What technologies for knowledge and conservation of cultural heritage?

Abstract

The concept of cultural heritage is progressively extending from the individual asset to the environmental context in which it is located, implying the protection of the historic urban landscape and the surrounding territory. The relationship with places, in particular, requires new analyses of territorial hazards and risks to heritage.

Consequently, knowledge for the conservation of cultural heritage must increasingly expand in various directions — from diagnostics of individual objects to studies on the construction history of architecture and urban complexes, from archaeological investigations to analyses of territorial transformations over time.

In areas exposed to geological and environmental risks, understanding the state of conservation of architecture, building complexes, and monumental sites becomes increasingly urgent. This necessity opens the door to new skills and professional approaches aimed at achieving proactive conservation.

The session aims to gather multidisciplinary contributions on the topic of knowledge for the conservation and restoration of cultural heritage (understood in a broad sense), encouraging dialogue among different disciplines involved in studying, documenting, and preserving heritage across its material, historical, and environmental dimensions.