Important: There will be NO deadline extension this year! All abstracts will be considered. See the AIC submission portal for more information here.
CALL FOR PAPERS: ARCHITECTURE SPECIALTY GROUP (ASG) AND PREVENTIVE CARE NETWORK (PCN) JOINT SESSION
Constancy and Compromise: Conversations about Meeting the Needs of Historic Buildings and Collections
The Architectural Specialty Group (ASG) and the Preventive Care Network (PCN) are pleased to announce that we are seeking abstracts for a joint session at the upcoming 2024 AIC Annual Meeting in Salt Lake City, Utah, from May 20-24, 2024.
We are seeking abstracts that: Address, examine, and discuss existing gaps between the care and maintenance of historic buildings and the preventive care of collections, as well as practical sustainable approaches, the impacts of new innovative materials and environmental systems, and planning challenges for collection care.
Both ASG and PCN will hold general specialty sessions. For this joint session, we are looking for submissions that address:
· Challenges in collaboration and communication between built heritage and collections care professionals.
· Integrating the needs of collections care vs. architectural conservation projects.
· Building maintenance practices and reconciling the needs of collection care.
· Alternative environmental monitoring strategies, especially for underfunded institutions or buildings that represent unique challenges, and within non-tempered regions.
· Institutional policies and address gaps between the care of historic buildings and collections (institutional preservation policies & policies at the state and national level).
· Re-evaluating existing methodologies and approaches, use of new technologies and other topics in conducting building assessments when they are combined with collection assessments.
· Reexamining the Joint AIC/APT Charter on the Preservation of Historic Structures and Artifacts after 30 years (1992).
· Other topics that address preventive care when the historic building is the largest collection item for an institution and its needs collide with those of the other collections.
Abstract submissions should be no more than 500 words, with additional speaker(s) biography of up to 300 words. Submissions are due by Sunday, September 15, 2023.
This session will consist of 20-minute presentations and will include a guided discussion panel. Presenters should plan to be in person for the panel. We will be publishing joint ASG-PCN written post-prints from each talk following the meeting.
For questions or further information, please contact the ASG Program Chair, Héctor J. Berdecia-Hernandez (berdeciah@gmail.com), and PCN Program Chair, Lisa Goldberg (lgoldberg@lgpreservation.com).
CALL FOR PAPERS: ARCHITECTURE SPECIALTY GROUP (ASG) SESSION
The Architectural Specialty Group (ASG) is pleased to announce that we are seeking abstracts for its paper and panel session at the upcoming 2024 AIC Annual Meeting in Salt Lake City, Utah, from May 20-24, 2024.
For this session, we are seeking abstracts from all specialty groups that touch on the broad field that is the built environment! All abstracts will be considered, including those that follow the conference theme of "Expect the Unexpected: Embracing and Managing Change, Uncertainty, and Surprise."
Suggestions for topics:
· Examining the history of the architectural conservation field within the broader conservation and historic preservation fields, its practice, and practitioners.
· Contemporary approaches to the preservation and treatment of historic structures and sites.
· Planning and preventive maintenance of historic buildings and sites.
· New testing methodologies and materials characterization studies.
· Literature reviews or surveys on standard conservation treatments, historic building materials, and construction methodologies, among other relevant subjects.
· Approaches that address the challenges of conserving historic buildings and collections care.
· New technologies for the assessment and documentation of historic buildings, structures, and sites.
· Treatment challenges and lessons learned.
· Compromises or modifications to traditional conservation approaches made for sustainability reasons: how these decisions were made, by whom, and the positive and negative impacts.
· Projects as a learning opportunity: lessons learned from "unexpected" situations, unsuccessful treatments, etc.
· Case Studies involving partnerships with other conservation professionals and collaboration across specialties and disciplines are strongly encouraged.
Abstract submissions should be no more than 500 words, with an additional speaker biography of up to 300 words. Submissions are due by Sunday, September 15, 2023.
Talks are to be a maximum of 15 minutes in length in order to have 40 minutes for the panel discussion. Presenters should plan to be in person for the panel. We will be publishing joint ASG written post-prints from each talk following the meeting.
For questions or further information, please contact the ASG Program Chair, Héctor J. Berdecia-Hernandez (berdeciah@gmail.com), and/or ASG Chair, Brooke Russell (brussell@evergreene.com).
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Héctor J. Berdecía-Hernández (he/him)
Program Chair
Architecture Specialty Group (ASG)
Architectural Conservator
Centro de Conservación y Restauración de Puerto Rico
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