Author: Media Icomos Ireland
This is to notify you that TheoPhilos will be holding a conference ‘Authenticity from a European Perspective: 30 Years of the Nara Document on Authenticity’, in Thessaloniki, Greece, from November 28-29, 2024. We hope that the conference will bring together participants from across ICOMOS and beyond, and we would very much welcome a contribution Please therefore consider submitting a paper proposal; details are on the TheoPhilos website, please note that the deadline for submission of proposals is Sunday 15th September.
We also draw your attention to the international symposium, convened by Prof. Toshiyuki Kono (honorary president of ICOMOS) and co-sponsored by ICOMOS Japan, to be held in Takasaki City, Gunma, Japan on 10-11 January, 2025 on ‘The Further Evolution of Authenticity through the Lens of Heritage Ecosystems: Heritage, Communities, and Sustainable Development’
Please find the link for the above Summit on the 11th of September 2024 in the Printworks Dublin Castle
https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/heritage-ireland-2030-summit-2024-access-to-heritage-tickets-902256873597
For those wishing to pay their 2023/2024 membership ahead of the upcoming AGM on Thursday 10th September the bank account details for online payment have been added to the member page while the ‘Paypal’ method is out of order. Please click on the word Membership in the link below to be taken directly to the membership page and scroll to the end to find the Bank Account Details.
Dear Members,
This post complements the letter which serves notice of the 16th AGM of ICOMOS Ireland as an Incorporated Body with Charitable Status. It will take place at 6.00 p.m. on Tuesday 10th September 2024. The AGM will take place at the RIAI, 8 Merrion Square, Dublin 2 and online. A Zoom meeting link will be forwarded to all members in due course. The AGM will be followed by a Special Resolution on Membership Fees.
International Day of Monuments and Sites 2024:
Disasters & Conflicts Through the Lens of the Venice Charter
ICOMOS Ireland WEBINAR from 16 April 2024
can be viewed here
Outline of Webinar
“Disaster and Conflict Resilient Heritage – Preparedness, Response and Recovery” was chosen as the theme for the ICOMOS Triennial Scientific Plan 2024-2027, the General Assembly 2023 in Sydney.
The Venice Charter emerged in 1964, two decades after WWII and in an age that promised limitless progress and economic development. Six decades later, we face a climate emergency, a growing number of natural disasters as well as conflicts destroying cultural sites and displacing communities on a massive scale.
“The intention in conserving and restoring monuments is to safeguard them no less as works of art than as historical evidence” (Article 3) while maintaining them on a “permanent basis” (Article 4).
The International Day for Monuments and Sites (IDMS) is each year celebrated in April, provides us with a unique opportunity to raise awareness of this foundational instrument which is at the core of ICOMOS’ history and identity and to consider the threats to our cultural heritage.
ICOMOS Ireland will be celebrating the 60th anniversary of the Venice Charter later in 2024.
PROGRAMME:
Professor Loughlin Kealy – ‘Post trauma recovery and ideals of conservation’
Professor Loughlin Kealy is Emeritus Professor of Architecture and FRIAI, advises national and international bodies, helping to shape public policy on architecture and the protection of the built cultural inheritance.
Dr Will Megarry – ‘Conservation in a New Climate: Rethinking Heritage Practice in the Climate Emergency’ – Dr Will Megarry is Senior Lecturer at QUB, archaeologist, geographical information systems (GIS) and heritage management specialist. ICOMOS Focal Point for Climate Change and Expert Member on ISC on Archaeological Heritage Management.
Dr Elizabeth Shotton – ‘The Impact of Climate Change on Ireland’s Piers and Quays’
Associate Professor Elizabeth Shotton teaches construction technology and design in the UCD Architecture programme and is leading a study on Ireland’s Minor Harbours (https://digital.ucd.ie/view/ucdlib:255666), examining the evolution of maritime engineering in small harbours from the seventeenth century to the present.
Anthony Corns – ‘Methods and tools for the monitoring of climate change effects on the Historic Environment’
Anthony Corns is Technology Manager, The Discovery Programme: Centre for Archaeology and Innovation Ireland – Anthony is currently the Discovery Programme Project manager for CHERISH and the ESFRI E-RIHS (European Research Infrastructure for Heritage Science) project for monitoring coastal erosion affecting archaeological sites and the risk hazard mapping undertaken for NMS.
Angela Rolfe, convener of the ICOMOS Ireland 20th Century Heritage Work Group, presents on the approach, research and findings of the work groups Preliminary Desktop Survey of 20th Century Buildings in Co. Laois. John Beattie, 20th Century Work Group member, then presents on the Joint ICOMOS Ireland and NIAH walking tour delivered as part of Heritage Week 2023.
The presentation explores the town’s 20th Century architecture including the county’s only round house, educational buildings by Vincent Kelly and the acclaimed County Hospital of 1936 by Michael Scott and Norman Good.
ICOMOS Ireland is delighted to announce the online publication of the 2023 Annual Maura Shaffrey Memorial Lecture, presented by Susan Macdonald, Co-President of ICOMOS International Scientific Committee on Twentieth Century Heritage (ISC20C) and Head of Buildings and Sites at the Getty Conservation Institute.
The recording of this lecture can be viewed here.
Involving research, field projects, training and dissemination, Susan oversees more than 20 projects that aim to advance conservation practice internationally. Susan holds a BSc (Architecture) and a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Sydney, and a Masters in Conservation Studies (University of York/ICCROM). She is a certified practicing planner and has worked as a conservation architect in private practice in Australia and in England. She has also worked in the public sector where she has been involved in a wide range of conservation issues at the strategic and bottom-up level, involving urban planning, development, economics, policy, technical matters and world heritage issues. Susan has as an interest in 20th-century heritage and is a member of the DOCOMOMO International Specialist Technical Committee. She was elected as Co-President of the ICOMOS 20th Century Committee at the AGM held at the Sydney Opera House during the recent ICOMOS GA2023. https://isc20c.icomos.org/
CONSERVING TWENTIETH CENTURY HERITAGE FOR AN EQUITABLE, SUSTAINABLE FUTURE Much of the world’s-built environment dates from the second half of the twentieth century, a period of unprecedented environmental, social, cultural and economic change – sometimes described at the Great Acceleration. It is in dealing with the heritage of the last 50 or so years that we confront some of the most critical and urgent issues of the day. Taking, arguably, two of the most pressing challenges facing contemporary society – our need to respond to the climate change emergency and the imperative for social justice and inequity – I seek to examine how recognizing and conserving 20th century heritage can contribute to addressing these issues. Where does conservation fit in these imperatives? How do we as heritage practitioners, policy makers and stewards of the built environment contribute to or hinder overcoming them. In grappling with these challenges for twentieth century heritage, new approaches and frameworks for heritage practice more generally will inevitably emerge. So too we will find more support for and success in stewarding twentieth-century heritage. Alan Mee provided a response to Susan’s lecture. Alan is Senior Lecturer in Urban Design at the School of Architecture, Planning and Environmental Policy, at University College Dublin and Architecture Advisor to the Arts Council.
CONSERVING TWENTIETH CENTURY HERITAGE FOR AN EQUITABLE, SUSTAINABLE FUTURE
18.00 Thursday 2 November 2023
Hibernian Conference Hall, Dublin Castle
ICOMOS Ireland is delighted to announce that the 2023 Annual Maura Shaffrey Memorial Lecture will be presented by Susan Macdonald Co-President of ICOMOS International Scientific Committee on Twentieth Century Heritage (ISC20C) and Head of Buildings and Sites at the Getty Conservation Institute. Involving research, field projects, training and dissemination, Susan oversees more than 20 projects that aim to advance conservation practice internationally. Susan holds a BSc (Architecture) and a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Sydney, and a Masters in Conservation Studies (University of York/ICCROM). She is a certified practicing planner and has worked as a conservation architect in private practice in Australia and in England. She has also worked in the public sector where she has been involved in a wide range of conservation issues at the strategic and bottom-up level, involving urban planning, development, economics, policy, technical matters and world heritage issues. Susan has as an interest in 20th-century heritage and is a member of the DOCOMOMO International Specialist Technical Committee. She was elected as Co-President of the ICOMOS 20th Century Committee at the AGM held at the Sydney Opera House during the recent ICOMOS GA2023. https://isc20c.icomos.org/
CONSERVING TWENTIETH CENTURY HERITAGE FOR AN EQUITABLE, SUSTAINABLE FUTURE
Much of the world’s-built environment dates from the second half of the twentieth century, a period of unprecedented environmental, social, cultural and economic change – sometimes described at the Great Acceleration. It is in dealing with the heritage of the last 50 or so years that we confront some of the most critical and urgent issues of the day. Taking, arguably, two of the most pressing challenges facing contemporary society – our need to respond to the climate change emergency and the imperative for social justice and inequity – I seek to examine how recognizing and conserving 20th century heritage can contribute to addressing these issues. Where does conservation fit in these imperatives? How do we as heritage practitioners, policy makers and stewards of the built environment contribute to or hinder overcoming them. In grappling with these challenges for twentieth century heritage, new approaches and frameworks for heritage practice more generally will inevitably emerge. So too we will find more support for and success in stewarding twentieth-century heritage.
Alan Mee will respond to Susan’s lecture. Alan is Senior Lecturer in Urban Design at the School of Architecture, Planning and Environmental Policy, at University College Dublin and Architecture Advisor to the Arts Council.
A reception will be held after a brief Q+A session.
Please book your ticket here: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/icomos-ireland-annual-maura-shaffrey-memorial-lecture-2023-tickets-733034033527
Angela Rolfe gave a presentation on the contested cultural heritage of the Irish National War Memorial Gardens Islandbridge, Dublin, at the ICOMOS Ireland Member’s Meeting in February 2023.
To view a recording of this talk, please click here.
The Irish National War Memorial Gardens [INWMG] Dublin, Ireland was constructed during the turbulent period of the Irish War of Independence, Partition and the creation of the Irish Free State. It was a joint initiative between the Free State Government and the Irish National War Memorial Trust. Although it was completed in 1938, its history has been marked by periods of delay, official support, antagonism – two bombs in 1950s, neglect, amnesia and vandalised during the build-up to the height of the Troubles in Northern Ireland. It was restored in the years leading up to the Good Friday Agreement, but was only officially opened and recognised in 1988. IWMG was the last memorial designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens, architect responsible for more than 190 cemeteries and memorials in Britain, the Western Front and many former British colonies. The memorial was constructed by ex-soldiers – 50% British and 50% Irish servicemen – between 1930-8.
The architect’s original designs for this landscaped memorial illustrate a synthesis of Lutyens lifetime’s work, from the English Arts and Craft tradition, classical architecture and the formality of symmetry of the layout of New Delhi and the careful dignity of cemeteries on the Western Front. The full-size drawings of stone details and finely honed detailed design by Lutyens provide evidence of the care and attention that was given to every aspect that was carried through into the construction. The Irish National War Memorial Gardens is an All-Ireland Memorial, it has been and remains an important barometer of the complex relationships between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland/United Kingdom.
Angela Rolfe is an architect, formerly with the OPW, and a Board member of ICOMOS Ireland.