Programme

09:30

10:25

Welcome

Title TBC, Barbara Jouves-Hann, WG Research and Restoration, Key Research and Innovation Sector Tangible Heritage, DIM PAMIR (Région Île-de-France), France

10:45

Session chair - Loïc Bertrand

Session 1: Challenges in Green Education

The first session will focus on key issues in green conservation practices relevant to education, reviewing the state of the art in green conservation leadership, use of green solvents, and current practices and main lines of research for preventive conservation.

10:45 Global perspectives on cultural heritage and climate action – Ann Bourgès, Ministère de la Culture, France and International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS)

11:15 Heritage education and training towards the Green transition: some notes from the CHARTER project – Elis Marçal, European Confederation of Conservator-Restorers Organisations (ECCO)

11:45 The use of green solvents: application and diffusion / Chemistry of bio-sourced solvents? What difference with traditional material? The UNIBO experience – Silvia Prati, University of Bologna, Italy

12:15

Buffet lunch, tbc at Centre Malher

14:00

Session Chair: Maartje Stols-Witlox, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Session 2: Existing Training Programs in Conservation – Round Table

This round-table session will provide an overview of the place given to green solutions in today’s training programs for conservators. Should they prepare future professionals for a legal obligation? Do certain conservation specialties offer cutting-edge programs? What role do green practices play in preventive conservation teaching modules? We will discuss the impact of prioritizing green practices on other aspects of training, and how to encourage and develop green practices in conservation programs. Could master projects play a key role in this development?

• Claire Betelu, Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, France
• Giovanna Di Pietro, Haute école des arts de Berne, Switzerland
• Maggi Loubser, Tangible Heritage Conservation Programme, Van Wouw House, South Africa
• Nathalie Palmade Le Dantec, Formation continue Institut National du Patrimoine, Conservation department, France
• Clare Richardson, Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK

15:10

Coffee break

15:25

Session chair: Aviva Burnstock, Courtauld Institute of Art, UK

Session 3: Tackling Complexity Through Conservation Science and Education

Beyond the training of conservators, our universities need to be aware of the importance of research and preservation of cultural heritage. Education appears to be a means of training future conservation scientists, but also chemists, physicists, life scientists, etc. to tackle the complex chemistry of objects in their environment, providing a useful complement to today’s teaching often more focused on purer, less reactive industrial materials. In this session, we will review some of the benefits and challenges of teaching green conservation in the context of university hard sciences departments.

Short talks:

15:25 Ilaria Bonaduce, University of Pisa, Italy

15:40 Florence Boulc'h, Aix-Marseille Université, France

15:55 Loïc Bertrand and Jonathan Piard, École normale supérieure Paris-Saclay, France

16:10 Q&A

16:30

Embedding Sustainability in Cultural Heritage Conservation Education

Justine Wuebold and Glenn Wharton, the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) / Getty Interdepartmental Program in the Conservation of Cultural Heritage, US

17:00

17:45

Keynote Conference: Reframing conservation through sustainability

Marina Herriges, University of Glasgow, UK

End of the day

09:30

Session chair: Clare Richardson, Courtauld Institute of Art, UK

Session 4: Group Work (4 groups, doc/post-doc drafting reports) –  Looking forward new green conservation contents, Claire Betelu, Loïc Bertrand, Clare Richardson

The session will focus on the preparation of short reports identifying key learning aims and outcomes for the collective production of educational material for conservators and conservation scientists. The themes explored will be four green conservation challenges identified as part of the GoGreen project: 1. green leadership, 2. material sensitivities and green decision making, 3. green treatments: cleaning, 4. green treatments: consolidation.

11:30

Summary of group work by pairs of doctoral students and post-doctoral researchers

12:00

13:00

Buffet lunch

Session 5: Demonstrations of Digital Prototypes for New Teaching Possibilities

• The GoGreen-DSA: A new web-app to support green conservation decision, Roberta Zanini, Instituto Italiano di Technologia, Venice, Italy
• Processing of photoluminescence images from treated artworks for chemistry students, Laure Cazals and Camila Bastidas, ENS Paris-Saclay, France
• Preventive conservation and digital decision-making tools, Lukasz Bratasz, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland

14:00

Session Chair: Giovanna Di Pietro, Haute école des arts de Berne, Switzerland

Focusing on three examples, this session will question how to teach green practices in conservation. Speakers will propose an example of a course (or its principle), designed for a specific audience - conservation masters students, mid-career conservators or scientists from other disciplines. The session will cover methodological, technical and pedagogical aspects.

• 14:00 Sustainability in the conservation-restoration practice, Edith Joseph, Haute Ecole Arc Conservation Restauration, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland HES-SO, Switzerland
• 14:40 The Green book project:  Biofabrication and Conservation- Ancient Techniques, Emerging Materials, Theanne Schiros, Fashion Institute of Techonology, Columbia University, US and Élodie Levêque, Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, France
  
• 15:20 New packaging materials: a participatory approach to training professionals, Maroussia Duranton, C2RMF, Département de la Conservation préventive

16:00

Coffee break

16:30

Session 7: Drafting Meeting Report and Conclusions- Clare Richardson

The session will reflect on the short reports produced in session 4 and move towards recommendations of teaching best practice to fit the challenges of teaching different green themes. Inspired by the contents of the meeting, we will collectively recommend methods of teaching delivery for each of the GoGreen taught modules.

18:00

Closing

18:30

Meeting Ends