Course description
There are relatively few opportunities for conservation professionals to find specialist training to enhance their knowledge of materials and techniques. West Dean College has developed a series of short courses aimed at meeting this training need.
Conservators, whether they work on delicate clocks or large wall paintings, share a common methodology and ethic. This short course explores how a conservation profession has developed during the last century and examines how ‘western’ conservation values are deployed in the management of global cultural heritage. The course will examine contentious concepts such as ‘irreversibility’, ‘minimal intervention’, value judgements and how conservators impact on the decision-making process.
The course will be run in collaboration with ICON and is inspired by the Sharing Conservation Decisions course run by ICCROM, tailored to meet concerns of UK conservators.
The course will examine the study of ‘the object’ in the context of wide-ranging cultural values and, with reference to a wide range of case-studies, will examine how conservation decisions are made and examine the role of the professional conservator in the process. The course aims to provoke debate.
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