2023

Cultural Heritage Conservation, Management and Enhancement

Name: Cultural Heritage Conservation, Management and Enhancement
Code: HIS13219M
6 ECTS
Duration: 15 weeks/156 hours
Scientific Area: Cultural Heritage

Teaching languages: Portuguese
Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese
Regime de Frequência: Presencial

Sustainable Development Goals

Learning Goals

This seminar aims to put the Master's students in contact with the various typologies of cultural heritage, the concepts of conservation, restoration and reuse of heritage as well as with different types of projects of cultural heritage. It will also analyze the different international, national and local institutions that deal with the cultural heritage.

Contents

1.The different typologies of cultural heritage
2.The principal Chartres of Heritage and the evolution of the concept of cultural heritage
3. The institutions related with the cultural heritage: objectives and activities.
3.1- UNESCO and the classification of the World Heritage
3.2. The Council of Europe
3.3. ICOMOS
3.4. TICCIH-The International Committee for the Conservation of the Industrial Heritage
3.5. National and local institutions, public or private, dealing with the preservation and valorisation of cultural
heritage.
4. The contemporary debates about cultural heritage and the concepts of conservation, restoration and preservation of heritage.
5.The different forms of cultural heritage valorisation
5.1 The conservation in situ
5.2 The musealization
5.3 The reutilisation
6.Tourism and Heritage
6.1 “routes” and other forms of promoting cultural tourism
6.2. The cultural heritage and the development of tourism: positive and negatives aspects

Teaching Methods

Classroom sessions to present and discuss subjects of the Program.
Production of a paper related to one of the program’s themes
Production of reports for each study visit (Module Cultural Landscape)
- The continuous assessment will consider the study visit reports (50%) and the paper (50%)
- Exam: 100% ( written test or oral test).

Teaching Staff