Conservation-restoration in the 21st century works with an increasingly unusual and diverse heritage. The profession is facing new challenges, including new typologies and materials, and is entering a paradigm shift that affects the entire sector in a transversal way. This forces all professionals working in cultural property to adopt new work methodologies, supported by scientific study and technological advances.
Globalization, the necessary trend towards sustainability, new materials, atypical and ephemeral formats, unique collections and heritage spaces, among others, are transforming specialties and giving rise to new ones, fostering interdisciplinary interventions hitherto little explored, and expanding the traditional training and research fields.
The growing maturity of the profession, guided by its code of ethics, must allow conservator-restorers to adapt to this new paradigm and be able to guarantee the safeguarding of all this heritage. For this reason, it is essential to publicize the projects carried out by professionals in specialties outside the academic tradition or with a more limited presence in current curricula.
This edition of the Technical Meeting recovers the face-to-face format, after the stoppage caused by COVID. It also resumes the idea of using the space of Disseny HUB Barcelona as a physical venue. However, this will not be a classic edition. The organization has decided to expand the congress and include the virtual format of the last edition, which was very well received; thus expanding the possibilities of attending and watching the congress and, why not say it, giving greater visibility to an already fully consolidated Technical Meeting.
We hope that this XVII Technical Meeting, in a hybrid format, will be a space for sharing experiences and knowledge between all the agents involved in the safeguarding of heritage and that it will open our eyes to new ways of understanding the conservation-restoration of heritage.
Delivery of documentation. Accreditations
Welcome by the head of collections of “Museu del Disseny” – Disseny HUB Barcelona, Teresa Bastardes, and the president of CRAC, Mercè Gual.
Elena de la Rosa Regot.
Plastics in photography. Development of a practical online manual.
Martha Helga López, Enrique Radigales and Pedro Soler.
The wild user experience and the interactive challenge
Poster session and coffee break (FOYER).
Lorena Soria Iñiguez and Laura Oliver Cebolla.
The presence of vinegar syndrome in cinematographic heritage: study of the different treatments applied
Sigrid Remacha Acebrón and Ana Pastor Pérez.
Reflections on a more social and participatory conservation: the case of the Hospital de Cartró de la Vall Fosca
Lunch break. Visit to the deposits of the Disseny HUB Barcelona
Sergio Rodríguez Beltrán.
Beyond life, art: new challenges for the preservation of contemporary art involving from biomedia art
Ana Casal, Mariana Kalho and Sandra Piris.
The Museum of Forbidden Art: a singular collection. The management of preventive conservation in the creation of a new museum.
Xènia Aymerich Núñez de Arenas.
The conservation of natural science collections: a mixed bag waiting to be sorted
Miguel Ángel Díaz Reyes.
Methodology for research into the diagnosis of cultural and natural heritage.
Maria del Carmen Galvín Martínez.
Study, handling and conservation of hair and organ remains from the Spanish Civil War mass grave nº 126 of the municipal cemetery of Paterna (Valencia).
Rosa Cardona i Mariona Bruzzo.
Projected disappointments. An approach to the theory of film restoration and a case study: color management in the restoration of La montagne infidèle (Jean Epstein,1923)
Caridad de la Peña, Xavier Rossell, Xènia Aymerich and Marina Rull.
“Dos braus fora de plaça”
Poster session and coffee break (FOYER)
Mireia García García-Cairó.
Inventory, asbestos removal and restoration of the old Ràdio Andorra broadcasting center (1939-1981)
Rita Gil Macarrón, Aída Sánchez López, Natalia Villota García, Àngel Garvía Rodríguez and Mónica Vergés Alonso
Restoration of preparatory drawings for scientific taxidermy: the Benedito brothers at the National Museum of Natural Sciences.
Lunch break. Visit to the deposits of Disseny HUB Barcelona.
Final lecture by Salvador Muñoz Viñas.
Round table: the evolution of specialties in Conservation-Restoration
Closing of the Congress
Functional restoration of a Bernard Gitton Clepsidra
Bucyrus Excavator (1922), Cercs Mines Museum (MMCERCS)
The material culture of the Spanish Civil War. The conservation and restoration of a cartridge box with ammunition from Lemoatx, Lemoa, Bizkaia.
Conservation and preparation of paleontological material, a constant challenge.
The conservation-restoration and documentation of the music library of the Museum of Natural Sciences of Barcelona (MCNB)
New heritage derived from tragic memory and challenges for its conservation-restoration
Creation of a preventive conservation protocol for the urban art of Ripollet (Barcelona)
Acoustic, microstructural and mechanical characterization of cast aluminum alloys: artistic applications from a conservative perspective (ALIA-SO)
Conservation of photography: A typical day
PLA proMAT: a proposal to elaborate a self-protection plan for the collection in emergency situations
Conservation and characterization of materials in the Palau Ribes papyrus collection
Preserving the present. Heritage in times of social networks and social networks as heritage
