PRESENTATION, PATRIMA2016, LISBOA
- Isabel Tissota,b, Maria F. Guerrac. 2016. Influência das técnicas de fabrico nas estratégias de conservação de ourivesaria (Influence of the manufacture techniques in the strategies of goldsmith conservation). In Ibero-American Congress "Património, suas matérias e imatérias" (Heritage, its material and immaterial), National Laboratory of Civil Engineering, 2 Nov., Lisboa.
a LIBPhys, New University of Lisboa b Archeofactu c ArchAm – UMR 8096 CNRS, MAE, Nanterre, France
Ibero-American Congress "Heritage, its Material and Immaterial"
Cultural Heritage (CH) is accepted by contemporary societies as an affirmation of collective identity and as a support for social imaginaries. It awakens interests that go beyond culture and science, also constituting an inescapable economic reality. The ways in which heritage values ??are constituted, used, transformed, and preserved reflect the time in which they occur and the capacity that, at each moment, society, through interest groups, is willing to use to intervene actively or passively in processes related to heritage. The interest that society manifests in CH still appears as a way of inserting a discontinuous present into a chronological continuity that heritage materializes. This makes heritage an agent of re-encounter that transports us to memories that, a priori, seemed lost in a distant past. This phenomenon includes an immaterial component that refers to a reflection on objects and their materiality, but also to questioning our condition of being in the contemporary world. In the subtext of this phenomenon, we also encounter issues related to socio-environmental degradation, a crisis of values, the outsourcing of heritage, ideals of modernization and innovation, the extensiveness of the heritage-making phenomenon, and the spread of competitive dynamics between heritage contexts. Reflection on heritage preservation therefore requires encompassing the material and immaterial components of heritage within the context of an unstable and rapidly transforming society. Regarding what and how to do heritage, from a technical-scientific point of view, much progress has been made in conservation and restoration interventions, but gaps remain concerning the social and cultural dimensions of heritage contexts. The insufficient discussion of immaterial aspects and the limited involvement of society help explain the reduced weight of criticism leveled at the processes of heritage preservation, culturalization, and touristification of contexts. What heritage is, as we see it, and what we can do for it are central questions for experiencing heritage. Determining what to classify and safeguard, how to do so, requires dynamic and complex processes, and its implementation must integrate the sociocultural diversity of society. Addressing the complexity induced by the binomial of sociocultural development and conservation implies multidisciplinary approaches and the intersection between materiality and immateriality.
