Group (ICOMOS CAWG), ICOM Argentina, ICOM Brazil, Association of Directors of Museums of the Argentine Republic (ADIMRA), Museum of Contemporary Art Beato Angelico UCALP.

The presentations will be held in Spanish, Portuguese and English and will be organized in the following thematic areas: Architecture and Urbanism; Art and Music; Visual Design and Audiovisual Design; Education and Research; Cultural and Creative Industries; Museums, Archives and Libraries; Landscaping and Environment; Cultural and Natural Heritage; Sustainable Cultural Tourism.

New Ideas for Old Buildings: Education, Application & Innovation

Our traditional and historic buildings are facing unique challenges in the face of climate change, technological advancements, skills shortages, and economic pressures. With this year’s theme, we’re exploring where tradition meets innovation, and how the past informs the future. 

Call for Contributions  

We are now inviting innovators and experts in the heritage and sustainability fields to submit contributions to present at the conference in York on Tuesday 5 November. 

You are welcome to submit a proposal for a conventional 20-minute talk. We are also open to suggestions for alternative formats, including Lightning Project Talks, Poster Sessions and PechaKucha Presentations. 

This conference is in person only and we are unable to accept virtual presentations.  

Topics of interest  

We are keen to hear from professionals who can offer insights, share experiences, and present cutting-edge research on a wide array of topics within the theme, including but not limited to: 

1. Materials for the Future: Exploring sustainable materials and building techniques that respect the traditional performance of old buildings while meeting contemporary demands for efficiency and environmental responsibility. 

2. Educational Initiatives: Discussing strategies for educating professionals, craftspeople and the public about the significance of traditional buildings and fostering the skills necessary for their preservation and enhancement. 

3. Innovative Applications: Showcasing projects and case studies that demonstrate innovative approaches to the repair and adaptation of traditional buildings for modern use. 

4. Community Engagement: Highlighting successful community-driven initiatives aimed at preserving heritage, revitalising historic areas, and promoting sustainable development practices. 

5. Technological Advancements: Presenting advancements in technology, digital tools, and methodologies that aid in the documentation, analysis, and conservation of traditional buildings. 

How to submit your contribution 

Please submit a brief abstract (250-300 words) using this online form by Monday 2 September 2024, 5pm. 

Your abstract should outline your proposal for a presentation, making clear how it fits the theme, along with a short biography highlighting your experience. We will review all submissions and tell you if yours was accepted by Friday 20 September 2024. If successful, we will need your presentation submitted for review by Tuesday 22 October 2024. 

Speakers will need to arrange their own travel and accommodation, but reasonable expenses will be reimbursed. 

If you have any questions, please email info@stbauk.org. 

Hana Mahmood, a Masters student at the University of the West of England (UWE), is looking for willing participants to help out with university dissertation research by taking part in a short online questionnaire – your help would be greatly appreciated! The focus of the research is regarding the conservation practices of historical buildings and cultural heritage. If this is an interest or a passion to you, please click the link to the short online questionnaire below.

Please read both the following documents before clicking the link. You can download and save a copy for your own records if you wish.

Participant Information Sheet and Privacy Note: https://acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:sc:EU:a8b5c728-da3f-49af-9b8d-fab79c02d4a9

Consent Form: https://acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:sc:EU:3943df93-671a-40be-8ff1-3d73837d6339

The link to the questionnaire is as follows: https://uwe.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3HT2kzPK01uF2su  

Please contact Hana using the email Hana2.Mahmood@live.uwe.ac.uk if you have any questions or can offer any further help to the research.

Submission deadline: 31 August 2024

Next year will mark the 50th anniversary of the publication of two seminal
works in vernacular architectural studies – Eric Mercer’s English Vernacular
Houses and Peter Smith’s Houses of the Welsh Countryside which were both
published in 1975. The first day of the conference will examine the context for
the writing and publication of these two volumes, and the impact and legacy of
their work. The second day will broaden out the discussion to include other
scholars of the period, particularly those who were working beyond the
academic or institutional mainstream, and move onto consider the
implications of their research for the future of the study of vernacular
architecture.

We welcome papers looking at the impact and legacy of the work of Mercer
and Smith and/or the work of other, perhaps less well-known, scholars of the
period. This might examine the context to their work, themes or ideas
emerging from it or assess their impact and legacy on the study of vernacular
architecture. Papers considering other geographical areas, beyond England and
Wales, are welcome.

This conference will take place in person, but contributions from speakers
presenting remotely may also be considered. Submissions are encouraged
from academics, students, and non-academics alike. Free places are available
for speakers. A small number of bursaries are also available for students or
early-career professionals to enable their attendance at the conference.

Abstracts of no more than 250 words should be emailed to
president@vag.org.uk by 31 August 2024

Submissions close: Saturday, 31 August 2024

The 15th New Insights into C16th and C17th British Architecture conference will take place on Saturday 18 January 2024 at the Society of Antiquaries, Burlington House, London.

We warmly invite proposals in the form of short abstracts (no more than 250 words) for papers of 30 minutes in length.

The emphasis is on new research on architectural subjects, but we also welcome proposals on related themes, including decorative arts, gardens, sculpture and monuments.

Material should be current or recent original research and should not have been previously published.

Please include a short biography with your proposal. 

Proposals should be submitted by Saturday31 August 2024 to the organisers, Dr Olivia Horsfall Turner and Dr Jenny Saunt, at info@newinsightsconference.co.uk

The final programme will be announced in September 2024 when booking will also open.

For further information please visit www.newinsightsconference.co.uk

You may be interested to know that the website includes an archive section, which lists papers given in past years as well as publications arising from them. If you have previously presented at a New Insights Conference and wish to update us with details of any related publications, please email us: info@newinsightsconference.co.uk 

Responses before the 31st of July 2024.

Invitation to complete a short (less than 5 min) survey on the topic of tree root damage to historic boundary walls. The aim of the research is to develop guidance to improve outcomes for trees and walls where mitigation of root damage is required in the historic environment.

Link to survey: https://forms.gle/6Qe2UD1E2HhZpGA49?

About the researcher: Duncan Woolsmith

I completed my MEng in Civil Engineering from the University of Surrey in 2006, and have since worked as a structural engineer gaining Chartered Civil Engineer status in 2013 and Chartered Structural Engineer status in 2017. Over the last ten years I have been increasingly specialising in conservation and am currently completing my MSc in Historic Conservation at Oxford Brookes University, with the kind support of my employer Stantec. The study considered herein forms part of the research for my dissertation and I believe will provide a valuable contribution to the field.

DEADLINES: 

Abstracts are due July 31, 2024
Notifications will occur by August 15, 2024
Speaker registration is required by September 15, 2024
Papers must be submitted for the e-reader by October 1, 2024

​SUMMARY: The Lennard Institute for Livable Cities, a public benefit educational corporation and producer of the venerable International Making Cities Livable (IMCL) conference series, invites you to submit a no-obligation abstract for the upcoming 61st conference in our long-running series begun in 1985.  The IMCL is a premier gathering of city leaders, researchers, practitioners, educators and other urban stakeholders, who meet in intimate, instructive and inspiring locales to explore case studies and share peer-to-peer knowledge on frontier urban challenges.

Following our successful April, 2024 conference in Newport, Rhode Island, we have opened the Call for Abstracts and registration for the next conference, to be held in beautiful and instructive Cortona, Italy, October 29-November 1, 2024. The previous Newport conference concluded with an overall attendee evaluation of 4.81 out of 5. Attendee comments included:

“A wonderful conference and stunning venue.”

“It was brilliantly organized!”

“I left the conference encouraged – there are many challenges ahead of us, but I am so invigorated by the tenacity of those stepping up to face them.”

“This is the best conference I’ve ever attended. There was much to take in; so many people with exceptional experience.”

We invite researchers, city officials, educators, practitioners, and NGO leaders to share their knowledge on the topic(s) of the conference, by submitting a 300-word abstract. Accepted abstract authors will also be invited to submit full papers for the conference e-reader (optional). The e-reader will be published on Academia.com with a DOI number. Authors may also elect to submit papers to partner journals for peer-reviewed publication, following reviews, comments and modifications during the conference. 

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THEME: “The Ecology of Place: Learning from Nature, Culture, and History”

As humanity confronts multiple historic challenges, our settlements and their characteristics are set to play a central role – especially so in a time of historic rapid urbanization.  Our cities, towns and suburbs are where we interact, move about, consume resources, develop and deploy our technologies, and create most of the impacts we are having on Planet Earth. In that sense, our settlements are major contributors to our challenges – but they also offer an important platform for joining up key issues of emissions and contamination, resource use and depletion, and ecological destruction, as well as opportunities for equitable human development, health, and well-being.

We will focus in particular on the lessons of historic regions like Tuscany, with its remarkable polycentric structure of cities and towns, and its combination of planned and informal urban morphologies. Using Cortona as a case study and inspiring locale, we will examine similar regions’ deep cultural roots as well as their ecological relationship to the land. We will consider food quality and security, markets and public spaces, placemaking and place management, walkability and low-carbon living, urban resilience and climate readiness, affordability, equity and opportunities for all, and other topics of urban health, well-being and livability.   

The conference will gather internationally prominent policy leaders, practitioners, community leaders and top scholars, to share lessons and discuss potential collaborations.  A major aim of the conference will be to serve as a “springboard” toward new research, new collaborative action, and new ways of communicating and driving the necessary transition ahead.

Partners in the conference will include The King’s Foundation (UK), UN-Habitat, the Congress for the New Urbanism, INTBAU, The Seaside Institute, HealthBridge, the Urban Guild, and others to be announced. 

ABOUT THE VENUE: 

The historic hill town of Cortona has a rich history going back to Etruscan times and beyond, with splendid and instructive examples of urban space and place. The city and the region offer many lessons about contemporary challenges of health, economic well-being, agriculture, food, climate adaptation, viable small-town and rural life amid rapid urbanization, and new models of economic diversity and resilience.

Cortona is approximately 1.5 hours from Florence and 2.5 hours from Rome, accessible by train, bus or car, with an assortment of historic hotels, inns and home rentals.  The city is famous as the setting of Frances Mayes’ autobiographical 1996 book Under the Tuscan Sun: At Home in Italy.  Cortona is the Sister City of our 2021 venue, Carmel, Indiana. 

The venue is the City of Cortona’s Conference and Event Centre, located in the historic convent of Sant’Agostino in the city center. There are many small hotels and rental homes nearby. Late October is an excellent time to travel affordably and find ample accommodation in central Italy, with generally very good weather. 

TOPICS: You may contribute an abstract describing your work (to be presented at the conference, and also developed into a full conference paper if you wish) on any one or a combination of the following topics, or others related to our theme:

•    Great Public Spaces for ALL: Learning from Italy, and Elsewhere

•    Cities on Foot: The Power of Urban Walkability and Public Transportation

•    The Place of Beauty: Neuroscience, Health and Sustainability in Placemaking

•    Slow Food, Slow Cities: Food Quality, Health, and Urban Well-being

•    Markets and Marketable Local Products: Viable Small-Town Businesses

•    The Next Renaissance? Rebuilding Homes, Neighborhoods and Towns

•    Zoom Towns, Livable Places, and the New Economy

•    Jane Jacobs and the Power of Diversity, Equity, and Web-Networks

•    Christopher Alexander and the Power of Patterns, and Timeless Ways of Building

•    Building Better: Tools, Strategies, and Design Ideas

•    Rapid Urbanization: Implementing the New Urban Agenda

•    Climate Change and Urban Form: Mitigation, Adaptation, Resilience

•    Financial Tools and Externality Feedbacks: Making It Pay

•    Sustainable Infrastructure: Complete Streets, Regenerative Utilities and Transit

•    Access For Everyone: Bringing the Benefits of Livable Cites to ALL

•    The Ecology of Place: Concepts, Metrics, Practices

•    Learning from Nature, Culture, and History for Contemporary Challenges

DEADLINES: 

Abstracts are due July 31, 2024
Notifications will occur by August 15, 2024
Speaker registration is required by September 15, 2024
Papers must be submitted for the e-reader by October 1, 2024

REGISTRATION FEES:

Accepted speaker registration is $595.00 (Approx. EUR 553.00)
Early Bird registration (non-speaker) is also $595.00 (through July 31)
Discount registration (non-speaker) is $695.00 (Through September 30) 
Full participant (non-speaker) registration is $795.00 (after October 1)
Student (non-speaker) registration is $295.00 (ID required)

Find out more here

The Victoria and Albert Museum’s Culture in Crisis Programme, in partnership with the University of Stirling and V&A Dundee, are pleased to announce an international conference, taking place on 20 September at V&A Dundee, Scotland.

The aim of this conference is to critically examine politically motivated intentional damage and destruction of cultural heritage. Such acts become part of the ongoing biographies of heritage objects, monuments and places, creating difficult and contentious dilemmas about their future lives for those involved in caring for them. Should politically targeted heritage objects be restored to their original condition? Or should the damage be preserved as part of an object’s ongoing biography to some degree? How should damage be recorded and should documentation practices extend to the wider social and political contexts in which an object and decision-making about its future, is situated? What is the role of replicas and reconstructions? Above all, who gets to decide, how and with what consequences? The conference will provide an important forum for comparing historical and contemporary examples and reflecting on the consequences of difference conservation, restoration and documentation policies and practices with a view to shaping future directions.

We invite submissions from speakers that explore the themes of the conference and encourage vibrant debate and thoughtful dialogue. We welcome papers from a diverse range of geographical settings and regions, cultures, languages, and research areas. The sessions aim to be thought provoking, informative and relevant to the work of museums and heritage organisations, Speakers could come from museum, heritage management, conservation, media or academic backgrounds and be at any stage of their career.

Speakers are invited to deliver a presentation of 20-30 minutes and participate in a moderated panel discussion and audience Q&A.

If you are interested in presenting at this years conference, please submit an expression of interest including a short biography (100 words) and an abstract (150-200 words) to cultureincrisis@vam.ac.uk. The conference will provide each speaker with a set speaker’s fee in addition to a grant for travel and accommodation.

Deadline for submissions: Midnight, Sunday 21 July

Successful submissions will be contacted by Friday 26 July

The Fifth International Conference on Traditional Building, Architecture and Urbanism, organised by the Traditional Building Cultures Foundation with the collaboration of INTBAU Spain and INTBAU Portugal, will take place from 15 – 17 November 2024 in Úbeda, Spain.

The Conference will have both in-person and online modalities. The former will include a series of lectures delivered by international architects, various demonstrations by masters of traditional construction and technical visits to the town of Úbeda.

Registration for the Conference, both for the on-site and online modalities, is free but necessary and can be done HERE.

The call for proposals is open until September 6, 2024. All proposals will undergo a selection process and may be accepted for presentation at the Conference in its online or on-site modalities, and/or published in the Journal of Traditional Building, Architecture and Urbanism.

More information about submission of proposals.

Visit the official website of the Traditional Building Cultures Foundation More information about the conference.

Responses before the 6^th of June 2024.

Invitation to complete a short 4-question survey on the topic of the use of nanolime for limestone consolidation, relating to the following research aims:

1. Development of eco-friendly hydro and hydro/alcoholic nanolime dispersions synthesised from the valorisation of inedible food-wastes.
2. Development of a stone conservation assessment tool for assessing superficial (i.e. near-to-the surface) and mass (i.e. in-depth) consolidation performance based on the use of non-destructive techniques.
3. Development of “green” protective coatings/treatments to make the stone heritage (historical buildings and monuments) more resilient to climate change and help in the prevention of biodeterioration, salts weathering, and damage induced by pollution/acidic rain.

Complete the survey HERE

About the researcher: Cyril Maucourant

I graduated at UCL in 2018 where I did a MSc Conservation for Archaeology & Museums. In December 2022, I completed my AHRC-funded PhD at Sheffield Hallam University (SHU) which was in collaboration with the British Museum, the Heritage Consortium, and Canterbury Cathedral. I started my job as postdoctoral researcher at SHU in September 2023, where I use the fields of stone conservation, materials science, and engineering, to develop innovative nanolime-based consolidation techniques designed to make the stone heritage more resilient to climate change. We are currently collaborating with Cliveden Conservation Ltd; The Commonwealth War Graves Commission; and the Victoria & Albert Museum and are hoping to expand our network and collaborate with more partners in the heritage sector.