Australia ICOMOS E-Mail News No. 718

  1. Early career professionals drinks, Melbourne, 24 February
  2. VICOMOS function: drinks and dinner in Fitzroy, 2 March
  3. Five Year ACT Heritage Strategy 2016-2021 – have your say
  4. Victorian Heritage Act review – submissions available online
  5. The People’s Ground, Melbourne 2016 – call for papers
  6. 2016 NSW Heritage Award submissions now open
  7. McCoy PhD Scholarship: Designed Public Spaces in Melbourne
  8. NSW and ACT Archaeologists Get-Together, Sydney, 10 March
  9. The Destruction of Memory film screening, Sydney, 25 February
  10. 2016 Bathurst Macquarie Heritage Medal – nominations open
  11. Call for Applications: Fryer Library Fellowship, University of Queensland
  12. NSC on Cultural Landscapes and Cultural Routes 2016 meeting & associated Emerging Professionals event: 18-20 March, Lithgow, NSW
  13. Heritage Management & Planning Seminar: ‘Industrial Heritage’, WA, 27-29 April 2016 – registration open
  14. Deakin University Cultural Heritage Seminar, Melbourne
  15. Engineering Heritage Australia Quarterly Magazine – now online
  16. Draft Adelaide Park Lands Management Strategy – public consultation closes 26 February
  17. Protecting National Historic Sites program 2015-16 funding round – applications open
  18. UNITAR Management & Conservation of World Heritage Sites 2016 workshop – call for registrations
  19. Cambridge Heritage Research bulletin available
  20. Arte-Polis 6 conference, Indonesia, 4-5 August 2016 – call for papers extended
  21. International Conference on Modern Age Fortifications of the Mediterranean Coast, 10-12 November 2016, Florence – call for papers
  22. Call for Expressions of Interest to organize XIII Terra Conference 2019 or 2021
  23. City of Stirling Heritage Awards: Call For Nominations
  24. New chairwoman appointed to Heritage Council – WA Heritage Council media release
  25. Oldest Australian skate park heritage listed – WA Heritage Council media release
  26. Registrations open for Longford Academy on 9-13 May 2016
  27. “Capability Brown: perception and response in a global context”, England, September 2016 – registration open
  28. CIPA newsletter available online
  29. 8th ARQUEOLOGICA congress, 5-7 September 2016, Spain – full paper submission deadline extended
  30. SITUATION VACANT Experienced Plasterer or Apprentice/Trainee, McMillan Heritage Plastering
  31. SITUATION VACANT Heritage – Senior Consultant / Heritage Architect, URBIS
  32. SITUATION VACANT Heritage Consultant, Lovell Chen
  33. SITUATION VACANT Senior Heritage Consultant (full-time), City Plan Heritage

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1. Early career professionals drinks, Melbourne, 24 February


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Young and early-career cultural heritage professionals are invited to attend Early ICOMOS drinks on Wednesday 24 February. The event will provide an opportunity to network with other early-career professionals and discuss future events. There are no hard and fast rules about the cut-off point for a young or early-career professionals, so if you’re not sure, please join us! Non-members who are interested in getting involved in ICOMOS are also welcome.

Date & time: 6pm, Wednesday 24 February

Where: Melbourne Public, 11 Dukes Wharf, South Wharf

RSVP: by 19 February to Felicity Watson by email

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2. VICOMOS function: drinks and dinner in Fitzroy, 2 March

A VICOMOS function is long overdue! Please join us for drinks and dinner in Fitzroy.

Where: The Gertrude Hotel, 148 Gertrude Street, Fitzroy

When: Wednesday 2 March

Time: 6.00pm onwards

RSVP: by email to Sue Hodges (ICOMOS Victorian representative) or by phone (03) 9681 8088 by Friday 26 Feb for dinner

All welcome (Emerging ICOMOS, Emerged ICOMOS and all those in between)!

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3. Five Year ACT Heritage Strategy 2016-2021 – have your say

The ACT Minister for Planning, Mr Mick Gentleman MLA, has announced the commencement of a six week period of public consultation to inform the development of a new Five Year ACT Heritage Strategy 2016-2021.

“The Heritage Strategy will be an important framework for the recognition, protection, conservation and promotion of heritage places and objects in the ACT and will set a clear direction for a five year period from the date of its commencement,” Minister Gentleman said.

The ACT’s unique story of our rich and diverse heritage will be recognised through the Strategy. It will provide a vision for the ways in which we can incorporate our heritage places and objects into our future city.

“Our heritage places and objects provide us with a sense of pride, place, identity, and belonging,” said Minister Gentleman.

“The Strategy provides us with an opportunity to revisit what is important about our heritage places and objects, to reshape the way that the community and visitors think about and engage with their heritage, and to refocus resources to ensure that the highest priority areas receive the greatest attention,” Minister Gentleman said. “I encourage all those with an interest in the ACT’s heritage to have a say and provide valuable input toward the Strategy.”

Three informal information sessions will be held on Tuesday 23 and Wednesday 24 February 2016 and provide the community with valuable opportunities to speak with Heritage staff, learn more about the Strategy and provide their feedback. Feedback can also be provides online, via email and post. 

The discussion paper, and details about the information sessions and how to submit feedback is available online.

Public comment is being sought until 9am, Tuesday 29 March 2016.

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4. Victorian Heritage Act review – submissions available online

Public consultation on the Victorian Heritage Act was undertaken between June and August 2015, with submissions invited in response to a published discussion paper.

Heritage Victoria received over 130 submissions and online survey responses. Where agreed to by the author, submissions have been published online.

In addition, a Summary Report (PDF 3.6 MB) provides an overview of the submissions received.

All submissions received are now being  carefully considered to guide the future direction of the Heritage Act. Heritage Victoria will provide updates on its website as further information becomes available.

For any further information, email Heritage Victoria.

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5. The People’s Ground, Melbourne 2016 – call for papers

The National Trusts of Australia and Australia ICOMOS joint conference will be held on 5-8 October 2016 at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG).

At the 2015 ICOMOS Fabric Conference in Adelaide, delegates were challenged to re-evaluate the role of the heritage expert. In 2016 we want to build on these ideas, and the relationships between people, place and practice, theoretically and experientially.

The Melbourne Cricket Ground – popularly “The People’s Ground” – is the inspiration for this conference. This acknowledges that heritage is for and about people and community. Whilst place is central to conceptions of heritage, is it not intangible values – stories, memories, connections, emotions – that reveal and sustain our heritage?

One of our keynote speakers, Frank Vagnone, CEO of the Historic House Trust of New York, recently co-authored the ground-breaking Anarchists Guide to Historic House Museums. His thesis is the need to put the visitor’s experience at the centre. In his keynote, Frank will develop the larger application of his “disruptive” ideas to historic sites, cultural venues and practice.

The People’s Ground asks if a new hierarchy is emerging of how place and practice relate to people?

We are seeking papers by a diverse range of “heritage players” – heritage and GLAM practitioners, historians, social scientists, academics, archaeologists, architects, planners, ecologists, and community advocates – that interrogate and critique the intersections between people, place and practice, reflecting on the past 60 years of heritage practice in Australia, and looking towards the future. Intangible cultural heritage, landscape assessment and management (including the Historic Urban Landscape approach), Aboriginal heritage and the house museum sector are all particularly relevant to the conference theme, and are played out at the MCG, the conference venue.

To propose a paper, please submit a 300 word summary by 24 February 2016 at the conference website.

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6. 2016 NSW Heritage Award submissions now open

If you have you completed a heritage project in the last year 2015/2016 – why not enter it into the National Trust Heritage Awards?

ENTER NOW

Now entering its 22nd year of recognising excellence in heritage, the National Trust Heritage Awards are the pinnacle celebration for the heritage community and an interesting place to see what is happening and the integrity involved. The National Trust Heritage Awards is the Signature event of the National Trust Heritage Festival.

Categories include: 

  • Adaptive Re-Use
  • Advocacy Campaigns
  • Conservation – Built Heritage
  • Conservation – Interiors And Objects
  • Conservation –  Landscape
  • Education And Interpretation
  • Heritage Events And Exhibitions
  • Heritage Publications
  • Heritage Tours And Multimedia
  • Research And Investigation / Analysis

Submissions Close: 3 April 2016

The Heritage Award Ceremony will take place at Doltone House, Jones Bay Wharf, Pyrmont on Friday 6 May 2016 from 11:30am – 2pm. Tickets can be purchased from the Heritage Awards website.

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7. McCoy PhD Scholarship: Designed Public Spaces in Melbourne

The Melbourne School of Design (University of Melbourne), in collaboration with the Museum of Victoria offer an exciting PhD opportunity to examine the changing nature of the designed public space in Melbourne from 1850. The successful candidate, under the supervision of Professor Julie Willis (Melbourne School of Design) and Dr Richard Gillespie (Melbourne Museum; and Principal Fellow in SHAPS, Faculty of Arts) will examine aspects of social history, planning history, landscape history and architectural history to underpin an interdisciplinary interrogation of the relationships between public spaces, the structures within them and the urban fabric that surrounds them.

The scholarship (commencing at A$26,288 per annum for 3 years, with one possible 6 month extension) will commence before 30 June in 2016, and is open for applications from Australian citizens and permanent residents who have graduated with an Honours or Masters degree in a discipline relevant to the project aims. The scholarship is subject to the terms and conditions of the Melbourne Research Scholarship. Applicants must also meet the Melbourne School of Design and University of Melbourne’s additional PhD entry criteria.

Expressions of interest close on Monday 22 February. For enquiries and further information please visit the Melbourne School of Design website or email Ceira Barr from the Melbourne School of Design.

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8. NSW and ACT Archaeologists Get-Together, Sydney, 10 March

Greetings NSW and ACT AACAI Members, Prospective Members, Non-Members and Friends,

I trust the consulting year is off to a busy start for you all.

The purpose of this note is to extend an invitation to attend an Extraordinary Members meeting on Thurs March 10.  We would like to kick off the year with a wine and cheese catch-up night where you can network with colleagues and an opportunity for the NSW/ACT Executive can find out what you want from AACAI in 2016. WIth this, the National Executive Committee will be doing a brief skype presentation taking us through some financial information and will need members to sign off on decisions, so if you are available please attend.

As I said earlier, there will be wine and cheese on the night and we will set out some plans for 2016.

GML have kindly offered to host the event at their offices (Level 6, 372 Elizabeth Street, Surry Hills).

Date & Time: Thursday 10 March 2016, 6:00pm for 6:30pm start
RSVP: RSVP is essential due to secure building access  – please RSVP by March 4 via email to Andrew Costello or via email to Diana Cowie

I would like to thank those who came to the Chippendale Hotel last year for the end of year drinks. It was great to hear about the work being done by NSW and ACT consultants and also to have a few students and potential AACAI members down for a beer and burger. The honours graduates are keen to get a foothold in the consulting game and AACAI events can be a good way to meet your next recruit!

I am looking forward to having a really successful and interesting AACAI year. There was great momentum built up in 2015 which we can roll on into 2016.  Stay tuned for some activities planned around National Archaeology Week.

Andrew Costello
AACAI (Australian Association of Consulting Archaeologists Inc)

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9. The Destruction of Memory film screening, Sydney, 25 February

GML Heritage is proud to announce a private screening of The Destruction of Memory at the historic Palace Chauvel cinema on 25 February.

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Produced by Vast Productions USA and based on Robert Bevan’s acclaimed book of the same name, the feature length documentary explores the way that war has destroyed cultural heritage over the last century—from Armenia to Eastern Europe, Afghanistan to Bosnia and Egypt. This deliberate destruction has had catastrophic results, and it is ongoing—in Syria and Iraq, the ‘cradle of civilization’, millennia of culture is currently being decimated.

Yet the situation is not helpless. People who never thought of themselves as heroes have fought back, and it’s these people and their resistance that is at the heart of the documentary’s compelling story.

Interviewees in the film include Irina Bokova, UNESCO Director-General; Corine Wegener from the Smithsonian; and many of those unsung but active in digital documentation and innovative planning around rebuilding in Syria and Iraq.

The screening will be followed by a short panel discussion featuring Director Tim Slade, Editor Lindi Harrison and Ross Burns – author and expert on the archaeology and history of Syria. GML Heritage’s Chief Executive, Sharon Veale, will chair the panel discussion.

Tickets are free but need to be reserved via EventBrite in advance.

More information about the film

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10. 2016 Bathurst Macquarie Heritage Medal – nominations open

Nominations for the 2016 Bathurst Macquarie Heritage Medal, are now open.

This national award recognises an individual’s significant contribution the Australia’s built, social, cultural or environmental heritage.

The closing date for nominations is 5pm AEST, 26 February 2016, with the Medal winner announced at a dinner ceremony in Bathurst on Saturday 7 May 2016.

More information (including the nomination form) can be found on the Bathurst Macquarie Heritage Medal website.

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11. Call for Applications: Fryer Library Fellowship, University of Queensland

Deadline for applications: Monday 29 February

The annual Fryer Library Fellowship (formerly the Fryer Library Award) aims to:

  • Support research into Australian historical and literary studies utilising the collections of the University of Queensland’s Fryer Library.
  • Promote The University of Queensland’s Fryer Library as a centre of scholarly activity.
  • Integrate a digital component (e.g. online exhibition) that will expand access and encourage engagement with the Fryer collections used in the research project.

Applications are invited in the following areas:

  • Australian literature
  • Australian theatre
  • Indigenous studies
  • History of architecture
  • Art and design
  • Australian history and political culture
  • Women’s studies

Successful applicants receive $20,000 as well as full UQ Library access and copying services.

It is anticipated that the successful applicant will be based at the St Lucia campus of The University of Queensland for a negotiated period, with a maximum of six months. The appointment is to be taken up during the fellowship year.

How to apply

Applications for the Fryer Library Award are due by the end of February for the year of the award.

Download the Fryer Library Award Application Form for more information and instructions on how to apply.

Email the Manager, Fryer Library with any questions or click here.

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12. NSC on Cultural Landscapes and Cultural Routes 2016 meeting & associated Emerging Professionals event: 18-20 March, Lithgow, NSW

The focus of this NSC meeting is the challenge of heritage that is more than simply a single place for example the layers of industrial landscapes in Lithgow and the routes from Sydney over the mountains. Such heritage poses challenges for an identification and management system that works on a place level.

Commencing Friday evening there will be a (self-funded) get together meal. On Saturday Ray Christison and Iain Stuart will be conducting a guided drive/walk commending at 9 am to be followed by a meeting, lunch, presentations and discussion/workshop about the issues, hosted at the State Mine Site in Lithgow.

On Sunday there will be self-drive tour industrial and historic route options.

For more information, download the NSC-CLCR meeting, Lithgow flyer.

 

Calling all emerging heritage professionals – let’s meet at Lithgow, 18 March 2016!

Lithgow, NSW, might not immediately come to mind as a meeting point for a group of emerging heritage professionals to gather, yet it is the venue to kick things off for 2016 as part of the National Scientific Committee on Cultural Landscapes and Cultural Routes. The National Scientific Committee in addition to the International Scientific Committee on Cultural Landscapes, are looking to future-proof their membership, while engaging fresh perspectives on the study and conservation of cultural landscapes. Both groups are made up of ICOMOS members (Australia & International), who undertake research, develop conservation theory, guidelines, practice notes, charters, and promote the exchange of ideas on cultural landscapes.

Ideally, the emerging heritage professionals event is focussed on ICOMOS members with less than ten years heritage experience, students studying heritage topics, and ICOMOS young professionals. The Lithgow dinner and drinks is also an opportunity for anyone new to Australia ICOMOS and the National Scientific Committee to meet up and get to know some of the group’s more established members while sharing in debates about the nature (and culture) of cultural landscapes!

There will be further emerging heritage professionals events in 2016, so keep an eye out for more details as they come to hand!

Emerging Heritage Professions Drinks and Dinner
When: 6.30pm, Friday 18 March 2016
Where: Lithgow & District Workmen’s Club, 3-7 Tank Street, Lithgow, NSW

Who to contact
If you are keen to come along please RSVP to Paulette Wallace by email and remember to register with Juliet Ramsay by 29 February 2016 to attend the full weekend’s activities for the National Scientific Committee on Cultural Landscapes and Cultural Routes.

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13. Heritage Management & Planning Seminar: ‘Industrial Heritage’, WA, 27-29 April 2016 – registration open

From goldmines to ghost towns via railways, presses and pipelines, the 2016 Heritage Management & Planning Seminar will explore the varied aspects of industrial heritage.  Join us in Kalgoorlie on 28-29 April to find out more. The seminar includes a tour of Coolgardie’s mining heritage and there is an optional day-trip to Leonora and Gwalia on Wednesday 27 April.

Costs and registration details are available on the State Heritage website. Enquiries to (08) 6552 4000 or email the WA Heritage Council.

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14. Deakin University Cultural Heritage Seminar, Melbourne

Deakin University’s Cultural Heritage Seminar Series is pleased to invite you all to the first seminar of their 2016 series, a presentation by Prof Dr Sybille Frank (TU Berlin – Deakin Visiting Scholar) on “Negotiating the German Colonial Past in Berlin’s African Quarter”.

Abstract

My presentation will introduce the ongoing dispute over street names in Berlin’s Afrikanisches Viertel (African Quarter). In 1899, Berlin named two of its newly-built streets “Togo Street” and “Cameroon Street”. Togo and Cameroon had been proclaimed the first German colonies in 1884. By 1958, 22 Berlin streets had been named after African regions that had been colonized by the German Empire, or after German colonial protagonists. In 2004, several NGOs called for a renaming of some of these streets, igniting a fierce dispute over the heritage status of the German colonial past. Drawing on guided interviews and document analyses, my presentation will delineate how ‘insider’ and ‘outsider’ positions have been allocated in the debate over street names on three levels: while ‘agency’ can be traced back to the competing actors’ different positioning in the political field, the levels of ‘temporality’ and ‘spatiality’ belong to the realm of fundamental ideas about the world and one’s place in it. Carving out the authoritative power of ‘traditional’ notions of permanence, and of place and space, this presentation seeks to bring temporality and spatiality right into the focus of those studying heritage-making practices.

Biography

Prof. Dr.Sybille Frank is Junior Professor for Urban and Regional Sociology at the Department of Sociology, Technische Universität Berlin. Her work focuses on heritage and mobilities studies, on comparative city research, on football, and on the sociology of space and place. Sybille’s dissertation on Berlin’s Checkpoint Charlie as an international heritage site won the interdisciplinary prize “Humanities International” in 2012. It will be published in English under the title “Wall Memorials and Heritage” in 2016 (Routledge). Sybille was a Visiting Scholar with the Priority Research Area “Critical Heritage Studies” at Göteborgs Universitet in 2014. She recently has been awarded the positions of “City of Vienna Visiting Professor for Urban Culture and Public Space 2016” at Technische Universität Wien and “La Sapienza Visiting Professor for Research Activities 2016” at Università di Roma La Sapienza. Sybille currently is a Visiting Scholar at the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation.

Date: Wednesday 24 February 2016

Time: 4:00-5:30pm

Venue: Meeting Room 3, Deakin University Melbourne City Centre, 3/550 Bourke Street, Melbourne

RSVP: to Antonio Gonzalez by email

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15. Engineering Heritage Australia Quarterly Magazine – now online

The January 2016 issue of the Engineering Heritage Australia Quarterly Magazine is now online and can be downloaded from the Engineers Australia website. 

A number of readers have expressed concern that Smart Phone users don’t have access to the Magazine. If any of you have that problem, we have good news – just go to the Adobe website and download the Adobe Reader App appropriate to your iPhone, Android Phone, tablet or whatever. We have it on good authority that the Magazine can be comfortably read in landscape format on a 5.2 inch screen Android phone, by someone walking home across Melbourne after work. We just hope he doesn’t walk into a lamp post too often!

This summer has seen some bad bushfires in southern Australia. We report on the one in WA which destroyed the little timber town of Yarloop and its historic Railway Workshops Museum. Happier news from Newcastle about the 18th Australian Engineering Heritage Conference in December, and some heritage awards presented there. And there are more stories for your enjoyment.

The Magazine is now entering its third year of publication and the Editor is looking for your thoughts and ideas and possibly some stories – to keep the future magazines up to standard.

The Editor and Engineering Heritage Australia

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16. Draft Adelaide Park Lands Management Strategy – public consultation closes 26 February

The Adelaide Park Lands Authority is pleased to release the draft Adelaide Park Lands Management Strategy which sets the new vision for the future of the Park Lands. This vision responds to the ideas generated by the public through the Shape the Park Lands campaign held earlier this year, and extensive engagement with the State Government and Inner Rim Councils.

The draft Strategy aims to increase the quality and diversity of places and spaces across the Park Lands and to improve walking and cycling connections between the City and suburbs and between parks. This will help further increase the value people place on the Park Lands and their use of them. The Strategy responds to the City and inner metropolitan growth agenda and proposes enhancements which will support a growth in utilisation of the Park Lands by 15% by 2020 – from current 10 million visits per year to around 11.5 million.

Public consultation on the Strategy will open on 1 February 2016.

Have your say on the draft Adelaide Park Lands Management Strategy

Comments on the Strategy must be received by 5pm, Friday 26 February 2016.

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17. Protecting National Historic Sites program 2015-16 funding round – applications open

The Protecting National Historic Sites programme is providing funding of up to $11.5 million (GST exclusive) over three years from 2014-15 to conserve, maintain and protect the places on Australia’s National Heritage List recognised for their historic heritage values.

Of the 104 places on Australia’s National Heritage List, 62 are recognised for defining our nation’s historic heritage. A list of the target places is identified in the Department’s Protecting National Historic Sites 2015-16 webpage.

Up to $1.28 million (GST exclusive) is available for 2015-16 to support site owners and managers to carry out important conservation work, and activities which will enhance visitor understanding and access to these places, thereby contributing to their long-term sustainability.

In the 2015-16 funding round grants of between $25,000 and $80,000 (GST exclusive) will be made available to site owners and managers to undertake activities that protect and maintain the historic values of the 62 targeted National Heritage listed places.

Eligible parties are invited to apply for funding, with applications closing on 25 February 2016.

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18. UNITAR Management & Conservation of World Heritage Sites 2016 workshop – call for registrations

UNITAR Management & Conservation of World Heritage Sites 2016 workshop – call for registrations

The deadline for applications is: 7 March 2016

The United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) Hiroshima Office is calling for registrations for the 2016 Workshop, which will examine “World Heritage Basics and Justification for Inscription”.

SERIES OUTLINE

The UNITAR Series on the Management and Conservation of World Heritage Sites, launched in 2003, has thus far comprised nine annual Workshops held in Hiroshima and one in-country Workshop in India. With over 300 Alumni to date the Workshops offer a set of innovative approaches to heritage conservation, including:

  • The fusion of cultural and natural heritage management
  • The recognition of both the tangible and intangible aspects of heritage values
  • Focused analysis of specific areas of the nomination process

SERIES LINKS

2016 WORKSHOP: FOCUS

The 2016 Workshop, entitled World Heritage Basics and Justification for Inscription, will examine the expectations and requirements needed to effectively prepare a comprehensive World Heritage nomination. The workshop will particularly focus on the fundamental need to provide a Justification for Inscription in the World Heritage nomination.

The Justification for Inscription within any nomination document for a World Heritage property must address at least one of the ten criteria outlined in UNESCO’s Operational Guidelines for the Implementation of the World Heritage Convention, and focus on why the property is considered to possess “Outstanding Universal Value.” This workshop, utilising a careful focus on the Operational Guidelines, and the UNESCO Preparing World Heritage Nominations resource manual, coupled with interactive lectures, study visits, and real world simulation exercises, will allow for participants to gain knowledge and skills for more effectively developing the justification section in nomination documentation.

2016 WORKSHOP: DATES AND LOCATION

  • The dates for the 2016 Workshop are: Monday 18 – Friday 22 April
  • The Workshop will be held in: Hiroshima, Japan

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19. Cambridge Heritage Research bulletin available

To read the latest Cambridge Heritage Research bulletin, click on the following links.

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20. Arte-Polis 6 conference, Indonesia, 4-5 August 2016 – call for papers extended

Arte-Polis 6 International Conference
Theme: Imagining Experiences: Creative Tourism and the Making of Place
Bandung, Indoneisa
4-5 August 2016

Building on the successes of the first five Arte-Polis international conferences and workshops in 2006-2014, Institute of Technology Bandung (ITB) is pleased to present Arte-Polis 6, an international conference and workshop. This biennial event is an initiative of the Architecture Program at ITB’s School of Architecture, Planning and Policy Development in collaboration with other creative institutions.

International Conference

The peer-reviewed Arte-Polis 6 international conference will critically address the theme Imagining Experiences: Creative Tourism and the Making of Place through four diverse tracks:

1. Creative Tourism, Community and Design Praxis
2. Digital Technology Enabling Creative Tourism and Experience
3. Creative Strategy, Innovation and Policy Making for Heritage and Cultural Landscape
4. Discourses on Creative Experiences in Tourism and Heritage

In conjunction with the main event, a round-table discussion on best practices of creating experiences in creative tourism will be held with features speakers from planners, architects & designers, managers and operators and community sectors.

Aim
The aim of Arte-Polis 6 is to connect together practitioners, academics, community leaders, local government officials, policy-makers and other professionals from diverse disciplines and regions around the world concerned with the quality of life and collaborative nature of creative communities in urban and rural places. Its objective is to share and learn the reflection of creativity from international and local experiences regarding current issues, best practices and policy implications of creative tourism on place-making.

The call for papers has been extended to 29 February 2016.

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21. International Conference on Modern Age Fortifications of the Mediterranean Coast, 10-12 November 2016, Florence – call for papers

FORTMED 2016 is the International Conference on Modern Age Fortifications of the Mediterranean Coast. This is its 2nd edition, following the first opening in Valencia in October 2015.

The conference will take place from 10-12 November 2016 at the Dipartimento di Architettura (DiDA) of the Florence University (UNIFI).

The conference’s main objective is the exchange of knowledge and sharing for the better understanding, assessment, management and exploitation of culture and heritage that developed on the Mediterranean coast in the modern age, taking into account the wide distribution of these results.

The Conference has an interdisciplinary aim where architects, engineers, archaeologists, historians, geographers, cartographers, heritage managers, tourism experts, experts in restoration,
conservation and promotion of heritage are invited to participate.

For more information, visit the conference website.

ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 5 March 2016

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22. Call for Expressions of Interest to organize XIII Terra Conference 2019 or 2021

The ICOMOS International Scientific Committee on Earthen Architectural Heritage (ISCEAH) is calling for Expressions of Interest from organizations and countries, who are interested in earthen architectural heritage, to promote, host, run and administer the next international conference known as “Terra Conference” and will be Terra XIII.

The last Terra Conference (XI, 2012) took place in Lima, Peru. The Terra XII Conference 2016 will take place on 11-14 July 2016 in Lyon, France.

The XIII Terra conference will be scheduled for 2019 or 2021, so as not to coincide with the 19th ICOMOS General Assembly in the fall of 2020.

The Terra conference will occur under the aegis of ICOMOS and its specialist international scientific committee, ISCEAH.

Download the XIII Terra conference EOI.

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23. City of Stirling Heritage Awards: Call For Nominations

Committed to the management and promotion of our local cultural identity and heritage, the City of Stirling established the Heritage Awards Program.

The Program is a biennial event that recognises the efforts made by individuals and groups in the conservation of the City’s built environment and streetscape, and the promotion and enhancement of the City’s heritage. The awards also aim to raise awareness of local heritage.

The Heritage Awards are open to all City of Stirling residents, property owners, businesses, community groups or individuals involved in heritage related work within the City of Stirling. The awards are also open to architects, designers, builders and government agencies undertaking heritage related design, building, conservation or construction in the City of Stirling.

The nomination period is now open and nominations must be received by 4.30pm, Friday 1 April 2016.

If you have any queries regarding the 2016 Heritage Awards Program, please do not hesitate to contact the City of Stirling on (08) 9205 8820 or click here to email Amanda Whelan in City Planning.

Click here to go to the City of Stirling’s Heritage Awards page.

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24. New chairwoman appointed to Heritage Council – WA Heritage Council media release

Australia ICOMOS is committed to the dissemination of relevant cultural heritage information. In line with this commitment we are circulating the following media release from the WA Heritage Council, dated 5 February 2016.

Anne Arnold has been appointed as the new chairwoman of the Heritage Council of Western Australia.

Heritage Minister Albert Jacob said Mrs Arnold had been a highly valued member of the Heritage Council for more than eight years and had extensive experience in property, planning, real estate and housing.

Mrs Arnold was deputy chairwoman of the Heritage Council and has been acting in the role since former chairwoman Marion Fulker stepped down in December 2015.

Mrs Arnold is the former chief executive of the Real Estate Institute of WA, former executive director of the Urban Development Institute of Australia (WA Division), and served on boards including the WA Planning Commission.  She is currently a member of the Landgate board.

Mr Jacob said Mrs Arnold has played an instrumental role in the development of new heritage legislation to replace the out-of-date Heritage of Western Australia Act 1990, which the Government intends to introduce to State Parliament this year.

“Mrs Arnold’s dedication to heritage and significant experience in planning and urban development make her an ideal choice for the chairwoman’s role, to take the Heritage Council into the future,” he said.

“Increasingly, WA is capitalising on its heritage assets as the heart of major development projects, for example, the recently opened State Buildings and the soon-to-start redevelopment of the former Sunset and Shenton Park hospital sites.

“In this environment, Mrs Arnold is well placed to lead the Heritage Council which advises the State Government on heritage matters.”

The Heritage Council will shortly advertise for applicants for a position on the nine-member board.

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25. Oldest Australian skate park heritage listed – WA Heritage Council media release

Australia ICOMOS is committed to the dissemination of relevant cultural heritage information. In line with this commitment we are circulating the following media release from the WA Heritage Council, dated 12 February 2016.

Albany Snake Run Skateboard Park, Australia’s oldest purpose-built skate park, and the second oldest in the world, has been State heritage listed.Heritage Minister Albert Jacob made the announcement on the eve of the skate park’s 40th anniversary celebrations in Albany tomorrow.

“This 140 metre-long concrete track is not only highly valued by the people of Albany but by skaters internationally as a prototype that influenced early skate park designs in the USA,” Mr Jacob said.

The Minister said the genesis for the skate park came from Albany high school students who raised $3,000 in three months to build the skate park in 1976.

“So impressed with the enthusiasm of the students, the then Albany council donated $10,000 and the land.  As such, it is thought to be the world’s first community-built skate park,” he said.

“From these humble beginnings, the ‘snake run’ rose to international prominence when the then world skateboard champion Russ Howell described it as ‘the best track I’ve ever seen’. The skate park went on to host Australia’s first National Skateboard Championship in 1979.”

Mr Jacob said of the nearly 500 skate parks built around the world during the 1970s, only 30 still existed today. The oldest skate park was in New Zealand.

“For skaters around the world, the Albany skate park tells an important story about the history of their sport, which grew to become a global phenomenon and is still as popular as ever today,” he said.

“In recognition of its significance, the State Government is the first in Australia to heritage list a skate park, making Albany only the third skate park to be heritage-listed in the world.”

The City of Albany, in partnership with the Perth International Arts Festival 2016 Great Southern program, will host a free community event, including skating performances and demonstrations, tomorrow from 11.30am at the park in Hare Street, Albany.

For more information and some audio-visual treats in relation to this listing, click here.

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26. Registrations open for Longford Academy on 9-13 May 2016

The seventh annual Longford Academy will be held at Brickendon and Woolmers Estates (World Heritage-inscribed) on 9-13 May 2016.

The Longford Academy is a collaborative learning program led by experienced APT specialist practitioner educators. Participants are engaged in site activities aimed at developing and sharing specialist heritage conservation knowledge and skills whilst contributing to safeguarding the outstanding universal values of the two sites. These activities may include information sessions, discussions, inspections, investigations, recording, conservation works and group learning activities.

The program is suitable for all levels of committed heritage conservation participants – owners, managers, professionals, trades people, workers and administrators willing to contribute and share in a conducive environment under all conditions.

For further information view details on the APT Australasia website and/or email the APT Australasia Convenor.

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27. “Capability Brown: perception and response in a global context”, England, September 2016 – registration open

“Capability Brown: perception and response in a global context”
University of Bath, England
9–11 September 2016

Book now

Capability Brown changed the face of 18th-century England. Yet he left little written explanation of his work. Much must be inferred from his surviving landscapes and by seeing his work in the wider context of the naturalistic style that developed in Europe and further afield.

This major conference, organised by the Cultural Landscapes and Historic Gardens Committee of ICOMOS-UK (International Council on Monuments and Sites UK), will be one of the highlights of the first-ever national Capability Brown Festival, providing an international dimension to  complement the UK’s national festival of events, openings, exhibitions and publications. 

Over a three-day conference in the historic city of Bath (one of the UK’s World Heritage Sites), world-renowned researchers and practitioners will present Brown’s work in a global context and explore the ways in which it has been interpreted over the last 250 years. The conference will  include evening receptions at Prior Park, the Brown designed valley garden with its iconic  Palladian bridge overlooking the city, and at the Bath Assembly Rooms next to the Roman Baths. There will also be a tour of Brown’s landscape at Croome Court, recently restored by the National Trust. Conference papers will be published for delegates in a special edition of Garden History.

The organising committee thanks the Gardens Trust, The National Trust, Historic England, and the ICOMOS Scientific Committee on Cultural Landscapes for their support of this event.

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28. CIPA newsletter available online

To view the latest issue of the International Scientific Committee on Heritage Documentation’s (CIPA) newsletter, click here.

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29. 8th ARQUEOLOGICA congress, 5-7 September 2016, Spain – full paper submission deadline extended

Due to numerous requests, the paper submission deadline of ARQUEOLÓGICA 2.0 – 8th International Congress has been extended to 1 March 2016.
 
ARQUEOLÓGICA 2.0 will be held on 5-7 September, 2016 at the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV), Valencia, Spain.
 
ARQUEOLÓGICA 2.0 discusses both the present and future of documentation, reconstruction and computer aided rendering techniques, applied to the field of Cultural Heritage. The main aim is to offer an updated overview about the Heritage of the 21st century applying new and innovative techniques and methodologies. The lemma of the present edition is: Advanced 3D documentation, modelling and reconstruction of cultural heritage objects, monuments and sites.

ARQUEOLÓGICA 2.0 invites authors to submit original and unpublished work in applied and innovative digital heritage areas such as documentation of cultural heritage, high-end digitisation and 3D modelling of objects, monuments and sites, virtual conservation/restoration, virtual archaeology, virtual museums, virtual exhibitions, cultural heritage gaming, collaborative environments and internet technologies and social media in archaeology.

For more information, visit the congress website.

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30. SITUATION VACANT Experienced Plasterer or Apprentice/Trainee, McMillan Heritage Plastering

McMillan Heritage Plastering is a Brisbane-based company specialising in traditional ornamental and lime plastering. We are looking to grow our team in 2016, and are looking for people with a genuine interest in developing their skills in a traditional trade. Fantastic opportunities await the right candidate.

Please email McMillan Heritage Plastering if you or someone you know is interested in joining McMillan Heritage Plastering as either an experienced plasterer or as an apprentice/trainee.

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31. SITUATION VACANT Heritage – Senior Consultant / Heritage Architect, URBIS

Heritage – Senior Consultant / Heritage Architect

  • Work as part of a multi-disciplinary team of industry experts & leaders
  • Work across a diverse range of projects and clients
  • Be truly influential in strategically advising clients and stakeholders

Urbis is a multi-disciplinary consulting firm offering services in heritage, planning, design, property, social policy, economics and research. With over 300 staff nationally, our people provide the research, analysis and advice upon which major social, commercial and environmental decisions are made.

Led by a heritage industry expert Urbis provides excellence in cultural heritage conservation with strategic advice at the highest level. Our experienced team is regarded for our critical expertise in every aspect of cultural heritage conservation, including heritage studies, conservation management plans, heritage impact statements, interpretation, archival recording, architectural conservation supervision and expert witness representation.

Currently, an opportunity has arisen in our Sydney office for a suitably qualified and experienced heritage architect / Senior Consultant with a professional work history of 5+ years in Heritage advisory consulting. 

As a key member of the team, you will be involved in conducting research across a diverse and challenging range of projects, providing reports and strategic advice to our clients.

The responsibilities of our Heritage Senior Consultant/heritage architect include:

  • Application of your thorough understanding of Heritage principles and an ability to provide a range of advice to clients on a range of projects including heritage studies, conservation management plans, heritage impact statements, interpretation, archival recording and architectural conservation supervision.
  • Working across a wide range of applications with proven ability to develop proposals, tenders & submissions for potential projects
  • High level research, interpretation, report writing and communication skills
  • Undertaking of projects, management of client and other stakeholder relationships and work to specification and deadlines

For more information about this role, see the Heritage Consultant – Architect, URBIS position description.

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32. SITUATION VACANT Heritage Consultant, Lovell Chen

HERITAGE CONSULTANT – PERMANENT FULL-TIME POSITION CBD BASED

Lovell Chen is a contemporary Architectural and Heritage Consultancy practice with more than 30 years’ experience in design and heritage.

Our multidisciplinary team is unique in the field, combining architects and designers with historians, researchers, materials experts and a range of other specialists in aspects of our built environment.

Lovell Chen is seeking an experienced heritage consultant with a degree or equivalent in heritage, town planning, architecture, urban design, history or related fields.

The right candidate will need to be able to multi-task and take on a wide variety of roles within a project team.  The role involves research, site inspections, report writing (such as CMPs, HMPs, Heritage Impact Statements, Heritage Assessments and other heritage reports), client and consultant liaison and general office activity in order to meet deadlines, schedules, workflow and standards. 

The role requires a working knowledge of the relevant methodologies and statutory frameworks, in particular the Planning and Environment Act and Heritage Act (Victoria) and the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act (Australia).

You would need to be self-motivated and have attention to detail.  Your role would also involve coordination and management of your own projects.

Skills required:

  • MS Word (Advanced) – essential
  • MS Excel, MS Power point, MS Outlook (Intermediate) – essential
  • Adobe Photoshop – preferred
  • Excellent writing skills – essential
  • Excellent verbal and communication skills – essential
  • Ability to manage own work and external consultants to meet deadlines
  • Able to work autonomously as well as part of a team environment
  • Driver licence – preferred

The salary is negotiable and will be based on your skill level and experience. Lovell Chen is not offering sponsorship and as this position is permanent it is not suitable for people on a working holiday visa.

Please send your application including your CV and covering letter to Ms Tamara Dulley, Office Manager, via email.

Applications close 4 March 2016.

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33. SITUATION VACANT Senior Heritage Consultant (full-time), City Plan Heritage

SENIOR HERITAGE CONSULTANT POSITION – FULL-TIME

City Plan Heritage is currently seeking to appoint a Senior Heritage Consultant to join our team to provide high level cultural heritage consultancy services.

The ideal candidate will have 5 or more years’ experience working in the heritage sector with a particular focus on report writing, undertaking heritage studies and providing heritage advice. A degree in cultural heritage or a related discipline is essential. Applicants must ideally have a background in archaeology (preferred) and/or Australian architecture.

Full International Membership of Australia ICOMOS (or eligibility for full international membership) is essential.

Applicants must be able to:

  • Prepare a range of heritage reports including but not limited to Heritage Impact Statements, Conservation Management Plans, Archaeological Assessments and Heritage Interpretation Strategies
  • Manage several projects simultaneously and cope with competing deadlines
  • Undertake detailed historical research to the standard of a professional historian (including sourcing and analysis of archival sources) for Conservation Management Plans, Heritage Assessments, and Heritage Studies
  • Work independently with no or minimal supervision

The successful applicant will be required to start late March/early April.

Please send your application, including a cover letter and CV, to Kim Bennett via email by close of business 4 March 2016.

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Disclaimer: Opinions expressed in the Australia ICOMOS Email News are not necessarily those of Australia ICOMOS Inc. or its Executive Committee. The text of Australia ICOMOS Email news is drawn from various sources including organizations other than Australia ICOMOS Inc. The Australia ICOMOS Email news serves solely as an information source and aims to present a wide range of opinions which may be of interest to readers. Articles submitted for inclusion may be edited.

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Australia ICOMOS Secretariat
Georgia Meros, Secretariat Officer
Cultural Heritage Centre for Asia and the Pacific
Deakin University
221 Burwood Highway
Burwood VIC 3125
Telephone: (03) 9251 7131
Facsimile: (03) 9251 7158
Email: austicomos@deakin.edu.au
http://www.icomos.org/australia

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