In June 2022 the author, a conservator-restorer of cultural heritage based in Canada, travelled to region Puno for professional visit develop expertise conservation at-risk heritage.

Should the practice of the historic preservation of built and landscape heritage necessarily be based on conservation? Monuments, listed buildings, landscapes, and other forms of built heritage, are typically regarded as immutable and untouchable—objects to be “conserved”—and as a result tend to fade from public imagination and memory (Rietveld et al., 2017). Current conservative preservation p...

There are examples of using stones of the cultural heritage for teaching purposes. Information systems have found several potential uses in the promotion and preservation of cultural heritage. In this paper is considered the conceptual framework of an information system concerning features of geological interest (FGI) in the built heritage (without any consideration in terms of its software imp...

Mysore city is known as the ‘city of palaces’. It is an ancient, historical, cultural capital and a heritage city in India. The city has been recognised as a heritage city under the cultural tag both by the state and national governments. The total harmony of architectural buildings, sites, lakes, parks and open spaces and the back drop of Chamundi hills adds to the city’s attraction. The city ...

The conservation of built heritage is becoming increasingly important, and may even be an obligation for future generations. Techniques must therefore be developed to help document heritage and thus improve knowledge and conservation. The terrestrial laser scanning technique allows a massive capture of points of an object. Among its main applications are to obtain geometries of historic buildin...

This article explicitly connects a growing body of specific literature, the political ecology of conservation, tosome of the often overlooked, main conceptual components emerging from political anthropology andgeography (sources of legitimacy, governmentality, territoriality, or state making), political economy(commoditization, market integration, niche markets, or gentrificatio...

Surveillance systems that automatically detect illegal behaviors performed by unaware people have a wide range of applications: security, healthcare, conservation of cultural heritage and so on. In particular monitoring public areas such as museums and archaeological sites is a challenging problem that has to be solved in order to avoid irreparable damages to historical heritage. In this paper ...

The military control throughout the nearly half-century cross-strait stand-off during the Cold War since 1949 has left Kinmen with a large number of unintentionally preserved traditional Minnan (Southern Fujian) buildings and villages along with an extensive group of military buildings, battlefield infrastructure at this forefront against communist invasion. The island has a rich architectural ...

The National Research Council of Canada (NRC) has developed several high-resolution 3D imaging systems as well as data modeling and display software for heritage recording applications. Numerous pilot applications development projects have been undertaken in collaboration with several Canadian museums as well as with international partners in China, Italy, the USA, the UK, France and Israel. Th...