Australia
ICOMOS E-Mail News No. 377
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An information service provided by the Australia ICOMOS
Secretariat
Friday 13 March 2009
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1) Victorian Bushfires – an update
2) Australia ICOMOS New Membership Applications
3) Community Heritage Grants
4) Last chance to pre-order Significance 2.0 – a
message from the Collections Council of Australia
5) Report from ISC Theory conference with ICROM, Florence
6-8 March 2009
6) Researching the History of Your House Workshops 2009
7) UNESCO Australian Memory of the World Register 2009
– call for nominations
8) Historic Gardens of New England: Photographic
Exhibition
Situations Vacant
9) Project Officer, Heritage Victoria
10) Provision of Regional Heritage Advisory Services for
Peel Region
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1) Victorian Bushfires –
an update
On behalf of Australia ICOMOS and the wider ICOMOS community
internationally, our thoughts and kind wishes are extended to ICOMOS members
directly affected by the fires and floods. A number of members have kindly
contributed their suggestions as to how we can make a difference as an
organisation as well as on an individual level. These suggestions are
appreciated and summarised below. An update of the Bushfire Round Table is also
provided.
Disaster Guidelines
Australia ICOMOS wrote Draft Bushfire Guidelines following
the Canberra fires in 2003. They are attached and members are now invited to
make comments on them and/or volunteer to be part of a working group to broaden
their focus to become Australia ICOMOS Disaster Guidelines. People with
experience of the recent floods and other disaster planning would be
appreciated. Some members who were part of the Canberra group in 2003 have also
kindly offered to help with finalising and expanding the draft policy.
Bushfire Round Table
The second Bushfire Round table was held last Friday by the
Building Commission of Victoria to coordinate the Built Environment response
and volunteers. Australia ICOMOS was represented and speakers included
Christine Nixon, CEO of the newly established Authority; Craig Lapsley,
Director of Emergency Services at the Department of Human Services, and others
with direct experience of the fire areas. The Building Commission is in the
process of compiling a comprehensive data base identifying volunteer skills and
availability, which will then be made available to the Bushfire Reconstruction
and Recovery Authority. The Building Commission explained that each community
is at a different stage in the three phases: Re-enter, Re-occupy and Rebuild.
Opportunities to Help
It is likely that in the coming months, help from Australia
ICOMOS volunteers will be appreciated in a number of different areas. For
example in recording sites, rebuilding damaged places, in making changes to
Heritage Overlay Schedules, and in providing advice about important objects.
This advice may be provided through supporting organisations such as assisting
Heritage Advisors in the 14 Municipalities affected by the fires, through Blue
Shield and the Collections Council or through the Building Commission volunteer
program. The Commission has established a number of projects, listed below,
some of which may provide opportunities for heritage input.
1. Resident advice
2. Design a House
3. Audits and repairs to damaged
houses
4. Small community based
building projects
5. Fencing
6. Land Surveying
There are a number of issues which the Commission is
addressing, for example professional indemnity insurance for all volunteers
providing advice. It is likely that it will take time before people are able to
make a contribution but there is a strong sense of unified purpose and we hope
volunteers will retain their interest and commitment.
Role of Heritage in Community
Australia ICOMOS President Susan McIntyre-Tamwoy is writing
to Christine Nixon, CEO of the Bushfire Reconstruction and Recovery Authority,
to emphasize the role of cultural heritage in community identity and
rebuilding. We need to find ways to contribute our collective Australia ICOMOS
experience of understanding what people value and the importance of a sense of
place and community to the Built Environment response. Australia ICOMOS experts
in intangible heritage may be able to make a contribution in this regard.
For Further Information
Please contact Helen Lardner on h.lardner@hlcd.com.au or Timothy Hubbard
on timothyh@oldstandrews.com.au
for further information or to offer to take on tasks. To date most of the
discussions have centred on buildings and /or moveable objects, however we are
interested to hear any practical suggestions or offers of assistance from our
archaeologist members. We note that Parks Vic Australia ICOMOS members have
experience in this area and have their own guidelines and could possibly be a
further point of contact for interested members.
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2) Australia ICOMOS New
Membership Applications
If you have been considering joining ICOMOS or know
someone who has been thinking of joining, now is the time!
• ICOMOS
Members are eligible for discounted registration for the (Un)Loved Modern
Conference 2009 in Sydney, Tuesday 7th July- Friday 10th July.
• Also
if you register early for the conference you can get early bird rates.
• If
you join ICOMOS soon, you may be eligible for 15 months for the price of 12
months as well
There are lots of benefits of joining ICOMOS – not only
the fantastic people you will meet but Membership of Australia ICOMOS brings
discounts at ICOMOS functions, at many conferences in Australia and
internationally and on ICOMOS publications. The E-mail News provides a weekly
bulletin board of information and events in Australia and overseas, including
state based events, conferences and site visits, as well as information on
heritage publications, funding and grant opportunities, course details and job
offers. Members also receive a number of issues annually of the Australia
ICOMOS refereed journal Historic Environment. Applications for members to join
the Australia ICOMOS Executive Committee (EC) are encouraged from all states
and territories. For Young Professional and full Members, the International
ICOMOS card gives free or reduced rate entry to many historic and cultural
sites.
Australia ICOMOS welcomes new members and would like to
encourage students and young cultural heritage graduates to apply for
membership. There are various membership categories and applications can be to
be made to the Secretariat:
• Those
who are interested in ICOMOS but who do not meet the requirements for full
membership, or else do not have heritage conservation as their core focus,
could apply to become Associates of ICOMOS.
• Those
at the beginning of a career in architecture, archaeology, planning or history
with 3 years experience and who are under 30 years of age may be eligible for
Young Professional membership at reduced rates.
• Heritage
professionals, with at least 3 years of heritage experience may be eligible for
full Membership.
The membership forms and details are available on the web
page www.icomos.org/australia and
from Georgia Meros at the Secretariat, phone (03) 9251 7131 or austicomos@deakin.edu.au. All
applications are received at the Secretariat and referred to the Executive
Committee (EC) for consideration. Completed applications must be received 4-6
weeks before the Executive Committee meeting date to allow consideration. If
received after this, they are held over to the next meeting.
Please note, to be considered at the May 2009 Executive
Committee meeting, applications would need to be in to the Secretariat by the 2
APRIL 2009.
Think about it now.
Please send in applications to the Australia ICOMOS
Secretariat or if further information is required contact the Membership
Secretary, Helen Wilson at wilsonhelen@optusnet.com.au.
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3) Community Heritage Grants
The National Library is calling for applications for the 2009
Community Heritage Grants. Grants of up to $15 000 are available to community
groups around the country to help preserve and manage locally held, nationally
significant cultural heritage collections for future generations.
Community organisations such as historical societies,
museums, public libraries, archives, Indigenous and migrant community groups
which provide public access to their cultural heritage collections are eligible
to apply.
A wide range of projects may qualify for grants, including:
significance assessments; preservation needs assessments; conservation and
preservation activities and collection management training.
Applications close on 5 June 2009.
For further information, including the Guidelines and
Application form, please visit http://www.nla.gov.au/chg
or phone the CHG Coordinator on (02) 6262 1147 or email chg@nla.gov.au.
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4) Last chance to pre-order Significance
2.0 – a message from the Collections Council of Australia
Significance 2.0: a guide to assessing the significance of
collections (2009), is a useful tool for managing cultural and scientific
collections, wherever they are held. Significance 2.0 will be available
in print and web forms.
• To
be in the running for a free hard copy of Significance 2.0 for your
collecting organisation, send an email to info@collectionscouncil.com.au
with your collecting organisation’s name and contact details
• Visit
http://www.collectionscouncil.com.au/Portals/0/Significance%20flyer_March2009.pdf
if you would like to pre-order a personal copy of Significance 2.0
(estimated RRP $AUD 29.95) – offer now extended to 31 March 2009.
(Contact will be made during April to confirm your order)
Look for Significance 2.0 at www.collectionscouncil.com.au
from May 2009.
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5) Report from ISC
Theory conference with ICROM, Florence 6-8 March 2009
Andrew Sneddon has returned from Florence where the ISC on
Theory and Conservation has just completed a three day conference dealing with
the 'image' of heritage in a world of mass tourism. Speakers from across the
world presented papers on a range of topics including how heritage places have
been perceived by different people (Goethe in Italy, DH Lawrence in Etruria
etc) and peoples (the Khmer at Angkor, the Nepalese in Kathmandu, the Taliban
at Bamiyan etc).
Changing perceptions of places were also highlighted (for
example, the remnants of the Berlin Wall, once despised, are now heritage
items). The papers contemplated how heritage can be managed within the context
of mass tourism, which has introduced an entirely new way of perceiving
heritage places (coach tours, package holidays etc).
The papers generally agreed that heritage practitioners must
engage with 'the tourist' in creative ways, after careful conservation
planning, in order to engender an appreciation for heritage conservation, and
that this cannot be achieved without close collaboration with the local
communities that live with that heritage on a daily basis.
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6) Researching the History of
Your House Workshops 2009
Do you know when your house was built? Are you interested in
discovering who built and designed your house? Are you looking to undertake
renovations in keeping with the original style of your property? Would you like
to discover the early owners and occupiers of your house? Do you know when
various alterations have occurred to your property?
If you are interested in finding the answers to any of these
questions, then come along to the workshops being hosted by the Town of Vincent
in May 2009.
The workshops will provide one-on-one assistance for
community members to undertake research through various mediums such as
subdivision plans, sewerage plans, pictorial collections, street files, Wise's
Post Office Directories and other resources at the Local History Centre. In
addition, the Town is offering FREE Archive Searches for old building plans of
your property. On registering for the workshops, the Town will process the
retrieval of the building plans and will bring the plans to the workshops.
The workshops will be held at the Library and Local History
Centre located on Loftus Street, Leederville at the following dates and times:
Thursday 7 May 2009 6.00-7.30pm (full)
Wednesday 13 May 2009 10.30am-12noon
Thursday 14 May 2009 6.00-7.30pm
Thursday 21 May 2009 1.30-3.00pm
Numbers are limited to 10 persons for each session, so please
contact Heritage Officer Hoping Au on (08) 9273 6069 or email heritage@vincent.wa.gov.au to
reserve your place by Thursday 9 April 2009.
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7) UNESCO Australian Memory of
the World Register 2009 – call for nominations
This is a reminder that nominations for the next round of the
Australian Memory of the World Register close on 31 March 2009.
Successful inscriptions will be announced publicly on 14 October 2009.
Nominations can be for individual documents or collections,
and can be made by institutions or individuals.
Go to http://www.amw.org.au/nomination_form/nom_page/amw_nom.htm
to check the nomination criteria, and to download the nomination form.
And you can ask for help!
If you’d like advice on developing your nomination,
contact a member of the Assessment Sub-Committee. You can find names and
contact details at http://www.amw.org.au/committee/amw_mem.htm#assessment.
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8) Historic Gardens of New
England: Photographic Exhibition
Opening: Friday 17 April 2009 until 14 June 2009
Historic Saumarez Homestead will be the host of an exhibition
of photographs depicting the old country gardens of New England. The National
Trust has invited local members of the Australian Garden History Society to
present a view of New England designed, planted and cultivated and captured by
the camera over many years.
Gardens have always been more than a source of food and
flowers for decoration. Gardens also provide recreation, relaxation, a memorial
to older times and a place for expression by the garden designer and gardener.
The garden provides a link between buildings and environment.
The New England has been blessed with abundant rainfall, a
bracing variation of seasonal climate and the space for many generations to
grow and harvest from the earth.
UNE Heritage Centre Collection HRCP 7090 Dight family garden
Armidale
Location: Saumarez Homestead, New England Highway,
Armidale, NSW
130 Platform Raod, Armidale, NSW 2350, Australia
Telephone: 61 (0)2 67 72 3616
Information about historic Saumarez Homestead and
Directions:
http://www.nsw.nationaltrust.org.au/properties/saumarez/default.asp
Viewing: During the viewing of the exhibition Saumarez
Homestead will be open on weekends for the general public, and by special
arrangement for large or bus groups 7 days a week until mid June. The opening
hours are 10am to 5pm on weekends, but other days for groups by arrangement.
Entry: Donation for entry and Guide Book on Sale at
door
Contacts:
Bill Oates, Heritage Centre, University of New England &
Regional Archives, Telephone: 61 (0)2 6773 6444;
e-mail: woates@une.edu.au
Angela Sole, Secretary, AGHS – New England;
e-mail: asole@auzzie.net
Australian Garden History Society
www.gardenhistorysociety.org.au
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9) Project Officer,
Heritage Victoria
Project Officer
• $62,116 - $70,477
plus 9% super
• Fixed
term: Up to April 2010 / Full time (Part time applications of a min 4 days a
week will be considered)
Heritage Victoria has responsibility for administration of
the Heritage Act 1995, which enables the identification and protection of a
wide range of cultural heritage places and objects in Victoria (excluding those
covered by the Aboriginal Heritage Act 2006). It advises private owners, local
and State government, industry and the general community on heritage matters.
Do you have a tertiary qualification in planning, heritage
management or other heritage related discipline? Do you have sound policy
development and project management skills? Can you build and maintain
relationships with ease? If so, this may be the role for you.
As Project Officer you will be responsible for the
development and management of strategic projects and new initiatives within
Heritage Victoria. They will provide high level advice on individual projects,
legislation, policy and standards, and engage with a range of internal and
external stakeholders.
To apply and access position descriptions and selection
criteria visit www.careers.vic.gov.au
and refer to reference number DPCD/PLG/500732
Closing date for applications is Monday 23 March 2009.
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10) Provision of
Regional Heritage Advisory Services for Peel Region
Tender No: HCWA003109
Heritage Council of Western Australia requires the services
of a skilled and experienced Regional Heritage Advisor who can provide
conservation advice and promote heritage-based tourism in the region of Peel
Documents are available by email from tendersoffice@dtf.wa.gov.au or
online at http://www.gem.wa.gov.au/.
Closing date: Friday 27 March 2009 at 11am.
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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
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Email: austicomos@deakin.edu.au
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