INTERDISCIPLINARY LAB

The Interdisciplinary Lab provides tools to design and manage an “ideal” project of analysis, planning, and assessment in the framework of managing the Cultural heritage resources. The laboratory will have a special focus on archaeological heritage resource management.

The Interdisciplinary laboratory will focus on a specific test-case: the archaeological park attached to the National Archaeological Museum in Altino. The students will be guided in a global management procedure by which they will identify the different issues related to the design and implementation of possible conservation practices, monitoring activities and public use/engagement of the ancient excavated Roman town. There will be a focus on conserving the mosaics of the Augesstean Domus on the Archaeological area open to the public.

The course will holistically tackle issues related to the conservation management aspects about:
- the definition of the concept of “archaeological value”, both from a scientific point of view and from the different stakeholders;
- the dynamics of the negotiation around the necessity of maintaining available and open archaeological structures;
- the aspects around the “authenticity” issues on the ri-appropriation dynamics of physical archaeological cultural heritage, considering the issues related to the CH heritage use and availability;
- the negotiation aspects around the public use of the Cultural Heritage;
- conservation issues related to the setting up of an open-air archaeological park;
- monitoring aspects related to the short, medium and long-term conservation;
- a global assessment of LCA (Lyfe Cycle Assessment) related to different possible conservation scenarios;
- a global assessment of the SLCA (Social-Life-Lyfe Cycle Assessment);
- monitoring of impacts of the cultural and technical decision implemented;

There are no specific prerequisistes.
The lab will foresseen 2 or 3 visits to the archaeological museum of Altino.

All the didactic materials will be available on Moodle.

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