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CSIC HIGH SPECIALIZATION COURSE
Cultural heritage intervention models: research, protection, conservation and valorization

This High Specialization Course will offer specialized training in Heritage Science, in accordance with the objectives of the Research Program on Technologies for Conservation and Revaluation of Cultural Heritage TCP (CONSOLIDER-Ingenio 2010, CSD 2007-2012).
The objective is to provide students with the knowledge and specific tools to enable them, based on their academic backgrounds, to understand the scientific and technological bases for the comprehensive study of Cultural Heritage and create innovative tools to meet the new requirements of research, protection and conservation of CH and its disclosure and valorisation as a durable resource.
The course, like the TCP program, is based on interdisciplinarity and has an essentially practical content. Main topics:

• An approach to Cultural Heritage in the context of current European trends as maintaining an implicated position the integrity of the cultural goods.
• The training of professionals and future professionals from different fields in a global vision of heritage, coordinating different disciplines approaches, thus supplying consistent interventions.
• The multi and trans-disciplinarity, significantly technological and practical, taking advantage of the infrastructure and expertise of the participating groups.
   

Directors
Felipe Criado, Almudena Orejas, Cesáreo Sáiz

Secretary and contact person
Ana Delia Rodríguez Ovejero
anadelia.rodriguez@cchs.csic.es

Location
CCHS (CSIC) installations. Some classes may take place in other locations.

Dates
November 2011 – March 2012

Price
1200€. 20 CSD-TCP scholarships will be given. Beneficiaries will enjoy a reduced inscription fee of 500 €.

Duration
5 months (8 weeks of coursework imparted on alternate weeks).

Hours
120 to 160 according to the specific modules (60% theoretical, 40% practical).

Student profile type
Professionals and graduate students with middle-level degree or higher.

Interest areas
Disciplines and specialties related to Cultural Heritage.

Complete and updated information
www.heritage-technoscience.com ("Training" tab)

GENERAL MODULES
 

I. Cultural Heritage: Current Challenges
Nov 7-11, 2011 (Coord: David Barreiro Martínez and Almudena Orejas Saco del Valle)
Course and module introduction
Current challenges to Cultural Heritage (CH). Towards a public CH and CH management. The TCP-CSD program as a response.
Legal basis 1

• Concepts
• Definitions
• Protection categories

Legal basis 2

• Types of heritage
• Protection instruments
• Inventories and catalogs

CH as a scientific objective: producing knowledge through CH.
Research on CH: The CSIC Thematic Network on Historical and Cultural Heritage.
Protection through territorial planning.
Protection through environmental policy.
Protection through valorization: CH as a resource for Human development (economic, cultural and social).
Practical case study.

II. Diagnosis, damage evaluations and action protocols
Nov 21-25, 2011 (Coord: Rafael Fort González and Mª Ángeles Villegas Broncano)

• Initial analysis
• Diagnosis and practical examples
• Structural damage to heritage
• Water-related damage
• Athmospheric contamination-related damage
• Biological activity-related damage
• Salt crystallization-related damage
• Conservation and protection techniques
  • Cleaning techniques
  • Consolidation and hydrofugation techniques
• Preventive method-diffusion techniques. Geomonumental Routes example (outside class-room hours)

III. New trends on research and conservation
Dec 12-16, 2011 (Coord: Arturo Ruiz Rodríguez and Guillermo–Sven
Reher Diez)
Theory

• New European Scientific axes: landscape studies
• New European Scientific axes: technology applied to Cultural Heritage
• Heritage in fairs and meetings

Practice: Case study which includes the theory received with real cases.

SPECIFIC MODULES

IV. Landscape and Archaeology. Landscape Archaeology
Jan 16-20, 2012 (Coord: Leonor Peña-Chocarro and Almudena Orejas Saco del Valle)
Landscape as a research topic and as heritage: concept, scales and methodology.
Archaeobiology, palaeoenvironment and palaeoeconomy. Archaeobotany and Archaeozoology. Reconstruction and interpretation
Geoarchaeology. Archaeomining. Palaeo-soils. Characterizing structures and cultivation soils. Palaeocontamination.
 

V. Built and urban heritage
Jan 30-Feb 3, 2012 (Coord: Agustín Azkárate Garai-Olaun and Mónica Álvarez de Buergo Ballester)
Built heritage
The urban context
Petrophysical characterization of rock materials
Material deterioration of built heritage
Conservation techniques
 

VI. Moveable heritage
Feb 13-17, 2012 (Coord: Ignacio Montero Ruiz and Lois Armada Pita)
Collection, identification and documentation of materials and archaeological samples for characterization
Technological characterization of metals
Technological characterization of ceramics
Technological characterization of glass
Technological characterization of the lithic industry
 

VII. New technologies applied to heritage; Archaeology in the digital age
Feb 27-Mar 2, 2012 (Coord: Juan Vicent García and César Parcero Oubiña)
Geographiccal Information Technologies (GIT) (I): Geographical Information Systems (GIS)
GIT (II): Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDI)
Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and Information Systems.
Remote-sensing Archaeology
 

VIII. Designing projects and heritage reports
Mar 12-16, 2012 (Coord: María Ruiz del Árbol Moro and José Luis Solaun Bustinza)
Strategic aspects of heritage management

• Module introduction. Cultural Heritage management issuesl
• Cultural Heritage management mechanisms: cultural landscapes
• Cultural Heritage management mechanisms: historic city centers

Programming, evaluation and control of heritage projects

• Research, planning, control and evaluation of projects
• Programming, control and supervision of international projects
• Round table discussion
• Presentation and discussion of projects

Structure and elements of Cultural Management projects

• Elements in a cultural management project
• The cultural management of monumental ensembles and their touristic dimension.

Structuration and elements in cultural management projects
Round table discussion: strategic plans concerning cultural heritage
The examples of Atapuerca and Las Médulas
Presentation and discussion of proposals.