"Theory of Time in the Conservation and Restoration of Historical and Cultural Monuments"

Abstract

Time analysis has been performed as the fourth dimension and the principle of the existence of objects in the conservation and restoration. The question is how the dimension of time is identified and what role it plays in conservation. To solve the problem with the phenomenological strategy, the time and methods of its emergence have been analyzed on human consciousness; thus, time is equivalent to the event, material culture, worn-out layers, place, and human. Based on the phenomenological understanding of time and its relation to the principle of the existence, the conservation of worn-out surfaces is necessary as the accumulation of present layers; worn-out an assessment based on the principles of material timeliness and its relationship with motion and transformation will provide the possibility of time measurement, pathological analysis, and the adoption of appropriate methods of optimal protection. As a result, the phenomenology of time places humans on the horizon of the goals of the conservation and answers the basic questions in this area and in addition to material analysis, also provide the meta-material analysis of the work. By focusing on the concept of material culture, human time, in addition to the time of construction, the time elapsed and the time of encountering the work in restoration are discussed. The conservation of the remnants of the past causes the understanding of the past in the present and the beginning of the process of transferring the past from the present and its coexistence with the future.