Australia
ICOMOS E-Mail News No. 371
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An information service provided by the Australia ICOMOS Secretariat
Friday 30 January 2009
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1) Australia ICOMOS Intern to US ICOMOS
2) World Heritage Day VICOMITES Tour
3) Report on international survey: “the workflow and
concept of international cooperation for cultural heritage”
4) Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage
and the Arts: Media Release – Grassroots Support Protects Tassie Habitat
5) News from the ICOMOS Documentation Centre
6) Link to IFLA News Brief #15
7) Conference announcement – Industrial Strength:
Conserving Canada's Industrial Heritage, October 2009, Canada
8) News from ICOMOS International Secretariat
Situations Vacant...
9) Architectural Historian, heritage ALLIANCE, Melbourne
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1) Australia ICOMOS Intern
to US ICOMOS
Members
of Australia ICOMOS are invited to apply for nomination by the AI Executive
Committee to the US ICOMOS Summer Intern Program. US ICOMOS will only
consider an Australian candidate for the internship who has been nominated by
the Australia ICOMOS Secretariat. Applications must be submitted through
the Australia ICOMOS Secretariat.
Members
must be full members of AI, aged between 25 and 35 years and have appropriate
credentials. Other conditions and criteria apply and these can be
obtained from Timothy Hubbard, the Executive Committee member responsible for
the liaising with US ICOMOS about the Program. He can be contacted by
phone on (03) 5568 2623 and by email at timothy@heritagematters.com.au.
Information about the 2008 Program can be obtained from the US ICOMOS web site
at http://www.icomos.org/usicomos/International_Exchange_Program/Intern_Applications.htm.
The
Executive Committee must make its recommendation to US ICOMOS by early February
2008. Any Australia ICOMOS member who is interested in participating in
the Program should lodge an expression of interest, addressed to Timothy
Hubbard at the Secretariat by Monday 2 February 2009. The US
ICOMOS closing date for applications is late January 2009. All applicants
will be notified by the Australia ICOMOS Secretariat on the outcome of their
application.
On
completion of the US ICOMOS internship, the successful applicant must provide a
report (written, electronic or formal presentation) to the Australia ICOMOS
Secretariat discussing their experience and how the internship contributed to
their professional development, and in particular how they consider the
experience will assist them in contributing to the conservation of Australia’s
cultural heritage.
PLEASE
NOTE: The Australian candidate for this internship must be recommended by the
Australia ICOMOS Executive Committee/Secretariat – please do not apply directly
to US ICOMOS.
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2) World Heritage Day
VICOMITES Tour
A
special two-day tour of the fortifications around Port Phillip Heads is being
arranged for Victorian members of Australia ICOMOS to celebrate World Heritage
Day on Saturday 18 April 2009. The tour will start at 9.00 am from
Queenscliff, travel to South Channel Fort by charter boat and then on to
Portsea for a picnic lunch and to visit Point Nepean Marine National Park,
returning to Queenscliff late on Saturday afternoon. There will be some
socializing on Saturday night. On Sunday morning, we will have a detailed
tour of Fort Queenscliffe before a quick look at Point Lonsdale. The tour
will finish early on Sunday afternoon allowing people to travel home. We
also expect to have some special social events and a lecture on the Guns and
Cannon of south-west Victoria given by Jane Ainsworth, one of the Australian
members of IcoFort, the ICOMOS ISC which deals with military heritage.
South
Channel Fort is one of the most significant and interesting military sites in
Australia with important international connections. It is very difficult
to access. Expert interpretation will be available. This is a rare opportunity.
The tour is a result of research into the fortifications at Warrnambool, Port
Fairy and Portland. A second tour of those fortifications may follow
later in the year.
Places
are strictly limited and, because the charter boat must be booked and confirmed
soon, anyone who is interested should register their interest with Timothy
Hubbard by email on timothy@heritagematters.com.au
or by phone on (03) 5568 2623 as soon as possible. The cost of the boat
hire is about $120 per person. Other costs will include some food and
incidentals. People will be responsible for their own accommodation and
evening meals although group reservations will be made at a Queenscliff motel
and restaurants on Friday and Saturday nights.
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3) Report on international
survey: “the workflow and concept of international cooperation for cultural
heritage”
On Thursday 29 January a gathering of NSW members met with
Yumi Isabelle AKIEDA and Hisano TOYOSHIMA of the Japan Consortium for
International Cooperation in Cultural Heritage (JCIC). The purpose was to
assist with an international survey about “the workflow and concept of
international cooperation for cultural heritage”. Some topics discussed
included:
• how
Australian actors plan and carry out international cooperation projects,
•
how various tiers of Australian government works together with international
NGOs such as ICOMOS,
• how
human resource management and heritage training are dealt with, and
•
what are the issues and major concerns/challenges for implementing
international cooperation projects.
Afterwards some members had a
delightful dinner with our guests followed by a view of the Sydney Opera House.
We thank GML for providing the venue and refreshments.
A thank you also to Australia ICOMOS members in Canberra and Melbourne who
assisted with the survey in various ways at short notice.
Sue Jackson-Stepowski
Event Co-ordinator
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4) Department of the
Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts: Media Release – Grassroots Support
Protects Tassie Habitat
An island refuge in Tasmania’s Huon
River will now be added to Australia’s National Reserve System – our nation’s
most secure way of protecting native habitat.
Environment Minister Peter Garrett
and Member for Franklin Julie Collins today launched the Tasmanian Land
Conservancy’s Egg Islands Reserve in Franklin, 45 kilometres south west of
Hobart.
Mr Garrett said the Australian
Government provided $200,000 to help establish the reserve, with hundreds of
donors from around Australia pitching in to donate the rest.
“The Egg Islands Reserve is testament
to an incredible conservation partnership – 125 hectares of bushland protected
forever through contributions from families, business donors and government,”
Mr Garrett said.
“The Rudd Labor Government has
dedicated $180 million through the Caring for our Country program for
projects just like this right around the country, ensuring that some of our
most environmentally important sites are conserved and protected.
“The reserve we are here to launch
today protects vital habitat for the rare Australasian bittern, whose booming
twilight call is thought by many to be the origin of the bunyip legend. The
islands are a mosaic of wetland habitat and endangered black gum forest,
criss-crossed by misty channels that visitors can explore in row boats.”
Ms Collins said she applauded the
efforts of the Tasmanian Land Council, the local community and donors from
right around Australia for their efforts in the ongoing conservation of Egg
Island.
“I am delighted that this special
125 hectares of Tasmanian countryside will now become part of Australia’s
National Reserve System which the Government plans to increase by 25 per cent
to 125 million hectares by 2013.”
Ms Collins and Mr Garrett
encouraged the community to similarly support the Tasmanian Land Conservancy’s
next fundraising challenge – conserving the Vale of Belvoir.
“Today kick starts fundraising to
protect the Vale of Belvoir – a 500 hectare grassy valley that is the last of
its kind in the world,” Mr Garrett said.
“The Vale is a huge priority for
addition to the National Reserve System – the Australian Government has
provided $800,000 towards its purchase but a further $600,000 is needed to
protect and manage it into the future.”
Lying in the shadow of Cradle
Mountain, the Vale of Belvoir is a thriving mix of native grassland and old
growth rainforest. It is home to the vulnerable Tasmanian devil and was the
site of some of the last credible sightings of the now-extinct Tasmanian tiger.
Nathan Males from the Tasmanian
Land Conservancy said the Government’s $800,000 is a huge step but they still
need all the help their donors can offer.
“Protecting the Vale has been
flagged as the Tasmanian conservation triumph of the 21st century – the chance
to secure its future is enormously valuable,” Mr Males said.
For more information visit www.environment.gov.au/parks/nrs
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5) News from the ICOMOS
Documentation Centre
We are pleased to announce that INORA,
the International Newsletter on Rock Art, under the auspices of Comité
International d'Art Rupestre (CAR–ICOMOS), Union Internationale des Sciences
préhistoriques-Protohistoriques (UISPP) and Association pour le Rayonnement de
l'art pariétal européen (ARAPE), is now available online in the website of the UNESCO-ICOMOS
Documentation Centre.
Edited by Dr Jean Clottes,
Former Director of the Chauvet Research Team, funded (or subsidized, or
sponsored) by the Ministère de la Culture and the Département de l’Ariège, the
newsletter presents the latest discoveries of rock art from around the world.
It provides a platform for discussion and debate of current theories and
controversies. It examines past, present and future documentation and dating
techniques, and their interpretation.
All the issues of the newsletter –
apart from those published in 2007 and 2008 – have been digitized by the
UNESCO-ICOMOS Documentation Centre and made available on the website. From
now on, the full text of the newsletter is available at the following address:
http://www.international.icomos.org/centre_documentation/inora
Next issues of the newsletter will
be made available on the website in full text.
However, the newsletters published
during the last two years will not be available online. To get access to the
most recent issues, people will need to subscribe.
For more information about the
subscription to INORA, please write to Dr. Jean Clottes (j.clottes@wanadoo.fr)
Dr. Jean Clottes (INORA Editor)
Jose Garcia Vicente (Manager of the UNESCO-ICOMOS Documentation Centre)
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6) Link to IFLA News Brief #15
To view the above newsletter (and
other IFLA News Briefs), visit http://www.iflaonline.org/publications.php
and click on the relevant link.
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7) Conference announcement
– Industrial Strength: Conserving Canada's Industrial Heritage, October 2009,
Canada
Industrial Strength: Conserving Canada's Industrial
Heritage
21-24 October 2009
Hamilton, Ontario
"Industrial Strength"
will be national conference that brings together conservation specialists,
industrial heritage site operators, planners, historians and all those actively
involved in preserving Canada's industrial past. The three-day event will
provide a forum to exchange ideas, share experiences and explore directions for
the future of industrial heritage conservation in Canada. There will also be
time to visit some nearby sites that have made this area an industrial
heartland since the early 19th century.
Log on to www.industrialstrengthconference.ca
for more information. If you wish to have your name added to the
electronic mailing list and receive updates on the conference, please contact: industrial.strength@hamilton.ca.
The conference is sponsored by
Parks Canada in support of the 63 industrial sites that have been designated as
National Historic Sites and by the City of Hamilton in celebration of the 150th
anniversary of municipal drinking water in Hamilton. The conference is
also supported by the newly-formed Industrial Heritage Working group that is
jointly affiliated with ICOMOS Canada and TICCIH.*
Conference Co-chairs
Ian Kerr-Wilson
Manager Museums and Heritage
Presentation, City of Hamilton, Hamilton, Ontario
Janet Wright
Canadian Representative to TICCIH*
and
Heritage Resource Planner, Parks
Canada, Calgary, Alberta
* TICCIH – The International Committee for the Conservation
of Industrial Heritage
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8)
News from ICOMOS International Secretariat
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19-24 May 2009, Transylvania (Romania)
Call for papers:
• contributions for the two days of conference are requested
to be announced as soon as possible
• deadline for abstracts and/or written presentations:
February, 15, 2009
Post conference tour:
• ICOMOS-CIAV members interested in a post conference tour:
Transsylvania, WH position villages with fortified churches, Maramures WH
position wooden churches, and Moldavia (Bukovina) WH position churches with exterior
mural paintings (5 - 6 days) are kindly
requested to contact Christoph Machat as soon as possible, latest February 15,
2009.
Conference Organisation – for
further information please contact:
ICOMOS
Romania in cooperation with:
Tusnad 2009, the 14th edition of
the series international scientific conferences for the preservation of
historic monuments Transsylvania Trust Prof.Dr. Bálint Szabó
Romania 400110 Cluj Napoca, OP.I.,
CP. 1176
Tel: +40 264 435 489
Fax +40 264 436 805
Email: tusnad@transsylvanianostra.eu
Web: www.transsylvanianostra.eu
ICOMOS Germany:
Christoph Machat
Viersener Str. 4
D 50733 Köln
Germany
LVR Amt für Denkmalpflege im
Rheinland
Ehrenfriedstr. 19
D 50250 Pulheim
Tel. +49 2234 9854523 (office) /
+49 221 7393008 (home)
Fax +49 2234 9854325 (office) / +49
221 737279
Email: cmachat@netcologne.de / christoph.machat@lvr.de
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3-5 November 2009, Tripoli (Libya)
Organized by the Department of
Architecture and Urban Planning, Al-Fateh University, Libya in collaboration
with The Centre for the Study of Architecture in the Arab Region (CSAAR)
The increasing urbanization of many
parts of the world coupled with other global issues such as environmental
pollution, energy consumption, and resources shortage are resulting in major
urban crises in many parts of the world. In an effort to explore and map
the challenges and opportunities of sustainable development, Department of
Architecture and Urban planning at Al-Fateh University and the Center for the
Study of Architecture in the Arab Region (CSAAR) have joined together to organize
an international conference on sustainable architecture and urban development.
For further information about the
conference, please consult the conference website at http://www.csaar-center.org/conference/SD2009/
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October 21 - 23, 2009, Rio De Janeiro (Brazil)
Practitioners, academics and
students of landscape architecture are invited to discuss, critique, and
demonstrate how through a variety of mediums and a potential mediation of
design disciplines, contemporary ideas of landscape functions can be
reconsidered as green infrastructure.
Submissions should consider
experimental and innovative design projects and critiques, research, written
and photographic essays, digital animations or film. Selected speakers will
address a 20 minute presentation on plans and designs related to the following
session themes:
1.
Green Infrastructure
Design
2.
Green-Infrastructure
for New Developments
3.
Recovering with Green
Infrastructure
4.
New Landscape
Performances
Submissions proposals should
contain at most 6000 characters including spaces in Portuguese, English or
Spanish. Attach four illustrations: pictures, graphics, or any other figure
aiming to better explain your proposed presentation, in a jpg format 400 kb
each. Please indicate the session theme you would like to discuss your
contribution. Proposals to be published in the proceedings are those both
approved by the referee selection process, and those which at least one of the
authors are registered to attend and present the paper in the Congress.
Selected works will be invited to deliver a final version of 2000-2500 words
with illustrations for a book publication later on.
Submissions deadline:
31 March 2009
Announcement of selected
submissions:
30 April 2009
Registration of selected
authors:
30 May 2009
Congress Website:
Organization and Promotion:
Carolina Melo
Email: carolina@sigmarketing.com.br
IFLA Secretariat:
Christine Bavassa, Executive
Secretary
International Federation of
Landscape Architects (IFLA)
European Foundation for Landscape Architecture (EFLA)
The European Region of IFLA
Rue des Palais, 44 B 21
B-1030 Brussels
Tel.: +32 2 211 33 79
Fax: +32 2 218 89 73
E-mail: admin@iflaonline.org
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The first issue of 2009, Volume 3
(1), of the International Journal of Architectural Heritage: Conservation,
Analysis and Restoration, of which Pere Roca, past President of the ICOMOS
International Scientific Committee Analysis and Restoration of Structures of
Architectural Heritage (ISCARSAH) is one of the editors, has been recently
published.
The journal has also recently been
included in the ISI Web of Science, being covered from Volume 1. If you are
interested to submit a paper, please use the electronic
submission site http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/uarc.
For a description of the aims and scope of the Journal, please
visit http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/15583058.asp
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9) Architectural historian, heritage ALLIANCE, Melbourne
heritage ALLIANCE (hA) is seeking an architectural historian for its
office in North Melbourne. hA has been carrying out a variety of
jobs including area studies, planning panel representation, heritage advice to councils,
conservation plans and conservation works programming to heritage places of
local state and national significance.
The person we are seeking would
preferably have a good architectural vocabulary, some drawing skills, have an
understanding of planning schemes and be prepared to appear at planning
tribunals. These latter skills could form on going on the job training.
The office is close to institutions
such as the Public Records, Melbourne University and the State Library (and
importantly Victoria Markets).
Enquiries in the first instance
should be to David Wixted principal architect, heritage ALLIANCE on (03)
9328 5133.
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your request
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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 Victoria 3125
Telephone: (03) 9251 7131
Facsimile: (03) 9251 7158
Email: austicomos@deakin.edu.au
http://www.icomos.org/australia
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