Cultural Encounters and Explorations: Conservation's 'Catch-22'

文化邂逅与探索：保护的“第 22 条军规”

• 批准号: AH/G015201/1
• 负责人: Elizabeth Pye
• 金额: $ 3.12万
• 依托单位: University College London
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2009 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FG015201%2F1
• 关键词: Cultural; Encounters; Explorations; Conservation; Catch

Conservation and collections care are deeply affected by pressures to provide greater access to heritage objects for people now, but at the same time to make sure that objects survive for future users. This highlights a paradox which could be called conservation's 'Catch-22': Access to heritage objects brings social benefit Greater access brings greater social benefit Greater access brings greater damage Greater damage brings reduced social benefitPeople interact with heritage objects in many ways: children are encouraged to handle objects to bring the past to life; museum visitors are eager to see 'the real thing', artists are inspired. Increasingly, encounters with objects are used as triggers for oral history, and are considered to have a restorative function in reconnecting people with their pasts (cultural wellbeing), or in reaching people who are isolated through age, health, social exclusion or sensory impairment (therapeutic wellbeing). However, we know relatively little about the nature of any benefit that may be derived from these encounters, nor do we know enough about the effect on the heritage objects themselves. This has limited our ability to establish effective conservation strategies. The purpose of this research cluster, therefore, will be to explore the issues associated with physical encounters between people and objects. It will examine our understanding of changes to the physical object, our ability to define and measure condition, our conception of deterioration and loss, and the implications for current and future use of collections. This will be balanced by exploration of the social/cultural benefit gained from these encounters. A further purpose will be to explore the impact of remote encounters with digitised objects on the policy, practice and ethics of collections care and management. A key objective is that this research should guide future strategies for heritage conservation.

保护和收藏护理深受压力的影响，为人们提供更多的访问遗产对象，但在同一时间，以确保对象生存的未来用户。这突出了一个可以被称为保护的“第二十二条军规”的悖论：获得遗产物品带来社会利益更大的访问带来更大的社会利益更大的访问带来更大的损害更大的损害带来更少的社会利益人们以多种方式与遗产物品互动：鼓励儿童处理物品，使过去的生活;博物馆的参观者渴望看到“真实的东西”，艺术家们受到启发。与物品的接触越来越多地被用作口述历史的触发器，并被认为具有恢复功能，可以使人们重新与他们的过去联系起来（文化福祉），或接触因年龄、健康、社会排斥或感官障碍而孤立的人（治疗福祉）。然而，我们对这些接触可能带来的任何好处的性质知之甚少，我们对遗产物品本身的影响也知之甚少。这限制了我们制定有效保护战略的能力。因此，本研究组的目的是探索与人与物体之间的物理接触相关的问题。它将检查我们对物理对象变化的理解，我们定义和测量条件的能力，我们对退化和损失的概念，以及对当前和未来使用集合的影响。这将通过探索从这些接触中获得的社会/文化利益来平衡。另一个目的将是探讨与数字化对象的政策，实践和收集护理和管理的道德远程相遇的影响。一个关键的目标是，这项研究应该指导未来的战略遗产保护。