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Theme : conservation
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Protecting the Lord Protector
We're currently doing some work on heritage conservation and the importance of caring for the material world.Two of the core themes will be the symbolic importance of conservation, and the opportunities for engageing people in caring for different heritage and cultural forms and the implications that has for identity.With this in mind, it was interesting to see the work currently being done to clean and restore the statue of Oliver Cromwell on Cromwell Green in front of the Houses of...
from : samjones
20th August 2008
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Social Capital and the Material World
Last week, I spoke at a summit on Conservation Education convened by the Textile Conservation Centre. I presented the interim thinking from our project, Saved for the Nation.I've put the speech and the presentation I gave on the website. They outline one of the ideas we are developing in the project, which is about the symbolism of caring for the material world, and what it means in relation to wider agenda, from identity and communities, to building cultural literacy.
from : samjones
20th June 2008
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Caring for the Material World
Simon Jenkins wrote an article in Good Friday's Guardian in which he made the case that 'the dazzling walls of medieval England deserve a bold restorer'. It's good to see conservation getting coverage. As discussion of identity intensifies, culture and heritage are increasingly being looked to as sources for that identity, and points around which we can commune. However, what is often forgotten in this debate is that much of that culture and heritage exists only because it is cared...
from : samjones
25th March 2008
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Fragile future for textile conservation centre | Art & Architecture | guardian.co.uk Arts
Maev Kennedy's article in The Guardian relating the threat of closure faced by the world-renowned Textile Conservation Centre
from : samjones
14th March 2008
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Future in the Scales
Conservation tends only to figure in the media, and hence the public imagination, when individual cases throw the spotlight on the restorative skill of conservators. The Qing vases at the Fitzwilliam Museum provide a good example. Today, this example of how to restore a Stradivarius violin after it had been crushed figured on the BBC's homepage, no less.The point about conservation, however, is that much of it focuses on preventive work - 'how do you stop vases getting smashed' etc. -...
from : samjones
14th February 2008
