Abstract
Abstract. The identity and experience of past human societies has crystallized in the buildings that survive up to the present day, as architectural and archaeological heritage. The challenges of their study, management and communication are now in constant reshaping, as new technologies consistently bring new tools, opportunities and trials. Today, the values and meanings attached to this heritage by their communities are to be promoted by the strategies towards cultural heritage research, protection, enhancement, reuse or dissemination, as defined by the Faro Convention (CoE, 2005), but community involvement and interdisciplinarity are still goals often difficult to attain. In this contribution we aim to present two different case studies where strategies of state-of-the-art documentation and historical-archaeological assessment were brought together to address communities’ requests for heritage valorization while providing opportunities for interdisciplinary work, specialized education, and content creation. One is in the Finnish town of Hamina, a star-like fortress system which echoes the Renaissance urban ideals, achieved only in another place in Europe (Palma Nova, Italy), where an International Summer School took place to address the community’s requests for study and documentation. Another is in the Portuguese village of Muge, Salvaterra de Magos, where the need for scientific study and documentation addressed the owner’s goals for site musealization while providing interdisciplinary work and education to several undergrad and masters students in archaeology and architecture, while building contents for community engagement and outreach.
Highlights
The two projects presented in this paper, despite their importance in the creation of knowledge related to specific communities, uses and practices, history and technology, are here put under a different focus that brings up how community-based interdisciplinary work, with a focus on new technologies for documentation, is suited to achieve the mission of academic work and the needs of local communities and of young generations of professionals
The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, Volume XLIV-M-1-2020, 2020 HERITAGE2020 (3DPast | RISK-Terra) International Conference, 9–12 September 2020, Valencia, Spain associated depending on the project
When doing documentation field work the role of the archaeologist is to interpret the evidences left by marks on those walls and other surfaces, by the distribution and state of the objects, and to create a narrative of the human interaction with the site from the materials, and this is not always an easy or objective task
Summary
In this paper the focus goes to our built heritage and its associated integrated material heritage, including objects, machinery and other documents. The two projects presented in this paper, despite their importance in the creation of knowledge related to specific communities, uses and practices, history and technology, are here put under a different focus that brings up how community-based interdisciplinary work, with a focus on new technologies for documentation, is suited to achieve the mission of academic work and the needs of local communities and of young generations of professionals They depict the successful approach taken by the owners to establish links with academia to promote knowledge about the sites, communication and preservation, while strengthening ties between the different actors, and between people and place. We explore how they connect to three relevant themes that were identified: the methodological approach used to give these sites a voice with which to share their stories, the need to reevaluate the role of the expert in heritage work when working with communities, and the diverse ways to integrate new technologies in order to achieve the scientific, educational and social goals of the project
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