Australia
ICOMOS E-Mail News No. 382
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An information service provided by the Australia ICOMOS
Secretariat
Friday 17 April 2009
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1) REMINDER: ICOMOS South Australian Event to Celebrate World Heritage
Day - Monday 20 April
2) REMINDER: World Heritage
Day Event, WA - Monday 20 April
3) Australia ICOMOS -
Canberra Talk Series
4) Seminar announcement -
BACK FROM THE BRINK; Heritage, Culture and Art in Timor-Leste
5) MayDay! MayDay! MayDay!
6) New title: Valuing
Historic Environments
7) News from the ICOMOS
Documentation Centre
8) Conference announcement
- DOMES IN THE WORLD, Florence, 2010
9) ICOM-CC 15th Triennial
Conference New Delhi - proceedings now available
Situations Vacant
10) Senior heritage consultant, Context
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1) REMINDER: ICOMOS South
Australian Event to Celebrate World Heritage Day - Monday 20 April
Theme of Event -
Heritage and Science
Date: Monday 20
April 2009
4.45pm registration
for 5pm start - 7.30pm,
AIA Headquarters,
100 Flinders St, Adelaide
An Australia ICOMOS meeting, supported by the Department for
Environment and Heritage, is to be held at the AIA Headquarters on 20 April
2009 to celebrate World Heritage Day. The theme this year for World
Heritage Day is Heritage and Science.
This meeting, will discuss heritage issues generally related
to this theme, and our guest speaker will be Stephen Forbes, Director of the
Adelaide Botanic Gardens, who will talk about heritage and science at the gardens,
and in particular about the recent architectural project there - adjacent to
the Museum of Botany.
This will be a highly practical interactive meeting for
architects, landscape architects, and other interested parties, and there will
be open discussion about the conservation processes as part of this Botanic
Gardens project.
After the talk, there will be intermission with drinks and
famously generous nibbles followed by a "news session" with local conservation
architects talking about recent projects. Participants are still being
confirmed, and this too will be interactive.
The event will be held at 100 Flinders Street. There
will be a charge of $15.00 for ICOMOS members, $25 for non members. Any
surplus funds will be donated to the Streetwise Asia fund for Heritage
Conservation - and a short introduction about the progress of this fund will be
provided at the start of the meeting.
Please RSVP to McDougall & Vines mcdvines@bigpond.com by 16 April 2009
at the latest to assist with catering purposes. Please also have
correct money to pay at the door. If any participants have examples of
recent heritage projects they wish to present at the meeting, please contact
Liz Vines.
Elizabeth Vines
South Australian Executive Committee representative,
Australia ICOMOS
0419 816 525
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2) REMINDER: World Heritage Day
Event, WA - Monday 20 April
OLD FARM STRAWBERRY HILL
Old Farm, Strawberry Hill, Albany has exceptional heritage
significance. It was the first farm in Western Australia commencing in 1827
within a few months of establishment of the Military settlement of King George
Sound. Stock were kept there and vegetables grown for the survival of
soldiers and later the early settlers. The original house was a pise cottage.
The two storey granite extension was built in 1836.
Old Farm building is constructed of stone walls, timber floor
and roof framing with slate roof cladding. It sits on reactive clay ground that
is subject to swelling when wet and shrinkage when dry. Over a long period
there has been foundation movement with consequent cracking and outward
movement of walls that is now accelerating. Associated rising damp also
continues to damage the building.
The Trust has engaged Airey Taylor Consulting to develop a
means of stabilising the building to prevent eventual collapse. The
stabilisation works involve two separate projects:
1.
The underpinning, straightening and rotating back to
vertical of the south wall of the single storey kitchen and dining room.
2.
The installation of a moisture stabilisation system for
the whole of the building perimeter.
This year's World Heritage Day will focus on the conservation
works at Old Farm Strawberry Hill. Join Eric Hancock with Peter Airey and Dr
Anthea Airey as they explain the techniques being applied to the place.
Refreshments will be served after the presentation.
Date / time:
6.00 pm,
Monday, 20 April 2009
Venue:
East
Perth Cemeteries, Bronte St, East Perth
Cost:
$12 ICOMOS
members; $15 non members
RSVP:
anne.brake@ntwa.com.au or (08) 9212
1116 by Wednesday 15 April
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3) Australia
ICOMOS - Canberra Talk Series
MEMORIALS AND MEMORIES:
REMEMBERING OKLAHOMA CITY, PORT ARTHUR AND BALI
Rosemary Hollow
'The destruction was overwhelming, but I've never seen
such courage, strength and love.'
After tragedies
in three very different countries - the massacre at Port Arthur in 1996, the
Oklahoma City bombing in 1995 and the Bali bombings in 2002 - governments and
communities all responded with building memorials and remembering
anniversaries. The similarities almost stop there. Not only are the memorials
different in design, but so were the processes for planning, for consultation
with communities and the ongoing management of the memorials.
Using
photographs and material from interviews gathered during visits to these sites,
Rosemary will describe the memorialisation of these events, and the initial
response to the destruction of the World Trade Centre on September 11, 2001.
Rosemary Hollow
is close to completing her PhD at the Research School of Humanities at ANU on
How nations mourn: the memorialization and management of contemporary atrocity
sites. Rosemary has worked in natural and cultural heritage management with the
Tasmanian and Australian Governments and is currently with the Culture Division
of the Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts in Canberra.
Members and the
public are welcome. Refreshments will be available. This is part of
a series of talks organised in Canberra by Australia ICOMOS.
Time &
Date:
5.00-6.30 pm, Thursday 23 April 2009 - the talk will actually start at 5.30.
Venue: Barton Room (NOTE
ROOM CHANGE - usually Menzies Room), National Archives of Australia, East
Block, Queen Victoria Terrace, Parkes (enter from Kings Avenue side).
RSVP: To Duncan Marshall at marsd@ozemail.com.au
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4) Seminar announcement -BACK
FROM THE BRINK; Heritage, Culture and Art in Timor-Leste
BACK FROM THE BRINK; Heritage, Culture and Art in
Timor-Leste.
Hosted by the Museum and Art Gallery Northern Territory,
focusing on the care of cultural heritage collections and the preservation of
heritage sites in Timor-Leste.
Saturday 16 May 2009, 9.30am - 5pm
Free admission - all welcome; Museum and Art Gallery Northern
Territory Theatrette, (08) 8999 8263
Registration forms and seminar program are available from the
events page on the MAGNT website www.magnt.nt.gov.au.
Also see attached flier.
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5) MayDay!
MayDay! MayDay!
During the month of May, Blue Shield Australia is encouraging
archives, galleries, libraries, museums, cultural heritage sites and
organisations across the country to participate in MayDay - a national campaign
for the protection of cultural heritage from disaster.
MayDay aims to raise awareness about disaster
preparedness and to encourage people to perform at least one
disaster-preparedness task in May each year. There are many types of
emergencies that we can be better prepared for, from the potential impact of
faulty electrical wiring in the building next door, to bushfires, cyclones or
even internal or external floods.
The MayDay concept originated with the Society of
American Archivists (SAA) in 2006.
MayDay Australia 2009
We encourage you to promote MayDay to your colleagues
by posting the MayDay 2009 flier on notice boards in your organisation,
and by discussing what you will do to mark MayDay on 1 May 2009, and
throughout the month of May.
In 2009 we are making a Media Kit available to help you
promote your selected MayDay 2009 activity. Obtain this Kit by sending a
request to: blueshield@collectionscouncil.com.au.
Be sure to send a copy of any articles you prepare to this email address too,
so that Blue Shield Australia can help with promotion. We would also like to
hear about the 'lessons learnt' from disasters that have affected your
organization. Photographs are very welcome!
In the wake of Victorian bushfires and Queensland floods, we
are advising cultural heritage practitioners to consider the level of
protection offered by storage facilities this year - and plan to build safer
repositories for the future.
What should I do?
The flier is available at the
following webpage: http://www.collectionscouncil.com.au/Portals/0/MayDay%202009%20on%20BSA%20flier.pdfn>
Then it's
just a matter of acting upon one or more of the suggested activities. Here are
some of the suggestions from this year's flier:
·
Get
to know your local firefighters and police, and invite them to tour your
organisation and give you pointers on safety and preparedness.
·
Identify
the three biggest risks to your collection or heritage site.
·
Find
a 'partner' heritage organisation to work with in case of a disaster. A model
for collaboration is DIS-ACT: http://www.anbg.gov.au/disact/
What is the Blue Shield?
The Blue
Shield is the cultural equivalent of the Red Cross. It is the symbol specified
in the 1954 Hague Convention for marking cultural sites to give them protection
from attack in the event of armed conflict. It is also the name of an
international committee set up in 1996 to work to protect the world's cultural
heritage threatened by wars and natural disasters.
Blue Shield
Committees around the globe comprise four international cultural heritage
'pillar' bodies -
International
Council on Archives (ICA);
International
Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS);
International
Council of Museums (ICOM); and
International
Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA).
In
Australia, these pillar bodies are represented respectively as follows: Council
of Australasian Archives and Records Authorities (CAARA); Australia ICOMOS;
ICOM Australia; Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA).
For more information, contact:
Veronica Bullock, Development Officer,
Collections Council of Australia
blueshield@collectionscouncil.com.au
(08) 8207 7287
Robyn Riddett, AICOMOS member
(03) 9495 6389.
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6) New title: Valuing
Historic Environments
Edited by Lisanne
Gibson, University of Leicester, UK and
John Pendlebury, Newcastle
University, UK
Subject - Heritage,
Culture and Identity
This volume brings together an interdisciplinary team of
leading scholars to discuss frameworks of value in relation to the preservation
of historic environments. It critically analyses the various conceptions of
value in terms of heritage and shows the complexities in attempting to provide
a responsive, sustainable, democratic notion of heritage while delivering on
social and economic objectives.
Full details: http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9780754674245
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7) News from the ICOMOS
Documentation Centre
1) Bibliographic Database of the Documentation
- 1100 new
records added in the last semester (Oct. 2008 - March 2009)
Download the thematic
bibliography: http://www.international.icomos.org/centre_documentation/last0309.pdf
2) More documents, news, downloads, journals,
publications, etc in the Blog:
http://icomosdocumentationcentre.blogspot.com/
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8) Conference
announcement - DOMES IN THE WORLD, Florence, 2010
Promoted by the Fondazione Romualdo Del Bianco, the
International Conference DOMES IN THE WORLD is to take place during the
second half of 2010.
For further information, visit:
http://www.lifebeyondtourism.com/workshop/dett_workshop.asp?tipologia=&id_work=137#top
To register your interest in the conference, complete the
form at
www.lifebeyondtourism.com/workshop/form_intention.asp?idw=137
Event manager
Mr. Andrea Redditi
email: redditi@promoflorenceevents.com
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9) ICOM-CC 15th
Triennial Conference New Delhi - proceedings now available
For further information, visit http://www.alliedpublishers.com/BookDetail.aspx?BookId=1134.
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10) Senior heritage consultant,
Context
Context is looking for an experienced heritage consultant to
be part of our team working on a range of interesting heritage projects,
including:
• local
heritage studies
•
municipal heritage plans and strategies
•
conservation management plans
•
community-based heritage processes: consultation, workshops etc
• social
significance assessment
•
Indigenous heritage management: places, policies, research
You would be part of a small, specialist team, working for
existing and new clients. Communication skills are important as you would have
direct client contact, and be managing project teams comprising internal and
external consultants. You would need skills in time management, delegation,
creative and strategic thinking, and working collaboratively.
The right person will have broad experience and well-honed
skills in heritage assessment, planning and management. Your specialisation
could be in one of many relevant disciplines, including: planning and policy,
cultural landscapes, architecture, history, archaeology, urban or rural
geography, or other allied field.
Previous work as a consultant, including project management,
would be a distinct advantage. Suitable applicants will have 5-8+ years
experience.
As well as heritage, Context works in the fields of community
and environment, and others on our team offer skills in facilitation, community
information, consultation, environmental policy and planning, education and
training and change management and more!
The position is full-time, and based in Brunswick (Victoria).
Some travel locally and interstate is involved.
While we are looking for someone to join our in-house team,
we are also always interested in talking with other consultants about possible
collaborations. And we expect to have a 12 month senior consultant position
available starting in June as well - possibly a secondment or a contract
position.
General enquiries about the position can be directed to Mary
Ward - mary.ward@context-pl.com.au
- (03) 9380 6933. Our website offers a good overview of the firm - www.context-pl.com.au
Please send an application - including a letter addressing your
interests in Context and the requirements described above plus your resume - to
Mary Ward by email or by post (Context Pty Ltd, 22 Merri Street, Brunswick
3056) no later than Monday 27 April, 2009.
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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
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