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UNESCO Chair Inauguration

UNESCO Chair Inauguration on Preventive Conservation, Maintenance and Monitoring of Monuments and Sites 25th March 2009 - THEME B Social Aspects of Preventive Conservation Building and maintenance in vernacular architecture: key issues, threats and community involvement .

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UNESCO Chair Inauguration

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  1. UNESCO ChairInauguration on Preventive Conservation, Maintenance and Monitoring of Monuments and Sites 25th March 2009 - THEME B Social Aspects of Preventive Conservation Building and maintenance in vernacular architecture: key issues, threats and community involvement. MARIANA CORREIA, arch. Oxford Brookes University OISD-IVAU–United Kingdom

  2. Building and maintenance in vernacular architecture: key issues, threats and community involvement OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY: OISD – IVAU _ Mariana Correia CONTENT 1. Building and maintenance in vernacular architecture 2. Key issues in social and cultural aspects 3. Threats to traditional knowledge 4. Community involvement 5. Challenges 1

  3. Building and maintenance in vernacular architecture: key issues, threats and community involvement OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY: OISD – IVAU _ Mariana Correia 1. Building and maintenance in vernacular architecture In vernacular architecture practical measures and procedural methods are already embedded in construction knowledge, as local builders are actively involved and engaged in the building and maintenance of traditional built environments. 2kms north from Aît Ben Haddou, MOROCCO - Photos: Mariana Correia, 2006 2

  4. Building and maintenance in vernacular architecture: key issues, threats and community involvement OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY: OISD – IVAU _ Mariana Correia At the present time, people are losing the knowledge of how to build and maintain in vernacular architecture and why it is done in a certain way. South of Portugal - Photo: Mariana Correia Center of Portugal - Photo: Fernando Galhano 3

  5. Building and maintenance in vernacular architecture: key issues, threats and community involvement OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY: OISD – IVAU _ Mariana Correia Ourique, Portugal. Drawing: Mariana Correia, 1999 Amalfi, Italy. Photo: Mariana Correia, 2002 4

  6. Building and maintenance in vernacular architecture: key issues, threats and community involvement OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY: OISD – IVAU _ Mariana Correia • In vernacular architecture, social and cultural key issues include aspects related with: • Intangible knowledge (how to collect and conserve this immaterial knowledge?); • Knowledge transfer (how are skills and knowledge passed on to the next generation); • Social participation (individual or family actions, other times gender actions, etc). 2. Key issues in Social and Cultural aspects Musgum de Pus, Cameroon. Photo: Hubert Guillaud 5

  7. Building and maintenance in vernacular architecture: key issues, threats and community involvement OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY: OISD – IVAU _ Mariana Correia 3. Threats to traditional knowledge Ait Ben Haddou, Morocco - Photos: Mariana Correia, 2006 6

  8. Building and maintenance in vernacular architecture: key issues, threats and community involvement OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY: OISD – IVAU _ Mariana Correia Alcácer do Sal, Alentejo, Portugal - Photos: Mariana Correia, 2006 7

  9. Building and maintenance in vernacular architecture: key issues, threats and community involvement OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY: OISD – IVAU _ Mariana Correia 4. Community involvement Figuig Oasis, Morocco - Photos: Mariana Correia, 2006 8

  10. Building and maintenance in vernacular architecture: key issues, threats and community involvement OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY: OISD – IVAU _ Mariana Correia Djénné Mosque, Mali - Photos: Mariana Correia, 2008 9

  11. Building and maintenance in vernacular architecture: key issues, threats and community involvement OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY: OISD – IVAU _ Mariana Correia How to preserve the fragile social and cultural balance in vernacular architecture, in order to achieve sustainability? Can traditional preventive maintenance still be incorporated in contemporary architecture? Architects, builders and homeowners involved in architecture with natural materials, will have to learn sustainable daily maintenance practices from vernacular architecture. São Luís, Portugal. Photo: Filipe Jorge. Architect: Alexandre Bastos. 5. Challenges for future actions 10

  12. Building and maintenance in vernacular architecture: key issues, threats and community involvement OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY: OISD – IVAU _ Mariana Correia At the present time, vernacular traditional knowledge is becoming widely respected, as a resourceful database. Often know-how from the original building cultures surrounding sites is incorporated in the maintenance of monumental heritage and even in world heritage listed management sites. Safeguarding the natural and cultural heritage, as well as the intangible knowledge for preventive conservation is a fundamental contribution to cultural diversity and human and environmental sustainability. 11 City of Shiban, Yemen and a Ice house, in Yazd, Iran. Images on-line

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