Integrating Lifetimes in Heritage Capital

将一生融入遗产之都

• 批准号: AH/Y000439/1
• 负责人: Josep Grau-Bove
• 金额: $ 47.56万
• 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: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FY000439%2F1
• 关键词: Integrating; Lifetimes; Heritage; Capital

ITHACA aims to articulate the economic value of caring for heritage. This project brings together an interdisciplinary team, including Associate Prof. Josep Grau-Bove (expert in damage prediction in heritage), Dr. Ricky Lawton (expert in developing evaluation frameworks for the UK cultural sector), Prof. Jane Henderson (expert in conservation and how it interacts with significance), and Prof. Kalliopi Fouseki (expert in critical heritage studies and the definition of heritage values). ITHACA responds to Strand D of the "Research culture and heritage capital with an interdisciplinary team" call, building on the ideas outlined in the Scoping culture and heritage capital report. This research will generate new knowledge and understanding of how heritage changes, and how the prevention of this change brings value to society. The key innovation of the project is the consideration of the condition of heritage as a dynamic entity. Condition changes during the lifetime of heritage, and therefore the benefits that depend on it also change. Currently, there are no well-stablished methodologies to capture this relationship, and there is no existing data that reflects it. The project is geared to impact and translational research. The ambition of the project is to advance towards an evaluation framework that considers the lifetimes of heritage. This framework needs to be not only theoretically sound, but aligned well with the needs of heritage organisations and policy makers. The main concepts used in this project, the notions of "value", "change" and "heritage asset", are complex terms that are used differently by the disciplines that collaborate in the research. The project will explore these intersections of meaning, uniting the idea of value used by heritage scientists, which is qualitative and refers to the different dimensions of significance, and the idea of value used in cultural economics, which can be quantified in economic terms. The methodology is highly interdisciplinary. To understand how economic benefits depend on the lifetime of heritage, we first need to be able to define and predict lifetimes. This is achieved with damage functions, models that predict the degradation of heritage. This project will be a watershed moment for heritage science: it will expand the number of damage functions available to predict lifetimes, and it will integrate them in a policy context. One important challenge is that not all damage functions are developed to the same level. So far, the only complete damage function is for archival materials. This project will develop damage functions for three materials that are representative of the collections in UK museums: paintings, wood-based artefacts and art on paper. ITHACA will answer the following research questions: (1) Which heritage asset typologies lend themselves to a prediction of lifetimes? (2) How do the flows of economic benefits change during the lifetime of heritage assets? (3) What is the value of care beyond extending lifetimes, including adaptation, reuse, increased access, and deaccessioning? The developed damage functions will be used to make predictions of lifetimes in realistic scenarios. In collaboration with the Imperial War Museum, the functions will be applied to collections under relevant conservation strategies, contexts of exhibition, curation, and interpretation. This will reveal how lifetimes change with different conservation strategies, considering the balance between accessibility and preservation, and covering storage, intervention, as well as end-of-life decision such as deaccessioning. This data will then be used as part of a prototype valuation survey, which will elicit the values associated with care and its outcomes. The survey will stablish how the change in condition defines the estimation of value of users and non-users, and what are the challenges in conducting such measurements.

该协会旨在阐明保护遗产的经济价值。该项目汇集了一个跨学科的团队，包括Josep Grau-Bove副教授（遗产损害预测专家），Ricky Lawton博士（为英国文化部门制定评估框架的专家），Jane亨德森教授（保护及其与重要性如何相互作用的专家）和Kalliopi Fouseki教授（关键遗产研究和遗产价值定义的专家）。CRAACA响应了“跨学科团队研究文化和遗产资本”的号召，建立在范围文化和遗产资本报告中概述的想法基础上。这项研究将产生新的知识和理解如何遗产的变化，以及如何防止这种变化带来的社会价值。该项目的主要创新之处在于将遗产作为一个动态实体来考虑。在遗产的生命周期中，条件会发生变化，因此依赖于它的利益也会发生变化。目前，还没有成熟的方法来捕捉这种关系，也没有现有的数据来反映它。该项目面向影响和转化研究。该项目的目标是建立一个考虑遗产生命周期的评估框架。这一框架不仅需要在理论上合理，而且需要与遗产组织和政策制定者的需求保持一致。在这个项目中使用的主要概念，“价值”，“变化”和“遗产资产”的概念，是复杂的术语，在研究中合作的学科不同的使用。该项目将探索这些意义的交叉点，将遗产科学家使用的价值概念（定性的，涉及意义的不同维度）和文化经济学中使用的价值概念（可以用经济术语量化）结合起来。该方法是高度跨学科的。为了理解经济效益如何取决于遗产的寿命，我们首先需要能够定义和预测寿命。这是通过损害函数来实现的，损害函数是预测遗产退化的模型。该项目将成为遗产科学的一个分水岭：它将扩大可用于预测寿命的破坏函数的数量，并将它们整合到政策背景中。一个重要的挑战是，并非所有的损害函数都发展到同一水平。到目前为止，唯一完整的损坏功能是针对档案材料的。该项目将为英国博物馆收藏的三种代表性材料开发损坏函数：绘画，木制文物和纸上艺术。CITACA将回答以下研究问题：（1）哪些遗产资产类型有助于预测寿命？(2)在遗产资产的生命周期内，经济利益的流动如何变化？(3)除了延长生命，包括适应、再利用、增加使用和取消使用，护理的价值是什么？所开发的损伤函数将被用来预测在现实情况下的寿命。与帝国战争博物馆合作，这些功能将应用于相关保护策略，展览，策展和解释背景下的藏品。这将揭示生命周期如何随着不同的保护策略而变化，考虑可访问性和保护之间的平衡，并涵盖存储，干预以及寿命终止决策，如取消。然后，这些数据将被用作原型评估调查的一部分，该调查将得出与护理及其成果相关的价值。该调查将确定条件的变化如何确定对用户和非用户价值的估计，以及进行此类测量的挑战。