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Within the newly established UNESCO chair on preventive conservation, monitoring maintenance of monuments and sites at the Raymond Lemaire International Centre for Conservation various research topics that relate with preventive conservation, with monitoring and with maintenance of monuments and sites can be carried out. Candidates are invited to negotiate with the responsible of the Chair on appropriate proposals based upon their specific background and research experience. The research will be carried out in collaboration with other ongoing research by fellow PhD researchers and with guest researchers.
Possible research tasks include: to study existing monitoring tools and practices that contribute to preventive conservation; to identify and to contribute to the improvement of those tools and strategies. Knowledge in conservation strategy, anthropology and economic aspects of preventive conservation may contribute a lot to the research to be carried out.
The specific practices developed by Monumentenwacht Vlaanderen and Monumentenwacht Nederland can be taken as starting points in the analysis.
The research is connected to an international PRECOMOS network of institutes and organizations dealing with heritage conservation.
In Taiwan, the applicant has worked for years on participatory planning and community building, which is a rising approach of decentralized spatial planning/governance. In the pan-pacific societies, many community planners are empowering local inhabitants to care their environment, to be aware of their spatial issues, to plot their spatial vision and to participate in the planning process and daily spatial management.
Although from the field of urban planning, this approach may make sense with the efforts of Monumentenwacht Vlaanderen in the field of conservation. Many aspects of conservation including safeguarding, monitoring, maintenance, promotion and education can be carried out not only by the authorities but also by people and civil organizations. One of the new missions of conservationist could be to inspire and to empower local stakeholders (eg. owners, inhabitants, organizations, enterprises) to spend their efforts on conservation. This decentralized approach may have certain advantages which can be evaluated by researches.
Hence the applicant is interested in applying community participation in the field of conservation. This approach may have already been practiced more or less in many countries, and the applicant would like to learn the international practices and analyze certain issues (eg. economical, political, legal, social and so on) to see the potential of this bottom-up approach as preventive conservation.
Possible research tasks include: to study existing monitoring tools and practices that contribute to preventive conservation; to identify and to contribute to the improvement of those tools and strategies. Knowledge in conservation strategy, anthropology and economic aspects of preventive conservation may contribute a lot to the research to be carried out.
The specific practices developed by Monumentenwacht Vlaanderen and Monumentenwacht Nederland can be taken as starting points in the analysis.
The research is connected to an international PRECOMOS network of institutes and organizations dealing with heritage conservation.
In Taiwan, the applicant has worked for years on participatory planning and community building, which is a rising approach of decentralized spatial planning/governance. In the pan-pacific societies, many community planners are empowering local inhabitants to care their environment, to be aware of their spatial issues, to plot their spatial vision and to participate in the planning process and daily spatial management.
Although from the field of urban planning, this approach may make sense with the efforts of Monumentenwacht Vlaanderen in the field of conservation. Many aspects of conservation including safeguarding, monitoring, maintenance, promotion and education can be carried out not only by the authorities but also by people and civil organizations. One of the new missions of conservationist could be to inspire and to empower local stakeholders (eg. owners, inhabitants, organizations, enterprises) to spend their efforts on conservation. This decentralized approach may have certain advantages which can be evaluated by researches.
Hence the applicant is interested in applying community participation in the field of conservation. This approach may have already been practiced more or less in many countries, and the applicant would like to learn the international practices and analyze certain issues (eg. economical, political, legal, social and so on) to see the potential of this bottom-up approach as preventive conservation.
Datum:27 okt 2008 → 27 okt 2012
Trefwoorden:preventive conservation, heritage, social aspects
Project type:PhD project