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Con objeto de examinar la recurrencia del fenómeno pero también las singularidades a
él aparejadas a lo largo del tiempo y en distintas áreas geográficas, así como de discu-
I.S.S.N. 1887 - 1372 tir sobre los modos de cooperación científica para mejorar su conservación y gestión,
el Centro del Patrimonio Mundial de la UNESCO y la Junta de Andalucía (España),
a través de la Dirección General de Bienes Culturales de la Consejería de Cultura,
Universidad Politécnica de organizanizaron del 20 al 24 de septiembre una reunión internacional de expertos en
Valencia Málaga y Antequera.
Camino de Vera s/n. 46022
Valencia. España Cuarenta especialistas y gestores de sitios del patrimonio mundial analizaron qué es lo
Tlf. 96 387 77 80 que define los sitios megalíticos y qué modos de colaboración entre ciencia y conser-
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vación del patrimonio pueden contribuir a preservarlos. Se trata de mejorar la protec-
ción, la investigación, la conservación y la difusión del patrimonio megalítico mundial
E-mail: forum@fuuh.upv.es
para poder articular medidas globales de conocimiento y preservación.
http://universidadypatrimonio.net
En el curso de la reunión se presentaron estudios de casos de prácticamente todos los sitios del planeta relacionados con el
megalitismo, entre ellos: las tumbas megalíticas del Valle de Zhane, en Rusia (a cargo del profesor Viktor Trifonov, miem-
bro de la Academia de Ciencias de Rusia), los sitios megalíticos de Carnac, en Francia, (a cargo del arqueólogo francés
Charles Tanguy Le Roux), el sitio megalítico de Senegambia, en Senegal (a cargo de Sydou Nourou Kane, su director de
conservación), el sitio arqueo-astrológico de Kokino, en la ex República Yugoslava de Macedonia, (a cargo de la profesora
Kristina Briceva), la reserva nacional histórica y arqueológica “Stone Tomb” en Ucrania, (a cargo de Mykhailov Yaroslav),
los megalitos de Bouar, en la República Centroafricana, a cargo de Bernard Simiti, y los moai de Isla de Pascua, en Chile,
a cargo de Sonia Hanoa Cardinali y Ninoska Cuadros Huke.
Durante la reunión los expertos tuvieron la oportunidad de visitar y conocer los avances de la investigación y gestión del
conjunto de los Dólmenes de Antequera (Málaga), así como de avanzar la propuesta del análisis comparativo para estable-
cer la singularidad de sus manifestaciones. Andalucía, sede de la reunión, es una región rica en sitios megalíticos, por lo que
la reunión incluirá además una visita de estudio a los conjuntos megalíticos de Gor-Gorafe, en Granada, y al yacimiento
prehistórico de Orce (Granada), estrechamente vinculado a la Evolución Humana.
La reunión tendrá lugar en el Museo Picasso de Málaga. El 20 de septiembre a las 18h00 se celebraró una conferencia de
prensa de presentación en presencia del Consejero de Cultura de la Junta de Andalucía, Paulino Plata, del Secretario Gene-
ral de Políticas Culturales, Bartolomé Ruiz, y de la Directora General de Bellas Artes y Bienes Culturales del Ministerio de
Cultura, Ángeles Albert, acompañados de Nuria Sanz, encargada del programa de Prehistoria en el Centro del Patrimonio
Mundial de la UNESCO.
Contacto:
Inmaculada Villaécija Gómez, Junta de Andalucía. inmaculada.villaecija.ext(at)juntadeandalucia.es
Lucía Iglesias Kuntz, servicio de prensa de la UNESCO l.iglesias(at)unesco.org
Sitio Web: http://www.juntadeandalucia.es/cultura/worldheritagemegaliths/index.html
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* Sitios megalíticos ya inscritos en la Lista del Patrimonio Mundial: Círculos Megalíticos de Senegambia (Gambial), Su
Nuraxi de Barumini (Italia), Conjunto arqueológico del valle del Boyne (Irlanda) Templos megalíticos de Malta (Malta),
Stonehenge, Averbury y sitios conexos (Reino Unido), Círculos Megalíticos de Senegambia (Senegal)
** Sitios inscritos en las listas indicativas: Megalitos de Saa (Camerún), Megalitos de Bouar (República Centroafricana),
Sitios megalíticos de Carnac (Francia), Casa tradicional de Ngada y complejo megalítico (Indonesia), Campos de Céide y
pantanos del Noroeste de Mayo (Irlanda), Sitios megalíticos de la provincia de Xieng Khouang (República Democrática
Popular Lao), sitio arqueoastrológico de Kokino (ex República Yugoslava de Macedonia), Sitio Arqueológico Tumba de
Piedra (Ucrania).
Fuente: UNESCOPRESS
Patrimonio arqueológico
Patrimonio arqueológico
Noticias
Mesolithic 'rest stop' found at new Sainsbury's site - Nairn - United Kingdom
The supermarket and a filling station are being constructed on the outskirts of Nairn, at a cost of
about £20m.
Headland Archaeologists investigated the site ahead of building work.
They radiocarbon-dated the hearth to the Mesolithic period, which started as the last Ice Age ended
about 12,000 years ago.
In a report published on Highland Council's Historic Environment Record site, the archaeologists said
the fire appeared to have been made to provide heat and not cooking, because no food waste was
found.
+ info: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-14189794
Le Nil ne s'est pas toujours écoulé au pied des temples égyptiens de Karnak - Egypte
Situés au cœur de la vallée du Nil, les temples de Karnak ont généré de nombreuses théories quant à leur implantation
originelle : ont-ils été construits sur des îles sableuses au milieu du fleuve ou étaient-ils localisés au pied du Nil comme
c'est le cas aujourd'hui ? Ni l'un ni l'autre : des études géomorphologiques, paléoenvironnementales et sédimentologiques
menées par Matthieu Ghilardi, chercheur au centre européen de recherche et d'enseignement des géosciences de
l'environnement (CEREGE) (CNRS/Universités de Provence et Paul Cézanne/IRD/Collège de France) montrent qu'au
moment de leur édification (en 2000 avant JC) le Nil en était distant de 400 à 500 mètres. Ce n'est que 400 ans plus tard
que le fleuve s'en rapprochera suite à un mouvement hydrodynamique. Ces travaux sont publiés dans la revue Journal of
Archaeological Science.
+ info: http://www2.cnrs.fr/presse/communique/2233.htm
Les Russes pensent avoir retrouvé les restes de princes Romanov - Saint-
Pétersbourg - Fédération de Russie
Des archéologues russes pensent avoir retrouvé les restes de membres de la famille
impériale exécutés par les Bolcheviks et jetés dans des fosses communes mises au jour
par hasard dans la forteresse Pierre-et-Paul de Saint-Pétersbourg.
"Selon des témoignages sûrs, quatre grands-ducs Romanov ont été exécutés en 1919
dans la forteresse Pierre-et-Paul. Les restes de Gueorgui Mikhaïlovitch, Nikolaï
Mikhaïlovitch, Dmitri Konstantinovitch et Pavel Alexandrovitch se trouvent
probablement parmi ceux que nous avons trouvés", a affirmé à l'AFP Vladimir Kildiouchevski, un archéologue en charge
des fouilles. Les restes d'une centaine de personnes fusillées ont été retrouvés sur ce site ces derniers mois.
+ info: http://www.sciencesetavenir.fr/depeche/sciences/20110608.AFP3702/les-russes-pensent-avoir-retrouve-les-restes-
de-princes-romanov.html
Débat au musée du Quai Branly: Lascaux, Pompéi, Angkor. peut-on sauvegarder notre patrimoine
archéologique ? -CNRS (Centre national de la recherche scientifique) - France
Fresques des grottes de Lascaux, site de Pompéi, temples d’Angkor, notre patrimoine archéologique soulève constamment
des questions de sauvegarde, de restauration et de conservation. Doit-on tout sauvegarder ? Pourquoi restaurer un site
plutôt qu’un autre ? Comment protéger les sites archéologiques des dégâts liés à l’afflux de touristes ? La restitution
virtuelle peut-elle être une alternative à la conservation ? Autant de sujets passionnants auxquels vous êtes invités à
prendre part en compagnie de nos intervenants.
+ info: http://www.cnrs.fr/lesgrandsdebats/spip.php?article53
Le jeudi 16 juin, la Grotte de Lascaux a ouvert ses portes à une poignée de journalistes pour une visite
visant à mettre un terme au débat sur l'état de préservation du site préhistorique. Une visite organisée
en présence du préhistorien Jean Clottes et de la conservatrice du site, Muriel Mauriac. Comme le
rapporte le site du journal Sud-Ouest, il est désormais nécessaire de porter un équipement complet pour pouvoir pénétrer
dans la grotte. Vêtus d'une combinaison stérile, de gants en latex, de chaussures couvertes de deux protections, les
visiteurs doivent passer quatre sas fermés par de lourdes portes avant de pouvoir admirer les ornements de la grotte
préhistorique dont la température intérieure est soigneusement maintenue à 12,3 °C. Bien sûr, appareil photo et caméra
sont proscrits.
+ info: http://www.maxisciences.com/grotte-de-lascaux/grotte-de-lascaux-une-premiere-visite-sous-haute-
surveillance_art15290.html
PREMIOS - El profesor de Historia del Arte de la SMU (Southern Methodist University), Gregory Warden, recibe
un galardón del Presidente de Italia. Dallas - Texas - USA
Dr. P. Gregory Warden, University Distinguished Professor of Art History and associate dean for academic affairs at SMU’s
Meadows School of the Arts, received the Order of the Star of Italian Solidarity and the title of Cavaliere (knight) in the
name of the President of the Italian Republic on June 4. The award was presented by Fabrizio Nava, the Consul General of
Italy in Houston, at the Italian Club of Dallas as part of a ceremony celebrating the 65th anniversary of the Italian Republic
on June 2 and the 150th anniversary of the Unity of Italy that was proclaimed on March 17, 1861.
+ info: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=482853
Discovery of limestone blocks believed to have belonged to King Osorkon II at San El-
Hagar - Tanis - Egypt
A discovery of hundreds of limestone blocks believed to have belonged to King Osorkon II has
Las excavaciones de los arqueólogos en la histórica Annapolis revela un rico y sorprendente hallazgo.
An archaeological team from the University of Maryland is uncovering an unexpectedly rich haul of household materials
from an historic African American home in Annapolis – with one more week to go in their excavation.
The team is working at the James Holliday House in Annapolis – a middle class home purchased in 1850 by one of the first
African Americans to work for the U.S. Naval Academy. They say their finds detail how a well-off African American family
adapted a middle class lifestyle to the realities of post-Civil War Annapolis. Also, they are exploring the family’s marital ties
to the city’s Filipino community.
+ info: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=48294
Los arqueólogos encuentran dos esculturas prehispánicas que ofrecen una mejor comprensión de la
civilización maya. Municipio de Ocosingo - Chiapas - Mexico
Two Prehispanic sculptures made out of limestone that represent war captives and a pair of tableaux that marked the
Ballgame, were found by Mexican specialists from the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) at Tonina
Archaeological Zone, in Ocosingo Municipality, Chiapas.
The discovery confirms the alliance between Lordships of Copan, in Honduras, and Palenque, in Mexico at the war that
Palenque fought against Tonina for 26 years (688 to 714 AD) to control the Usumacinta River.
Sculptures of the prisoners of Copan and both tableaux, of an approximate age of 1300 years, were found buried in late
May 2011, to the south of the Ballgame Court. “All the pieces were found broken: the tableaux in more than 30 fragments,
one sculpture in 20 pieces and the other was found complete but presents 3 fractures”, informed Dr. Juan Yadeun,
responsible of the Archaeological Project at Tonina.
+ info: http://artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=48884&b=INAH
FELLOWSHIPS - The AJA (American Journal of Archaeology) Joins JSTOR's Current Scholarship Program
The AJA has partnered with JSTOR in the Current Scholarship Program (CSP). Current and past issues of the AJA now
reside on JSTOR. Access to the AJA is no longer be available via Atypon Link.
The AJA website will continue to host free, downloadable book reviews, museum reviews, and select articles. See the Open
Access section for free content.
The Current Scholarship Program (CSP) was launched earlier this year to bring together historical and current content on
the JSTOR platform.
The program was created to help the academic community—presses, scholarly associations, libraries, faculty, and students
—benefit from investment in a shared technology platform and related services to support the publication, dissemination,
and use of new scholarship.
+ info: http://www.ajaonline.org/csp
BECAS - El Museo Peabody de Arqueología y Etnología gana una subvención de 150,000 dólares para su
colección arqueológica - Cambridge - Massachussetts - USA
The Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology has been awarded a Museums for America grant of $150,000 from the
U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). Over the next two years, the Museum will catalog, document,
inventory, and photograph the Peabody's most important archaeological collections with the grant.
"Our collection will be more accessible to researchers, especially educators," says Senior Collections Manager David
DeBono Schafer, who will manage the project. "These are among our most requested materials. Now researchers will be
able to quickly determine exactly which archaeological objects are in the collection."
+ info: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=49933
OBITUARY - Puerto Rican Scholar Ricardo Alegria Dies at 90 - Puerto Rico - USA
Ricardo Alegria, a Puerto Rican scholar known for his pioneering studies of the island's native Taino culture and who is
credited with preserving the capital's colonial district, died Thursday. He was 90.
Alegria died at the Cardiovascular Center of Puerto Rico and the Caribbean from complications of heart disease, said his
son, Ricardo Alegria Pons. The elder Alegria had been treated for two weeks at the hospital in June and then was
hospitalized again Sunday with chest pains, his son said.
"Thanks to his long life of 90 years, he has had a major impact on all aspects of the culture of all Puerto Ricans," his son
told reporters. "That work and dedication and love of his country does not disappear with his death."
+ info: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=48976
Los arqueólogos de Georgia rastrean en los recientemente encontrados campos de prisioneros de la Guerra
Civil en busca de artefactos - Savannah - Georgia - USA
When word reached Camp Lawton that the enemy army of Gen. William T. Sherman was approaching, the prison camp's
Confederate officers rounded up their thousands of Union army POWs for a swift evacuation — leaving behind rings,
buckles, coins and other keepsakes that would remain undisturbed for nearly 150 years.
Archaeologists are still discovering unusual, and sometimes stunningly personal, artifacts a year after state officials
revealed that a graduate student had pinpointed the location of the massive but short-lived Civil War camp in southeast
Georgia
+ info: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=49943
In Ancient Metropolis in Southern Israel, Diggers Unearth the Bible's Bad Guys - Tel el-Safi - Israel
At the remains of an ancient metropolis in southern Israel, archaeologists are piecing together the history of a people
remembered chiefly as the bad guys of the Hebrew Bible.
The city of Gath, where the annual digging season began this week, is helping scholars paint a more nuanced portrait of
the Philistines, who appear in the biblical story as the perennial enemies of the Israelites.
Close to three millennia ago, Gath was on the frontier between the Philistines, who occupied the Mediterranean coastal
plain, and the Israelites, who controlled the inland hills. The city's most famous resident, according to the Book of Samuel,
was Goliath — the giant warrior improbably felled by the young shepherd David and his sling.
+ info: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=48948
Team Unearths First Roman-Era Basilica Erected in the Mediterranean Port City of Alexandria - Egypt
Egyptian officials say archaeologists have unearthed the first basilica erected in the Mediterranean port city of Alexandria.
Antiquities authorities say the basilica is dated to the Roman era and was built on the ruins of a temple from the Ptolemaic
reign that ended with the death of Cleopatra.
A statement Thursday says two parallel rows of granite and limestone pillars suggest the basilica was a social site that was
also used for trade and judicial matters.
+ info: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=48962
Genesis Medical Imaging Mobile CT Scan Unit Helps Field Museum Discover Ancient Secrets - Chicago - Illinois
- USA
By providing a mobile CT scan unit free of charge to Chicago's famed The Field Museum for a series of mummy scans this
month, Genesis Medical Imaging, Inc. has helped discover ancient secrets, and opened the door to new mysteries.
Field scientists were surprised to find only a skull and legs inside the wrappings of one Egyptian mummy and the baskets
of four Peruvian specimens simply empty, with no mummies inside. Yet it was all instructive for the museum's researchers,
who after several days of scanning objects more than 2,000 years old are more certain of what their collection actually
holds.
+ info: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=49051
To Live Forever: Egyptian Treasures from the Brooklyn Museum on View at Nevada Museum of Art
11 jun - 4 sep 2011 . Reno, Estados Unidos de América
Organizadores: Nevada Museum of Art and Brooklyn Museum
Contacto: art@nevadaart.org
+ info: http://www.nevadaart.org/exhibitions/detail?eid=175
UNESCO National Consultation Workshop ' Nepal and the Silk Roads'
6-sep-2011 . Lalitpur, Nepal
Organizadores: Kathmandu
Contacto: s.nipuna@unesco.org
+ info: http://www.unesco.org/new/en/unesco/events/all-events/?tx_browser_pi1[showUid]=4447&cHash=bf39f7f552
Italian Officials Unveil a Massive Statue Believed to Be of Roman Emperor Caligula - Rome - Italy
Officials on Tuesday unveiled a massive statue believed to be that of Roman emperor Caligula sitting on a throne and said
it came from an illegal dig south of Rome that may have been the site of one of his palaces.
The statue, which had been broken in several large pieces and a head, was first found last January when Finance Police
stopped it from being smuggled out of the country by boat at a port near Rome.
The operation led to the arrest of two so-called "tomb raiders" -- those who dig up the countryside looking for
archaeological treasures to sell on the black market.
+ info: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=49004
eliminated. In New York, the State Archaeologist/Director of Cultural Resource Survey, the Curator of Archaeology, and the
Curator of Historical Archaeology were fired.
+ info: http://www.archaeological.org/news/aianews/5983
UNESCO World Heritage Centre Meeting on Megalithic Sites and the World Heritage Convention
20 sep - 24 sep 2011 . Antequera, España
Organizadores: Junta de Andalucía
Contacto: n.sanzat@eunesco.org
+ info: http://whc.unesco.org/en/events/767/
Conférence : Les mystères des hiéroglyphes – la cryptographie égyptienne sous le Nouvel Empire
22-sep-2011 . Paris, Francia
Organizadores: Académie Polonaise des Sciences - Centre Scientifique à Paris
Contacto: sekretariat.parispan@free.fr
+ info: http://www.academie-polonaise.org/index.php?lang=fr
Ägyptisches Museum in Berlin Lends Colossal Statue of Pharaoh to Metropolitan Museum of Art for Ten Years -
New York City - New York State - USA
A monumental ancient Egyptian statue of a seated pharaoh —probably Amenemhat II —will be lent to The Metropolitan
Museum of Art by Berlin’s renowned Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin -
Preussischer Kulturbesitz for a period of ten years, beginning this month. The ten-foot-tall, nearly nine-ton, 4,000-year-old
sculpture entered the Berlin museum’s collection in 1837. Because of a construction project now underway —to renovate
the courtyard on Museumsinsel (Museum Island) where the artwork has most recently been displayed— the statue had to
be moved, thereby providing the opportunity for this long-term loan. The sculpture will go on view in the Metropolitan’s
Great Hall for approximately one year before it is moved into The Lila Acheson Wallace Galleries of Egyptian Art. The
Middle Kingdom sculpture is an outstanding example of ancient Egypt’s magnificent colossal statuary, of which very few
examples can be found in American museums.
+ info: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=49648
Italian Archaeologists Dig Through Ancient Rome and Find Mosaic Depicting Apollo - Rome - Italy
Excavations in the bowels of an ancient Roman hill have turned up a well-preserved, late 1st century wall mosaic with a
figure of Apollo, nude except for a colorful mantle over a shoulder.
Archaeologists and city officials unveiled the recent find to reporters Friday on the Oppian Hill.
The mosaic-covered wall is 16 meters (53 feet) wide and at least 2 meters (6.6 feet) high. Officials think the wall continues
down some 8 meters (26.5 feet) more.
Archaeologists say the wall appears to be in a tunnel built to help support Trajan's Baths, named for the emperor who
ruled from 98 till 117. The mosaic, which also depicts a Muse, apparently embellished a room where wealthy Romans
gathered to hear music and discuss art.
+ info: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=49468
New York's Met to Return 10 Artifacts to Egypt - New York City - New York State - USA
New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art has agreed to return to Cairo 19 artifacts dating back to the time of ancient Egypt's
teenage king Tutankhamen, the state news agency MENA said on Saturday. Egypt has been pushing for the repatriation of
major pharaonic treasures it says were plundered by foreign powers, including the Rosetta Stone now in the British
Museum and Queen Nefertiti's bust from Berlin's Neues Museum. The agreement between the New York museum and
Egypt's antiquities council on the return of the artifacts was signed in November after a series of negotiations, MENA said.
+ info: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=49471
Smithsonian Latino Center Hosts Symposium on Central American Ceramics - New York City - New York State -
USA ( 4-5 August 2011)
The Smithsonian Latino Center will host a symposium Aug. 4 – 5 at the National Museum of the American Indian as part of
its Central American Ceramics Research Project. The symposium will begin Aug. 4 at 7 p.m. with a keynote presentation by
John Hoopes from the University of Kansas and continue with lectures by experts, scholars and researchers Aug. 5
beginning at 10:30 a.m. The symposium is free and open to the public.
+ info: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=49537
Mexican Archaeologists Discover Two Partially-Mummified Bodies in the Cueva del Gigante - Guerrero -
Chihuahua - Mexico
Archaeologists from the National Institute of Anthropology and History found two human corpses that were partially
mummified and a raramuri ancestor’s skeleton in the Cueva El Gigante (Giant’s Cave), located in Guerrero, in the
Tarahumara Sierra in Chihuahua. The two mummies are now added to another eight that were found in the same place
late last year.
According to the specialists, the finding of the mummified individuals, which are thought to be between 800 and 1000
years old, are part of a Pre-hispanic burial ground, since, between 2010 and 2011, ten mummies and thirteen skeletons
have been found in the cave.
+ info: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=49527
In a 2,000-Year-Old Tunnel Leading to Jerusalem's Old City, a Glimpse of an Ancient War - Jerusalem
On the eve of Tisha B’Av, artifacts were exposed that breathe new life into the story of the destruction of the Temple in
Jerusalem. A sword in a scabbard that belonged to a Roman soldier and an engraving of the Temple’s menorah on a stone
object were discovered during work the Israel Antiquities Authority conducted in the 2,000 year old drainage channel
between the City of David and the Jerusalem Archaeological Garden. The channel served as a hiding refuge for the
residents of Jerusalem from the Romans during the destruction of the Second Temple.
+ info: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=49696
Low tide reveals rare marine reptile fossil find - Alaska - USA
When Ken Olson of The Museum of the Rockies was planning a trip to salvage a plesiosaur
fossil from the Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge in Montana -- an experience that
would include a mile-and-a-half trek each way through knee deep mud, deerfly swarms and a
field of chest-high sweet clover -- he wanted to include one of the world's marine reptile
experts.
"I know just the person to lead the expedition to excavate this creature," he said.
He meant Patrick Druckenmiller, the earth sciences curator at the University of Alaska Museum
of the North, who is also part of a team excavating plesiosaurs from an island in Norway and who recently helped remove a
complete thalattosaur from a rocky underwater outcrop in Southeast Alaska. In May a member of a geological team
noticed something on that beach during an extremely low tide.
+ info: http://www.uaf.edu/museum/info/press/spotlight/thalattosaur/
An Archaeopteryx-like theropod from China and the origin of Avialae - The People's Republic of China
Xing Xu, Hailu You, Kai Du & Fenglu Han
Archaeopteryx is widely accepted as being the most basal bird, and accordingly it is regarded as central to understanding
avialan origins; however, recent discoveries of derived maniraptorans have weakened the avialan status of Archaeopteryx.
Here we report a new Archaeopteryx-like theropod from China. This find further demonstrates that many features formerly
regarded as being diagnostic of Avialae, including long and robust forelimbs, actually characterize the more inclusive group
Paraves (composed of the avialans and the deinonychosaurs). Notably, adding the new taxon into a comprehensive
phylogenetic analysis shifts Archaeopteryx to the Deinonychosauria. Despite only tentative statistical support, this result
challenges the centrality of Archaeopteryx in the transition to birds. If this new phylogenetic hypothesis can be confirmed
by further investigation, current assumptions regarding the avialan ancestral condition will need to be re-evaluated.
+ info: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v475/n7357/full/nature10288.html
NEWS - Digitization Project Brings Ancient Near Eastern Inscriptions into 21st Century - Freer Gallery of Art
and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives - Washington DC - USA
The Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives announce a new 3-D digital resource that will enable
scholars and the public to learn more about the ancient Near East through a unique group of pressed-paper molds called
squeezes. This resource provides unparalleled access to the archives' collection of squeezes from ancient Near Eastern
archaeological sites.
+ info: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=49380
Australopithecus Sediba Hand Demonstrates Mosaic Evolution of Locomotor and Manipulative Abilities -
Malapa - South Africa
By Tracy L. Kivell, Job M. Kibii, Steven E. Churchill, Peter Schmid & Lee R. Berger
Hand bones from a single individual with a clear taxonomic affiliation are scarce in the hominin fossil record, which has
hampered understanding the evolution of manipulative abilities in hominins. Here we describe and analyze a nearly
complete wrist and hand of an adult female [Malapa Hominin 2 (MH2)] Australopithecus sediba from Malapa, South Africa
(1.977 million years ago). The hand presents a suite of Australopithecus-like features, such as a strong flexor apparatus
associated with arboreal locomotion, and Homo-like features, such as a long thumb and short fingers associated with
precision gripping and possibly stone tool production. Comparisons to other fossil hominins suggest that there were at least
two distinct hand morphotypes around the Plio-Pleistocene transition. The MH2 fossils suggest that Au. sediba may
represent a basal condition associated with early stone tool use and production.
+ info: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/333/6048/1411
Agenda
113th Archaeological Institute of America (AIA) and American Philological Association (APA) Annual Meeting
Early Bird Registration Open 5 ene - 8 sep 2012 . Philadelphia, Estados Unidos de América
Organizadores: Archaeological Institute of America (AIA) and American Philological Association (APA)
Contacto: acauldwell@aia.bu.edu
+ info: http://aia.archaeological.org/webinfo.php?page=10096
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of heritage that moves beyond the purely materialistic. The concept of heritage as 'care' is perhaps more important to our
work than that of 'curation'.
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Noticias
FELLOWSHIPS - BECAS DE DOCTORADO III EDICIÓN. Fecha limite : 30 de Septiembre de 2011
La Fundación Juanelo Turriano es una institución docente privada reconocida por el Ministerio de Cultura (B.O.E. de 15 de
marzo de 1989). Su objeto fundacional es la promoción y coordinación del estudio histórico de la Técnica y de la Ciencia en
sus diversas vertientes. Un medio eficaz de cumplir con los fines fundacionales es la financiación, en forma de becas, de
trabajos de investigación dirigidos a la realización de Tesis Doctorales en los campos de la Historia de la Ciencia o de la
Técnica. Por ello, y por decisión del Patronato tomada en su reunión de 26 de Mayo de 2011, la Fundación Juanelo Turriano
convoca dos Becas para la realización de Tesis Doctorales, dotadas con 14.400 euros anuales brutos cada una, con arreglo
a las condiciones que se definen en esta convocatoria.
+ info: http://www.juaneloturriano.com/admin/agenda/winarcdoc.php?id=181
EMPLEO - La UNESCO busca Director y Secretario para el Programa Hidrológico Internacional (PHI) - Fecha
límite de: 4 September 2011
Bajo la autoridad y la supervisión del Subdirector General para las Ciencias Exactas y Naturales (ADG/SC), el(la) titular del
puesto se encargará de liderar y dirigir al personal de la División de Ciencias del Agua (SC/HYD) con el ánimo de asegurar
planificación, gestión y ejecución de los programas de la UNESCO relativos al agua dulce, al igual que servir como
Secretario del Programa Hidrológico Internacional (PHI), y dar apoyo al Programa Mundial de Evaluación de los Recursos
Hídricos (WWAP).
+ info: http://www.unesco.org/new/es/media-services/single-view/news/
unesco_seeks_director_and_secretary_of_the_international_hydrological_programme_ihp/
AWARDS - Nominations for the PHA (Professional Historians Association) New South Wales' Public History
Prize are now open - Australia
The Public History Prize is an annual award offered by the Professional Historians Association of NSW (PHA NSW). The Prize
was established in 2008 to encourage students enrolled in undergraduate history courses at universities in NSW and ACT
to research, write and present accessible and engaging histories, and to consider a career as a professional historian.
The PHA NSW represents practising professional historians in NSW and the ACT. It was established 25 years ago to provide
mutual support for professional historians and to promote their work to the wider community. The PHA NSW represents
members who research and write on a freelance basis, as well as those who are employed at museums, local councils,
state government, private heritage firms and in universities.
+ info: http://www.phansw.org.au/documents/HistoryPrize.html
PRIZES - Prix Acteurs Economiques et Handicap 2011 pour un cours sur l'Art pour les malvoyants
La mallette « Les sens de l'art », conçue par le Cned avec le soutien de la MAIF, a été primée dans la catégorie « éducation-
formation » lors de la remise des trophées du 4e Prix Acteurs Economiques & Handicap 2011, organisée par l'OCIRP
(Organisme commun des institutions de rente et de prévoyance). Ce concours permet de distinguer des « actions
exemplaires pour le bien-être et le mieux-vivre des personnes en situation de handicap ».
+ info: http://portail.cned.fr/journalistes/communiques-presse/2011/prix-acteurs-economiques-et-handicap-2011.aspx?
id=1742
FELLOWSHIPS - World Bank-financed scholarships for MNA (North Africa and Middle East) and ECA (Europe
and Central Asia ) bachelor graduates - Deadline for application: 18 August 2011
We are pleased to announce the launch of the conference series on Culture, Economics, and Cities, aiming to gather
scholars working at the boundaries of various disciplines such as economics, heritage conservation, urban development,
and sustainable tourism. The first conference of this series will be held on 14-16 September, 2011, at Villa Rufolo, Ravello
(Italy). The World Bank will finance five scholarships for bachelor graduates in heritage-related disciplines from countries in
the North Africa and Middle East (MNA) or the Europe and Central Asia (ECA) regions. Deadline to apply August 21, 2011
+ info: http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/TOPICS/EXTURBANDEVELOPMENT/EXTCHD/
Fellowships - IFLA (International Federation of Landscapes Architects) Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe International
Fellowship in Landscape Architecture - Residency at the British Scool at Rome - January-March 2012 -
DEADLINE 15 OCTOBER 2011
The Rome Fellowship in Landscape Architecture is being offered to a recent graduate or individual in mid-career to allow a
period for thought and research. The applicant should propose a contemporary response to an aspect of Italian landscape
and pursue a selected topic with direct bearing on modern design in the landscape.
Young landscape architects are invited by the International Federation of Landscape Architects to apply for this residency
at the British School at Rome, which will offer a valuable opportunity to develop and research work within the context of
Rome and Italy. Details about the British School at Rome are available at www.bsr.ac.uk
+ info: http://www.iflaonline.org/index.php?option=com_tevent&view=itm&layout=evt&id=137
PREMIOS - Ganadores del Premio Unión Europea de Patrimonio Cultural 2011/ Premios Europa
Nostra : Laureados Grand Prix
Los 27 ganadores del Premio Unión Europea 2011 de Patrimonio Cultural / Premios Europa Nostra recibieron
honores ayer por la tarde durante una ceremonia en el histórico auditorio de Ámsterdam, el
“Concertgebouw”. La comisaria europea de Educación, Cultura, Multilingüismo y Juventud, Androulla
Vassiliou y Plácido Domingo, el tenor mundialmente conocido y presidente de Europa Nostra presentaron los
premios. Seis de los 27 ganadores obtuvieron el título de laureados “Grand Prix” en reconocimiento de sus
extraordinarios logros relacionados con el patrimonio. A la ceremonia asistieron más de 1,500 personas
incluyendo a su alteza real la Princesa Margriet de los Países Bajos.
+ info: http://www.europanostra.org/laureates-2011/
PREMIOS - El profesor de Historia del Arte de la SMU (Southern Methodist University), Gregory Warden, recibe
un galardón del Presidente de Italia. Dallas - Texas - USA
Dr. P. Gregory Warden, University Distinguished Professor of Art History and associate dean for academic affairs at SMU’s
Meadows School of the Arts, received the Order of the Star of Italian Solidarity and the title of Cavaliere (knight) in the
name of the President of the Italian Republic on June 4. The award was presented by Fabrizio Nava, the Consul General of
Italy in Houston, at the Italian Club of Dallas as part of a ceremony celebrating the 65th anniversary of the Italian Republic
on June 2 and the 150th anniversary of the Unity of Italy that was proclaimed on March 17, 1861.
+ info: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=482853
FELLOWSHIPS - Double vision: A 'Community Heritage Grant' program is one of the winners in the 2011-2012
Australian Commonwealth Budget
A ‘Community Heritage Grant’ program is one of the winners in the 2011-2012 Australian Commonwealth Budget. This new
initiative will be established and administered by the Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and
Communities (DSEWPC).
This is indeed good news for Australia’s built heritage and has been well received by bodies like the Federation of
Australian Historical Societies - which also notes that the National Historic Sites grant scheme will continue to be funded at
existing levels i.e. $4.3 million in 2011-2012. (FAHS e-Bulletin #83)
+ info: http://www.significanceinternational.com/tabid/67/newsid394/15/Double-vision/Default.aspx
FELLOWSHIPS - The AJA (American Journal of Archaeology) Joins JSTOR's Current Scholarship Program
The AJA has partnered with JSTOR in the Current Scholarship Program (CSP). Current and past issues of the AJA now
reside on JSTOR. Access to the AJA is no longer be available via Atypon Link.
The AJA website will continue to host free, downloadable book reviews, museum reviews, and select articles. See the Open
Access section for free content.
The Current Scholarship Program (CSP) was launched earlier this year to bring together historical and current content on
the JSTOR platform.
The program was created to help the academic community—presses, scholarly associations, libraries, faculty, and students
—benefit from investment in a shared technology platform and related services to support the publication, dissemination,
and use of new scholarship.
+ info: http://www.ajaonline.org/csp
FELLOWSHIPS - The 2011 Eco-innovation call for proposals - Deadline for call for proposals: 8 September
2011
Got a great business project that could make Europe greener but don't know how to get it off the ground? The 2011 Eco-
innovation call for proposals may be for you!
The European Commission grants an additional 2 Million Euros to finance green ideas: the total budget available for the
2011 Call is 38 Million Euros.
This call is open to all legal persons that are based in eligible countries but the priority will be given to Small- and Medium-
sized Enterprises (SMEs). Clusters of applicants and projects which demonstrate a European added value and have a high
potential for market replication are strongly encouraged.
+ info: http://ec.europa.eu/environment/eco-innovation/getting-funds/call-for-proposals/index_en.htm
BECAS - El Museo Peabody de Arqueología y Etnología gana una subvención de 150,000 dólares para su
colección arqueológica - Cambridge - Massachussetts - USA
The Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology has been awarded a Museums for America grant of $150,000 from the
U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). Over the next two years, the Museum will catalog, document,
inventory, and photograph the Peabody's most important archaeological collections with the grant.
"Our collection will be more accessible to researchers, especially educators," says Senior Collections Manager David
DeBono Schafer, who will manage the project. "These are among our most requested materials. Now researchers will be
able to quickly determine exactly which archaeological objects are in the collection."
+ info: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=49933
FELLOWSHIPS - AIA (Archaeological Institute of America) Fellowships, Grants, and Scholarships - Various
deadlines: 1 November 2011 - 4 March 2012
The AIA is pleased to offer fellowships for travel and study to deserving scholars and a number of scholarships and grants
for students, publications, and AIA Societies. AIA scholarships, fellowships, and grants are open to members of the
Archaeological Institute of America. If you have any questions, contact the Fellowship Coordinator at 617-358-4184 or
lsparks@aia.bu.edu.
+ info: http://www.archaeological.org/grants
COMPETITIONS - Serlachius Museum Gösta Extension Competition Proposal / XML - Mänttä - Finland
This proposal for the Serlachius Museum Extension in Mänttä, Finland was submitted by XML. The omnipresent landscape
provoked the architects to develop a scheme that became a median between the external world of nature and the internal
world of art.
The required program has been distributed along a continuous route that connects different programmatic clusters such as
galleries, storage, restaurant and office. The circulation between these clusters is bent into a circle allowing for two
experiential conditions: on the inside of the circle a series of enclosed exhibition spaces allows visitors to focus on the
experience of art whereas on the outside of the circle the continuous route that connects the programmatic clusters allows
for alternating these intimate experiences with views on the surrounding nature.
+ info: http://www.archdaily.com/147832
El parque nacional del Gran Cañón alberga a un amigo del Patrimonio Mundial
El Sr. John Zulu, gestor del parque nacional del Mosi-oa-Tunya / Victoria Falls y sitio patrimonio
mundial llevó a EEUU el 5 de agosto para pasar seis semanas inmerso en los detalles de la
gente, el parque, y la gestión de recursos en el parque nacional del Gran Cañón como el último
“US World Heritage Fellow”, patrocinado por el servicio del parque nacional con el apoyo del
Fondo de Naciones Unidas y del Fondo del parque nacional.
Mr. Zulu trabaja para la Comisión de Conservación del Patrimonio Nacional como gestor del
sitio para el parque nacional de las cataratas Victoria, el único sitio patrimonio mundial de
Zambia. Situado en el río Zambezi, las cataratas se sientan a horcajadas en la frontera de Zambia-Zimbabue y se
consideran un lugar patrimonio mundial transfronterizo.
+ info: http://whc.unesco.org/en/news/791
PRIZES - L'Evasion au naturel : un centre éco-touristique nominé au Trophée Bol d'air SNCF
(Société nationale des chemins de fer français)
Comme chaque année, Voyages-sncf.com organise son grand concours des Trophées du Tourisme
responsable. A cette occasion, Maxisciences a décidé de donner la parole à l'un des candidats nominés,
Frédéric Desautel qui nous présente son projet : "l'Evasion au naturel" et sa vision du tourisme
responsable.
Organisés par Voyages-sncf.com pour la cinquième année consécutive, les Trophées du tourisme
responsable "récompensent ceux et celles qui se mobilisent pour un tourisme plus respectueux de
l’environnement et des hommes". Ainsi, le concours souhaite montrer l'efficacité mais aussi l'accessibilité du tourisme
responsable qui offre une large palette de choix alors que les nominés sont divisés en cinq catégories : bol d'air, urbain,
solidaire, luxe & zen ou encore bons plans. Avec une nouveauté cette année : l'évènement écolo devient participatif et
prend désormais en compte le vote en ligne du public qui reste possible jusqu'au 5 septembre et qui comptera pour moitié
dans le choix final.
+ info: http://www.maxisciences.com/tourisme-durable/l-039-evasion-au-naturel-un-centre-eco-touristique-nomine-au-
trophee-bol-d-039-air_art16312.html
FELLOWSHIPS - Appels à candidatures pour les formations ouvertes et à distance (FOAD) 2011-2012 -
Deadline for submission: 10 September 2011
L’Agence universitaire de la Francophonie (AUF) propose son soutien à un ensemble de formations ouvertes et à distance ;
elle offre plusieurs centaines d’allocations d’études couvrant une importante partie des frais pédagogiques et d’inscription à
ces diplômes.
Cette année 79 formations diplômantes sont proposées dont 39 issues d’universités du Sud (Burkina Faso, Cameroun,
Égypte, Madagascar, Maroc, Sénégal, Tunisie et Vietnam).
Les appels à candidatures pour les FOAD 2011-2012 sont désormais en ligne sur le site Web : http://foad.refer.org
L’appel sera clos le 10 juin pour les formations débutant en septembre, et le 10 septembre pour les formations débutant en
janvier 2012.
+ info: http://www.auf.org/communication-information/appels-offres/foad-2011.html?var=lettre_AUF_73
COMPETITIONS - Lancement du premier concours IFRECOR (Initiative Française pour les Récifs Coralliens) -
Deadline for dubmission: 10 October 2011
Élu d’outre-mer, vous êtes un acteur clef de la préservation et de la gestion durable des récifs coralliens et des
écosystèmes associés
Au quotidien, vous agissez afin d’assurer aujourd’hui et pour les générations futures un patrimoine naturel riche et en
bonne santé, garant du bien-être des communautés liées à ces milieux exceptionnels.
Vous avez mis en place une gestion durable des activités de pêche, un protocole de suivi de l’état de santé des récifs, un
programme de restauration d’une mangrove, lancé un portail d’information, monté une exposition, organisé des
formations, créé un parcours découverte, mené des actions d’éducation ou de sensibilisation ….
+ info: http://www.ifrecor.fr/lancement-premier-concours-ifrecor
+ info: http://www.auf.org/regions/europe-centrale-orientale/appels-d-offres/bourses-de-recherche-doctorale-et-de-post-
doctorat-eugen-ionescu-appel-international-a-candidatures-6081.html?var=lettre_AUF_73
JOB OFFERS - Assistant Programme Specialist - Africa Unit, World Heritage Centre - UNESCO - Deadline for
Applications: 19 October 2011
Under the authority of the Director of the UNESO World Heritage Centre, the Deputy Director for Programme, and direct
supervision of the Chief of Africa Unit, the incumbent shall exercise the function of Assistant Programme Specialist and will
work on the implementation of the World Heritage Convention in Africa for cultural and natural heritage.
+ info: https://recrutweb.unesco.org/pdf/CLTWHC047.PDF
COMPETITIONS - BERKELEY PRIZE 2012 COMPETITION - Architecture is a Social Art - 2012 Theme:
Architecture for the Public Good - Starting 15 September 2011 - Deadline for submission: 1 November 2011
Professor Raymond Lifchez, Chair of the international Berkeley Undergraduate Prize for Architectural Design Excellence
announces that the 2012 BERKELEY PRIZE launches on September 15, 2011.
Each year the PRIZE, whose primary goal is to foster a larger awareness and understanding of the social art of
architecture, sponsors an Essay Competition, a Travel Fellowship Competition, and an Architectural Design Fellowship
Competition. All are open to undergraduates studying architecture throughout the world.
+ info: http://www.berkeleyprize.org/
BECAS DE INVESTIGACIÓN – Asociación de profesores. Centro Cultural Onassis (Grecia) Revista en línea
internacional. Número 19
El Centro cultural Onassis-Atenas se inauguró en diciembre de 2010, como un nuevo sitio cultural accesible a todos los
públicos. Su misión consiste en promocionar la expresión cultural, apoyar a los nuevos artistas griegos, y cultivar las
colaboraciones internacionales, la educación y el aprendizaje de por vida, así como la co-existencia e interacción de las
ciencias, la innovación y las artes.
+ info: http://www.onassis.gr/online-magazine/issue-19/
FELLOWSHIPS - Grants for the Center for Historical Culture - Erasmus University Rotterdam - Rotterdam - The
Netherlands
The Center for Historical Culture is delighted to announce the following recently obtained grants:
Drs. Marc van Berkel, PhD project: Holocausteducation in German and Dutch history textbooks, 1970-2010. Grant
Hogeschool Arnhem-Nijmegen; supervisor prof. dr. Maria Grever (0.45 fte, 4 years). Start 1-9-2011.
Dr. Stephan Klein (postdoc in current research NWO Program Heritage Education). Extra postdoc project: Dynamic
Heritage Education. NWO Alfa Meerwaarde (0.3 fte, 1 year). Start 1-9-2011.
Stephanie Benzaquen MA, research project: Art theory and cultural memory of the Holocaust: reading images of Nazi
atrocities with Warburg's Mnemosyne Atlas. Holocaust Memorial Museum Washington DC, Raul Hilberg Fellowship (1.0 fte,
4 months). Start 1-4-2012.
+ info: http://euroclio.eu/new/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2704:news-from-the-chc-erasmus-
university-rotterdam&catid=225:centre-for-historical-culture&Itemid=1453
COMPETITIONS - Winner of the San Francisco Veterans Memorial Design Competition Announced - San
Francisco - California - USA
The War Memorial Board of Trustees today endorsed the design proposal submitted by Susan Narduli and Andrea Cochran
for the San Francisco Veterans Memorial. Entitled Passage of Remembrance, the focal point of Susan Narduli and Andrea
Cochran's proposal is a series of three reflection pools circumscribed by an octagon of stone. Seen from above, the pools
form a circle of gently flowing water that glides over polished stone in sloping planes from the street to the garden below.
+ info: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=49112
L’iniziativa, espressione del mondo dei musei e dei professionisti museali, ha l’obiettivo di valorizzare le buone pratiche
operative e gestionali dei musei italiani e farne emergere le eccellenze.
+ info: http://www.tafter.it/2011/08/29/25-09-11-concorso-%E2%80%9Cpremioicom-italia-musei-dell%E2%80%99anno-
2011%E2%80%9D/
AWARDS - Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute's Ira Rubinoff to Receive the Smithsonian's Highest Honor
- Washington - Washington DC - USA
The Smithsonian Regents will present Ira Rubinoff, Director Emeritus of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, with
the Institution’s highest honor. The Joseph Henry Medal will be presented to Rubinoff July 14 in the Smithsonian building
(the “Castle”).
Renowned for his scientific leadership, Rubinoff directly supervised the construction or modernization of every STRI facility
during his tenure there, while building the staff from a handful to an international group of 35 scientists and 300 staff who
also support approximately 1,000 visiting scientists and students each year. An endowment fund created by Rubinoff
includes more than $17 million to support research and fellowships at STRI, augmenting the $20 million annual budget in
federal and non-federal funds.
+ info: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=49088
FELLOWSHIPS - Henry Luce Foundation Grant to Advance Scholarship on Tibetan Painting Awarded to Rubin
Museum - New York City - New York State - USA
With the support of a three-year, $270,000 grant from the Henry Luce Foundation, Dr. David Jackson—the world’s
foremost scholar of Tibetan Buddhist painting and a consulting curator for the Rubin Museum—will publish a new series of
exhibition catalogues on Tibetan thangka paintings drawn primarily from the museum’s collection. This is the second grant
awarded to the Rubin Museum from the foundation; in 2007 the foundation supported the exhibition Bon: The Magic Word
and its catalogue.
Chief Curator of the Rubin Museum of Art Jan van Alphen expressed the museum’s gratitude to the Henry Luce Foundation
for its commitment to Asian art historical scholarship saying, “The foundation’s continued support of the museum’s efforts
to share ground-breaking research on the art and culture of Tibet will lead to greater appreciation for, and understanding
and preservation of, an endangered cultural heritage.”
+ info: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=49239
COMPETITIONS - Slant Garden Design Award 2011 - Deadline for submission: 16 September 2011
This July we have launched our second competition and this time it is open to all, and the challenge is to design a garden
for a private residence.
We want you to have as free a hand as possible when designing this project; therefore we are keeping the brief and the
entry requirements to a minimum.
The house in question is not a real house, it has been designed specifically for this competition, and its location is not being
specified.
It is a generic house and garden which could be almost anywhere in the world, and you are free to choose the country in
which you would like this imaginary house and garden to be located.
+ info: http://www.slant.eu/brief.html#overview
GRANTS - Museum Receives $500,000 Mellon Foundation Grant - Toledo Museum - Toledo - Ohio - USA
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded a $500,000 grant to the Toledo Museum of Art for the design and
implementation of a postdoctoral fellowship program that addresses one of the singular challenges facing the field today—
preparing tomorrow’s museum leaders.
The new program is unusual in that it blends curatorial work with the interdisciplinary nature of museum operations,
according to Toledo Museum of Art Director Brian Kennedy.
+ info: http://www.toledomuseum.org/2011/08/08/museum-receives-500000-mellon-grant.php
Museo De Arte De Ponce Awarded Grant For Innovative Preservation of Three-Dimensional Works - Ponce -
Puerto Rico - USA
he National Endowment for the Humanities, under its “Sustaining Cultural Heritage Collections” program, has approved the
Museo de Arte de Ponce’s proposal for the purchase and installation of a high-density mobile storage unit that will store
and protect the museums collection of 1,259 three-dimensional art works. The grant is in the amount of $149,800.
+ info: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=49736
GRANTS - Princeton University Art Museum Receives Grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
The Princeton University Art Museum has been awarded a major grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation that will
support development and execution of new strategies of engagement and interpretation for all of the Museum’s collections
galleries and study rooms.
The $500,000 award will fund, in part, a key new Museum initiative, Activating the Collections, including the establishment
of a new position, a Curatorial Fellow for Collections Engagement, who will work with curators, faculty, students, guest
scholars, artists and other experts across disciplines to develop and present compelling interpretative approaches and
materials. The grant also will establish the Museum Voices Colloquium, which will function as a visual arts think tank in
bringing together traditional and non-traditional experts to consider new ways of understanding art of the past and
present.
+ info: http://artmuseum.princeton.edu/news/MellonFoundation/
AWARDS - Australian Archaeological Association Inc. Awards - Deadline for Nominations - 12 September 2011
The Australian Archaeological Association Inc. (AAA) is one of the largest archaeological organisations in Australia,
representing a diverse membership of professionals, students and others with an interest in archaeology. It aims to
promote the advancement of archaeology; to provide an organisation for the discussion and dissemination of
archaeological information and ideas; to convene meetings at regular intervals; to publicise the need for the study and
conservation of archaeological sites and collections; and, to publicise the work of the Association.
+ info: http://www.australianarchaeologicalassociation.com.au/awards
FELLOWSHIPS - dOCUMENTA (13) Partners with CPPC (Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros) to Offer a
Curatorial Fellowship for Curators and Scholars from Latin America - Kassel - Germany
dOCUMENTA (13) and the Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros (CPPC) have created a Curatorial Fellowship that will offer
curators and scholars from Latin America the opportunity to work on the development of dOCUMENTA (13), an exhibition
that will take place in the summer of 2012 in Kassel, Germany. This fellowship is offered to young arts professionals from
Latin America focused on contemporary art.
+ info: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=49338
PRMIOS - La Sociedad para la Restauración Ecológica confiere su Premio de Reconocimiento Especial de 2011
a las Partes en el Convenio sobre la Diversidad Biológica
La Sociedad para la Restauración Ecológica ha otorgado su Premio de Reconocimiento Especial 2011 de las Partes en el
Convenio sobre la Diversidad Biológica (CDB) en el Banquete de Gala de Premiación el 23 de agosto de 2011 en Mérida,
Yucatán, México, al margen de la 4ª Conferencia Mundial sobre la Restauración Ecológica.
+ info: http://www.cbd.int/doc/press/2011/pr-2011-08-24-ser-es.pdf
edition-2011-dossier-de-candidature-et-reglement.html
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Noticias
Rhinos Latest Victims of the Illicit Trade in Art and Wildlife
Following a recent surge in museum heists targeting rhinoceros horn, conservation and
preservation organizations warn that the illegal trafficking of art and wildlife is a threat to the
public, as well as the world’s natural and cultural heritage.
The Lawyers’ Committee for Cultural Heritage Preservation (LCCHP), the International Fund for
Animal Welfare (IFAW), Save the Rhino International, and Saving Rhinos issued the following
statement. (go to the link).
+ info: http://www.culturalheritagelaw.org/rhino
Programme court en gestion des ressources fauniques - TELUQ - Université à distance de l'Université du
Québec à Monréal (UQAM)
Objectifs: Comprendre les effets des interventions dans le domaine de la gestion des ressources fauniques et de leurs
habitats en relation avec les problématiques environnementales. Relier les activités scientifiques et socio-économiques à la
base de l'utilisation rationnelle des ressources renouvelables.
Contact: Louise Provencher, coordonnatrice à l'encadrement, Québec, poste 5408 coordonnateur.ENV@teluq.uqam.ca
+ info: http://www.teluq.uquebec.ca/sed/xml/sabplXml.php?p_no_url=1&p_etb_code=TELUQ
going to be a spectacular sight, but when a Heritage Expeditions boat docked in Anadyr last night
not one, not two, but an incredible 17 tiny, hatched spoon-billed sandpiper chicks emerged.
The incredibly ambitious mission to collect eggs from the rapidly dwindling number of nests on
the breeding grounds in Chukotka and transport them thousands of miles via land, sea and air to
the conservation breeding facility at WWT Slimbridge hatching has reached an important
milestone.
+ info: http://www.wwt.org.uk/latest-news/first-spoonbilled-sandpiper-chicks-hatch-in-captivity-
Científicos del Museo Smithsonian descubren la anguila más primitiva, dando lugar a una nueva especie
(Protoanguilla Palau)
Scientists at the Smithsonian and partnering organizations have discovered a remarkably primitive eel in a fringing reef off
the coast of the Republic of Palau. This fish exhibits many primitive anatomical features unknown in the other 19 families
and more than 800 species of living eels, resulting in its classification as a new species belonging to a new genus and
family. The team’s research is published online in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B, Aug. 17.
+ info: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=49904
OUVERTURE D'UNE ENQUETE PUBLIQUE SUR ANCHUSA CRISPA (BUGLOSSE CREPUE) CORSE - France
Le ministère de l’Ecologie ouvre sur son site, du 16 août au 23 septembre, une consultation publique portant sur le projet
de plan national en faveur de la buglosse crépue (Anchusa crispa). Cette plante de la famille des boraginacées, endémique
de Corse et Sardaigne, se rencontre sur le littoral au niveau des hauts de plage. Pour la Corse, cette espèce est
uniquement présente sur six localités en Corse-du-Sud. Elle est protégée sur l'ensemble du territoire français en
application de l'article L. 411-1 du Code de l'environnement et est inscrite aux annexes II et IV de la directive « habitats ».
Le projet de plan, programmé pour la période 2011-2015, comprend trois parties :
- un état des lieux des connaissances sur l'espèce et ses habitats : répartition, écologie, biologie, évolution des
populations...
- la stratégie de conservation à long terme en faveur de l'espèce,
- la liste des actions en matière de connaissance, de gestion, de restauration et de communication programmées au cours
de la mise en œuvre du plan.
+ info: http://www.corse.developpement-durable.gouv.fr/IMG/pdf/FR9400594_Emouchure.pdf
suspend trade with Nigeria that had been in place since 2005 because of increasing
illegal wildlife trade and a lack of adequate enforcement.
The decision to lift the suspension was adopted during the 61st meeting of the CITES Standing Committee held in Geneva
last week (SC61). Nigeria has designated the National Environmental Standards and Regulations Enforcement Agency
(NESREA) as the country’s new CITES enforcement authority and has enacted new wildlife regulations that fully comply
with CITES requirements and can now be ranked in Category 1 under the CITES legislation project.
+ info: http://www.cites.org/eng/news/press_release.php
Créer des emplois et protéger la biodiversité : les résultats d'une étude de Natureparif réalisée par le Centre
d'Etudes de l'Emploi (CEE) - Ile de France - France
Cette étude a eu comme objet de dénombrer les emplois favorables à la biodiversité (« les bio-emplois ») en Île-de-France
et d’étudier les différents moyens offerts aux politiques publiques pour augmenter ces emplois et soutenir ainsi la
biodiversité. En dépit d’une longue tradition de recherche scientifique en économie de l’emploi et des nombreuses années
de préoccupation pour la protection de la biodiversité, le concept d’« emploi favorable à la biodiversité » n’existait pas en
sciences économiques jusqu’à cette étude. En effet, la littérature internationale en économie s’avère incapable de répondre
aujourd’hui à une question pourtant d’une grande importance, à savoir : « Comment réconcilier, au lieu de les opposer,
politique de l’emploi et politique de protection de la biodiversité ? ». L’avancée principale de l’étude est donc de lancer, en
sciences économiques appliquées à l’appui à la décision, la réflexion sur la mise en place de ces politiques publiques dites «
à double dividende ».
+ info: http://www.natureparif.fr/fr/actualites/natureparif-et-partenariat/671-creer-des-emplois-et-proteger-la-
biodiversite-les-resultats-dune-etude-de-natureparif-realisee-par-le-centre-detudes-de-lemploi-cee
Projets de plans nationaux d’actions en faveur de deux espèces végétales endémiques amazoniennes
Consultation du public 16 ago - 23 sep 2011 . , Francia
Organizadores: Ministère de l’Écologie, du Développement durable, des Transports et du Logement
Contacto: pna.astrocaryum@developpement-durable.gouv.fr et pna.bactris@developpement-durable.gouv.fr
+ info: http://www.developpement-durable.gouv.fr/Projets-de-plans-nationaux-d.html
geológico emblemático, y esta isla es un elemento clave en la reconstrucción de las primeras fases de la
evolución del arco antillano.
+ info: http://www.developpement-durable.gouv.fr/spip.php?page=article&id_article=23746
Le CESAB (Centre de Synthèse et d'Analyse sur la Biodiversité) s'installe sur le Technopôle de l'Environnement
Arbois-Méditerranée - Aix en Provence - France
Le Technopôle de l’Environnement Arbois-Méditerranée accueillera dès 2011 le Centre de Synthèse et d’Analyse sur la
Biodiversité, projet unique en Europe. Ainsi en a décidé, le 17 juin dernier, le Conseil d’administration de la Fondation pour
la recherche sur la biodiversité à qui il revenait de choisir entre le Technopôle de Brest Iroise à Brest et le Technopôle de
l’Environnement Arbois-Méditerranée à Aix en Provence, les deux présélectionnés parmi les 10 candidats ayant répondu à
l’Appel à Manifestation d’Intérêt lancé en octobre dernier.
+ info: http://www.arbois-med.com/articles/14/Le-CESAB-s-installe-sur-le-Technopole-de-l-Environnement-Arbois-
Mediterranee.html
The Hawai'i Wildlife Center / Ruhl Walker Architects - Halaula - Hawai'i - USA
The Hawai’i Wildlife Center, a non-profit organization, is Hawaii’s first wildlife recovery center dedicated to the recovery
and conservation of the islands’ unique wildlife. Through three integrated design components, this structure by Ruhl Walker
Architects serves to fulfill the mission of the organization to serve as an institution devoted to research, the rehabilitation
of animals, and the education and training of the general public.
+ info: http://www.archdaily.com/159928/
WWF (WORLD WILDLIFE FUND) está preocupado por el futuro del delfín del Mekong
El miércoles, el Fondo Mundial para la naturaleza (WWF) pidió medidas urgentes para evitar que la
especie delfín del Mekong llegue a la extinción. Desea sobre todo la aplicación de áreas de conservación
y la prohibición de determinadas redes de pesca.
+ info: http://www.maxisciences.com/dauphin/le-wwf-s-039-inquiete-de-l-039-avenir-du-dauphin-du-
mekong_art16390.html
COLLOQUE FRB (Fondation pour la recherche sur la biodiversité) : Les Ressources Génétiques (RG) face aux
nouveaux enjeux environnementaux, économiques et sociétaux
20 sep - 22 sep 2011 . Montpellier, Francia
Organizadores: Fondation pour la recherche sur la biodiversité (FRB)
Contacto: contact@fondationbiodiversite.fr
+ info: http://www.fondationbiodiversite.fr/agenda/colloque-ressources-genetiques
Conferencia EUROPARC 2011 - "La calidad cuenta - Beneficios para la naturaleza y el hombre"
21 sep - 25 sep 2011 . Bad Urach, Alemania
Organizadores: Federación EUROPARC
Contacto: info@europarc2011.com
FECHA LÍMITE: 31 ago 2011
+ info: http://www.europarc2011.com/en/welcome.html
envían como enlace a la Tierra. Las muestras de las plantas se cultivan y se devuelven a la
Tierra para su análisis científico. Los resultados de este experimento podrían llevarnos a
obtener información que nos ayudaría en la producción de alimentos durante las largas misiones del espacio, así como en
la obtención de información para mejorar la producción de cultivos en la Tierra.
+ info: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/Plant_Signaling.html
IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature): Big birds lose out in a crowded world
One of the world’s largest species of bird is on the brink of extinction according to the 2011 IUCN Red List
of Threatened Species™ for birds, just released by BirdLife International, an IUCN Red List partner.
The Great Indian Bustard (Ardeotis nigriceps) has been uplisted to Critically Endangered, the highest level
of threat. Hunting, disturbance, habitat loss and fragmentation have all conspired to reduce this
magnificent species to perhaps as few as 250 individuals.
Standing a metre in height and weighing in at nearly 15 kg, the Great Indian Bustard was once widespread
across the grasslands of India and Pakistan but is now restricted to small and isolated fragments of
remaining habitat.
+ info: http://www.iucn.org/fr/presse/communiques/?7594/Big-birds-lose-out-in-a-crowded-world
UC (University of California) Berkeley Study Finds Gray Whales Likely Survived the Ice Ages by Changing Their
Diets
Gray whales survived many cycles of global cooling and warming over the past few million years, likely by exploiting a
more varied diet than they do today, according to a new study by University of California, Berkeley, and Smithsonian
Institution paleontologists.
The researchers, who analyzed California gray whale (Eschrichtius robustus) responses to climate change over the past
120,000 years, also found evidence to support the idea that the population of gray whales along the Pacific Coast before
the arrival of humans was two to four times today’s population, which stands at about 22,000. The whale is considered a
conservation success story because protections instituted as early as the 1930s have allowed populations to rebound from
fewer than 1,000 individuals in the early 20th century, after less than 75 years of systematic whaling.
+ info: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=48946
CITES crea fondo para proteger a elefantes y pide combatir comercio de cuerno
de rinoceronte
El Comité Permanente de la Convención sobre Comercio Internacional de Especies
Amenazadas (CITES) estableció hoy un fondo para proteger a los elefantes africanos y
urgió a reforzar el combate al comercio ilegal de cuerno de rinoceronte.
Al concluir la reunión anual del Comité –a la que asistieron unos 300 expertos y
representantes de gobiernos, empresas, ONG y organizaciones comerciales de 172 países
– Holanda, Alemania y Francia aportaron las primeras contribuciones al fondo.
+ info: http://www.un.org/spanish/News/fullstorynews.asp?newsID=21596
Experts concerned about level of trade in snake skins used in luxury products - Long-tailed macaque used in
biomedical research, sturgeons, seahorses and shark-fishing regulations also under review
The 25th meeting of the Animals Committee of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna
and Flora (CITES) closed today with key scientific findings for the conservation and sustainable use of several reptiles,
marine species and amphibians. A record number of over 200 delegates, from fifty countries, attending the meeting
expressed concern about the sustainability of current levels of trade in skins of three species of snakes used in luxury
products and an other 20 animal species used in biomedical research, the food industry or as pets.
+ info: http://www.cites.org/eng/news/press/2011/20110722_AC25.php
IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature): The latest estimates on endangered species
The numbers of species listed in each category in The IUCN Red List of Threatened SpeciesTM change each time the Red
List is updated. This is a result of various factors, including species being assessed and added to the Red List for the first
time, species being reassessed and moving into a different category of threat, and taxonomic revisions causing the total
number of recognised species within a group to change. Summaries of the numbers of species in each Red List Category by
taxonomic group and by country are provided here for the current version of The IUCN Red List.
+ info: http://www.iucnredlist.org/about/summary-statistics
NPS (National Parks Service - USA) Supports Global Tiger Initiative in Bhutan
An NPS expert on efforts to identify and protect landscape-scale habitat linkages and wildlife corridors and to develop
design recommendations to reduce wildlife impacts from roads represented the NPS at an international workshop convened
in Bhutan. The workshop focused on developing guidelines for “Smart Green Infrastructure” to protect some of the world’s
last remaining wild tigers. The NPS representative shared knowledge about how roads affect wildlife (particularly large
carnivores) and on how the NPS balances visitor use with natural resource conservation.
Workshop participants produced a series of guidelines and action items for reducing the impacts of development
infrastructure on tigers, tiger habitat, and other wildlife. Bhutan agreed to advance these concepts with other tiger range
countries and to serve as a leader in “tiger sensitive” development across the region. The workshop was a follow up to the
World Bank’s recently initiated Global Tiger Initiative designed to protect remaining wild tigers in the 13 tiger range
countries across Asia and South.
+ info: http://www.nps.gov/oia/
Publication des Décrets relatifs au Comité National et aux Comités régionaux "trames verte et bleue" - France
La Trame verte et bleue est un outil d’aménagement du territoire qui vise à (re)constituer un réseau écologique cohérent,
à l’échelle du territoire national, pour permettre aux espèces animales et végétales, de circuler, de s’alimenter, de se
reproduire, de se reposer... En d’autres termes, d’assurer leur survie, et permettre aux écosystèmes de continuer à rendre
à l’homme leurs services.
Une ambition du Grenelle Environnement:
La Trame verte et bleue est une démarche qui vise à maintenir et à reconstituer un réseau d'échanges pour que les
espèces animales et végétales puissent comme l'homme, circuler, s’alimenter, se reproduire, se reposer… et assurer ainsi
leur cycle de vie. Elle joue un rôle essentiel pour la préservation de la biodiversité, capital naturel aujourd’hui menacé.
+ info: http://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/affichTexte.do?cidTexte=JORFTEXT000024269600&dateTexte=&categorieLien=id
La Banque mondiale accorde une aide d’urgence pour soutenir la conservation de la biodiversité à Madagascar
Le Conseil d’administration de la Banque mondiale a approuvé aujourd’hui un financement additionnel pour continuer à
soutenir le secteur de l’environnement à Madagascar, un pays qui abrite une des biodiversités les plus uniques mais aussi
les plus menacées du monde. Ce financement additionnel, d’un montant de 52 millions de dollars, permettra d’accroître les
efforts de conservation dans 30 parcs nationaux et trois nouvelles aires protégées, couvrant une superficie totale de 2,7
millions d’hectares.
+ info: http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/ACCUEILEXTN/NEWSFRENCH/
E-learning : La FNH (Fondation pour la Nature et l'Homme) lance sa première formation ''La biodiversité au
cœur du développement durable''
Entreprises, particuliers, collectivités, associations : découvrez comment repenser vos activités pour qu'elles soient
compatibles avec le fonctionnement de la planète, grâce à cette formation en ligne proposée par la Fondation pour la
Nature et l’Homme (FNH).
+ info: http://www.actu-environnement.com/ae/pdt/elearning-biodiversite-developpement-durable-fnh-302.
php4#xtor=EPR-1
Saving threatened species in Afghanistan: snow leopards in the Wakhan Corridor - Afghanistan
By Anthony Simmsa, Zalmai Moheba, Salahudina, Hussain Alia, Inayat Alia & Timothy Wooda
The Wakhan Corridor in northeast Afghanistan is an area known for relatively abundant wildlife and it
appears to represent Afghanistan’s most important snow leopard landscape. The Wildlife Conservation
Society (WCS) has been working in Wakhan since 2006. Recent camera trap surveys have documented the
presence of snow leopards at 16 different locations in the landscape. These are the first camera trap
records of snow leopards in Afghanistan. Threats to snow leopards in the region include the fur trade,
retaliatory killing by shepherds and the capture of live animals for pets. WCS is developing an integrated
management approach for this species, involving local governance, protection by a cadre of rangers, education,
construction of predator-proof livestock corrals, a livestock insurance program, tourism and research activities. This
management approach is expected to contribute significantly to the conservation of snow leopards and other wildlife
species in the Wakhan.
+ info: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00207233.2011.577147
sequence gap in the animal lineage. The paper, which appears today in Nature1, is the first to
sequence the genome of a non-avian reptile. "This fills out a clade that has been completely ignored
before," says lead author Jessica Alföldi of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard in Cambridge,
Massachusetts.
Amniotes, the first truly terrestrial vertebrates, diverged from other animals some 320 million years
ago to form the mammalian and reptilian lineages. Until now, however, the only representatives of the
reptile branch to be sequenced were birds — the chicken, the turkey and the zebra finch.
+ info: http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110831/full/news.2011.512.html
PRMIOS - La Sociedad para la Restauración Ecológica confiere su Premio de Reconocimiento Especial de 2011
a las Partes en el Convenio sobre la Diversidad Biológica
La Sociedad para la Restauración Ecológica ha otorgado su Premio de Reconocimiento Especial 2011 de las Partes en el
Convenio sobre la Diversidad Biológica (CDB) en el Banquete de Gala de Premiación el 23 de agosto de 2011 en Mérida,
Yucatán, México, al margen de la 4ª Conferencia Mundial sobre la Restauración Ecológica.
+ info: http://www.cbd.int/doc/press/2011/pr-2011-08-24-ser-es.pdf
Comment les mâchoires, facteur essentiel dans le succès évolutif des vertébrés et la diversité
de leur adaptation, sont-elles apparues subitement chez les poissons il y a 435 millions
d’années ? Une équipe de chercheurs a réussi à expliquer ce phénomène grâce à une étude
poussée de l’anatomie interne de fossiles de galéaspides, poissons sans mâchoires.
L’apparition des mâchoires chez les vertébrés aurait été rendue possible grâce à une
réorganisation du cerveau et des organes du sens bien avant l’origine des mâchoires. Cette
étude menée par des chercheurs de l’Université de Bristol, de l’Académie chinoise des Sciences, du CNRS, du Muséum
national d’Histoire naturelle, de l’Institut suisse Paul Scherrer et l’Université ETH de Zurich a été publiée le 18 août dernier
dans Nature.
+ info: http://www.insu.cnrs.fr/co/terre-solide/terre-et-vie/l-etude-de-fossiles-de-poissons-explique-l-apparition-des-
machoires-chez-l
Agenda
40th anniversary of the conclusion of the text of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species
of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES)
Se hace en varias ciudades y en fechas diferentes 3-mar-2013 . ,
Organizadores: Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES)
Contacto: info@cites.org
+ info: http://www.cites.org/eng/news/calendar.php
Publicaciones
Guide pratique pour la gestion des espèces exotiques envahissantes en outre-mer
Les espèces exotiques envahissantes sont reconnues comme l’une des principales menaces pour les
espèces et les habitats naturels d’outre-mer.
Pour renforcer la gestion de ce phénomène, le Comité français de l’UICN publie un nouvel ouvrage pratique
destiné à tous les gestionnaires d’espaces naturels d’outre-mer (associations, établissements publics…),
ainsi qu’aux services de l’Etat et des collectivités locales.
+ info: http://www.uicn.fr/Guide-especes-envahissantes-OM.html
IUCN (International Union for the Conservation of Nature) Report on Important Plant Areas of
the south and east Mediterranean region: Priority sites for conservation
This report describes a rapid assessment of Important Plant Areas in the south and east Mediterranean; a
project designed to provide the ‘wild plant perspective’ for the regional investment strategy of the Critical
Ecosystem Partnership Fund. The project partnership of IUCN, Plantlife International and WWF with
botanical teams from Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Palestine, Tunisia, Syria and
Albania, was supported by the French Development Agency.
+ info: http://data.iucn.org/dbtw-wpd/edocs/2011-014.pdf
RUPUNUNI - GUYANA
by Graham Watkins, Pete Oxford, Renee Bish, Abbie Williams (Editor)
The northern Rupununi has intrigued explorers, travellers, historians, and scientists for centuries,
dating back to Sir Walter Ralegh s search for the mythical El Dorado. But for the past three decades
this extraordinary region, with its breathtaking landscape and astonishing wildlife, has been out of
the public eye. Rupununi Rediscovering a Lost World inspires WWF and other conservation agencies
to continue their work to protect the global environment. It also reminds us that we need to be ever
vigilant if we are to overcome the threats that confront humanity so that we can bequeath to our
children a lasting legacy.
+ info: http://www.ilcp.com/publications/rupununi#
The Financial Instrument for the Environment (LIFE) preventing species extinction:
Safeguarding endangered flora and fauna through ex-situ conservation
© European Union, 2011
ISBN 978-92-79-20026-7
Most LIFE Nature projects focus on conservation action 'in-situ', i.e. within the natural habitat of a
particular threatened species. This may not be enough to help the most vulnerable species, however, in
which case 'ex-situ' conservation measures are required to address the threat of extinction. The LIFE
programme has a distinguished track record of funding crucial ex-situ interventions targeting a wide range
of vulnerable species, ranging from flagship species such as the brown bear and golden eagle, to lesser-known but equally
important fish, invertebrates, reptiles, amphibians and plants. LIFE-funded actions to support habitats ex-situ have
contributed to enhancing biodiversity, supporting the EU's policy goals. The Commission is at present evaluating the
contribution that ex-situ conservation has to make to the conservation of European species. This LIFE Focus publication
highlights more than 80 LIFE Nature projects that feature ex-situ conservation actions, with the goal not only of
highlighting innovative ideas and good practice, but also of pointing out some of the problems that previous LIFE projects
have faced so that they might be avoided by current and future projects working in the challenging field of ex-situ
conservation.
+ info: http://ec.europa.eu/environment/life/publications/lifepublications/lifefocus/documents/reintroduction.pdf
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Noticias
Christchurch Cathedral may be knocked down - Christchurch - New Zealand
Earthquake-damaged Christ Church Cathedral could be demolished and rebuilt further west, senior
clergy say. Bishop Victoria Matthews and Dean Peter Beck say the cathedral needs to be in the centre of
the city. If quake-damaged land was abandoned in the eastern suburbs and the focal point of the city
shifted west, the cathedral would be rebuilt in the new centre, Matthews said.
"If the whole city moves west, we need to be in the centre of the city. We want to be in the centre of the
city as an icon," she said.
"What is important is we keep asking the big questions and we don't get tied up in details. The big
question is if the cathedral is the heart and soul of the city, where do we place the cathedral?
"In the worst sense, it is a moveable feast. I think there will be a huge amount riding on the land report, when we find out
what parts of the city will be rebuilt.
"The centre of the city can't be in isolation. It is in relationship to the rest of the city. The land report will be of key
importance."
+ info: http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/christchurch-earthquake/5150186/Cathedral-may-be-knocked-down
BOLETIN DE ISPAN - Instituto de conservación del patrimonio nacional de Haití. No 26 (julio 2011)
Les agradecemos que animen a sus amigos a abonarse al BOLETIN DE ISPAN en la siguiente dirección: ispan.
bulletin@gmail.com
El Instituto de Conservación del Patrimonio Nacional (ISPAN) es un organismo técnico autónomo del Ministerio de cultura y
comunicación. Tiene como misión realizar el inventario y la clasificación de sitios, monumentos y conjuntos históricos de la
República de Haití, llevar a cabo proyectos de protección, restauración y puesta en valor de monumentos, sitios y
conjuntos históricos, asegurar la dirección y el control de los trabajos de ejecución de dichos proyectos, ayudar a la
promoción y el desarrollo de actividades públicas o privadas destinadas a preservar el patrimonio nacional y, por último,
recopilar, organizar y difundir toda la información y documentación relativa al patrimonio arquitectónico y monumental,
nacional e internacional.
+ info: http://universityandheritage.net/doc/ISPAN_No26.pdf
To check out other cities visit our world map or our Architecture City Guide page.
The Architecture City Guide: Rome list and corresponding map after the break.
+ info: http://www.archdaily.com/160952/architecture-city-guide-rome/?
utm_source=feedblitz&utm_medium=FeedBlitzEmail&utm_campaign=0&utm_content=383045
para el más amplio conocimiento y apreciación pública de este monumento histórico. El décor
of the hotel, que fue uno de los más significativos de su tiempo, no ha estado a disposición del
público desde el principio de los años 20. La oportunidad de presentar los interiores
restaurados en habitaciones del hotel de Rohan-Strasbourg ofrecerá aspectos comparables a
los de la Cancillería de Orleans, permitiendo su localización en un lugar que está cerca de su
emplazamiento original.
+ info: http://www.wmf.org/project/chancellerie-dorleans
COMPETITIONS - BERKELEY PRIZE 2012 COMPETITION - Architecture is a Social Art - 2012 Theme:
Architecture for the Public Good - Starting 15 September 2011 - Deadline for submission: 1 November 2011
Professor Raymond Lifchez, Chair of the international Berkeley Undergraduate Prize for Architectural Design Excellence
announces that the 2012 BERKELEY PRIZE launches on September 15, 2011.
Each year the PRIZE, whose primary goal is to foster a larger awareness and understanding of the social art of
architecture, sponsors an Essay Competition, a Travel Fellowship Competition, and an Architectural Design Fellowship
Competition. All are open to undergraduates studying architecture throughout the world.
+ info: http://www.berkeleyprize.org/
Expo '58 + Philips Pavilion / Le Corbusier and Iannis Xenakis -1958 - Brussels - Belgium -
In 1956, preparations had begun for the 1958 World’s Fair in Brussels. This was to be the first World’s Fair held since the
end of World War II, the concept behind the Expo was to celebrate the rejuvenation of civilization from the destruction of
war through the use of technology. This World Fair is best known for the musical advances that was combined with
architecture, creating a gestalt through an experiential encounter where body meets sound and space
+ info: http://www.archdaily.com/157658/
often goes overlooked. These cities merge seamlessly with the surrounding landscape, contextually complementing each
other.
Al Hajjara is one such village that warrants a closer look. Built on the precipice of a mountain, the architecture clings to the
sides of the cliffs. Multi-story buildings rise up out of the ground and step their way to the top. It is quite amazing given
the fact that these buildings were constructed hundreds of years ago, and are still standing.
+ info: http://www.archdaily.com/162244/hidden-gems-of-yemen/
Post Office in Ben Franklin's House in Philadelphia's Historic Old City May Close - Philadelphia - Pennsylvania -
USA
A post office in a building that Benjamin Franklin once owned is on the Postal Service's list of branches that could close.
The post office in Philadelphia's historic Old City neighborhood is the only one in the country that doesn't fly a U.S. flag.
That's because there wasn't one in 1775, when Franklin founded what has evolved into today's Postal Service.
There's also a postal museum upstairs from the so-called B. Free Franklin Post Office, located in a house once owned by
Franklin. It opened as a U.S. post office in 1975, the 200th anniversary of Franklin's appointment by the Continental
Congress as the country's first postmaster general.
+ info: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=49383
AD Classics: Everson Museum - I.M. Pei - 1968 - Syracuse - New York - USA
With a collection focused largely on American art and ceramics, the Everson Museum exists
as a structure that is more than just a vault for art. Designed in 1968 by I.M. Pei, the
structure sought to simultaneously challenge the traditional museum typology through its
innovative form while also existing as an object of modern art in its own right. Pei conceived
the Everson as an open structure with access to its interior from all of its exposed sides.
The building is primarily comprised of four opaque concrete volumes that surround an open
atrium that visitors move through to access the galleries. A library/lounge and an
auditorium exist as separate volumes that are accessed through the atrium. Each volume contains galleries of differing size
and height that when viewed from outside gives added hierarchy to the overall assemblage of forms that makeup the
museum. A cantilevered second story adds further differentiation to the building from the surrounding landscape.
+ info: http://www.archdaily.com/152899/ad-classics-everson-museum-i-m-pei/
AD Classics: Alden B. Dow Home and Studio - Alden Dow - 1937 - 1940 - Midland -
Michigan - USA
The Alden B. Dow Home and Studio, design by architect Alden Dow himself, masterfully
incorporates work and domestic life in an interwoven fabric with the natural world. Using
patented “Unit Blocks” the structure is given a sense of organicism and scale. A winding
circulation serves to both separate programs within the home and add organic interest to the
plan.
Alden Dow’s style can be said to resemble that of Frank Lloyd Wright, and rightfully so as Dow
served as apprentice to Wright in the summer of 1933. Dow’s concept of creating a home and studio was influenced
greatly by Wright. The idea was also implemented at Taliesin East, Wright’s home, studio and educational facility, where
Dow’s apprenticeship took place.
+ info: http://www.archdaily.com/163106/ad-classics-alden-b-dow-home-and-studio-alden-dow/
After Twenty-Seven Years and $45 Million, Taiwan Restores Ornate 19th Century Mansion - Taiwan - China
Twenty-seven years in the making, the $45 million renovation of a 150-year-old Taiwanese homestead is finally nearing
completion. The Lin Family Mansion — a complex of five buildings on 7.4 acres (3 hectares) — is one of Taiwan's most
important historical sites, a rare example of the ornate architectural style favored by nobles from southern China in the
waning years of the Qing dynasty.
The renovation has been a painstaking process, with workers facing a variety of challenges — not least a devastating
earthquake — to return the 19th-century structures to their original glory.
+ info: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=49517
spearhead the project, and provided the initial design. Tragically, however,
Rietveld died a year after the project began. Rietveld’s colleague on the project,
J. van Dillen, took over the commission as a result, sticking closely to Rietveld’s
previous sketches. When van Dillen died in 1966, the project was finally left to
be finished with a slightly adjusted design by J. van Tricht.
+ info: http://www.archdaily.com/153568/ad-classics-rijksmuseum-vincent-van-gogh-gerrit-rietveld/
Museum of Memory and Tolerance / Arditti + RDT Architects - 2010 - Mexico D.F.
- Mexico
The Museum is constructed using a mixture of reinforced concrete and steel in a seven
level structure (three of permanent exhibit + four complimentary). It is set on a
continuous colonnade of the Plaza Juarez complex, designed by Legorreta + Legorreta
Architects on the site of the former “Hotel Alameda” (which fell during the 1985
earthquake).
+ info: http://www.archdaily.com/154543/museum-of-memory-and-tolerance-arditti-rdt-
architects/
Expert Meeting for the Revision of the Haitian Law on the Protection of Built
Heritage - Paris - France (11-12 July 2011)
The meeting will gather a team of legal experts to launch the process of revision of the Law
on the Protection of Built Heritage, in light of the projects undertaken by UNESCO and its
partners with a view to making culture an essential part of Haiti's reconstruction effort.
The activity has been set as a key priority by the Haitian Government, and will be organized
with the financial support of the Spanish Funds-in-Trust for World Heritage. It is in line with
projects 1 and 3 for Port-au-Prince as presented in the brochure "Haiti - Making Culture a
AD Classics: Prairie Chicken House / Herb Greene - 1960-1961 - NORMAN - OKLAHOMA - USA
The Greene Residence, dubbed the “Prairie Chicken House” by Life Magazine, was built on the prairies of Norman,
Oklahoma in 1961 and quickly became a symbol of organic modernism. Architect Herb Greene took the organic movement
of Frank Lloyd Wright and Bruce Goff to a new freestyle level in the design of his personal home. Built for himself and his
family, the house conveys a sense of place and purpose.
+ info: http://www.archdaily.com/152093/
Exhibition - Wisdom Builds Her House: The Architecture and History of Libraries at Architekturmuseum
14 jul - 16 oct 2011 . Munich, Alemania
Organizadores: Architekturmuseum der Technischen Universität München
Contacto: archmus@lrz.tum.de
+ info: http://www.architekturmuseum.de/en/ausstellungen/index.php
Le Corbusier meets Albert Einstein - Princeton Universityu - New Jersey - USA - 1954
Two of the brightest minds from the past century.
Back in 1946, Le Corbusier meet Albert Einstein at Princeton after traveling to New York to present at
the United Nations his project for the UN Headquarters.
+ info: http://www.archdaily.com/167240/le-corbusier-meets-albert-einstein/
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS / SACRED SPACES IN PROFANE BUILDINGS A NEW YORK ARCHIVE by MATILDE
CASSANI
13-sep-2011 . New York City, Estados Unidos de América
LECTURE - Australia ICOMOS & Godden Mackay Logan (GML) Heritage Consultants - Czech Functionalism:
1918-1938
22-sep-2011 . Redfern, Australia
Organizadores: Australia ICOMOS & Godden Mackay Logan (GML
Contacto: janev@mgl.com.au
+ info: http://australia.icomos.org/wp-content/uploads/Czech-Functionalism-invite2.jpg
Agenda
California is Celebrating the 100th Birthday of Iconic Architect John Lautner
16 jul - 13 nov 2011 . , Estados Unidos de América
Organizadores: The John Lautner Foundation
+ info: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=49126
PRECOMOS (Preventive Conservation Maintenance and Monitoring of Monuments and Sites) - International
Conference on Preventive Conservation
29 oct - 30 oct 2011 . Nanjing, China
Organizadores: The School of Architecture, Southeast University
Contacto: 230069011@seu.edu.cn and lxjtx@sina.com
FECHA LÍMITE: 15 oct 2011
+ info: http://precomos.org/index.php/news/
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Noticias
Changement climatique : la forêt méditerranéenne en première ligne- Projet
scientifique "Drought"
Comment la sécheresse affecte-t-elle la forêt méditerranéenne ? C’est pour répondre à cette
question que les chercheurs du projet Drought ont réalisé une étude originale consistant à
suivre en continu un écosystème de 4 étages de végétation (pins d’Alep, chênes verts,
filaires à grandes feuilles et chênes kermès).
Le Cemagref, qui assure dans ce projet le suivi phénologique des arbres, leur
développement saisonnier, peut se prévaloir de résultats inédits. L’architecture de l’arbre, sa
forme typique qui découle de règles strictes de croissance, n’est pas immuable comme on le pensait jusqu’à présent. Elle
est modifiée de façon persistante par le réchauffement climatique.
+ info: http://www.cemagref.fr/30-ans/echos-nb03-sedyvin-1/changement-climatique-la-foret-mediterraneenne-en-
premiere-ligne
Cours en ligne - Introduction au système climatique et à son fonctionnement - Université Laval - Québec -
Canada
Introduction au système climatique et à son fonctionnement. Bilan et caractéristiques des principaux gaz à effet de serre.
Introduction à la modélisation climatique, aux scénarios et aux prévisions des modèles. Analyse des impacts des
changements climatiques sur l'environnement physique et humain. Mesures d'adaptation envisagées pour atténuer les
changements climatiques. Accords internationaux et situation du Canada.
+ info: http://www.distance.ulaval.ca/fad/cours/GGR-1006.htm
Middle East's Push Toward Renewable Energy Spurred by Rising Oil Prices
By LISA FRIEDMAN of ClimateWire
The New York Times. Published: June 21, 2011
There's a revolution sweeping the Middle East that has nothing to do with street uprisings or Twitter protests. It's a clean
energy upheaval with international implications that could transform the Arab world from North Africa to the Persian Gulf.
Solar plants are cropping up in Jordan and Morocco. Wind farms are being built in Egypt and Tunisia. Eight Arab nations
and the Palestinian territories have a renewable energy target, and at least five more are taking serious steps to promote
the domestic use of clean energy. Some of the most surprising movement is happening in oil-rich countries like Saudi
Arabia and Qatar.
+ info: http://www.nytimes.com/cwire/2011/06/21/21climatewire-middle-easts-push-toward-renewable-energy-sp-60886.
html?pagewanted=1
Instituto Internacional de Investigación del Clima y Sociedad (IRI): Cambio climático amenaza un frágil
ecosistema en los Andes
A lo largo de la cordillera de los Andes en Colombia, Ecuador, Perú y Venezuela, ubicado entre la cota máxima de árboles y
la línea de lo que solíamos llamar nieves perpetuas, se encuentra el páramo, un ecosistema único e inquietantemente
sublime que está amenazado por el cambio climático.
El clima en el páramo de los Andes del Norte es húmedo y frío. Las temperaturas pueden alcanzar valores por debajo del
punto de congelación en la noche, y aumentar rápidamente a valores cercanos a los 15°C durante el día. Pero esto no me
preocupa. Al contrario, estar en este ecosistema me fascina. Por eso regreso a él, cada que puedo, con el objetivo de
investigar los cambios ambientales que se están presentando en este ecosistema. Mi nombre es Daniel Ruiz Carrascal, y
soy asistente de investigación a nivel de postgrado del Instituto Internacional de Investigaciones de Clima y Sociedad, y
profesor asociado en la Escuela de Ingeniería de Antioquia, en Colombia.
+ info: http://iriportal3.ldeo.columbia.edu:7087/publishedcontent/publish/development/home/
Extreme weather link 'can no longer be ignored': Scientists to end 20-year reluctance with study into global
warming and exceptional weather events
Scientists to end 20-year reluctance with study into global warming and exceptional weather events.
Scientists are to end their 20-year reluctance to link climate change with extreme weather – the heavy storms, floods and
droughts which often fill news bulletins – as part of a radical departure from a previous equivocal position that many now
see as increasingly untenable.
Climate researchers from Britain, the United States and other parts of the world have formed a new international alliance
that aims to investigate exceptional weather events to see whether they can be attributable to global warming caused by
greenhouse gas emissions.
+ info: http://hermanosgaspard.wordpress.com/2011/07/01/extreme-weather-link-can-no-longer-be-ignored/
CLAMER (Climate Change & European Marine Ecosystem Research): Prodigal Plankton Species Makes First
Known Migration from Pacific to Atlantic via Pole
Some 800,000 years ago - about the time early human tribes were learning to make fire - a
tiny species of plankton called Neodenticula seminae went extinct in the North Atlantic.
Today, that microscopic plant has become an Atlantic resident again, having drifted from
the Pacific through the Arctic Ocean thanks to dramatically reduced polar ice, scientists
report.
The melting Arctic has opened a Northwest Passage across the Pole for the tiny algae. And
while it's a food source, it isn't being welcomed back by experts, who say any changes at the
base of the marine food web could, like an earthquake, shake or even topple the pillars of
existing Atlantic ocean life.
+ info: http://www.clamer.eu/images/stories/press_releases/CLAMER_Press_release2_2011-06-27.pdf
Long-term effects of ocean warming on the prokaryotic community: evidence from the vibrios
The long-term effects of ocean warming on prokaryotic communities are unknown because of lack of historical data. We
overcame this gap by applying a retrospective molecular analysis to the bacterial community on formalin-fixed samples
from the historical Continuous Plankton Recorder archive, which is one of the longest and most geographically extensive
collections of marine biological samples in the world. We showed that during the last half century, ubiquitous marine
bacteria of the Vibrio genus, including Vibrio cholerae, increased in dominance within the plankton-associated bacterial
community of the North Sea, where an unprecedented increase in bathing infections related to these bacteria was recently
reported. Among environmental variables, increased sea surface temperature explained 45% of the variance in Vibrio data,
supporting the view that ocean warming is favouring the spread of vibrios and may be the cause of the globally increasing
trend in their associated diseases.
+ info: http://www.sahfos.ac.uk/news/2011/7/21/long-term-effects-of-ocean-warming-on-the-prokaryotic-community-
evidence-from-the-vibrios.aspx
Naciones Unidas: una cooperación mejorada es vital para proteger los bosques del
clima extremo
Varias agencias de Naciones Unidas y sus socios están haciendo un llamamiento para una
mayor cooperación a la hora de abordar la amenaza que supone para los bosques del mundo
los acontecimientos relacionados con climas extremos y los desastres naturales.
Los acontecimientos relacionados con un clima extremo que tienen un gran impacto en la
salud de los bosques incluyen los ciclones, las inundaciones, los corrimientos de tierra, los
tornados, los terremotos y las erupciones volcánicos – las llamadas “perturbaciones
abióticas” , según un informe publicado por la Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura
(FAO), que se encuentra entre los 14 organismos que conforman la Asociación de Colaboración en materia de Bosques.
+ info: http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=39264&Cr=forests&Cr1
En un mundo que cada vez se calienta más, las criaturas animales huyen a las colinas
Una ola de calor está barriendo el planeta, los animales y las plantas están huyendo a climas más fríos. O esto es lo que
asumen los científicos. Es difícil achacar la migración de una especie directamente al cambio climático, particularmente con
las actividades humanas contribuyendo a la destrucción de los ecosistemas cada año. Pero los investigadores han
recopilado más evidencia para esta causa-efecto recogiendo información de 54 artículos científicos que de forma colectiva
reflejan los rangos de hábitat de más de 2,000 especies en las últimas cuatro décadas. Como media, el equipo ha
encontrado que las criaturas se mueven hacia las montañas y se alejan del Ecuador a una velocidad que va al mismo ritmo
que la del cambio climático y a un ritmo que es más veloz que el que se predijo en un primer momento.
+ info: http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2011/08/in-warming-world-critters-run-to.html?ref=hp
UNHCR chief calls for new tools to address climate-related displacement - Oslo - Kingdom of Norway
The world needs to urgently redefine its response to natural disasters and displacement, said UN High Commissioner for
Refugees António Guterres today as he urged countries to adopt new measures to cope with climate-induced displacement
within and across borders.
Guterres made his appeal in Oslo at the Nansen Conference on Climate Change and Displacement in the 21st Century,
declaring the issue "the defining challenge of our times" and noting that "the international community has hitherto lacked
the political will to establish effective mechanisms to reduce the pace of climate change."
The two-day meeting is the first global event to bring together eminent specialists to specifically explore the displacement
dimension of climate change.
+ info: http://www.unhcr.org/4dec922d6.html
Secretaria Ejecutiva de la Convención Marco sobre el Cambio Climático de las Naciones Unidas (CMNUCC): los
gobiernos tienen la responsabilidad ineludible de progresar claramente hacia los objetivos climáticos de 2011
En la primera jornada de la Conferencia de las Naciones Unidas sobre el Cambio Climático que se está celebrando en Bonn,
Alemania, (6 - 17 de junio), la secretaria ejecutiva de la CMNUCC Christiana Figueres dijo que los gobiernos tienen la
responsabilidad ineludible de progresar claramente hacia los objetivos climáticos que acordaron en Cancún para 2011.
En la primera jornada de la Conferencia de las Naciones Unidas sobre el Cambio Climático que se está celebrando en Bonn,
Alemania, (6 - 17 de junio), la secretaria ejecutiva de la CMNUCC Christiana Figueres dijo que los gobiernos tienen la
responsabilidad ineludible de progresar claramente hacia los objetivos climáticos que acordaron en Cancún para 2011.
+ info: http://unfccc.int/files/press/press_releases_advisories/application/pdf/pr20110606sbs_es.pdf
Worst floods in 56 years inundate East China village - The People's Republic of
China
China has mobilized troops to help with flood relief and raised its disaster alert to the
highest level after days of downpours forced the evacuation of more than half a million
people in central and southern provinces.
The official China Daily said more than 555,000 people had been evacuated in seven
provinces and a municipality after rains in recently drought-stricken areas caused floods
and mudslides in the Yangtze River basin.
+ info: http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/06/17/us-china-floods-idUSTRE75F5W220110617
climate-policy-resolution
United Nations' top climate change official reports advances on key issues at June talks, notes issues needing
high-level political guidance - Bonn - Germany
Speaking on the final day of the UN Climate Change Conference in Bonn, Germany, the UNs climate change chief said that
the negotiations had made clear advances on key issues and were also identifying areas that will require high-level political
leadership ahead of the annual conference in Durban.
Referring to the link between negotiations on mitigation under the UN Climate Change Convention and mitigation under the
Kyoto Protocol, she said: Governments are realising that this link needs to be dealt with to get to a global solution and that
will require high-level leadership during the year.
+ info: http://unfccc.int/files/press/press_releases_advisories/application/pdf/pr20111706sb_close_eng.pdf
Primer estudio global sobre el papel de los bosques como pozo de carbono
Un estudio internacional compiló el conjunto de las medidas realizadas en todo el planeta de las cantidades de carbono
absorbidas por los bosques, entre 1990 y 2007. Se trata de una primera referencia global calculada para este componente
principal del ciclo del carbono. Este estudio, en el que participaron investigadores del Laboratorio de las ciencias del clima y
el medio ambiente (LSCE, CNRS/CEA/UVSQ), se publica en línea este 14 de julio en el sitio Internet Science Express.
+ info: http://www.insu.cnrs.fr/a3862,premiere-etude-globale-role-forets-comme-puits-carbone.html
A raíz de las dislocaciones de las plataformas antárticas, los glaciares aguas arriba se reducen rápidamente y
para mucho tiempo
Los desmantelamientos de plataformas de la península antártica observados desde hace algunas décadas conducen a una
aceleración de la escorrentía hacia el océano de los glaciares situados aguas arriba, aceleración que repercute sobre la
pérdida de masa del manto glaciar y sobre el aumento del nivel marino. Un reciente estudio, realizado por tres
investigadores de la NASA (1), el LEGOS (2) y el NSIDC (3) y refiriéndose a la región del norte de la península, pone de
manifiesto que esta aceleración se acompaña de una disminución importante y prolongada de los glaciares. Los
investigadores pudieron estimar con precisión esta disminución en el tiempo de los distintos glaciares así como la subida
del nivel de los mares a la que esta región contribuyó. Este estudio se publica en el Journal of Glaciology.
+ info: http://www.insu.cnrs.fr/a3871,suite-aux-dislocations-plateformes-antarctiques-glaciers-amont-s-amincissent-
rapidement-longtemps.html
Colloque "L'océan et les changements climatiques" du 27 mai 2011 au Collège de France - Paris - France -
Présentations vidéode l'Observatoire océanologique de Villefranche sur mer - France
David Antoine et Jean-Pierre Gattuso ont participé à une conférence "grand public" entitulée "L'océan et les changements
climatiques" lors d'un colloque le 27 mai 2011 au Collège de France).
Les vidéos de leur présentation sont en ligne :
- "Changements récents de la biomasse océanique révélés par les observations satellitaires de la 'couleur de l'océan" par
David Antoine du Laboratoire d'Océanographie de Villefranche.
- "Acidification de l'océan et son impact sur les organismes et écosystèmes marins" par Jean-Pierre GATTUSO du
Laboratoire d'Océanographie de Villefranche.
+ info: http://www.obs-vlfr.fr/Actualites/juillet-2011/
IPCC (International Panel on Climate Change): The Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) is now underway
The AR5 will provide an update of knowledge on the scientific, technical and socio-economic aspects of climate change.
Information about the outline and other content to be addressed can be found in the AR5 reference document and SYR
Scoping document.
More than 800 authors, selected from around 3000 nominations, are involved in writing the reports. First Lead Authors
meetings have been held. For the schedule of AR5 related meetings, review periods, and other important dates, please
refer to the calendar.
+ info: http://www.ipcc.ch/index.htm#
Rapid sea-level rise and reef back-stepping at the close of the last interglacial highstand
By Paul Blanchon, Anton Eisenhauer, Jan Fietzke & Volker Liebetrau
Widespread evidence of a +4–6-m sea-level highstand during the last interglacial period (Marine Isotope Stage 5e) has led
to warnings that modern ice sheets will deteriorate owing to global warming and initiate a rise of similar magnitude by ad
2100 (ref. 1). The rate of this projected rise is based on ice-sheet melting simulations and downplays discoveries of more
rapid ice loss. Knowing the rate at which sea level reached its highstand during the last interglacial period is fundamental
in assessing if such rapid ice-loss processes could lead to future catastrophic sea-level rise. The best direct record of sea
level during this highstand comes from well-dated fossil reefs in stable areas…
+ info: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v458/n7240/abs/nature07933.html
Contribution of Pacific wind stress to multi-decadal variations in upper-ocean heat content and sea level in the
tropical south Indian Ocean
By Franziska U. Schwarzkopf & Claus W. Böning
Leibniz-Institut für Meereswissenschaften an der Universität Kiel (IFM-GEOMAR), Kiel, Germany
Reconstructions of the spatial pattern of recent multi-decadal sea level trends in the Indian Ocean (IO) indicate a zonally-
extended band in the southern tropics where sea level has substantially fallen between the 1960s and 1990s; the decline is
consistent with the observed subsurface cooling associated with a shoaling thermocline in this region. Here the origin and
spatio-temporal characteristics of these trends are elucidated by a sequence of ocean model simulations. Whereas
interannual variability in the southwestern tropical IO appears mainly governed by IO atmospheric forcing, longer term
changes in the south tropical IO involve a strong contribution from the western Pacific via wave transmission of
thermocline anomalies through the Indonesian Archipelago, and their subsequent westward propagation by baroclinic
Rossby waves. The late 20th-century IO subsurface cooling trend reversed in the 1990s, reflecting the major regime shift
in the tropical Pacific easterlies associated with the Pacific Decadal Oscillation.
+ info: http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2011/2011GL047651.shtml
Do blue-ice moraines in the Heritage Range show the West Antarctic ice sheet survived the last interglacial?
By Christopher J. Fogwilla, Andrew S. Heinb, Michael J. Bentleyc & David E. Sugdenb
We present a hypothesis that best explains cosmogenic isotope data on blue-ice moraines in the Heritage Range, West
Antarctica. The age of the moraines implies that they, and the related ice-sheet surface with which they are associated,
have persisted on the flanks of nunataks throughout at least the last interglacial/glacial cycle. The implication is that
although the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) may have fluctuated in thickness during glacial cycles, the central dome has
remained intact for at least 200 kyr and possibly even for 400 kyr. Such a finding, if substantiated, would contribute to our
understanding of the sensitivity of the WAIS to climate change. Further it would be a powerful geomorphic constraint on
models of the past behaviour of the ice sheet during glacial cycles and thus those predicting the future of the ice sheet in a
warming world.
+ info: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0031018211000423
the representatives of 18 nations was the culmination of 9 years of hard work and careful diplomacy on the part of many
people devoted to the cause. Forty years have now passed and today the Convention numbers 160 signatory countries –
practically nine times the original number – and it is possible to observe the remarkable progress that has been achieved in
that time. The Convention has become the spearhead of global efforts for the conservation and sustainable use of wetlands
and their water resources, as well as for the conservation of the diversity of life that they support.
+ info: http://www.ramsar.org/cda/en/ramsar-news-ateliersdelaterreplaneworkshopssept2011/main/ramsar/1-26%
5E25328_4000_0__
Stop Climate Chaos Scotland (SCCS) coalition: Climate Act Film - United
Kingdom
In 2009, the Scottish Parlament unanimously voted for the world's most ambitious
climate change legislation. This included a target to cut greenhouse gas emissions by
42% by 2020 (from 1990 levels).
This short film shows how the Stop Climate Chaos Scotland coalition helped influence
the legislation. We hope it will encourage other countries to match or exceed
Scotland's ambition.
+ info: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85detT69Rrc&feature=youtu.be
Agenda
UNESCO Pacific World Heritage Workshop 'Pacific Heritage for Today and Tomorrow'
5 sep - 9 sep 2011 . Apia, Samoa
Organizadores: UNESCO
Contacto: Diana Roma, National Programme Officer (d.roma(at)unesco.org)
+ info: http://www.unesco.org/new/en/apia/culture/apia-world-heritage-workshop/
Bruce Museum Lecture: "Forests and the Changing Climate: Evolutionary Innovation"
16-sep-2011 . Greenwich, Estados Unidos de América
Organizadores: Bruce Museum and UNESCO
Contacto: info@brucemuseum.org and treeconserv@optonline.net
+ info: http://www.un.org/en/events/iyof2011/
UNESCO Expert Meeting on Climate Change Education for Sustainable Development and Adaptation in Small
Island Developing States
21 sep - 23 sep 2011 . Nassau, Bahamas
Organizadores: UNESCO
Contacto: j.heiss@unesco.org
+ info: http://www.unesco.org/new/en/unesco/events/education-events/?tx_browser_pi1[showUid]
=4330&cHash=7b8a53da69
Australia ICOMOS - Canberra Talks Series: Pacific Solutions towards World Heritage Island Abandonment,
Climate Change, and Tangible/Intangible Pasts
22-sep-2011 . Canberra, Australia
Organizadores: Autralia ICOMOS
Contacto: mct-oz@bigpond.net.au
+ info: http://australia.icomos.org/e-news/australia-icomos-e-mail-news-no-502/#6.
Exhibition 'Satellites and World Heritage Sites, Partners to Understand Climate Change' - UNESCO
Headquarters
26 sep - 11 nov 2011 . Paris, Francia
Organizadores: The exhibition is organized in partnership with Planet Action, the European Space Agency, NASA, the
German Aerospace Centre and BELSPO, with support from the Permanent Delegation of the Kingdom of Belgium to
UNESCO.
Contacto: m.hernandez@unesco.org / m.cardenas@unesco.org
+ info: http://www.unesco.org/new/en/unesco/events/all-events/?tx_browser_pi1[showUid]=4534&cHash=866f6094b9
The United Nations Climate Change Conference, The 17th Conference of the Parties and The 7th Conference of
the Parties serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol
28 nov - 9 dic 2011 . Durban, Sudáfrica
Organizadores: United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
Contacto: secretariat@unfccc.int.
+ info: http://unfccc.int/meetings/cop_17/items/6070.php
Publicaciones
Sulfur stalls surface temperature rise: Findings explain decade without warming
By Nadia Drake
A new study demonstrates why global surface temperatures defied a decades-long trend and didn’t continue to rise
between 1998 and 2008: Pollution-spewing, coal-burning power plants in Asia, while emitting warming greenhouse gases,
simultaneously sent cooling sulfur particles into the atmosphere.
During that decade — sometimes cited as evidence to deny global warming — these Asian emissions mostly balanced one
another and dampened the effects of natural cooling cycles associated with the sun and ocean temperatures.
+ info: http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/332152/title/Sulfur_stalls_surface_temperature_rise_
In collaboration with national response efforts the UN will continue to support communities recovering from the destruction
caused by the floods, and will strive to bolster resilience to the risks of future flooding.
The Pakistan Flood Relief and Early Recovery Response Plan is currently funded at 69.6 % (or US$1.3 billion) of the total
requirements of US$1.9 billion. More than US$600 million is still needed to support early recovery activities and achieve
the objectives set out in the floods response plan. The UN has released a report on the floods response titled Pakistan
Floods One Year On available at www.pakresponse.info.
+ info: http://floods2010.pakresponse.info/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=muLRssczAVU%3d&tabid=96&mid=668
Special Report on Renewable Energy Sources and Climate Change Mitigation (SRREN)
The Special Report on Renewable Energy Sources and Climate Change Mitigation (SRREN), agreed and released by the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) on May 9th in Abu Dhabi, assesses existing literature on the future
potential of renewable energy for the mitigation of climate change. It covers the six most important renewable energy
technologies, as well as their integration into present and future energy systems. It also takes into consideration the
environmental and social consequences associated with these technologies, the cost and strategies to overcome technical
as well as non-technical obstacles to their application and diffusion.
+ info: http://srren.ipcc-wg3.de/
Study Reveals Future "Hotspots" of Risk for Hundreds of Millions Whose Food Problems are on a
Collision Course with Climate Change
By Polly Ericksen, Philip Thornton, An Notenbaert, Laura Cramer, Peter Jones, Mario Herrero.
A new study has matched future climate change “hotspots” with regions already suffering chronic food
problems to identify highly-vulnerable populations, chiefly in Africa and South Asia, but potentially in China
and Latin America as well, where in fewer than 40 years, the prospect of shorter, hotter or drier growing
seasons could imperil hundreds of millions of already-impoverished people.
The report, "Mapping Hotspots of Climate Change and Food Insecurity in the Global Tropics" (PDF) was
produced by the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS). The work was
undertaken by a team of scientists responding to an urgent need to focus climate change adaptation efforts on people and
places where the potential for harsher growing conditions poses the gravest threat to food production and food security.
+ info: http://ccafs.cgiar.org/news/press-release/study-reveals-future-hotspots-climate-risk
NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) State of the Climate in 2010: 2010
one of the two warmest years on record
Worldwide, 2010 was one of the two warmest years on record according to the 2010 State of the Climate
report, which NOAA released today. The peer-reviewed report, issued in coordination with the American
Meteorological Society, was compiled by 368 scientists from 45 countries. It provides a detailed, yearly
update on global climate indicators, notable climate events and other climate information from every
continent…
+ info: http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2011/20110628_stateoftheclimate_2010.html
CNRS (Conseil national de la recherche scientifique) le journal - N°258 - 259 juillet - août
2011, La Méditerranée sous haute surveillance - France
Ce nouveau numéro de CNRS le journal vous invite en Méditerranée. Cette région, qui a vu naître de
grandes civilisations et qui abrite aujourd'hui plus de 450 millions de personnes, est devenue le point de
mire de nombreux chercheurs. L'enjeu est de taille : du changement climatique à la pollution, en passant
par la pression démographique ou l'appauvrissement de la biodiversité et des ressources naturelles, les
nuages s'amoncellent sur le Bassin méditerranéen. Alors les scientifiques veillent au grain.
Plus au sud, dans la région saharo-sahélienne dévastée par la sécheresse, un projet titanesque suscite de
nombreux espoirs. Partez avec notre envoyé spécial au Sénégal, à la découverte de la Grande Muraille verte.
Ce mois-ci également, remontez le temps de quelque 300 millions d'années. Vous y rencontrerez les stégocéphales,
créatures géantes qui ont régné sur la planète avant les dinosaures.
+ info: http://www2.cnrs.fr/journal/4774.htm
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Noticias
California Chinatown catalogada como Lugar Histórico en Peligro de Extinción. HANFORD - CALIFORNIA (USA)
When Chinese immigrants arrived in 1877 to the newly established San Joaquin Valley town of Hanford, Calif., they found
themselves in an unfamiliar place with no reminders of home, facing cultural barriers and often out-right racism. Despite
segregation and oppression, the Chinese community in Hanford flourished and developed a vibrant Chinatown, known as
China Alley, which soon boasted restaurants, herb stores, laundries, gambling houses, grocers and a Taoist temple—all
constructed of local California redwood and brick fired on site. A short, densely lined street, China Alley was a vibrant hub
where immigrants met to talk politics, share a meal, read Chinese newspapers and play mah-jong. Reaching its peak in the
pre-World War II years, China Alley increasingly served a more diverse population, especially as racial barriers were
challenged and eased.
+ info: http://www.preservationnation.org/travel-and-sites/sites/western-region/china-alley.html
BOLETIN DE ISPAN - Instituto de conservación del patrimonio nacional de Haití. No 26 (julio 2011)
Les agradecemos que animen a sus amigos a abonarse al BOLETIN DE ISPAN en la siguiente dirección: ispan.
bulletin@gmail.com
El Instituto de Conservación del Patrimonio Nacional (ISPAN) es un organismo técnico autónomo del Ministerio de cultura y
comunicación. Tiene como misión realizar el inventario y la clasificación de sitios, monumentos y conjuntos históricos de la
República de Haití, llevar a cabo proyectos de protección, restauración y puesta en valor de monumentos, sitios y
conjuntos históricos, asegurar la dirección y el control de los trabajos de ejecución de dichos proyectos, ayudar a la
promoción y el desarrollo de actividades públicas o privadas destinadas a preservar el patrimonio nacional y, por último,
recopilar, organizar y difundir toda la información y documentación relativa al patrimonio arquitectónico y monumental,
nacional e internacional.
+ info: http://universityandheritage.net/doc/ISPAN_No26.pdf
Journée du Patrimoine de Pays et Journée des Moulins 2011: le patrimoine caché - France
...Le voyage dans le temps peut commencer par ce qui a été creusé dans la terre ou dans la roche par les troglodytes.
Depuis que les hommes habitent notre pays, ils ont laissé des vestiges un peu partout. L'archéologie ne cesse d'aller de
découverte en découverte, de la grotte préhistorique à la villa gallo-romaine ou au four à briques abandonné depuis les
débuts du moyen âge. On connaît des puits autrefois situés en surface, que l'accumulation séculaire de ruines et de
bâtiments a enfoui aujourd'hui à deux ou trois niveaux sous le rez de chaussée ! Au fond des caves, des celliers ou du chai,
peut se cacher peut-être le lieu jalousement gardé où sont conservées les bouteilles les plus poussiéreuses. Bien des
châteaux, témoins de guerres de vengeances, de cruautés, possèdent des échappées souterraines, des cachettes, des
prisons, sans oublier…les oubliettes ! Le sol de beaucoup d'églises recouvre des cryptes. Les persécutions religieuses, les
grandes pestes nous ont laissé des catacombes et des ossuaires…
+ info: http://www.journeedupatrimoinedepays.com/theme.htm
PREMIOS - Ganadores del Premio Unión Europea de Patrimonio Cultural 2011/ Premios Europa
Nostra : Laureados Grand Prix
Los 27 ganadores del Premio Unión Europea 2011 de Patrimonio Cultural / Premios Europa Nostra recibieron
honores ayer por la tarde durante una ceremonia en el histórico auditorio de Ámsterdam, el
“Concertgebouw”. La comisaria europea de Educación, Cultura, Multilingüismo y Juventud, Androulla
Vassiliou y Plácido Domingo, el tenor mundialmente conocido y presidente de Europa Nostra presentaron los
premios. Seis de los 27 ganadores obtuvieron el título de laureados “Grand Prix” en reconocimiento de sus
extraordinarios logros relacionados con el patrimonio. A la ceremonia asistieron más de 1,500 personas
incluyendo a su alteza real la Princesa Margriet de los Países Bajos.
+ info: http://www.europanostra.org/laureates-2011/
+ info: http://www.achac.com/?L=lastNews
AD Classics: Moscow Metro / Robert Pogrebnoi and Yuriy Zenkivich - 1935 - 1959 - The Russian Federation
The city of Moscow experienced a huge size and population boom following the industrial development and railway
construction of the late 19th century. At this time, horse-drawn cars and trams were the main form of transportation, but
soon the horses were not enough to fuel the city’s rapid expansion. As a result, plans were made for development of a new
peripheral ring railway that would carry freight throughout the city. Many years later, underground lines for passengers
were linked to the original railway. These lines quickly turned the railway into a booming metropolitan transit center,
eventually becoming what is today known as the Moscow Metro. More on the development of the Moscow Metro after the
break.
+ info: http://www.archdaily.com/157480
Indian Supreme Court Orders Security for Hindu Temple Treasure Worth Billions - Thiruvananthapuram -
Kerala - India
India's Supreme Court ordered Friday that a security plan be drawn up to protect a Hindu temple where devotees left
billions worth of treasures over the centuries.
The state of Kerala and the former royal rulers of the region were directed by the court to explain how they plan to
safeguard the gold, silver and precious stones that were stored in vaults at the 16th century Sree Padmanabhaswamy
Temple.
The temple, dedicated to the Hindu god Vishnu, was built by the maharajas who ruled the then-kingdom of Travancore.
The former royal family has remained the trustees of the temple after India's independence in 1947.
+ info: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=48959
LAMIC (Laboratoire de Muséologie et d'Ingénierie de la Culture) - Infolettre - julio 2011 (en francés)
El Laboratorio de museología e ingeniería de la cultura (LAMIC) es una infraestructura de investigación especializada en
museología experimental que centra sus actividades científicas en la cuestión de las modalidades de transmisión de la
cultura en el contexto museístico. Se trata de una plataforma tecnológica que explora las relaciones entre el objeto, el
visitante y el espacio en el que los protagonistas se encuentran para un encuentro inédito por medio de un recorrido
llamado exposición. Esta dimensión particular es la que nos interesa y la que exploramos de distintas maneras, bajo y a
partir de diferentes ángulos. La etnografía de la experiencia museística resume, en cierto modo, nuestro enfoque ante un
fenómeno aún no del todo aclarado.
+ info: http://www.lamic.ulaval.ca/presentation/archives/infolettres/
El IAPH (Instituto Andaluz del Patrimonio Histórico), promotor del LECU (Laboratorio de Empleos Culturales) -
Seville - España
El Instituto Andaluz del Patrimonio Histórico, entidad científica de la Consejería de Cultura, celebra del 10 al 11 de junio el
primer taller del Laboratorio de Empleos Culturales LECU. Con este proyecto, se trata de potenciar las posibilidades del
patrimonio cultural para crear empleo y desarrollar nuevas profesiones y oportunidades laborales, así como mejorar las
condiciones de empleabilidad de los profesionales vinculados al ámbito del patrimonio cultural…
+ info: http://www.iaph.es/web/portal/actualidad/contenido/lecu_junio2011
COMPETITIONS - BERKELEY PRIZE 2012 COMPETITION - Architecture is a Social Art - 2012 Theme:
Architecture for the Public Good - Starting 15 September 2011 - Deadline for submission: 1 November 2011
Professor Raymond Lifchez, Chair of the international Berkeley Undergraduate Prize for Architectural Design Excellence
announces that the 2012 BERKELEY PRIZE launches on September 15, 2011.
Each year the PRIZE, whose primary goal is to foster a larger awareness and understanding of the social art of
architecture, sponsors an Essay Competition, a Travel Fellowship Competition, and an Architectural Design Fellowship
Competition. All are open to undergraduates studying architecture throughout the world.
+ info: http://www.berkeleyprize.org/
The National Trust for Historic Preservation announces program to give away $1
Million USD - Saint Paul Twin Cities Area - Michigan - USA
American Express and the National Trust for Historic Preservation announced that the Twin
Cities area has been chosen for the community-based Partners in Preservation program,
which provides preservation grants for local historic places. American Express is committing
$1 million in preservation grants to the seven-county Twin Cities metropolitan area and will
be encouraging local residents to participate by voting for their favorite historic place from a
diverse group of 25 sites on Facebook.com/PartnersinPreservation beginning on Sept. 20.
+ info: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=50076
Ask President Obama to take historic action for Fort Monroe - Hampton - Virginia - USA
As a concerned citizen who believes we need to be careful stewards of our heritage and save historic places, I am writing
to express my support for designating Fort Monroe a National Monument.
This fortification has been the scene of several pivotal moments in U.S. history. Some of the first enslaved Africans in the
New World were introduced at the fortification in 1619, and 242 years later, the first runaway slaves were protected as
Contraband there, giving rise to its name “Freedom’s Fortress.” Fort Monroe, considered one of the most important historic
sites in America, deserves a special place in our consciousness, yet the Army’s decommissioning of the fort in September
2011 leaves the site’s future in peril.
+ info: http://my.preservationnation.org/site/Survey
Explore 160,000 portraits from the 16th Century to the present day - National Portrait Gallery - London -
United Kingdom
The Gallery holds the most extensive collection of portraits in the world. The Collection is displayed in London and in a
number of locations around the United Kingdom, including several houses managed by the National Trust. The Gallery is
increasingly keen to find new ways to share the Collection through the National Programmes, as well as through this
website.
+ info: http://www.npg.org.uk/collections.php
El IAPH, promotor del Laboratorio LECU de Empleos Culturales - Sevilla (España). 10-11 junio 2011
El Instituto Andaluz del Patrimonio Histórico, entidad científica de la Consejería de Cultura, celebra del 10 al 11 de junio el
primer taller del Laboratorio de Empleos Culturales LECU. Con este proyecto, se trata de potenciar las posibilidades del
patrimonio cultural para crear empleo y desarrollar nuevas profesiones y oportunidades laborales, así como mejorar las
condiciones de empleabilidad de los profesionales vinculados al ámbito del patrimonio cultural.
La iniciativa considera que el patrimonio cultural es hoy un recurso indispensable para el desarrollo de la sociedad, así
como uno de los principales motores potenciadores del turismo cultural. El patrimonio es eje fundamental en las políticas
culturales para la sostenibilidad, que constituyen, junto a los pilares económico, social y ecológico, el cuarto pilar básico de
nuestra sociedad.
+ info: http://www.iaph.es/web/portal/actualidad/contenido/lecu_junio2011
A symposium on Nepal and the silk roads - Lalitpur - Nepal (28-30 July 2011)
A National workshop is being organized with Nepal's Department of Archaeology in view of preparing a serial nomination
for the Silk Roads World Heritage List.
Two experts on the Silk Roads, Susan Denyer and Mark Aldenderfer, recommended respecively by the World Heritage
Centre and by the Department of Archaeology, will share their knowledge of the serial nomination process in light of the
current situation in the South and Central Asian region and explore relevant strategies with national authorities.
+ info: http://www.unesco.org/new/en/unesco/events/culture-events/?tx_browser_pi1[showUid]
=4075&cHash=d6823aaf23
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS / SACRED SPACES IN PROFANE BUILDINGS A NEW YORK ARCHIVE by MATILDE
CASSANI
13-sep-2011 . New York City, Estados Unidos de América
Organizadores: Storefront for Art and Architecture
Contacto: info@sacredspacesinprofanebuildings.com
+ info: http://sacredspacesinprofanebuildings.com/
Une pierre sacrée provenant d'Australie retirée d'une vente organisée en Angleterre
Mercredi 7 septembre 2011, au Royaume-Uni, une pierre aborigène a été retirée d’une vente
aux enchères, conformément aux souhaits de l’Australie. Cette pierre était mise en vente par
une Britannique, via l’auctioneer Canterbury Auction Galleries. Après intervention de
l’ambassade d’Australie et d’experts en patrimoine, la propriétaire et son mandataire ont
préféré annuler la vente afin de n’ « offenser personne dans la communauté aborigène ». Les
représentants et défenseurs de cette culture avaient attiré leur attention sur le fait que ces
artefacts ont une valeur telle que même les musées australiens refusent de les exposer.
+ info: http://www.artclair.com/site/archives/docs_article/88249/une-pierre-sacree-provenant-d-australie-retiree-d-une-
vente-organisee-en-angleterre.php
Public Seminar Series - The Cultural Heritage Centre for Asia and the Pacific
1 ago - 30 nov 2011 . Melbourne, Australia
Organizadores: Deakin University
Contacto: enquire@deakin.edu.au
+ info: http://www.deakin.edu.au/arts-ed/chcap/seminars/index.php
UNESCO Pacific World Heritage Workshop 'Pacific Heritage for Today and Tomorrow'
5 sep - 9 sep 2011 . Apia, Samoa
Organizadores: UNESCO
Contacto: Diana Roma, National Programme Officer (d.roma(at)unesco.org)
+ info: http://www.unesco.org/new/en/apia/culture/apia-world-heritage-workshop/
Conference - Economics of Cultural Heritage and Museums - How to Face the Challenges of the New Economy -
Het Toneel Speelt
21 sep - 24 sep 2011 . Amsterdam, Países Bajos
Organizadores: CREARE Foundation
Contacto: info@crearefoundation.nl
+ info: http://www.crearefoundation.nl/Economics_of_Cultural_Heritage_and_Museums
Table ronde - Les relations entre ethnologie patrimoniale et anthropologie générale : pistes pour une
comparaison internationale
23-sep-2011 . Paris, Francia
Organizadores: Association française d'ethnologie et d'anthropologie
Contacto: congres2011@asso-afea.fr
+ info: http://www.mcm.asso.fr/site02/afea.htm
14th International Conference of National Trusts: 'Connecting People, Places and Stories: New Strategies for
Conservation in a Changing World'
La web de francés no se ve 12 oct - 15 oct 2011 . Victoria, Canadá
Organizadores: The Land Conservancy of British Columbia (TLC) and by the Heritage Canada Foundation (HCF)
Contacto: information@intoconference.org
FECHA LÍMITE: 12 sep 2011
+ info: http://intoconference.org/
HISTORIANA SEMINAR
27 oct - 30 oct 2011 . Fehérvárcsurgó, Hungría
Organizadores: EUROCLIO
Contacto: info@euroclio.eu
+ info: http://euroclio.eu/new/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2701:rigalatvia-one-more-inspiring-
historiana-seminar&catid=1105:exploring-european-history-a-heritage&Itemid=93
Colloque SHS(Sciences humaines & sociales)- Méditerranée : appropriation des ressources naturelles et
patrimoniales : compétitions et droits d'accès en Méditerranée
28 nov - 30 nov 2011 . BEYROUTH, Líbano
Organizadores: Association Française d'ethnologie et d'anthopologie
Contacto: congres2011@asso-afea.fr
FECHA LÍMITE: 20 sep 2011
+ info: http://asso-afea.fr/Deadline-etendue-pour-Colloque-SHS.html
COLLOQUIUM - Donald Horne Institute for Cultural Heritage: Heritage without borders: making critical
connections
9-dic-2011 . Canberra, Australia
Organizadores: Donald Horne Institute for Cultural Heritage. University Of Camberra
Contacto: Pamela.Fabricius@canberra.edu.au
+ info: http://australia.icomos.org/wp-content/uploads/Heritage-without-borders.pdf
TKWRM (Traditional Knowledge for Water Resources Management): 2012 International Conference
21 feb - 23 feb 2012 . Yazd, Irán (República Islámica del)
Organizadores: International Centre on Qanats and Historic Hydraulic Structures (ICQHS)
Contacto: tkwrm@icqhs.org
+ info: http://conference.icqhs.org/Index.php/tkwrm/2012
Call for papers : The Art of Neighbouring : Old Crossroads and New Connections along the Peoples Republic of
China's Borders -
1 mar - 2 mar 2012 . Singapore, Singapur
Organizadores: Asian Migration Cluster and the Open Cluster, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore
Contacto: valerie.yeo@nus.edu.sg
FECHA LÍMITE: 15 oct 2011
+ info: http://asso-afea.fr/Call-for-papers-The-Art-of,393.html
Publicaciones
UN OUVRAGE COLLECTIF - Zoos humains et exhibitions coloniale - 150 ans d'invention de l'Autre
By Nicolas Bancel
ISBN : 9782707144010
Parution : août 2004
Sous la direction de Pascal Blanchard, Nicolas Bancel, Gilles Boëtsch, Éric Deroo et Sandrine Lemaire. Les «
zoos humains », symboles oubliés de l'histoire contemporaine, ont été totalement refoulés de notre
mémoire collective. Ces exhibitions de « sauvages », aussi bien des « exotiques » que des « monstres »,
ont pourtant été, en Europe, aux États-Unis et au Japon, une étape majeure du passage progressif d'un
racisme scientifique à un racisme populaire. Au carrefour du discours savant, des cultures de masse et de l'intérêt des
puissances coloniales, ces exhibitions ont touché plus d'un milliard quatre cent millions de visiteurs depuis l'exhibition en
Europe de la Vénus hottentote au début du XIXe siècle.
Êtres difformes, populations exotiques et étrangetés de la nature se retrouvent sur scène côte à côte comme appartenant
à un univers de l’anormalité, séparés des visiteurs par une barrière réelle ou imaginaire. Véritable ouvrage de synthèse sur
la question, rassemblant les meilleurs spécialistes internationaux, les contributions proposées ici mettent en perspective la
« spectacularisation » de l'Autre, à l'origine de bien des stéréotypes actuels.
+ info: http://www.editionsladecouverte.fr/catalogue/index-Zoos_humains-9782707144010.html
join in their endeavor and take up the challenge of sustainable solidarity with Haiti.
+ info: http://portal.unesco.org/culture/en/ev.php-URL_ID=41688&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html
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Theme of Relationship Between Human and Nature Explored in Exhibition at
Rosphoto - Saint Petersburg - Russian Federation - 15 June - 20 July 2011
The exhibition by Mathias Kessler(Austria) at ROSPHOTO is result of the author's research
into the theme of relationship between human and nature.
"In 2004, after a string of natural disasters and as a result of the ongoing media focus on
global warming, I undertook to develop a second "look" at nature in order to better show
how we perceive and encounter it today. After conducting research on the Western
perception and historical representation of nature, I developed different bodies of work that
examine and update Western landscape traditions, in order to better reveal how the depiction of landscape is also the
matter of its production, and show how historical changes in these representations relate to contemporary images of the
landscape.
+ info: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=48411
EEUU
Durante el final de los años 40, Edward Hawkins tuvo la visión de
desarrollar una comunidad de hogares contemporáneos en el
mercado inmobiliario de posguerra en Denver. Una extensión de
tierra cultivable al sur de la Universidad de Denver, por entonces el
interior de la ciudad, se convirtió en Arapahoe Acres. Hoy, el
vecindario de casas con tejados bajos y las calles curvilíneas cubiertas de un techo arbóreo maduro continúa siendo un
enclave único en las afueras de Denver. No obstante, los cambios cumulativos al paisaje de diseño amenazan ahora la
estética planificada de la comunidad.
+ info: http://tclf.org/landslides/arapahoe-acres-design-intent-threatened
Les Jardins du précambrien - À venir / Coming up / Próximo - Val David - Quebec - Canada
El 11o Simposio Internacional de Arte In Situ, bajo el tema LEGADOS, será el evento más significativo de
nuestros simposios desde 1995. Después de hace más de quince años, las memorias de los lugares, las
obras y los creadores del pasado se superpondrán en nuestros caminos. De estos pasos sucesivos,
acumulados como palimpsestos, nace una reflexión acerca de la cuestión de la herencia y la perennidad:
¿Cuál será el medio ambiente o la cultura que legaremos a nuestros hijos en una sociedad de desecho y
consumo a ultranza, donde lo efímero y virtual reinan sin memoria de la historia? Los artistas, poetas,
compositores y conferencistas invitados comparten esta reflexión y cada uno a su manera cuestiona el
sentido de LEGADOS.
+ info: http://www.jardinsduprecambrien.com/
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La ruta de la orfebrería - Boletín digital diario AÑO IX No. 196
Múltiples son las razones que llevaron a Ignacio, Mirtha, Juan Alfredo, Aniela, Frank Antonio,
Concepción... a participar en el proyecto recreativo Rutas y Andares para descubrir en
familia, de la Oficina del Historiador (OH), que despierta en los visitantes el conocimiento,
respeto y cuidado de la Villa de San Cristóbal de La Habana.
Ellos, al igual que cientos de personas visitan cada año su centro histórico, gracias a esta
opción cultural creada en el 2000, que incluye en su oncena edición cinco rutas y andares
diferentes cada semana.
+ info: http://granma.co.cu/2011/08/18/nacional/artic02.html
In Progress: King's Cross Station / John McAslan + Partners - London - United Kingdom
“It’s incredible to watch the reinvention of the station taking shape into a compelling piece of place-making for London. You
can already see how the Western Concourse – Europe’s largest single span station structure and the heart of the
development – reconnects this much-loved Victorian terminus to its context. It’s immensely satisfying to see the project
move forward at such pace and we look forward to celebrating the project’s completion in 2012 for the London Olympics.”-
John McAslan, Chairman John McAslan + Partners
+ info: http://www.archdaily.com/162461
UNESCO National Consultation Workshop ' Nepal and the Silk Roads'
6-sep-2011 . Lalitpur, Nepal
Organizadores: Kathmandu
Contacto: s.nipuna@unesco.org
+ info: http://www.unesco.org/new/en/unesco/events/all-events/?tx_browser_pi1[showUid]=4447&cHash=bf39f7f552
Agenda
Rivers 2011: 3rd International Conference on Managing Rivers in the 21st Century
6 dic - 9 dic 2011 . Penang, Malasia
Organizadores: River Engineering and Urban Drainage Research Centre (REDAC) - Universiti Sains Malaysia
Contacto: managingrivers2011@gmail.com
+ info: http://rivers2011.eng.usm.my/
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La Loire, mémoire d’un fleuve - France
Par Jean-Mary Couderc
Mai 2011
Cet ouvrage de Jean-Mary Couderc, réalisé en partenariat avec la Mission Val de Loire, est le premier de la
nouvelle collection « Les patrimoines » éditée par la Nouvelle République.
Sommaire :
Il est disponible chez les marchands de journaux de la zone de diffusion de la Nouvelle République du Centre-Ouest.
+ info: http://www.valdeloire.org/Actualites/Articles/Tous/La-Loire-memoire-d-un-fleuve
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G-WADI organiza Taller de Capacitación sobre Impactos del Cambio Climático en
la Gestión de los Recursos Hídricos en Zonas Áridas y Semi-Áridas
Bajo la iniciativa de la Oficina de la UNESCO en Teherán y el PHI de Irán, el Taller
Regional de Capacitación de G-WADI, sobre Impactos del Cambio Climático en la Gestión
de los Recursos Hídricos en Zonas Áridas y Semi-Áridas, fue llevado a cabo en Teherán,
Irán, del 20 al 21 de Junio de 2011, con la presencia del Presidente del Consejo
Intergubernamental del PHI, el Profesor Soontak Lee; el Presidente del Comité Nacional
Iraní del PHI, Viceministro de Asuntos Hídricos y Aguas Residuales, Ministro de Energía, I.
R. de Irán, el señor Attarzade; el Secretario General de la Comisión Nacional Iraní ante la UNESCO, el Doctor Saeidabadi;
el Viceministro de Agricultura Jihad, el Doctor Salajaghe; el Director de la Oficina Multipaís de la UNESCO en Teherán, el
señor Qunli Han; miembros del Comité Nacional Iraní del PHI y representantes de Afganistán, China, India, Iran, Japón,
Kazakhstan y Pakistán.
+ info: http://www.unesco.org/water/news/newsletter/252_es.shtml#news_1
UNCCD (United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification): Stories from local communities
The United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification fosters the creation of an enabling environment that promotes
action at the local level, the implementation of a cooperation framework built upon partnership agreements and the
promotion of activities integrated into a coherent development strategy with a view to enhancing the involvement of civil
society in the intergovernmental and decision-making process.
To date, more than 900 civil society organisations have been accredited with observer status to the Conference of the
Parties. The participation of these entities in the implementation of the Convention and their contribution to the various
meetings is a necessary component of the successful implementation of the Convention through its Ten Year Strategic
Plan.
+ info: http://www.unccd.int/cso/menu.php?newch=l8
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The British Library and Google to make 250,000 books available to all - London - United
Kingdom
The British Library and Google today announced a partnership to digitise 250,000 out-of-copyright books
from the Library’s collections. Opening up access to one of the greatest collections of books in the world,
this demonstrates the Library’s commitment, as stated in its 2020 Vision, to increase access to anyone
who wants to do research.
Selected by the British Library and digitised by Google, both organisations will work in partnership over
the coming years to deliver this content free through Google Books (http://books.google.co.uk) and the
British Library’s website (www.bl.uk). Google will cover all digitisation costs.
+ info: http://pressandpolicy.bl.uk/Press-Releases/The-British-Library-and-Google-to-make-250-000-books-available-to-
all-4fc.aspx
Appel à partenariat pour la numérisation et la valorisation des collections BnF (Bibliothèque Nationale de
France) et Appel à partenariat pour la valorisation du système de préservation et d'archivage réparti (SPAR) -
Paris - France
La BnF, le Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication et le Commissariat général à l’Investissement ont lancé,
mercredi 6 juillet 2011, un appel à partenariat dans le cadre des Investissements d’Avenir pour la numérisation et la
valorisation des collections de la BnF.
Depuis une dizaine d’années, la BnF s’est engagée dans une politique de numérisation de ses collections qui permet
d’enrichir sa bibliothèque numérique Gallica, composée actuellement d’un million et demi de documents. Ceux-ci sont
également accessibles via Europeana, la bibliothèque numérique européenne dont la BnF est l’un des tout premiers
contributeurs. Ces programmes de numérisation sont financés par une subvention du Centre national du Livre (CNL) et par
le budget propre de la BnF.
+ info: http://www.bnf.fr/fr/la_bnf/anx_actu_bib/a.appel_partenariat.html
Tug-of-War Over Iraqi Jewish Trove of Books and Other Materials in United States Hands
A trove of Jewish books and other materials, rescued from a sewage-filled Baghdad basement during the 2003 invasion, is
now caught up in a tug-of-war between the U.S. and Iraq.
Ranging from a medieval religious book to children's Hebrew primers, from photos to Torah cases, the collection is
testimony to a once vibrant Jewish community in Baghdad. Their present-day context is the relationship, fraught with
distrust, between postwar Iraq and its Jewish diaspora.
Discovered in a basement used by Saddam Hussein's secret police, the collection was sent to the U.S. for safekeeping and
restoration, and sat at the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) in Maryland until last year, when Iraqi
officials started a campaign to get it back.
+ info: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=48979
+ info: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=48950
Black Seaman's 1861 Heroics Recalled in New Film by New York-Based Documentary Producers - USA
The Union's first black hero of the Civil War wasn't one of the African-American soldiers of the 54th Massachusetts Infantry
Regiment, famously depicted in the 1989 film "Glory," but rather a merchant ship's cook who took up arms to prevent
being sold into slavery after a Confederate raider captured his vessel.
At least that's the reckoning of some historians and a pair of upstate New York-based documentary producers who have
included William Tillman's story in their new film on the short-but-prolific wartime record of the brig Jefferson Davis, a
Southern privateer that seized several Union ships in the opening months of the war.
+ info:
Address by Irina Bokova, Director-General of UNESCO on the occasion of the inauguration of the exhibition for
the Day of Slavic cultures - 31 May 2011
...I am delighted to come here for the opening of this exhibition dedicated to Slavic cultures.
I wish to congratulate and thank foremost the Permanent Delegations of the Russian Federation and Slovenia for this
initiative.
I am aware that this follows a successful meeting of the Forum of Slavic Cultures at UNESCO Headquarters on 24 May, the
Day of Slavic Alphabet and Culture.
This pays tribute to the dedication of the Member States of the Forum for Slavic Cultures, who initiated this exhibition, to
preserving and promoting the values that are shared by Slavic-speaking countries…
+ info: http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0019/001928/192891e.pdf
Exposición en línea - “Rojo. Trajes de teatro (siglos XVIII - XXI) vistos por
Christian Lacroix " - Biblioteca nacional de Francia (BNF) - París - Francia
La exposición titulada “Roja. Trajes de teatro (siglos XVIII - XXI) vistos por Christian
Lacroix " se presentó por primera vez en 2005 en la Biblioteca-Museo de la Ópera,
Palacio Garnier. Los documentos reunidos en línea en la página web de la BNF no se
limitan al tratamiento “del primero de los colores” (ya que Adamus, el nombre latino de
Adán significa “hecho de tierra roja”) en el único marco de la moda y el teatro. La
exposición aborda en efecto el color más vivo bajo múltiples costuras.
+ info: http://cursus.edu/institutions-formations-ressources/formation/17451/opulence-rouge/
BECAS DE INVESTIGACIÓN – Asociación de profesores. Centro Cultural Onassis (Grecia) Revista en línea
internacional. Número 19
El Centro cultural Onassis-Atenas se inauguró en diciembre de 2010, como un nuevo sitio cultural accesible a todos los
públicos. Su misión consiste en promocionar la expresión cultural, apoyar a los nuevos artistas griegos, y cultivar las
colaboraciones internacionales, la educación y el aprendizaje de por vida, así como la co-existencia e interacción de las
ciencias, la innovación y las artes.
+ info: http://www.onassis.gr/online-magazine/issue-19/
Only Copy of Magna Carta in the United States - National Archives - Washington D.C. - USA
A painstaking conservation effort to remove old patches and repair weak spots in a 714-year-old copy of the Magna Carta
has revealed that the full text of that English declaration of human rights remains intact even though some words are
faded and illegible to the eye, the National Archives said Tuesday.
A $13.5 million gift from philanthropist David Rubenstein — owner of the handwritten document — is funding the
conservation effort as well preparations for an upcoming exhibit.
+ info: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=11&int_new=49230
New Digital Resources Added to Victorian Veterans Virtual Museum - Victoria - Australia
The Victorian Veterans Virtual Museum has been launched! It contains a number of new resources for veterans, students,
historians and others with an interest in Australian war history. The Virtual Museum hosts the Victorian War Heritage
Inventory and other important sources of information about war-related heritage in Victoria.
+ info: http://www.dpcd.vic.gov.au/veterans/veterans-heritage
National Museum of Korea - All 297 Oegyujanggak Uigwe books return from France - Seoul -
Republic of Korea
A total of 297 Oegyujanggak (the Ganghwa Island branch of Gyujanggak, the royal library of the Joseon
Dynasty) Uigwe (records of the State rites of the Joseon Dynasty) books were returned to Korea from
France with the completion of the fourth delivery on Friday, May 27. Thus, the uigwe books of the Joseon
Dynasty returned to Korea after 145 years. Most of them are uigwe books for ‘royal inspection’, meaning
that they were specially produced to be examined by the king. Thirty out of the 297 books are one-of-a-
kind, so they have very high cultural and academic value.
+ info: http://www.museum.go.kr/program/board/detail.jsp?menuID=002006006&boardTypeID=80&boardID=15959
The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) Selects Singapore for 2013 World
Congress
It’s official! Singapore is scheduled to host the 2013 World Library and Information Congress (WLIC) of the International
Federation of Library Associations and Institutions.
+ info: http://www.ifla.org/en/news/ifla-selects-singapore-for-2013-world-congress
Exhibition - Wisdom Builds Her House: The Architecture and History of Libraries at Architekturmuseum
14 jul - 16 oct 2011 . Munich, Alemania
Organizadores: Architekturmuseum der Technischen Universität München
Contacto: archmus@lrz.tum.de
+ info: http://www.architekturmuseum.de/en/ausstellungen/index.php
Explore 160,000 portraits from the 16th Century to the present day - National Portrait Gallery - London -
United Kingdom
The Gallery holds the most extensive collection of portraits in the world. The Collection is displayed in London and in a
number of locations around the United Kingdom, including several houses managed by the National Trust. The Gallery is
increasingly keen to find new ways to share the Collection through the National Programmes, as well as through this
website.
+ info: http://www.npg.org.uk/collections.php
NEWS - Digitization Project Brings Ancient Near Eastern Inscriptions into 21st Century - Freer Gallery of Art
and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives - Washington DC - USA
The Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives announce a new 3-D digital resource that will enable
scholars and the public to learn more about the ancient Near East through a unique group of pressed-paper molds called
squeezes. This resource provides unparalleled access to the archives' collection of squeezes from ancient Near Eastern
archaeological sites.
+ info: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=49380
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"Lux in arcana: The Vatican Secret Archives reveals itself": an event of unprecedented scientific and media
importance
1-feb-2011 . El Vaticano, Italia
Organizadores: Vatican: the Holy See
Contacto: comunicazione@asv.va
+ info: http://www.luxinarcana.org/en
World Library and Information Congress : 77th IFLA (International Federation of Library Associations)
General Conference and Assembly
13 ago - 18 ago 2011 . San Juan, Puerto Rico (Territorio de Estados Unidos)
Organizadores: IFLA (International Federation of Library Associations)
+ info: http://conference.ifla.org/ifla77
V Jornada Internacional del Patrimonio Audiovisual de la UNESCO - Día de conmemoración: 7 October 2011
27-oct-2011 . ,
Organizadores: UNESCO
+ info: http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=30908&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html
Call for papers: Developing Knowledge for Economic Advancement in Africa: 2nd International Conference on
African Digital Libraries and Archives (ICADLA-2)
14 nov - 18 nov 2011 . Johannesburg, Sudáfrica
Organizadores: Coalition pour la diversité culturelle
Contacto: Deborah.Wilson@wits.ac.za
+ info: http://www.cdc-ccd.org/2eme-Conference-Internationale-sur?lang=en
Exhibition - Out of Museum of London's Archives and Into the Light, Charles Dickens Revealed
9-dic-2011 . London, Reino Unido de Gran Bretaña e Irlanda del Norte
Organizadores: Museum of London
Contacto: info@museumoflondon.org.uk
+ info: http://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/London-Wall/Whats-on/Exhibitions-Displays/Dickens+and+London.htm
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Programa de intercambio de formadores americanos para trabajos de conservación
de las iglesias de Arica Parinacota – Chile
Estas iglesias reflejan las tradiciones de arte y fe en sus comunidades locales, y se han
mantenido en su mayor parte intactas debido a sus emplazamientos rurales. No obstante,
desde que el puerto libre de Arica se construyera en los años 60, ha habido un crecimiento
sostenido de la emigración hacia los centros urbanos en búsqueda de trabajo. Las tradiciones
locales y los materiales para el mantenimiento se están reemplazando por otros modernos y
menos apropiados, y la pérdida de la población ha hecho que disminuya la mano de obra
disponible para cuidar de las iglesias. Se ha desarrollado una propuesta para los edificios regionales, el mantenimiento de
los sitios, y la formación de la comunidad para documentar las iglesias, reforzar las circunscripciones y las oportunidades, y
renovar el valor de estas estructuras de adobe.
+ info: http://www.wmf.org/project/iglesias-de-arica-parinacota-churches-arica-parinacota
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Programme court en gestion des ressources fauniques - TELUQ - Université à distance de l'Université du
Québec à Monréal (UQAM)
Objectifs: Comprendre les effets des interventions dans le domaine de la gestion des ressources fauniques et de leurs
habitats en relation avec les problématiques environnementales. Relier les activités scientifiques et socio-économiques à la
base de l'utilisation rationnelle des ressources renouvelables.
Contact: Louise Provencher, coordonnatrice à l'encadrement, Québec, poste 5408 coordonnateur.ENV@teluq.uqam.ca
+ info: http://www.teluq.uquebec.ca/sed/xml/sabplXml.php
PRIZES - Prix Acteurs Economiques et Handicap 2011 pour un cours sur l'Art pour les malvoyants
La mallette « Les sens de l'art », conçue par le Cned avec le soutien de la MAIF, a été primée dans la catégorie « éducation-
formation » lors de la remise des trophées du 4e Prix Acteurs Economiques & Handicap 2011, organisée par l'OCIRP
(Organisme commun des institutions de rente et de prévoyance). Ce concours permet de distinguer des « actions
exemplaires pour le bien-être et le mieux-vivre des personnes en situation de handicap ».
+ info: http://portail.cned.fr/journalistes/communiques-presse/2011/prix-acteurs-economiques-et-handicap-2011.aspx?
id=1742
Erasmus: Récord en el número de estudiantes que obtienen becas de la UE para estudiar y formarse en el
extranjero
Más de 213 000 estudiantes obtuvieron una beca «Erasmus» para estudiar o formarse en el extranjero durante el curso
académico 2009/10, cifra que constituye un nuevo récord y supone un incremento del 7,4 % con respecto al año anterior.
Erasmus es el programa de intercambio de estudiantes de más éxito en el mundo y, de mantenerse las tendencias
actuales, la UE alcanzará en 2012/13 su objetivo de becar a 3 millones de estudiantes europeos desde el inicio del
programa en 1987. Los tres destinos más populares entre los estudiantes en 2009/10 fueron España, Francia y el Reino
Unido. España fue el país que mayor número de estudiantes envió al extranjero, seguida de Francia y Alemania. El 61 %
de los estudiantes de Erasmus de este curso fueron mujeres. La UE invirtió 415 millones EUR en Erasmus en 2009/10.
+ info: http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do
Cours en ligne - Introduction au système climatique et à son fonctionnement - Université Laval - Québec -
Canada
Introduction au système climatique et à son fonctionnement. Bilan et caractéristiques des principaux gaz à effet de serre.
Introduction à la modélisation climatique, aux scénarios et aux prévisions des modèles. Analyse des impacts des
changements climatiques sur l'environnement physique et humain. Mesures d'adaptation envisagées pour atténuer les
changements climatiques. Accords internationaux et situation du Canada.
+ info: http://www.distance.ulaval.ca/fad/cours/GGR-1006.htm
New Website Targets Teachers and Students to Study Native Responses to Environmental Challenges
Developed in collaboration with the Akwesasne Mohawk of northern New York, the Campo Kumeyaay Nation of southern
California, the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe of northern Minnesota and the Lummi Nation of Washington state, the
Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian launches a new educational website, “American Indian Responses
to Environmental Challenges,” that will target middle and high school teachers, students and the general public. Users can
see how tribes use their traditional culture, values and indigenous knowledge in combination with contemporary science
and technologies to inform their environmental work.
+ info: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=49839
Cours en ligne - Introduction à l'Industrie du Tourisme - Collège universitaire de Saint Boniface - Winnipeg -
Manitoba - Canada
Le cours Introduction à l’industrie du tourisme fait partie du programme Tourisme offert par l’École technique et
professionnelle.
Le cours veut initier les étudiantes et étudiants à l’industrie du tourisme en offrant un survol de l’évolution, des
perspectives et des tendances du marché dans les différents secteurs qui s’y rattachent. La clientèle devra être capable de
définir et de reconnaître ces différents éléments et d’en comprendre la portée générale. Elle devra acquérir les
connaissances, les habiletés et les attitudes dans le domaine du tourisme, et ce, dans un contexte individuel, familial,
social et professionnel.
+ info: http://cursus.edu/institutions-formations-ressources/formation/10928/introduction-industrie-tourisme/
Mastère spécialisé en Management de l'Environnement : de nouvelles ambitions à l'INSA Lyon - Lyon - France
Le Mastère spécialisé de l’INSA Lyon, auparavant baptisé Management de l’Environnement et de la Sécurité Industriels,
évolue. Pour répondre à la demande du marché, la formation intègre une dimension énergétique dans sa pédagogie, dès la
rentrée 2011/2012.
+ info: http://me4.insa-lyon.fr/
CICOP Argentina - Curso sobre Inventario y Documentación del Patrimonio - Agosto de 2011
Análisis integral de los relevamientos, registros e inventarios.
Los Inventarios como estrategia de gestión.
Criterios y pautas de acciones. Objetivos y alcances de los Inventarios y
Registros Patrimoniales. Gestión estratégica de las acciones.
Inventario como herramienta potencial de información y evaluación en programas culturales. Capacitación de recursos
humanos.
CICOP Argentina - Curso sobre la Humedad como Proceso Patológico - Agosto de 2011
El agua y la humedad como factores patológicos del degrado construido; formas de accionar; estados físicos transitorios y
permanentes.
El agua y la humedad como vehículo biológico degradante; fases físicas y químicas de influencia antrópica.
Metodologías de detección por medios electrónicos, con indicadores químicos.
Técnicas somáticas de raciocinio para la determinación de los procesos degradantes.
Prevenciones para obras nuevas o en revitalización.
Metodologías de intervención. Aprovechamiento de estadios contradictorios. Técnicas de viabilización de materiales.
Terapia y usufructo de herramientas convencionales.
Metodologías de intervención encubiertas, muros verticales y sustratos.
+ info: http://www.cicopar.com.ar/11ago3.htm
Barefoot College - India's women solar engineers light up rural life - Tilonia -
Rajasthan - India
Mira Bai frowns in concentration at the complicated zigzag of wires on the panel in front of
her. Unfathomable to most, they speak loud and clear to the 60-year-old grandmother.
Despite being illiterate, she now knows exactly which wires to connect to create the magical
connection between the sun and the panel so it absorbs and transfers rays to the battery that
will later light up her house.
Bai is one of 15,000 solar engineers who have attended a six-month training course at a rural
college in India’s northwest state of Rajasthan, enabling them to bring renewable power to their villages.
Bai’s classmates are similar to her in many ways. They are over 35 years of age, illiterate or semi-literate, and have never
left their villages.
+ info: http://www.trust.org/alertnet/news/indias-women-solar-engineers-light-up-rural-life/
Réunions des instances de l'Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie : les faits saillants - Rabat - Maroc
Le Conseil scientifique, le Conseil associatif et le Conseil d’administration de l’AUF se sont réunis du 25 au 27 mai 2011 à
l’Université Mohammed V Souissi de Rabat, au Maroc, sur l’invitation de son président, M. Radouane Mrabet.
La conseil d’administration, qui s’est tenu le 27 mai, a décidé de renouveler à l’unanimité et par acclamations, pour une
ultime période de quatre ans, le mandat du Recteur M. Bernard Cerquiglini.
+ info: http://www.auf.org/communication-information/actualites/instances-2011.html?var=lettre_AUF_73
E-learning : La FNH (Fondation pour la Nature et l'Homme) lance sa première formation ''La biodiversité au
cœur du développement durable''
Entreprises, particuliers, collectivités, associations : découvrez comment repenser vos activités pour qu'elles soient
compatibles avec le fonctionnement de la planète, grâce à cette formation en ligne proposée par la Fondation pour la
Nature et l’Homme (FNH).
+ info: http://www.actu-environnement.com/ae/pdt/elearning-biodiversite-developpement-durable-fnh-302.
php4#xtor=EPR-1
Streetwise Asia Update - Progress on Philippines Heritage Schools Conservation Program - The Republic of the
Philippines
Ongoing thanks to all ICOMOS members who continue to support the Streetwise Asia initiative. We have recently had some
generous pre June 30 donations, and these, together with the proceeds from the Xmas Card initiative (which raised
$3,400) enables the Streetwise AsiaProgram to continue to undertake its work.
In 2010, the Kuguita heritage school building in the Southern Philippines was upgraded and conserved and opened in May
by the Australian Ambassador and received wide media attention…
+ info: http://australia.icomos.org/e-news/australia-icomos-e-mail-news-no-494/#8
Academy of Art
University Offers
a MFA (Master of
Fine Arts) in
Landscape
Architecture -
San Francisco -
California - USA
The Academy of Art University, the nation’s largest private accredited art and design university, continues to grow their
Landscape Architecture program. Earlier this year the University announced the addition of the School of Landscape
Architecture with an accredited Associate’s (AA) and Bachelor’s (BFA) degree programs as well as continuing art education
courses. Now the Academy of Art will additionally launch both a 3-year and 4-year MFA degree program. For more
information about the new MFA program click on the link below..
+ info: http://www.academyart.edu/landscape-architecture-school/outline.html?AP=MFA-LAN&ASP=MFA-LAN1
Short Course on "Modeling of River Migration at Multiple Scales: A GIS-based toolbox for river restoration"
3 sep - 5 sep 2011 . Beijing, China
Organizadores: International Sediment Initiative (ISI) of UNESCO and International Research and Training Center on
Erosion and Sedimentation (IRTCES)
Contacto: shaoxj@mail.tsinghua.edu.cn
+ info: http://www.irtces.org/isi/WebNews_View-en2.asp?WebNewsID=706
Promotion of Cultural Heritage Education among Young People - Magelang - Indonesia (2-3
July 2011)
The “Promotion of Cultural Heritage Education among Young People at the Borobudur World Heritage Site”
is a programme within the framework of the UNESCO activity entitled ‘Save the Borobudur World Heritage
Site: Emergency Operation for the Safeguarding of the Borobudur Temple Compounds from the Damage
caused by the Mt. Merapi Eruption and Revitalization of the Local Community Livelihood in Cultural
Industries and Heritage Tourism’.
The programme will give 200 students from the EF English First Indonesia language school the
opportunity to spend two days at the Borobudur temple and its surrounding villages attending lectures, tours and helping
with the remedial operations. This immersive educational programme will take place from 2 to 3 July 2011 and will involve
students between the ages of 10-18 from all over Indonesia.
+ info: http://www.unesco.org/new/en/unesco/events/culture-events/?tx_browser_pi1[showUid]
=4153&cHash=fed345e33d
Agenda
Australia ICOMOS Executive Committee (EC) - Expressions of Interest sought for Working Group on heritage
trades and training
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Organizadores: ICOMOS Australia
Contacto: austicomos@deakin.edu.au
FECHA LÍMITE: 16 sep 2011
+ info: http://australia.icomos.org/e-news/australia-icomos-e-mail-news-no-502/#5.
The European Commission proposes to raise the budget education, training and youth
. Brussels, Bélgica
Organizadores: EUROCLIO
Contacto: audrey.frith@eucis-lll.eu
+ info: http://euroclio.eu/new/index.php/eucis-lll/2679-the-european-commission-raises-the-budget-education-training-
and-youth
Consultation Meeting on the Pedagogical Use of the General History of Africa and the Drafting Teams of
Common Educational Contents
4 sep - 9 sep 2011 . Harare, Zimbabwe
Organizadores: UNESCO
+ info: http://www.unesco.org/new/en/unesco/events/culture-events/
Post Graduate Programme - Economics and techniques for the conservation of the architectural and
environmental heritage 2011/2012
12-sep-2011 . Venice, Italia
Organizadores: University of Nova Gorica and Università Iuav di Venezia
Contacto: dobricic@iuav.it and Sasa.Dobricic@ung.si
FECHA LÍMITE: 18 sep 2011
+ info: http://www.iuav.it/Didattica1/master/corsi-in-p/ETCAEH/index.htm
Contacto: hentschel@hornemann-institut.de
+ info: http://www.hornemann-institut.de/english/course_microbiology.php
UNESCO Expert Meeting on Climate Change Education for Sustainable Development and Adaptation in Small
Island Developing States
21 sep - 23 sep 2011 . Nassau, Bahamas
Organizadores: UNESCO
Contacto: j.heiss@unesco.org
+ info: http://www.unesco.org/new/en/unesco/events/education-events/?tx_browser_pi1[showUid]
=4330&cHash=7b8a53da69
Exhibition 'University of Santo Tomás: Four Centuries of Promoting Understanding, Peace and Culture'
21 sep - 23 sep 2011 . Paris, Francia
Organizadores: UNESCO Headquarters
Contacto: dl.philippines@unesco-delegations.org
+ info: http://www.unesco.org/new/en/unesco/events/all-events/?tx_browser_pi1[showUid]=4543&cHash=5ed37c7c9d
Capacity Building Workshop on the Ratification of the Intangible Cultural Heritage Convention
22 sep - 23 sep 2011 . Dili, Timor-Leste
Organizadores: UNESCO
Contacto: m.nagaoka@unesco.org
+ info: http://www.unesco.org/new/en/unesco/events/all-events/?tx_browser_pi1[showUid]=4381&cHash=07d98e533b
New IPPHA (Institute for Professional Practice in Heritage & the Arts ) professional development course on
Layout, Lighting and Labels: Designing and Delivering a Small Exhibition
28 sep - 29 sep 2011 . Canberra, Australia
Organizadores: Institute for Professional Practice in Heritage & the Arts. The Australian National University
Contacto: andy.blair@anu.edu.au and ippha@anu.edu.au
+ info: http://ippha.anu.edu.au/events/layout-lighting-and-labels-designing-and-delivering-small-exhibition
Skills Development Workshop "Layout, Lighting and Labels: Designing and Delivering a Small Exhibition"
28 sep - 29 sep 2011 . Canberra, Australia
Organizadores: The Australian National University
Contacto: Dr. Sandy Blair - sandy.blair@anu.edu.au
+ info: http://ippha.anu.edu.au/events/layout-lighting-and-labels-designing-and-delivering-small-exhibition
Victoria 2011: Heritage on the edge: sustaining buildings, landscapes and communities
11 oct - 16 oct 2011 . Victoria, Canadá
Organizadores: APT (Association for Preservation Technology International)
Contacto: registrar@apti.org
+ info: http://www.aptconference.org/index.cfm?pID=2508%3Etoday
COLLOQUIUM - Donald Horne Institute for Cultural Heritage: Heritage without borders: making critical
connections
9-dic-2011 . Canberra, Australia
Organizadores: Donald Horne Institute for Cultural Heritage. University Of Camberra
Contacto: Pamela.Fabricius@canberra.edu.au
+ info: http://australia.icomos.org/wp-content/uploads/Heritage-without-borders.pdf
Publicaciones
The Royal Collection's First Book for Children: Does The Queen Wear Her Crown in Bed?
By Marion McAuley, illustrations by Katy Sleight
Royal Collection Publications, July 2011
ISBN 978-1-905686-41-1
Does The Queen wear her crown in bed and who walks the corgis when she’s busy? Those are the sort of
details children really want to know about life at Buckingham Palace.
Inspired by the many questions that children have asked her, Marion McAuley, a former Head of
Education at the Royal Collection, decided to provide the answers in the Royal Household’s first children’s
book about The Queen’s London home.
In this 32-page book, illustrated by Katy Sleight, a footman guides two children around the Palace, showing them some of
its rooms and explaining The Queen’s most important duties – and what you should do if you meet her.
+ info: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=49802
Financing education: redesigning national strategies and the global aid architecture: a report
from the IWGE (International Working Group on Education Meeting)
Author: Varghese, N.V.; Buchert, Lene
UNESCO. IIEP; International Working Group on Education
ISBN: 978-92-803-1357-4
The International Working Group on Education Meeting (IWGE) is an informal network of aid agencies and
foundations. Since its inception in 1972 it has provide a forum for donor agencies to exchange information
and work closely together on education issues. The IWGE is guide by a Planning Commitee, whose
members are the Aga Khan Foundation, Sida, UNESCO, UNICEF, USAID and the World Bank. Its Secretary, the
International Institut for Educational Planning (IIEP), corrdinates the Group's activities.
+ info: http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0019/001937/193755e.pdf
UNESCO & el Consejo Internacional de Ciencias Sociales (ISSC): Resumen del Informe mundial
sobre las ciencias sociales 2010 - Divisorias del conocimiento
Contribuciones de autores del CCHS (Línea MADE_SPRI): Koen Jonkers (IPP); Luis Sanz Menéndez (IPP);
Félix de Moya Anegón (IPP); Laura Cruz Castro (IPP) y Elea Giménez Toledo (IEDCYT)
Las ciencias sociales de los países occidentales siguen siendo las que más influencia tienen a nivel
mundial, pero esta disciplina se está extendiendo rápidamente en Asia y América Latina, y más
concretamente en China y Brasil. En África Subsahariana, los científicos sociales de Sudáfrica, Nigeria y
Kenya producen el 75% de las publicaciones académicas. En Asia Meridional, las ciencias sociales tienen
una prioridad más bien escasa, excepto en algunos centros de investigación de excelencia en India. Estas son algunas de
las conclusiones del Informe Mundial sobre las Ciencias Sociales 2010, “Las brechas del conocimiento”, que se presentó el
25 de junio en la Sede de la UNESCO en París, Francia.
+ info: http://www.unesco.org/new/es/social-and-human-sciences/resources/reports/world-social-science-report/
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Bosques
Noticias
Reboiser ne résoudra pas le problème du réchauffement climatique
Même si les forêts sont des puits de carbone, les projets de reboisement n'auront qu'un impact
très limité sur le changement climatique, affirme une étude scientifique publiée dimanche dans
la revue Nature Geoscience.
Vivek Arora de l'Université de Victoria en Colombie britannique (Canada) et Alvaro Montenegro
de l'université de St. Francis Xavier en Nouvelle-Ecosse (Canada) ont modélisé cinq scénarios de
reboisement sur 50 ans, de 2011 à 2060.
Ils ont alors examiné les effets sur la terre, l'eau et l'air si la température à la surface de la terre
augmentait de 3 degrés d'ici 2100, par rapport aux niveaux préindustriels de 1850.
+ info: http://www.sciencesetavenir.fr/depeche/nature-environnement/20110619.AFP4700/reboiser-ne-resoudra-pas-le-
probleme-du-rechauffement-climatique.html
UNFCCC (United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change) Bonn negotiating session makes progress
on REDD+ (United Nations Collaborative initiative on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest
Degradation) - Bonn - Germany
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) held a full negotiating session in Bonn, Germany
from 6-17 June. Over 3,500 participants came to Bonn, from Governments, Inter-Governmental organizations, Non
Governmental Oranizations (NGOs), academia, the private sector, and media.
+ info: http://redd-plus.com/drupal/unfccc-redd-plus-bonn-conclusions
Naciones Unidas: una cooperación mejorada es vital para proteger los bosques del
clima extremo
Varias agencias de Naciones Unidas y sus socios están haciendo un llamamiento para una
mayor cooperación a la hora de abordar la amenaza que supone para los bosques del mundo
los acontecimientos relacionados con climas extremos y los desastres naturales.
Los acontecimientos relacionados con un clima extremo que tienen un gran impacto en la
salud de los bosques incluyen los ciclones, las inundaciones, los corrimientos de tierra, los
tornados, los terremotos y las erupciones volcánicos – las llamadas “perturbaciones
abióticas” , según un informe publicado por la Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la Agricultura
(FAO), que se encuentra entre los 14 organismos que conforman la Asociación de Colaboración en materia de Bosques.
+ info: http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=39264&Cr=forests&Cr1
DETER (Real Time Deforestation Detection System) indicates 225 km2 of Amazon
deforested area in July - Brazil
The numbers demonstrated by DETER are important indicators for Control and Supervision
Organizations. However, to compute an annual rate of forest removal by clearcutting on
Amazon, INPE works with PRODES (www.obt.inpe.br/prodes), which uses high resolution
images capable of showing small deforestation points.
Even if DETER is important to indicate deforestation trends, its results are not proportional to
PRODES. The estimate of forest loss computed by PRODES in August 2010-July 2011 period, is
going to be released by INPE at the end of this year.
+ info: http://www.inpe.br/ingles/news/news_20110817_01.php
Les Clés de forêt, dans votre poche - Application pour les portables pour reconnaître 29 essences d'arbres
français, par leurs feuilles, leurs fruits, leurs graines, leur écorce.
L’Office national des forêts, le ministère du Développement durable et la fondation GoodPlanet (fondation d'intérêt public
créée par Yann Arthus-Bertrand) ont réalisé une application pour les portables sous iOS ou Android, pour identifier 29
essences d’arbres feuillus et résineux présents en France.
+ info: http://cursus.edu/institutions-formations-ressources/formation/17458/les-cles-foret-dans-votre-poche/
Primer estudio global sobre el papel de los bosques como pozo de carbono
Un estudio internacional compiló el conjunto de las medidas realizadas en todo el planeta de las cantidades de carbono
absorbidas por los bosques, entre 1990 y 2007. Se trata de una primera referencia global calculada para este componente
principal del ciclo del carbono. Este estudio, en el que participaron investigadores del Laboratorio de las ciencias del clima y
el medio ambiente (LSCE, CNRS/CEA/UVSQ), se publica en línea este 14 de julio en el sitio Internet Science Express.
+ info: http://www.insu.cnrs.fr/a3862,premiere-etude-globale-role-forets-comme-puits-carbone.html
Agenda
Bruce Museum Lecture: "Forests and the Changing Climate: Evolutionary Innovation"
16-sep-2011 . Greenwich, Estados Unidos de América
Organizadores: Bruce Museum and UNESCO
Contacto: info@brucemuseum.org and treeconserv@optonline.net
+ info: http://www.un.org/en/events/iyof2011/
Publicaciones
Situación de los bosques de la cuenca del Amazonas, la cuenca del Congo y Asia sudoriental
Brazzaville (República del Congo) | 31 de mayo–3 de junio de 2011
Este informe es un documento de antecedentes para la Cumbre de las tres cuencas de bosques tropicales
que tendrá lugar en Brazzaville (República del Congo), del 31 de mayo al 3 de junio de 2011. Se basa en
el trabajo realizado por el Departamento Forestal de la FAO y la Organización Internacional de las Maderas
Tropicales (OIMT), dos organizaciones internacionales que se encuentran en la vanguardia de la
generación de información sobre estos bosques y la promoción de su desarrollo sostenible.
+ info: http://www.fao.org/forestry/fra/70893/es/
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Noticias
Agenda
Publicaciones
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Patrimonio Geológico
Noticias
Newly Unveiled Plesiosaur Fossil Suggests Ancient Sea Reptile Gave Birth, didn't Lay Eggs
The remains of a giant sea creature are providing the first proof that these prehistoric reptiles gave birth to their young
rather than laying eggs.
Plesiosaurs, which lived at the time of dinosaurs, were large carnivorous sea animals with broad bodies and two pairs of
flippers. Researchers have long questioned whether they would have been able to crawl onto land and lay eggs like other
reptiles or gave birth in the water like whales.
+ info: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=49797
Il n'y a plus de preuve géologique du rôle du méthane pour expliquer la fin de la Terre
boule de neige, il y a 635 millions d'années
L'existence de dépôts glaciaires caractéristiques, retrouvés à plusieurs endroits du globe aux basses
latitudes, nous indiquent qu'il y a 635 millions d'années (époque Marinoene), les calottes polaires
auraient atteint l'équateur, c'est la théorie de la « Terre boule de neige ». Depuis, de telles
glaciations extrêmes ne se sont pas reproduites, ce qui a permis le développement de formes de vie
de plus en plus évoluées. Une des hypothèses invoquées pour expliquer la fin de cette « Terre boule
de neige » (et donc une déglaciation) est le relargage de méthane dans l'atmosphère, provenant de
la déstabilisation de clathrate (hydrates de méthane) des sédiments océaniques ou du permafrost. La seule preuve
géologique derrière cette hypothèse était l'existence de veines de calcite pauvres en 13C (le méthane étant en effet pauvre
en 13C) dans les dolomites de Chine qui surmontent les dépôts glaciaires. Les travaux d'une équipe de chercheurs français
et américains montrent que ces veines de calcites se sont formées bien après la fin de l'âge glaciaire et sont dues à une
activité hydrothermale. Si le méthane a eu le rôle que certains lui imputent pour la sortie de la Terre boule de Neige, alors
il n'aurait pas laissé de trace. Une étude parue dans la revue Nature.
+ info: http://www.insu.cnrs.fr/co/terre-solide/origine-evolution-histoire/il-n-y-a-plus-de-preuve-geologique-du-role-du-
methane-pour-e
Simulacro de alerta a escala real contra los tsunamis en la región del Caribe
A raíz del tsunami que acaba de azotar con extremada dureza al Japón, 33 países* participarán el 23 de marzo en un
simulacro a escala real contra los tsunamis en el Caribe. El objetivo de este simulacro es probar la eficacia del Sistema de
Alerta Temprana contra los Tsunamis y otras Amenazas Costeras en el Caribe y Regiones Adyacentes, creado en 2005 bajo
los auspicios de la Comisión Oceanográfica Intergubernamental (COI) de la UNESCO.
+ info: http://www.unesco.org/new/es/media-services/single-view/news/full_scale
Exposición - La mayor y más exhaustiva colección mundial de meteoritos del asteroide Vesta - Toronto -
Ontario - Canadá
n celebration of the arrival of NASA’s Dawn mission to the asteroid Vesta, the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) presents the
world’s most comprehensive collection of meteorites thought to be from that asteroid. On temporary exhibition in the Vale
Gallery of Minerals, inside the Teck Suite of Galleries: Earth’s Treasures, the display houses 30 diverse specimens from
Vesta, the second most massive asteroid in our solar system.
+ info: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=48871
Investigadores Rupestres de la Universidad Hebrea exploran un antiguo manantial a la entrada de una cueva
en Jerusalén
Hebrew University of Jerusalem researchers have conducted an initial survey of what appears to be an important, ancient
water source in a cave that was been discovered during excavation work for a new train station being constructed at the
entrance to Jerusalem.
The work was done by members of the Cave Research Unit of the university, headed by Prof. Amos Frumkin of the
Department of Geography. The cave was exposed near the base of a deep service shaft that was dug for the train tunnel
leading into the new station, located opposite the main bus station in Jerusalem. The full length of the cave is as yet
unexplored.
+ info: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=48293
Malaysia Stalls New Project: Rare-Earth Metals Plant Has Become Mired in
Environmental Considerations - Malaysia
A plan to break China's dominance over rare-earth metals suffered a setback as Malaysia's
government put restrictions on a plant due to start producing thousands of tons of the
materials within months.
The 700 million ringgit, or roughly $230 million, processing plant under construction by
Australia's Lynas Corp. is intended to produce about a sixth of the world's supply of rare-
earth elements when it hits full production, which is expected for as early as next year.
+ info: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304450604576417243688119506.html?mod=dist_smartbrief
Fossils of Earth's Oldest Trees Donated to New York State Museum - Albany - New York State - USA
Fossils of the Earth’s oldest trees have been donated to the New York State Museum after workers uncovered them during
a project to reconstruct the Gilboa Dam in Schoharie County.
Engineers for the New York City Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) discovered 35 Gilboa stump specimens in
the same location where similar Gilboa stumps were uncovered in 1920 when the dam was constructed. Other smaller
discoveries were made in the 1850s and in 1869. Twelve new stumps will be added to what is now the world’s largest
collection of Gilboa stumps at the State Museum. The stumps are widely cited as evidence of the world’s oldest forest.
+ info: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=48942
China launches campaign to regulate rare earth production - People's Republic of China
China has launched a five-month inspection campaign that aims to crack down on rare earth production that is not in line
with government regulations, the country's industry ministry said on Monday.
Rare earth producers that have no directive production plan, exceed production quotas or continue to use outdated or
environmentally destructive production techniques will be forced to halt operation or face cancellation of quotas and
licenses, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said in a statement on its website.
The campaign, which starts from August 1 to December 31, will also clamp down on the sale or purchase of rare earth
products from mines that violate industry regulations, the statement said.
+ info: http://english.gov.cn/2011-08/09/content_1922201.htm
ERBE Symposium / XI Simposio Internacional Del Legado Cultural Minero y de las Ciencias de la Tierra -
Mexico City, México (29 August - 2 September 2011)
Se presentaron trabajos relacionados con los Intercambios internacionales de cultura y tecnología minera y teorías
geológicas; Viajes mineralógicos y geológicos; Investigación interdisciplinaria en la historia de las ciencias de la Tierra;
Patrimonio industrial, conservación de patrimonio y minería y Archivos de minería.
La sede, durante los primeros tres días, fue la Biblioteca Antonio M. Anza del Palacio de Minería en la Ciudad de México,
arribando a Pachuca el 1 de septiembre para realizar visitas a la mina de San Juan Pachuca y la planta procesadora de
Loreto, así como al Archivo Histórico Museo de Minería.
En conferencia de prensa, Belem Oviedo Gámez, directora del AHMM, resaltó la importancia de que este tipo de eventos de
talla internacional se lleven a cabo en el país.
+ info: http://www.11erbesymposium.org/
Observatório Nacional descobre indícios de um Rio Subterrâneo debaixo do Rio Amazonas - Brazil
Em agosto de 2011, os pesquisadores da Coordenação de Geofísica do Observatório Nacional – ON apresentaram um
trabalho no 12o Congresso Internacional da Sociedade Brasiliera de Geofísica, no Rio de Janeiro, apontando indícios da
existência de um rio subterrâneo debaixo do Rio Amazonas.
Esta fantástica descoberta faz parte de um trabalho de doutorado da aluna Elizabeth Tavares Pimentel, sob orientação do
pesquisador Valiya Hamza. O trabalho é baseado na análise de dados de temperaturas de 241 poços profundos perfurados
pela PETROBRAS, nas décadas de 1970 e 1980, na região Amazônica. A área de estudo abrange as bacias sedimentares de
Acre, Solimões, Amazonas, Marajó e Barreirinhas.
Os resultados obtidos permitiram identificação de movimentação das águas subterrâneas em profundidades de até 4000
metros nesta região. A metodologia utilizada baseia-se na identificação de sinais térmicos típicos de movimentos de fluidos
em meios porosos.
+ info: http://www.on.br/conteudo/noticias/2011/Pimentel_Hamza_SBGF_2011.pdf
An Archaeopteryx-like theropod from China and the origin of Avialae - The People's Republic of China
Xing Xu, Hailu You, Kai Du & Fenglu Han
Archaeopteryx is widely accepted as being the most basal bird, and accordingly it is regarded as central to understanding
avialan origins; however, recent discoveries of derived maniraptorans have weakened the avialan status of Archaeopteryx.
Here we report a new Archaeopteryx-like theropod from China. This find further demonstrates that many features formerly
regarded as being diagnostic of Avialae, including long and robust forelimbs, actually characterize the more inclusive group
Paraves (composed of the avialans and the deinonychosaurs). Notably, adding the new taxon into a comprehensive
phylogenetic analysis shifts Archaeopteryx to the Deinonychosauria. Despite only tentative statistical support, this result
challenges the centrality of Archaeopteryx in the transition to birds. If this new phylogenetic hypothesis can be confirmed
by further investigation, current assumptions regarding the avialan ancestral condition will need to be re-evaluated.
+ info: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v475/n7357/full/nature10288.html
Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County Opens New Dinosaur Hall - Los Angeles - California - USA
The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County (NHM) opened its all-new, 14,000-square-foot Dinosaur Hall, marking
the halfway point of the Museum’s seven-year transformation. Twice the size of the Museum’s old dinosaur galleries, the
new permanent exhibition features over 300 fossils and 20 complete mounts of dinosaurs and sea creatures. The hall rivals
the world’s leading dinosaur halls for the number of individual fossils displayed, the size and spectacular character of the
major mounts, including the world’s only Tyrannosaurus rex growth series, and the accessible integration of recent
scientific discoveries and research into the displays.
+ info: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=49136
vertébrés
Comment les mâchoires, facteur essentiel dans le succès évolutif des vertébrés et la diversité
de leur adaptation, sont-elles apparues subitement chez les poissons il y a 435 millions
d’années ? Une équipe de chercheurs a réussi à expliquer ce phénomène grâce à une étude
poussée de l’anatomie interne de fossiles de galéaspides, poissons sans mâchoires.
L’apparition des mâchoires chez les vertébrés aurait été rendue possible grâce à une
réorganisation du cerveau et des organes du sens bien avant l’origine des mâchoires. Cette
étude menée par des chercheurs de l’Université de Bristol, de l’Académie chinoise des Sciences, du CNRS, du Muséum
national d’Histoire naturelle, de l’Institut suisse Paul Scherrer et l’Université ETH de Zurich a été publiée le 18 août dernier
dans Nature.
+ info: http://www.insu.cnrs.fr/co/terre-solide/terre-et-vie/l-etude-de-fossiles-de-poissons-explique-l-apparition-des-
machoires-chez-l
Une source jeune pour le panache à l'origine des volcans d'Hawaii - USA
En analysant la composition isotopique du strontium des verres magmatiques emprisonnés en
inclusion dans des cristaux d’olivines contenus dans les laves du Mauna Loa, volcans d’Hawaii, un
chercheur de Grenoble (IsTerre, CNRS-INSU, Univ Joseph Fourier) et ses collègues du Max Planck
Institute for Chemistry (Germany), de l’Académie des sciences de Russie (Moscou, Novosibirsk) et
du Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory (USA) montrent que les roches qui ont alimenté le panache
du manteau, responsable des volcans d’Hawaii, sont héritées de roches océaniques contaminées
par de l’eau de mer pas plus ancienne que 200 à 650 millions d’années. Ces travaux ont été
publiés dans la revue Nature le 25 août 2011.
+ info: http://www.insu.cnrs.fr/co/terre-solide/dynamique-interne/une-source-jeune-pour-le-panache-a-l-origine-des-
volcans-d-hawaii
Agenda
Exhibition - Titanosaur Nest on View
16-abr-2011 . New York City, Estados Unidos de América
Organizadores: American Museum of Natural History
+ info: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=49352
Publicaciones
Guide des curiosités géologiques du Pays bigouden - France
Par Sylvain BLAIS, Michel BALLEVRE, Pierrick GRAVIOU et Joël ROLET
Collection : Guides Géologiques Régionaux
ISBN : 978-2-7159-2509-0
Le Pays bigouden présente une grande variété de roches et de paysages : le granite de Pont-l'Abbé,
si bien exposé de la Pointe de la Torche à l'embouchure de l'Odet, la baie d'Audierne avec son cordon
de galets et ses nombreux étangs littoraux, et surtout - une rareté en Bretagne - des témoins d'un
océan disparu.
Autant de sites remarquables que ce guide des curiosités géologiques du Pays bigouden vous invite à parcourir.
Ce patrimoine naturel vous permettra de retracer l'histoire géologique du Pays bigouden, histoire qui voit la création d'un
océan puis sa disparition lors de la formation d'une chaîne de montagne aujourdh'hui érodée. Le long du littoral comme au
fil des sentiers, ce choix de sites sera prétexte à un dépaysement dans le lointain passé, où les âges se comptent en
millions d'années.
Bon voyage en compagnie de ce guide, qui se conclut par quelques pages sur les milieux naturels de la région.
+ info: http://www.brgm.fr/Livres/detail.jsp?id=EDV-ART-225
ISBN : 978-2-7159-2511-3
Le Bureau de recherches géologiques et minières (BRGM), qui fait référence en France pour les
sciences de la Terre, lance une série de guides touristiques destinés aux randonneurs souhaitant «
comprendre par leur géologie les paysages qu’ils traversent ». Publié conjointement avec les éditions
Omniscience, le premier guide de la collection « Guides géologiques » est consacré au Jura et « présente des itinéraires de
randonnée détaillés retenus pour leur qualité scientifique, pédagogique et esthétique ». Après un chapitre consacré à
l’histoire géologique du Jura, l’ouvrage présente dix itinéraires avec carte IGN et une fiche technique avec des conseils
pratiques (distance, durée, dénivelé, difficulté, matériel requis, etc.) et des descriptions détaillées et illustrées. Des
encadrés sont consacrés à la culture, la flore, la faune, l’architecture, l’agriculture et aux activités humaines de la région.
Des adresses utiles complètent l’ouvrage, comme dans tout bon guide touristique.
+ info: http://www.brgm.fr/Livres/detail.jsp?id=EDV-ART-226#%22
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Rhinos Latest Victims of the Illicit Trade in Art and Wildlife
Following a recent surge in museum heists targeting rhinoceros horn, conservation and
preservation organizations warn that the illegal trafficking of art and wildlife is a threat to the
public, as well as the world’s natural and cultural heritage.
The Lawyers’ Committee for Cultural Heritage Preservation (LCCHP), the International Fund for
Animal Welfare (IFAW), Save the Rhino International, and Saving Rhinos issued the following
statement. (go to the link).
+ info: http://www.culturalheritagelaw.org/rhino
Ratificación por Jamaica de la Convención sobre la Protección del Patrimonio Cultural Subacuático (París, 2 de
noviembre de 2001)
El 9 de agosto de 2011, Jamaica depositó ante la Directora General su instrumento de ratificación de la Convención sobre
la Protección del Patrimonio Cultural Subacuático.
Conforme a lo dispuesto en su Artículo 27, la Convención entrará en vigor para Jamaica tres meses después del depósito
de este instrumento, es decir el 9 de noviembre de 2011.
+ info: http://portal.unesco.org/es/ev.php-URL_ID=48608&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html
Ratificación por Benin de la Convención sobre la Protección del Patrimonio Cultural Subacuático (París, 2 de
noviembre de 2001)
El 4 de agosto de 2011, Benin depositó ante la Directora General su instrumento de ratificación de la Convención sobre la
Protección del Patrimonio Cultural Subacuático.
Conforme a lo dispuesto en su Artículo 27, la Convención entrará en vigor para Benin tres meses después del depósito de
este instrumento, es decir el 4 de noviembre de 2011.
+ info: http://portal.unesco.org/es/ev.php-URL_ID=48607&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html
Investigations (HSI). Una de las investigaciones tuvo lugar en Jacksonville y Orlando y otras en
San Juan, Puerto Rico, así como Memphis, en el estado de Tennessee.
+ info: http://www.elnuevoherald.com/2011/08/19/1007372/devuelven-antiguedades-traidas.html
New York's Met to Return 10 Artifacts to Egypt - New York City - New York State - USA
New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art has agreed to return to Cairo 19 artifacts dating back to the time of ancient Egypt's
teenage king Tutankhamen, the state news agency MENA said on Saturday. Egypt has been pushing for the repatriation of
major pharaonic treasures it says were plundered by foreign powers, including the Rosetta Stone now in the British
Museum and Queen Nefertiti's bust from Berlin's Neues Museum. The agreement between the New York museum and
Egypt's antiquities council on the return of the artifacts was signed in November after a series of negotiations, MENA said.
+ info: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=49471
Convention d’Aarhus : L'Union européenne et la France doivent accepter d'ouvrir les portes de la démocratie
environnementale
Depuis hier, les Etats signataires de la Convention d’Aarhus sur l’information, la participation du public et l’accès à la
justice en matière environnementale sont réunis à Chisinau, Moldavie. L’adhésion de nouveaux pays non membres de la
Commission économique des Nations Unies pour l’Europe (UNECE), appelée de ses vœux par France Nature Environnement
et les Amis de la terre France, est en négociation. Inquiétudes.
Une décision qui restreindrait l’accès de pays volontaires à la démocratie environnementale
La Convention d’Aarhus se rattache directement aux droits de l’homme de nature politique et est un outil puissant de mise
en œuvre du Principe 10 de la Déclaration de Rio de 1992 pour la démocratie environnementale.
+ info: http://www.fne.asso.fr/fr/convention-d-aarhus-l-union-europeenne-et-la-france-doivent-accepter-d-ouvrir-les-
portes-de-la-democratie-environnementale.html?cmp_id=33&news_id=12370
Expert Meeting for the Revision of the Haitian Law on the Protection of Built
Heritage - Paris - France (11-12 July 2011)
The meeting will gather a team of legal experts to launch the process of revision of the Law
on the Protection of Built Heritage, in light of the projects undertaken by UNESCO and its
partners with a view to making culture an essential part of Haiti's reconstruction effort.
The activity has been set as a key priority by the Haitian Government, and will be organized
with the financial support of the Spanish Funds-in-Trust for World Heritage. It is in line with
projects 1 and 3 for Port-au-Prince as presented in the brochure "Haiti - Making Culture a
Motor for Reconstruction".
+ info: http://www.unesco.org/new/en/unesco/events/culture-events/?tx_browser_pi1[showUid]
=4159&cHash=11080d7fd0
Meeting of the open ended intergovernmental working group on the treatment of nominations to the
Representative List by the Committee, Subsidiary Body and the Secretariat - UNESCO Headquarters - Paris -
France ( 12-14 September 2011)
The Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage decided (Decision 5.COM 7) to
convene before its sixth session an open ended intergovernmental working group to discuss possible measures to improve
the treatment of nominations to the Representative List by the Committee, Subsidiary Body and the Secretariat.
This open-ended intergovernmental working group was established by the Committee following debate on the
establishment of a Subsidiary Body on the examination of nominations to the Representative List, during which the
Committee had to determine the number of nominations that it would have to examine in the 2011 cycle, as well as the
working methods of the Subsidiary Body. The meeting of the working group is organized thanks to the financial support of
Japan.
+ info: http://www.unesco.org/new/en/unesco/events/culture-events/?tx_browser_pi1[showUid]
=4558&cHash=11a7412b13
UNCCD (United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification): Stories from local communities
The United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification fosters the creation of an enabling environment that promotes
action at the local level, the implementation of a cooperation framework built upon partnership agreements and the
promotion of activities integrated into a coherent development strategy with a view to enhancing the involvement of civil
society in the intergovernmental and decision-making process.
To date, more than 900 civil society organisations have been accredited with observer status to the Conference of the
Parties. The participation of these entities in the implementation of the Convention and their contribution to the various
meetings is a necessary component of the successful implementation of the Convention through its Ten Year Strategic
Plan.
+ info: http://www.unccd.int/cso/menu.php?newch=l8
CONFERENCE AFRICAN MEMORY IN DANGER Plundering and Return of Cultural and Anthropological Heritage
in Africa
15 sep - 16 sep 2011 . Genève, Suiza
Organizadores: Musées d’art et d’histoire
Contacto: mah@ville-ge.ch
+ info: http://ua.unige.ch/memoireafricaine/
Agenda
UNESCO Seminar and Workshop - Prevention and fight against illicit traffic of cultural goods in Southern
African region
14 sep - 15 sep 2011 . Windhoek, Namibia
Organizadores: UNESCO
Contacto: d.dijakovic@unesco.org
+ info: http://www.unesco.org/new/en/unesco/events/all-events/?tx_browser_pi1[showUid]=4573&cHash=2874937912
Capacity Building Workshop on the Ratification of the Intangible Cultural Heritage Convention (2003)
22 sep - 23 sep 2011 . Dili, Timor-Leste
Organizadores: UNESCO
Contacto: m.nagaoka@unesco.org
+ info: http://www.unesco.org/new/en/unesco/events/all-events/?tx_browser_pi1[showUid]=4381&cHash=07d98e533b
Capacity Building Workshop on the Ratification of the Intangible Cultural Heritage Convention
22 sep - 23 sep 2011 . Dili, Timor-Leste
Organizadores: UNESCO
Contacto: m.nagaoka@unesco.org
+ info: http://www.unesco.org/new/en/unesco/events/all-events/?tx_browser_pi1[showUid]=4381&cHash=07d98e533b
Ninth Meeting of the High Contracting Parties to the 1954 Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural
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Inaugura Director de UNESCO La Habana el IX Encuentro Internacional sobre
Manejo y Gestión de Centros Históricos - Habana, Cuba. 20 mayo 2011
El Sr. Herman van Hooff, Director de la Oficina Regional de Cultura para América
Latina y el Caribe de la UNESCO, destacó en la apertura del IX Encuentro Internacional
sobre Manejo y Gestión de Centros Históricos, que sesiona en La Habana hasta el 20
de mayo, la celebración el próximo año del 40º aniversario de la Convención del
Patrimonio Mundial y de los primeros 30 años desde que, en 1982, La Habana Vieja y
su sistema de fortificaciones integraron la lista del Patrimonio Mundial.
Los encuentros sobre Manejo y gestión de centros históricos, iniciados en 1995, cuentan con el apoyo de la UNESCO para
su difusión internacional y en cada edición debaten sobre logros y deficiencias en un determinado tema patrimonial. En
esta jornada el tema central es El derecho ciudadano a los hitos urbanos: grandes estructuras antiguas en función de
nuevas centralidades.
+ info: http://www.unesco.lacult.org/noticias/showitem.php?uid_ext=&getipr=MTcyLjI0LjEwLjIy&lg=1&id=3060
Foro Montevideo 2011 - Gestión Urbana y Patrimonio Cultural Inmaterial - Montevideo, Uruguay. 7-8 abril
2011
El Foro Montevideo 2011 - Gestión Urbana y Patrimonio Cultural Inmaterial se celebrará el 7 y 8 de abril de 2011 en
Montevideo, Uruguay. El encuentro, que será organizado en forma conjunta por la Intendencia de Montevideo (IM), el
Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo (BID), la Agencia de Revitalización Integral de la Ciudad Histórica de Vitoria-Gasteiz
(ARICH) y el Instituto Vasco Etxepare, contará con el apoyo de la Oficina de la UNESCO en Montevideo. El foro se
articulará sobre la base de conferencias, talleres de reflexión y manifestaciones artísticas que girarán en torno al
patrimonio y las ciudades históricas.
En dicho contexto, el Sector Cultura de la Oficina de la UNESCO en Montevideo apoyará la participación del reconocido Arq.
Alfredo Conti (consultor UNESCO), quien dará una conferencia magistral sobre los Paisajes Históricos Urbanos.
+ info: http://www.unesco.lacult.org/noticias/showitem.php?uid_ext=&getipr=MTcyLjI0LjEwLjIy&lg=1&id=3020
Revitalización del centro histórico de Craco (Centro Storico di Craco) – Craco – Italia
Destacando sobre su sobrecogedor paisaje, la ciudad de Craco, Italia, data del año 1000 AD,
cuando su grandiosa torre normanda se erigió. Los descubrimientos arqueológicos, no obstante,
han revelado que asentamientos micénicos desarrollaron labores agrícolas entre los siglos 9 y
10 BC. Posado sobre una cordillera de colinas labradas por el serpenteante río Cavone, Craco se
usó en tiempos normandos como un puesto de avanzada, reconociendo el amplio terreno ante
las venideras invasiones saracenas.
Hacia el año 1500, la pequeña ciudad había empezado a tomar forma. Edificios de piedra
blanca, reflejando la arcilla suavemente dorada de la tierra que les rodeaba, comenzaron a tomar forma en torno a la torre
original, colgando de la colina inclinada. La población local siguió escalando, alcanzando 2,600 metros en 1561. En 1630,
Caco estableció una orden monástica permanente con la construcción del monasterio de San Pedro. El monasterio
constituyó una importante contribución a la comunidad, influyendo en la ciencia, la religión y la economía en una sociedad
que se mantenía mediante la producción de granos, verduras, vino, aceite y algodón.
+ info: http://www.wmf.org/project/historic-center-craco-centro-storico-di-craco
interesados en debatir sobre los asuntos relacionados con el desarrollo urbano. Se espera la
asistencia de más de 1,500 participantes de todo el mundo.
Ecocity World Summit 2011 es una gran oportunidad para presentar los proyectos de investigación y
los logros alcanzados que puedan servir de ayuda para los gobienros, centros de investigación y
profesionales que buscan dar respuestas a los retos de encontrar soluciones para contribuir a un
modo más sostenible y saludable.
+ info: http://www.ecocity2011.com/
La Organización de las Ciudades del Patrimonio Mundial (OCPM): Algunas breves noticias
Las acciones de la OCPM, que van encaminadas a contribuir a la implantación de la Convención del Patrimonio Mundial,
afectan diversos aspectos, entre ellos, la información y la formación de los gestores municipales. Por ello se organizan
coloquios y seminarios sobre los retos que se han de enfrentar en materia de gestión, así como sobre las estrategias de
valorización y conservación de los conjuntos históricos.
+ info: http://www.ovpm.org/
Post Office in Ben Franklin's House in Philadelphia's Historic Old City May Close - Philadelphia - Pennsylvania -
USA
A post office in a building that Benjamin Franklin once owned is on the Postal Service's list of branches that could close.
The post office in Philadelphia's historic Old City neighborhood is the only one in the country that doesn't fly a U.S. flag.
That's because there wasn't one in 1775, when Franklin founded what has evolved into today's Postal Service.
There's also a postal museum upstairs from the so-called B. Free Franklin Post Office, located in a house once owned by
Franklin. It opened as a U.S. post office in 1975, the 200th anniversary of Franklin's appointment by the Continental
Congress as the country's first postmaster general.
+ info: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=49383
Jorge Palacios: Sculptures in Dialogue with the City of Toledo and Exhibition at Canal Foundation, Madrid -
Spain
Toledo hosts the exhibition project of Jorge Palacios (Madrid, 1979) "The dialogues of the curve: urban sculptures in the
streets of Toledo" conceived as a itinerary through different places representative of the city, including the environment of
the Bisagra Gate, the Sun Gate, the Santa Cruz Museum or the Fuensalida Palace. The traveling exhibition of Jorge
Palacios "The dialogues of the curve" will stay in Toledo until August.
+ info: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=48267
Agenda
XIV Convención de Ordenamiento Territorial y Urbanismo “Cultura, Territorio y Ciudad” La dimensión cultural
del territorio y los asentamientos humanos
31 oct - 4 nov 2011 . Habana, Cuba
Organizadores: El Instituto de Planificación Física
Contacto: Miselis Bob Babastro - miselis@ipf.cu
+ info: http://www.convencion-otu-cuba.com/
Publicaciones
The Transition Handbook: From oil dependency to local resilience - Transition Towns:
avanposti del futuro
By Rob Hopkins
Published by Green Books
We live in an oil-dependent world, and have got to this level of dependency in a very short space of
time, using vast reserves of oil in the process - without thinking ahead to plan for when the supply is
not so plentiful. Most of us avoid thinking about what happens when oil runs out (or becomes
prohibitively expensive), but The Transition Handbook shows how the inevitable and profound
changes ahead can have a positive outcome. These changes can lead to the rebirth of local communities, which will grow
more of their own food, generate their own power, and build their own houses using local materials. They can also
encourage the development of local currencies, keeping money in the local area.
There are now over 35 formal Transition Initiatives in the UK, including towns, cities, islands, villages and peninsulas, with
over 500 globally at the earlier stages of launching this process. With little proactivity at government level, communities
are taking matters into their own hands and acting locally. Within peak oil and climate change is the potential for the
greatest economic, social and cultural renaissance we have ever seen. If your community has not yet become a Transition
Initiative, this guide offers you the tools to get started.
+ info: http://www.tafter.it/2011/09/08/transition-towns-avanposti-del-futuro/
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FELLOWSHIPS - BECAS DE DOCTORADO III EDICIÓN. Fecha limite : 30 de Septiembre de 2011
La Fundación Juanelo Turriano es una institución docente privada reconocida por el Ministerio de Cultura (B.O.E. de 15 de
marzo de 1989). Su objeto fundacional es la promoción y coordinación del estudio histórico de la Técnica y de la Ciencia en
sus diversas vertientes. Un medio eficaz de cumplir con los fines fundacionales es la financiación, en forma de becas, de
trabajos de investigación dirigidos a la realización de Tesis Doctorales en los campos de la Historia de la Ciencia o de la
Técnica. Por ello, y por decisión del Patronato tomada en su reunión de 26 de Mayo de 2011, la Fundación Juanelo Turriano
convoca dos Becas para la realización de Tesis Doctorales, dotadas con 14.400 euros anuales brutos cada una, con arreglo
a las condiciones que se definen en esta convocatoria.
+ info: http://www.juaneloturriano.com/admin/agenda/winarcdoc.php?id=181
Bezos (Fundador y CEO de Amazon.com con base en Seattle) apoya la innovación al nuevo MOHAI (Museo de
historia e industria) – Seattle – Estado de Washington – EEUU
Hoy, el MOHAI ha anunciado una beca de 10 millones de dólares que hará historia a cargo de Bezos (se trata de la suma
más grande en los 59 años de historia del museo) y que se empleará en la creación del “Centro para la Innovación” en la
nueva apertura del MOHAI al final del otoño de 2012 en el histórico edificio de la reserva naval (Amory) en Lake Union
Park. El nuevo hogar del MOHAI se encuentra a unas manzanas del nuevo campus Amazon.com en el barrio de South Lake
Union, y se espera que los usuarios de Amazon se conviertan en visitantes habituales del nuevo museo.
+ info: http://seattlehistory.org/blog/2011/08/innovation/
AD Classics: Moscow Metro / Robert Pogrebnoi and Yuriy Zenkivich - 1935 - 1959 - The Russian Federation
The city of Moscow experienced a huge size and population boom following the industrial development and railway
construction of the late 19th century. At this time, horse-drawn cars and trams were the main form of transportation, but
soon the horses were not enough to fuel the city’s rapid expansion. As a result, plans were made for development of a new
peripheral ring railway that would carry freight throughout the city. Many years later, underground lines for passengers
were linked to the original railway. These lines quickly turned the railway into a booming metropolitan transit center,
eventually becoming what is today known as the Moscow Metro. More on the development of the Moscow Metro after the
break.
+ info: http://www.archdaily.com/157480
The Printing Factory Lofts / Montgomery Sisam Architects - Toronto - Ontario - Canada
Originally built to house the printing presses of Rolph Clark Stone, 201 Carlaw Avenue has been a Leslieville landmark
since its completion in 1913 when this community was at the heart of industry in Toronto.
The Printing Factory Lofts project preserves three facades and incorporates significant portions of the original factory
building into the project including the classical main entrance portico that opens to a grand wooden staircase below vaulted
ceilings. In addition, the original “sawtooth” industrial skylights were rebuilt and integrated into the two storey loft units.
The centre portion of the factory building was carved out to accommodate an eight storey glass tower, two garden courts
and a series of townhouses facing Boston Avenue, the residential street to the east.
+ info: http://www.archdaily.com/148969/
ERBE Symposium / XI Simposio Internacional Del Legado Cultural Minero y de las Ciencias de la Tierra -
Mexico City, México (29 August - 2 September 2011)
Se presentaron trabajos relacionados con los Intercambios internacionales de cultura y tecnología minera y teorías
geológicas; Viajes mineralógicos y geológicos; Investigación interdisciplinaria en la historia de las ciencias de la Tierra;
In Progress: King's Cross Station / John McAslan + Partners - London - United Kingdom
“It’s incredible to watch the reinvention of the station taking shape into a compelling piece of place-making for London. You
can already see how the Western Concourse – Europe’s largest single span station structure and the heart of the
development – reconnects this much-loved Victorian terminus to its context. It’s immensely satisfying to see the project
move forward at such pace and we look forward to celebrating the project’s completion in 2012 for the London Olympics.”-
John McAslan, Chairman John McAslan + Partners
+ info: http://www.archdaily.com/162461
Mystery of Alaska's Missing Moon Rocks has Been Solved; Former Resident Sues - Juneau - Alaska - USA
The mystery of Alaska's missing moon rocks has been solved. Getting them back to a state museum likely will depend on a
judge. Alaska officials are contesting a lawsuit filed by a former resident who claims he rescued the moon rocks from a
garbage heap 38 years ago.
Coleman Anderson, who now lives in Texas, sued for formal title to the rocks in December. If he doesn't receive title, he's
asking to be compensated for finding and returning the rocks, which are valued by collecto
+ info: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=49124
The Eucalyptus Distillery Museum Has Officially Opened - Inglewood - Victoria - Australia
The ceremony was preceed by the launch of the Inglewood's Self-Drive CD project by the Mayor of Loddon Shire,
Councillor Gavan Holt. Mayor spoke of the significance of tourism in the shire, the need to have facilities such as the new
museum and the benefits to the Shire and townships of tourists staying and increasing the average spend. Councillor Holt
thanked the members of the Inglewood Development & Tourism Committee who provided the material and worked with
the Loddon Shire to develop the CD.
+ info: http://inglewood.vic.au/museum-opening
Seoul Declaration on Industrial Heritage in Asia 2011 - Modern Asian Architecture Network (mAAN)
This declaration is announced in the mAAN Seoul 2011 International Conference on “Our Living Heritage: Industrial
Buildings and Sites of Asia” organized by mAAN International and mAAN Korea, in cooperation with the Ministry of Culture,
Sports and Tourism of Korea, Seoul Museum of History, ICOMOS Korea, ICOMOS Shared Built Heritage Commission, and
TICCIH (International Committee for the Conservation of the Industrial Heritage), in Seoul, 25-27 August, 2011.
+ info: http://australia.icomos.org/wp-content/uploads/mAAN-Seoul-Declaration-2011-on-Industrial-Heritage-in-Asia.pdf
Agenda
V Encuentro Europeo de la E-FAITH (Federación Europea de Asociaciones del Patrimonio Industrial y Técnico)
- Patrimonio Industrial 2011
14 oct - 16 oct 2011 . Tilburg, Países Bajos
Organizadores: E-FAITH
Contacto: 2011@e-faith.org
+ info: http://www.e-faith.org/home/?q=content/european-industrial-and-technical-heritage-weekends
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Seminario Internacional de Patrimonio Inmaterial: Patrimonio Cultural,
nuestra memoria, nuestra responsabilidad - Santiago de Chile, Chile. 29 mayo
2011
Los días 26 y 27 de mayo se llevó a cabo el Seminario Internacional de Patrimonio
Inmaterial: Patrimonio Cultural, nuestra memoria, nuestra Responsabilidad, en el
Centro Cultural Gabriela Mistral de Santiago de Chile. El evento contó con una amplia
participación de la sociedad civil, que llenó el recinto.
Estuvo presente en la inauguración del seminario el Ministro presidente del Consejo
Nacional de la Cultura y las Artes de Chile (CNCA), Luciano Cruz-Coke, quien resaltó la importancia de conservar y
promover la recuperación del patrimonio inmaterial del país.
+ info: http://www.lacult.org/noticias/showitem.php?uid_ext=&getipr=MTcyLjI0LjEwLjIy&lg=1&id=3076
mourned their dead, with a dynamic sword dance by masked men, accompanied by drums and flutes.
But everything changed after the March 11 tsunami tore into Japan's northeastern coast, sweeping away homes,
performers and precious equipment in coastal areas, like Urahama, that had long treasured their traditional performing folk
arts.
Now, people in many of the tightly-knit coastal communities fear the disaster may prove to be the final blow for some 100
troupes that had already been struggling to survive as the towns where they were based aged and young people left to
seek work.
+ info: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=49883
Boletin Nº 10 de Centro Regional para la Salvaguardia del Patrimonio Cultural Inmaterial de America Latina -
CRESPIAL
El CRESPIAL fue creado en febrero de 2006, a partir de la suscripción en París del Acuerdo de Constitución del CRESPIAL,
firmado entre la UNESCO y el Gobierno del Perú con el objetivo de promover y apoyar acciones de salvaguardia y
protección del vasto patrimonio cultural inmaterial de los pueblos de América Latina. Al ser un Centro de Categoría 2,
cuenta con los auspicios de la UNESCO.
El CRESPIAL se plantea como propósito contribuir a la formulación de políticas públicas en los países de la Región, a partir
de la identificación, valoración y difusión de su cultura viva, acciones que redundarán en el enriquecimiento de la
diversidad cultural de Latinoamérica, y que están conformes con el espíritu de la Convención para la Salvaguardia del
Patrimonio Cultural Inmaterial (2003).
+ info: http://www.crespial.org/boletin/boletin_11.php
China hace una gran inversión en la protección del patrimonio cultural inmaterial del Tibet – China
China ha invertido en los últimos seis años más de 60 millones de yuanes (9,38 millos de dólares americanos) en la
preservación y desarrollo del Patrimonio Cultural Inmaterial del Tibet (PCI, en sus siglas en español), según comunicó el
domingo un oficial de cultura.
El Ministerio de Cultura ha destinado 32,58 millones de yuanes para la preservación y herencia del PCI del Tibet, dijo Yang
Zhijin, vice minisitro de cultura, en el tercer foro de Cultura Tibetana que comenzó en Lhasa el sábado.
El gobierno de la Región autónoma del Tibet también invirtió cerca de 30 millones de yuanes para su PCI, dijo Yang, que es
también vicepresidente de la Asociación China para la Preservación y el Desarrollo de la Cultura Tibetana.
+ info: http://www.gov.cn/english/2011-08/21/content_1929593.htm
Boletin Nº 11 de Centro Regional para la Salvaguardia del Patrimonio Cultural Inmaterial de America Latina -
CRESPIAL
El CRESPIAL fue creado en febrero de 2006, a partir de la suscripción en París del Acuerdo de Constitución del CRESPIAL,
firmado entre la UNESCO y el Gobierno del Perú con el objetivo de promover y apoyar acciones de salvaguardia y
protección del vasto patrimonio cultural inmaterial de los pueblos de América Latina. Al ser un Centro de Categoría 2,
cuenta con los auspicios de la UNESCO.
El CRESPIAL se plantea como propósito contribuir a la formulación de políticas públicas en los países de la Región, a partir
de la identificación, valoración y difusión de su cultura viva, acciones que redundarán en el enriquecimiento de la
diversidad cultural de Latinoamérica, y que están conformes con el espíritu de la Convención para la Salvaguardia del
Patrimonio Cultural Inmaterial (2003).
+ info: http://www.crespial.org/boletin/boletin_12.php
Meeting of the open ended intergovernmental working group on the treatment of nominations to the
Representative List by the Committee, Subsidiary Body and the Secretariat - UNESCO Headquarters - Paris -
France ( 12-14 September 2011)
The Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage decided (Decision 5.COM 7) to
convene before its sixth session an open ended intergovernmental working group to discuss possible measures to improve
the treatment of nominations to the Representative List by the Committee, Subsidiary Body and the Secretariat.
This open-ended intergovernmental working group was established by the Committee following debate on the
establishment of a Subsidiary Body on the examination of nominations to the Representative List, during which the
Committee had to determine the number of nominations that it would have to examine in the 2011 cycle, as well as the
working methods of the Subsidiary Body. The meeting of the working group is organized thanks to the financial support of
Japan.
+ info: http://www.unesco.org/new/en/unesco/events/culture-events/?tx_browser_pi1[showUid]
=4558&cHash=11a7412b13
Agenda
Curso "BUENOS AIRES - PATRIMONIO Y AUTENTICIDAD"
1-ago-2011 . Buenos Aires, Argentina
Organizadores: Asociación Amigos del Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes
Contacto: info@aamnba.org.ar
+ info: http://www.enfoquespositivos.com.ar/front.php?id=6480
Australia ICOMOS - Canberra Talks Series: Pacific Solutions towards World Heritage Island Abandonment,
Climate Change, and Tangible/Intangible Pasts
22-sep-2011 . Canberra, Australia
Organizadores: Autralia ICOMOS
Contacto: mct-oz@bigpond.net.au
+ info: http://australia.icomos.org/e-news/australia-icomos-e-mail-news-no-502/#6.
Capacity Building Workshop on the Ratification of the Intangible Cultural Heritage Convention
22 sep - 23 sep 2011 . Dili, Timor-Leste
Organizadores: UNESCO
Contacto: m.nagaoka@unesco.org
+ info: http://www.unesco.org/new/en/unesco/events/all-events/?tx_browser_pi1[showUid]=4381&cHash=07d98e533b
Capacity Building Workshop on the Ratification of the Intangible Cultural Heritage Convention (2003)
22 sep - 23 sep 2011 . Dili, Timor-Leste
Organizadores: UNESCO
Contacto: m.nagaoka@unesco.org
+ info: http://www.unesco.org/new/en/unesco/events/all-events/?tx_browser_pi1[showUid]=4381&cHash=07d98e533b
COLLOQUE INTERNATIONAL - Organisé par le Centre de Recherches sur les Arts et le Langage (CRAL, EHESS-
CNRS)
27 oct - 29 oct 2011 . Paris, Francia
Organizadores: Maison des cultures du monde et Centre de Recherches sur les Arts et le Langage
Contacto: info@maisondesculturesdumonde.org
+ info: http://www.mcm.asso.fr/site02/tango.htm
CONFERENCE - Spiritual Values in European Protected Areas: Implications for management and
communication. International Academy for Nature Conservation
2 nov - 6 nov 2011 . Ilse of Vilm, Alemania
Organizadores: German Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (BfN)
Contacto: Martina.Finger@bfn-vilm.de
+ info: http://www.bfn.de/0603_kalender.html
UNESCO 6th Session of the Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural
Heritage
22 nov - 29 nov 2011 . Bali, Indonesia
Organizadores: UNESCO
Contacto: m.rosset@unesco.org
+ info: http://www.unesco.org/new/en/unesco/events/all-events/?tx_browser_pi1[showUid]=4396&cHash=c774ba664d
Publicaciones
MUSEUM International N°248: Haiti, Cultural Heritage and Reconstruction
This issue of MUSEUM International focuses on Haiti's heritage a year on from the earthquake. Leaving
aside the tragedy itself, the articles aim to underline the scientific and administrative structures put in
place in the decades prior to the earthquake for the preservation of Haiti's cultural heritage. It also
attempts to highlight the positive effects of such structures in strengthening the nation and its current
reconstruction.
In its own way, this issue contributes to the cultural dimension of the Action Plan for the National Recovery
and Development of Haiti. The first chapter contains an outline of institutional achievements by Haitian
leaders. It provides a framework for restoring the broken ties between contemporary Haitian society and its history. The
challenge of development based on cultural reconstruction is expressed in the second chapter through the voices of
international players and researchers.
This issue attests to the potential on which Haiti and its political and professional leaders can draw to achieve the challenge
ahead. As the painful memories of the tragedy fade, the international community must now maintain its determination to
join in their endeavor and take up the challenge of sustainable solidarity with Haiti.
+ info: http://portal.unesco.org/culture/en/ev.php-URL_ID=41688&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html
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Lenguas y Toponimia
Noticias
La sociedad lingüística de África occidental desea promover las lenguas africanas
APA-Abidjan (Costa de Marfil) la sociedad lingüística de África occidental (SLAO) expresó su deseo en la conclusión de su
27º Congreso celebrado del 15 al 20 de agosto en Abidjan, de la definición de un marco jurídico apropiado y una
planificación rigurosa para que las lenguas africanas sean el motor del desarrollo del continente.
Para tener éxito en su apuesta, la SLAO tiene la intención de llevar a cabo actividades de alfabetización en las lenguas
africanas en peligro de extinción y prevé hacer adoptar una política lingüística clara a favor de la introducción de las
lenguas en la educación.
+ info: http://www.afriqueavenir.org/2011/08/21/la-societe-linguistique-de-l%E2%80%99afrique-de-l%E2%80%99ouest-
veut-promouvoir-les-langues-africaines/
Réunions des instances de l'Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie : les faits saillants - Rabat - Maroc
Le Conseil scientifique, le Conseil associatif et le Conseil d’administration de l’AUF se sont réunis du 25 au 27 mai 2011 à
l’Université Mohammed V Souissi de Rabat, au Maroc, sur l’invitation de son président, M. Radouane Mrabet.
La conseil d’administration, qui s’est tenu le 27 mai, a décidé de renouveler à l’unanimité et par acclamations, pour une
ultime période de quatre ans, le mandat du Recteur M. Bernard Cerquiglini.
+ info: http://www.auf.org/communication-information/actualites/instances-2011.html?var=lettre_AUF_73
Address by Irina Bokova, Director-General of UNESCO on the occasion of the inauguration of the exhibition for
the Day of Slavic cultures - 31 May 2011
...I am delighted to come here for the opening of this exhibition dedicated to Slavic cultures.
I wish to congratulate and thank foremost the Permanent Delegations of the Russian Federation and Slovenia for this
initiative.
I am aware that this follows a successful meeting of the Forum of Slavic Cultures at UNESCO Headquarters on 24 May, the
Day of Slavic Alphabet and Culture.
This pays tribute to the dedication of the Member States of the Forum for Slavic Cultures, who initiated this exhibition, to
preserving and promoting the values that are shared by Slavic-speaking countries…
+ info: http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0019/001928/192891e.pdf
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La NASA se lanza al segundo tramo de su viaje de investigación en el océano Ártico
Los científicos se embarcan esta semana desde Alaska en la segunda y definitiva campaña de
campo de la NASA para estudiar cómo las condiciones de cambio en el Ártico afectan a la
química del océano y los ecosistemas.
El 25 de junio, la misión del ICESCAPE, o “Impactos del clima sobre los ecosistemas y la
química del medio ambiente del Pacífico Ártico”, retoma su investigación sobre los impactos del
cambio climático en los mares Chukchi y Beaufort a lo largo de las costas occidentales y
septentrionales de Alaska. Los equipos de investigación partirán del puerto holandés, Alaska, a
bordo del navío U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Healy.
+ info: http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/icescape2011-finalleg.html
+ info: http://www.conservation.org/newsroom/pressreleases/Pages/Un-informe-de-importancia-historica-investiga-la-
incidencia-ambiental-de-la-acuicultura.aspx
Troisième révision de la charte du futur parc national des Calanques : « Tu me fends le cœur ! » - Marseille -
France
Suite à la parution de la version 3 de la charte du parc national des Calanques et avant l'Assemblée générale du
Groupement d'intérêt public (GIP) Calanques du 27 juin 2011, FNE et sa fédération régionale URVN, l'UDVN 13, la LPO et
la Ligue ROC estiment que certains aspects de ce projet demeurent encore très insatisfaisants, voici le principaux :
S'inquiétant d'un cœur de parc en dentelle, reflétant les conflits d'intérêts, les associations environnementales demandent
notamment que l'archipel du Frioul, qui constitue une composante importante du caractère du parc, soit inclus, non pas
dans l'aire optimale d'adhésion, mais dans le cœur terrestre et marin du parc afin de protéger au mieux sa richesse
faunistique et floristique. C'est un non-sens de reconnaître ce territoire comme étant exceptionnel, et de ne pas l'intégrer
en cœur de parc !
+ info: http://www.lpo.fr/communique/troisieme-revision-de-la-charte-du-futur-parc-national-des-calanques-tu-me-fends-
le-coeur
Simulacro de alerta a escala real contra los tsunamis en la región del Caribe
A raíz del tsunami que acaba de azotar con extremada dureza al Japón, 33 países* participarán el 23 de marzo en un
simulacro a escala real contra los tsunamis en el Caribe. El objetivo de este simulacro es probar la eficacia del Sistema de
Alerta Temprana contra los Tsunamis y otras Amenazas Costeras en el Caribe y Regiones Adyacentes, creado en 2005 bajo
los auspicios de la Comisión Oceanográfica Intergubernamental (COI) de la UNESCO.
+ info: http://www.unesco.org/new/es/media-services/single-view/news/
century. The reduced sea-ice extent may effectively “unlock” the Arctic Ocean to increased human activities such as transit
shipping and expanded oil and gas production.
Travel time between Europe and the north Pacific Region can be reduced by up to 50% with low sea-ice levels and the use
of this route could increase substantially as the sea-ice retreats. Oil and gas activities already occur in the Arctic region and
given the large undiscovered petroleum resources increased activity could be expected with reduced sea-ice…
+ info: http://www.atmos-chem-phys.net/11/5305/2011/acp-11-5305-2011.pdf
El impacto del ruido que genera la humanidad en los animales marinos es foco de
estudio de la reunión apoyada por Naciones Unidas
Con la ruidosa actividad humana sobre los océanos del mundo posiblemente perturbando el
bienestar de las criaturas marinas, quizás reduciendo su habilidad para encontrar alimento,
para aparearse o evitar a los depredadores, las Naciones Unidas acogen un encuentro para
lanzar una investigación de una década de existencia sobre el problema.
“Muchas especies marinas dependen del sonido como medio de información ambiental, de la
misma manera que los seres humanos dependen de su visión”, según dijo hoy la
organización educativa, científica y cultural de Naciones Unidas (UNESCO) sobre el encuentro que se tendrá lugar en los
cuarteles generales desde el 30 de agosto hasta el 1 de septiembre.
+ info: http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=39314&Cr=Marine&Cr1
Long-term effects of ocean warming on the prokaryotic community: evidence from the vibrios
The long-term effects of ocean warming on prokaryotic communities are unknown because of lack of historical data. We
overcame this gap by applying a retrospective molecular analysis to the bacterial community on formalin-fixed samples
from the historical Continuous Plankton Recorder archive, which is one of the longest and most geographically extensive
collections of marine biological samples in the world. We showed that during the last half century, ubiquitous marine
bacteria of the Vibrio genus, including Vibrio cholerae, increased in dominance within the plankton-associated bacterial
community of the North Sea, where an unprecedented increase in bathing infections related to these bacteria was recently
reported. Among environmental variables, increased sea surface temperature explained 45% of the variance in Vibrio data,
supporting the view that ocean warming is favouring the spread of vibrios and may be the cause of the globally increasing
trend in their associated diseases.
+ info: http://www.sahfos.ac.uk/news/2011/7/21/long-term-effects-of-ocean-warming-on-the-prokaryotic-community-
evidence-from-the-vibrios.aspx
CLAMER (Climate Change & European Marine Ecosystem Research): Prodigal Plankton Species Makes First
Known Migration from Pacific to Atlantic via Pole
Some 800,000 years ago - about the time early human tribes were learning to make fire - a
tiny species of plankton called Neodenticula seminae went extinct in the North Atlantic.
Today, that microscopic plant has become an Atlantic resident again, having drifted from
the Pacific through the Arctic Ocean thanks to dramatically reduced polar ice, scientists
report.
The melting Arctic has opened a Northwest Passage across the Pole for the tiny algae. And
while it's a food source, it isn't being welcomed back by experts, who say any changes at the
base of the marine food web could, like an earthquake, shake or even topple the pillars of
existing Atlantic ocean life.
+ info: http://www.clamer.eu/images/stories/press_releases/CLAMER_Press_release2_2011-06-27.pdf
La Comisión Europea propone un nuevo plan para la gestión sostenible del salmón del Mar Báltico
La Comisión Europea presentó una propuesta de un nuevo reglamento del Consejo y el Parlamento Europeo que establece
un plan plurianual para la gestión sostenible del salmón del Mar Báltico.
Los dictámenes científicos indican que las existencias que albergan algunos de los aproximadamente 30 cursos de agua de
la cuenca del Báltico colonizados por el salmón salvaje se sitúan fuera de los límites biológicos de seguridad y presentan un
riesgo de empobrecimiento genético. Un plan de gestión no vinculante establecido en 1997 por la Comisión internacional
pesquera del Mar Báltico (CIPMB) expiró en 2010; a falta de un nuevo plan, la gestión futura de las existencias no
obedecerá a ningún objetivo claro, lo que obligará a pescadores y a empresas turísticas a operar en un contexto privado de
toda previsión.
+ info: http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do
+ info: http://www.nps.gov/oia/
COMPETITIONS - Lancement du premier concours IFRECOR (Initiative Française pour les Récifs Coralliens) -
Deadline for dubmission: 10 October 2011
Élu d’outre-mer, vous êtes un acteur clef de la préservation et de la gestion durable des récifs coralliens et des
écosystèmes associés
Au quotidien, vous agissez afin d’assurer aujourd’hui et pour les générations futures un patrimoine naturel riche et en
bonne santé, garant du bien-être des communautés liées à ces milieux exceptionnels.
Vous avez mis en place une gestion durable des activités de pêche, un protocole de suivi de l’état de santé des récifs, un
programme de restauration d’une mangrove, lancé un portail d’information, monté une exposition, organisé des
formations, créé un parcours découverte, mené des actions d’éducation ou de sensibilisation ….
+ info: http://www.ifrecor.fr/lancement-premier-concours-ifrecor
NSIDC (National Snow in Ice Data Center): El hielo del mar Ártico en un cruce de caminos
Tras un periodo de deshielo desde el final de julio hasta el temprano agosto, el hielo del Ártico de nuevo
desciende a un ritmo rápido y enérgico, pero permanece más alto que en 2007, el año con un record
más bajo. La información también indica que hay el hielo se está haciendo reduciendo. Con apenas
alrededor de un mes para la temporada de deshielo del mar, la cantidad de hielo que ya se ha perdido
dependerá en gran medida de los patrones del tiempo.
+ info: http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/
L' enquête publique concernant l'évolution du Parc national de Port-Cros est ouverte - Port-Cros - France
Afin d'informer le public et recueillir ses observations sur le projet de modification du décret de création du Parc national de
Port-Cros, une enquête publique d'un mois est ouverte à compter du 22 août 2011 dans les communes de Hyères-les-
Palmiers, La Garde, Le Pradet, Carqueiranne, La Londe-les-Maures, Bormes-les-Mimosas, Le Lavandou, Le Rayol-Canadel,
Cavalaire-sur- Mer, La Croix-Valmer et Ramatuelle.
Toute personne souhaitant prendre connaissance du dossier et compléter le registre d'enquête pourra le faire dans l'un des
15 lieux signifiés dans l'arrêté préfectoral du 18 juillet 2011.
Vous pouvez également donner votre avis et prendre connaissance des pièces du dossier sur le site http://enquete-
publique-pnpc2011.espaces-naturels.fr/
+ info: http://www.portcrosparcnational.fr/documentation/pdf/Synthese_Enquete_Publique.pdf
coral cuerno de alce en los arrecifes del Caribe, y un patógeno humano. La enfermedad podría proceder
de las alcantarillas de Florida, o de los barcos de turistas que surcan los arrecifes.
+ info: http://www.maxisciences.com/corail/les-coraux-des-caraibes-ravages-par-un-pathogene-
humain_art16472.html
International Maritime Organization (IMO) declares the Strait of Bonifacio as a Particularly Sensitive Sea Area
(PSSA)
The MEPC also designated the Strait of Bonifacio as a Particularly Sensitive Sea Area (PSSA) and adopted the first-ever
international recommendations to address biofouling of ships, to minimize the transfer of aquatic species.
In other matters, the MEPC approved a number of ballast water management systems and adopted guidelines related to
the implementation of both the ballast water management and ship recycling Conventions.
+ info: http://www.imo.org/mediacentre/pressbriefings/pages/43%20mepc62ends.aspx
Colloque "L'océan et les changements climatiques" du 27 mai 2011 au Collège de France - Paris - France -
Présentations vidéode l'Observatoire océanologique de Villefranche sur mer - France
David Antoine et Jean-Pierre Gattuso ont participé à une conférence "grand public" entitulée "L'océan et les changements
climatiques" lors d'un colloque le 27 mai 2011 au Collège de France).
Les vidéos de leur présentation sont en ligne :
- "Changements récents de la biomasse océanique révélés par les observations satellitaires de la 'couleur de l'océan" par
David Antoine du Laboratoire d'Océanographie de Villefranche.
- "Acidification de l'océan et son impact sur les organismes et écosystèmes marins" par Jean-Pierre GATTUSO du
Laboratoire d'Océanographie de Villefranche.
+ info: http://www.obs-vlfr.fr/Actualites/juillet-2011/
Rapid sea-level rise and reef back-stepping at the close of the last interglacial highstand
By Paul Blanchon, Anton Eisenhauer, Jan Fietzke & Volker Liebetrau
Widespread evidence of a +4–6-m sea-level highstand during the last interglacial period (Marine Isotope Stage 5e) has led
to warnings that modern ice sheets will deteriorate owing to global warming and initiate a rise of similar magnitude by ad
2100 (ref. 1). The rate of this projected rise is based on ice-sheet melting simulations and downplays discoveries of more
rapid ice loss. Knowing the rate at which sea level reached its highstand during the last interglacial period is fundamental
in assessing if such rapid ice-loss processes could lead to future catastrophic sea-level rise. The best direct record of sea
level during this highstand comes from well-dated fossil reefs in stable areas…
+ info: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v458/n7240/abs/nature07933.html
Protection of coral reefs for sustainable livelihoods and development - Report of the Secretary-General of the
United Nations to the General Assembly
Often referred to as the “rain forests of the sea”, tropical coral reefs rank among the most biologically rich and productive
global ecosystems and are representing social, economic and environmental benefits for millions of people. Despite their
importance, coral reefs are facing numerous local and global threats caused by human activity and climate change.
Unsustainable fishing practices, coastal development, pollution, ocean warming and ocean acidification have already
damaged one fifth of the coral reefs beyond repair and predictions are alarming should no change occur…
+ info: http://www.un.org/esa/dsd/resources/res_pdfs/ga-66/SG%20report_Coral%20Reefs.pdf
Oyster-Tecture and the Gowanus Canal - New York City - New York State - USA
The Gowanus Canal is one of America’s most polluted waterways, and its location in the
New York Harbor made it one of the many places that were effected by flooding as a result
of Hurricane Irene. If that isn’t enough to think about, last year the EPA declared the
Gowanus Canal as a Superfund site, “As a result of years of discharges, storm water runoff,
sewer outflows and industrial pollutants, the Gowanus Canal has become one of the nation’s
most extensively contaminated water bodies. Contaminants include PCBs, coal tar wastes,
heavy metals and volatile organics. The contamination poses a threat to the nearby
residents who use the canal for fishing and recreation.”
+ info: http://www.archdaily.com/165568/oyster-tecture-and-the-gowanus-canal/
Bientôt la première réunion d'experts internationaux autour des aires marines protégées en haute mer -
Hyères - France - (8 et 9 septembre 2011)
L'année prochaine devrait être mis en place un réseau mondial d'aires marines protégées (AMP), qui recouvrera toutes les
zones biogéographiques [1] significatives en haute mer ainsi que leurs faunes et habitats. Le nombre d'AMP est en
constante augmentation. Néanmoins, l'objectif pour 2012 ne sera probablement pas atteint, les difficultés se multiplient
lorsqu'il s'agit de la haute mer. En ce qui concerne par exemple les "aires marines protégées de Méditerranée", seuls 0,5%
de la surface marine sont d'ores et déjà classés, alors que 10% sont prévus par la Convention sur la biodiversité (CBD)
d'ici à 2012. La question de savoir comment et qui doit décider de ce qui doit être protégé reste souvent ouverte dans ce
cas de figure. La législation ne semble pas encore tout à fait claire à ce sujet.
+ info: http://www.bulletins-electroniques.com/actualites/67577.htm
+ info: http://www.goodplanet.info/Contenu/News/Environnement-Etats-riverains-de-la-Baltique-manquent-a-leurs-
engagements/%28theme%29/1429
Les tétrapodes pourraient être apparus en milieu marin, dès la base du Dévonien (-
416 Ma)
A quel moment de l’histoire de la Terre et dans quel environnement les premiers vertébrés
munis de quatre pattes sont–il apparus ? La question est encore sujette à débats. En
utilisant les techniques de la biologie moléculaire et des données géobiologiques publiées
récemment, deux chercheurs de l’université de Chennai (ex-Madras, Inde) et de «
Géosystèmes » (CNRS-Insu, université Lille 1) invitent à repousser l’apparition des
tétrapodes vers – 416 millions d’années (base du Dévonien). Un événement évolutif qui se
serait déroulé en milieu marin. L’étude a été publiée récemment dans la revue PloS ONE.
+ info: http://www.insu.cnrs.fr/co/terre-solide/terre-et-vie/les-tetrapodes-pourraient-etre-apparus-en-milieu-marin-des-la-
base-du-devo
European Commission: Mediterranean Marine Protected Area provides fish larvae for neighbouring areas
New research has found evidence that a small Marine Protected Area (MPA) in the Mediterranean has the potential to
deliver larvae of some fish species to surrounding, non-protected areas. This is one of few studies to investigate this
desired role of MPAs and its design could be used to evaluate current and future MPAs elsewhere.
+ info: http://ec.europa.eu/environment/integration/research/newsalert/pdf/251na6.pdf
France Nature Environnement (FNE) : Thon rouge : il est toujours plus intéressant de frauder que de respecter
la loi
Demain, 9 septembre, le tribunal correctionnel de Marseille va juger deux affaires de pêche illégale de thons rouges. FNE
et l’URVN-FNE PACA, sa fédération régionale en PACA, se constituent parties civiles dans ces deux affaires dont l’une
concerne un pêcheur déjà condamné en mars 2010 pour des faits similaires.
Dans le premier cas, deux navires ont pêché près de 700 kg de thons rouges en Méditerranée avec un filet maillant
dérivant, outil de pêche interdit au niveau communautaire depuis 2002. Dans le second cas, un autre navire a, quant à lui,
pêché avec un engin interdit plus de 2 tonnes de thon rouge !
FNE et l’URVN-FNE PACA ont décidé d’agir. Non seulement parce que le thon rouge est une espèce vulnérable mais aussi
parce qu’elle fait l’objet d’une pêche intensive et incontrôlée stimulée par son prix très haut en rapport avec sa rareté
justement…
+ info: http://www.fne.asso.fr/imailer/lt/t_go.php?i=2880&e=MTA3NTYz&l=-http--www.fne.asso.fr/com/cp_en_pdf_2/cp-
080911-03.pdf
Agenda
Experimento internacional Océano Tranquilo
30 ago - 1 sep 2011 . Paris, Francia
Organizadores: UNESCO Headquarters
Contacto: ed.urban@scor-int.org
+ info: http://www.unesco.org/new/en/media-services/single-view/news/the_international_quiet_ocean_experiment/
Publicaciones
NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) State of the Climate in 2010: 2010
one of the two warmest years on record
Worldwide, 2010 was one of the two warmest years on record according to the 2010 State of the Climate
report, which NOAA released today. The peer-reviewed report, issued in coordination with the American
Meteorological Society, was compiled by 368 scientists from 45 countries. It provides a detailed, yearly
update on global climate indicators, notable climate events and other climate information from every
continent…
+ info: http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2011/20110628_stateoftheclimate_2010.html
CNRS (Conseil national de la recherche scientifique) le journal - N°258 - 259 juillet - août
2011, La Méditerranée sous haute surveillance - France
Ce nouveau numéro de CNRS le journal vous invite en Méditerranée. Cette région, qui a vu naître de
grandes civilisations et qui abrite aujourd'hui plus de 450 millions de personnes, est devenue le point de
mire de nombreux chercheurs. L'enjeu est de taille : du changement climatique à la pollution, en passant
par la pression démographique ou l'appauvrissement de la biodiversité et des ressources naturelles, les
nuages s'amoncellent sur le Bassin méditerranéen. Alors les scientifiques veillent au grain.
Plus au sud, dans la région saharo-sahélienne dévastée par la sécheresse, un projet titanesque suscite de
nombreux espoirs. Partez avec notre envoyé spécial au Sénégal, à la découverte de la Grande Muraille verte.
Ce mois-ci également, remontez le temps de quelque 300 millions d'années. Vous y rencontrerez les stégocéphales,
créatures géantes qui ont régné sur la planète avant les dinosaures.
+ info: http://www2.cnrs.fr/journal/4774.htm
Marine Important Bird Area (IBA) Toolkit: standardised techniques for identifying priority sites
for the conservation of seabirds at sea
BirdLife International, Cambridge UK. Version 1.2: February 2011
Editor: Ben Lascelles, Global Marine IBA Officer.
This document represents a culmination of these workshops, where the outputs from
them have been combined to create a toolkit for identifying and delimiting marine
IBAs1 in a consistent and comparable manner. It provides guidance on the treatment
and analysis of a range of data types that have proved useful in the marine IBA
process to date.
+ info: http://www.birdlife.org/eu/pdfs/Marinetoolkitnew.pdf
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Exposición permanente - Blackbeard' y Queen Anne's Revenge en el Museo de Carolina del Norte - Beaufort -
North Carolina - USA
The largest exhibit ever of artifacts from what's believed to be the remains of Blackbeard's flagship is opening at the North
Carolina Maritime Museum, with bells, cannon, lead shot and part of the hull among the items on display.
There won't, however, be any pirate treasure, says David Moore, the museum's nautical archaeologist. That's because the
Queen Anne's Revenge didn't wreck, but ran aground, giving the crew time to remove most of the valuables.
+ info: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=48186
Exposición Permanente - Banderas de la Guerra Civil - Museo Militar del Estado de Nueva York - Saratoga
Springs - Nueva York - USA.
A Confederate flag with links to President Abraham Lincoln and the first Union officer killed in the Civil War will be the
centerpiece of an exhibit featuring New York's large collection of banners from the conflict, state officials said Thursday.
The 14-foot-by-24-foot flag Col. Elmer Ellsworth was carrying after removing it from the roof of the Marshall House in
Alexandria, Va. on May 24, 1861, will be part of an eight-flag exhibit opening July 12 in the "War Room" on the second
floor of the state Capitol. It's believed to be the first time the banner will be on public display since the war, according to
Christopher Morton, assistant curator at the New York State Military Museum.
+ info: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=48178
Black Seaman's 1861 Heroics Recalled in New Film by New York-Based Documentary Producers - USA
The Union's first black hero of the Civil War wasn't one of the African-American soldiers of the 54th Massachusetts Infantry
Regiment, famously depicted in the 1989 film "Glory," but rather a merchant ship's cook who took up arms to prevent
being sold into slavery after a Confederate raider captured his vessel.
At least that's the reckoning of some historians and a pair of upstate New York-based documentary producers who have
included William Tillman's story in their new film on the short-but-prolific wartime record of the brig Jefferson Davis, a
Southern privateer that seized several Union ships in the opening months of the war.
+ info: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=48954
El astillero de la guerra de McDonough de 1812 recibe una beca del Programa Norteamericano de Protección
del Campo de Batalla (ABPP) del Servicio del Parques Nacionales – Lago Champlain Museo Marítimo –
Washington D.C. -EEUU
El museo marítimo del lago Champlain ha recibido una beca de 23.985 dólares del Programa Norteamericano de Protección
del Campo de Batalla del Servicio de Parques Naturales para llevar a cabo una encuesta arqueológica y así determinar el
lugar preciso y los límites establecidos para el astillero de la guerra de MacDonough de 1812 en Vergennes, Vermont.
Esta beca es una de las 25 becas del servicio de parques nacionales que suman en total 1,2 millones de dólares para
preservar y proteger aquellos lugares de batallas importantes que se libraron en tierra americana. Los proyectos que han
recibido apoyo financiero preservan los campos de batalla de las guerras coloniales-indias hasta la Segunda Guerra Mundial
e incluyen un mapa de los sitios (GPS/GIS), estudios arqueológicos, un registro nacional de lugares históricos, y planes de
preservación y gestión.
+ info: http://www.lcmm.org/museum_info/press_room/press_archive/2011/mcdonough-shipyard-archaeology-war-of-
1812-2011.html
Extension of the National Maritime Museum / C. F. Møller Architects - Greenwich - United Kingdom
C. F. Møller Architects has designed the extension of The National Maritime Museum in London, Britain’s seventh largest
tourist attraction and part of the Maritime Greenwich World Heritage Site.
The new wing, called The Sammy Ofer Wing – named after the international shipping magnate and philanthropist Sammy
Ofer, who has funded most of £36.5m extension – was inaugurated on the 12th of July with the participation of among
others the British Prince Philip. On Thursday 14th of July the extension opens to the public.
+ info: http://www.archdaily.com/150481/
ONLINE EXHIBITION - The Cunards Queens Merseyside Maritime Museum. Liverpool, United Kingdom
When the steamer 'Britannia' left Coburg Dock at high tide on the evening of Saturday 4 July 1840 with Samuel Cunard
onboard it inaugurated an association with Cunard Line and Liverpool which continues to this day with the arrival of 'Queen
Elizabeth' and 'Queen Mary 2'.
The collections in the Maritime Archives and Library reflect this historical connection with the port. Click on the images
below to view items relating to the distinguished predecessors of today's modern cruise liners.
+ info: http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/maritime/archive/displays/cunard-queens/
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Exhibition - Civil War Redux: Pinhole Photographs by Willie Anne Wright
9 jul - 4 sep 2011 . Augusta, Estados Unidos de América
Organizadores: The Morris Museum of Art
Contacto: brenda.hall@themorris.org
+ info: http://www.themorris.org/wright.html
Publicaciones
As Defesas da Ilha de Santa Catarina e do Rio Grande de São Pedro em 1786 - Brazil
Obra de Roberto Tonera e Mário Mendonça de Oliveira
Obra publicada pela editora da Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina foi viabilizada com recursos
da Prefeitura de Florianópolis e Fundação Franklin Cascaes, por meio da Lei Municipal de Incentivo
à Cultura.
Publicação ilustrada e multimídia de grande importância para reconstituição histórica da vida nas
cidades fortificadas de Santa Catarina e Rio Grande do Sul será distribuída para escolas, meios de
comunicação, instituições de memória
+ info: http://www.fortalezasmultimidia.com.br/novidades/
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Sangath / Balkrishna Doshi - 1979-1981 - Ahmedabad - India
Balkrishna Doshi‘s own studio, Sangath, features a series of sunken vaults sheathed in china mosaic as well as a small
grassy terraced amphitheater and flowing water details. Having been considered the building that fully describes himself,
Sangath is a complete combination of Doshi‘s architectural themes from his previous work including complex interiors and
structures, ambiguous edges, vaults and terraces. More about Sangath after the break.
+ info: http://www.archdaily.com/158300/ad-classics-sangath-balkrishna-doshi/?
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AD Classics: The Museum of Fine Arts Houston / Mies Van der Rohe - 1953, 1974 - Houston - Texas - USA
After completing a master plan for the site in 1953, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe was commissioned by The Museum of Fine
Arts Houston to do two additions to the Caroline Wiess Law Building. Cullinan Hall and Brown Pavilion were added in 1953
and 1974 respectively. See more after the break.The museum’s original building was designed in 1924 by William Ward
Watkin in the Neoclassical style. Here, the South facade features tall Greek columns. In contrast, Van der Rohe’s addition
on the North side of the museum stands as a renowned example of International style. Along with the National Gallery in
Berlin, the additions to MFAH is Mies van der Rohe’s only museum work
+ info: http://www.archdaily.com/153819/ad-classics-the-museum-of-fine-arts-houston-mies-van-der-rohe/?
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Robin Hood Gardens / Alison and Peter Smithson - 1972 - London - United Kingdom
Robin Hood Gardens was built in post-war Britain when residential towers were being built as a symbol of progress after
the war. Many were developed with concrete in the Brutalist style including Robin Hood Gardens and the nearby Balfron
Tower. Built within a decade of one another, the two buildings stand today with one major difference. The Balfron Tower’s
status as a listed building protects it from demolition as an important architectural work, whereas Robin Hood Gardens has
been denied.
+ info: http://www.archdaily.com/150629
ICOMOS - El Comité Científico Internacional del Patrimonio del Siglo 20 de ICOMOS: "Documento de Madrid"
El siglo XX es, en palabras de la secretaria de Estado, “el que más cambios ha dejado en las ciudades. Cambios no sólo
arquitectónicos sino a nivel social, cultural y religioso”. Por último, ha reconocido que “la asignatura pendiente sigue siendo
la recuperación y regeneración de patrimonio”.
Este acto ha supuesto la clausura a tres jornadas marcadas en intentar mejorar el enorme patrimonio artístico del siglo XX.
Tres días de conferencias y ponencias realizadas por expertos de todo el panorama internacional y que sitúan a Madrid en
el marco europeo en el estudio de la conservación del patrimonio.
+ info: http://www.madrid2011.eu.com/documento-de-madrid.php
Expo '58 + Philips Pavilion / Le Corbusier and Iannis Xenakis -1958 - Brussels - Belgium -
In 1956, preparations had begun for the 1958 World’s Fair in Brussels. This was to be the first World’s Fair held since the
end of World War II, the concept behind the Expo was to celebrate the rejuvenation of civilization from the destruction of
war through the use of technology. This World Fair is best known for the musical advances that was combined with
architecture, creating a gestalt through an experiential encounter where body meets sound and space
+ info: http://www.archdaily.com/157658/
A raíz de las dislocaciones de las plataformas antárticas, los glaciares aguas arriba se reducen rápidamente y
para mucho tiempo
Los desmantelamientos de plataformas de la península antártica observados desde hace algunas décadas conducen a una
aceleración de la escorrentía hacia el océano de los glaciares situados aguas arriba, aceleración que repercute sobre la
pérdida de masa del manto glaciar y sobre el aumento del nivel marino. Un reciente estudio, realizado por tres
investigadores de la NASA (1), el LEGOS (2) y el NSIDC (3) y refiriéndose a la región del norte de la península, pone de
manifiesto que esta aceleración se acompaña de una disminución importante y prolongada de los glaciares. Los
investigadores pudieron estimar con precisión esta disminución en el tiempo de los distintos glaciares así como la subida
del nivel de los mares a la que esta región contribuyó. Este estudio se publica en el Journal of Glaciology.
+ info: http://www.insu.cnrs.fr/a3871,suite-aux-dislocations-plateformes-antarctiques-glaciers-amont-s-amincissent-
rapidement-longtemps.html
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EXHIBITION - FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT: ARCHITECTURE FOR THE 21st CENTURY PHOENIX
18-dic-2011 . ARIZONA, Estados Unidos de América
Organizadores: Phoenix Art Museum
Contacto: info@phxart.org
+ info: http://www.phxart.org/exhibition/FrankLloydWright.php
12th International Docomomo Conference - THE SURVIVAL OF MODERN, FROM COFFEE CUP TO GENERAL PLAN
7 ago - 10 ago 2012 . Espoo, Finlandia
Organizadores: Docomomo Suomi/Finland and Espoo City Museum
Contacto: secretary@docomomo-fi.com
FECHA LÍMITE: 15 oct 2011
+ info: http://www.docomomo-fi.com/conference2012/
Publicaciones
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Governance and Public Participation in PAs (Protected Areas): Case studies in Austria, Italy and Slovenia
The given report presents finding of the study tour carried out thanks to the Alfred Toepfer Natural Heritage Scholarship
and the EUROPARC Federation. The aim of the study tour was to analyse existing governance and public participation
practices in the three mountain protected areas in Europe: Biosphärenpark Großes Walsertal (Austria), Triglav National
Park (Slovenia) and Prealpi Giulie Nature Park (Italy). The gives general information on governance and public participation
issues; provides background information, governance aspects (including transboundary cooperation) and public
participation issues for each protected areas gather during the study tour.
+ info: http://www.europarc.org/uploaded/documents/705.pdf
(en italiano) Firmato accordo di programma Università Statale di Milano - MIUR: nasce a Edolo l'Università
della Montagna - Il Polo di Edolo dell'Università Statale di Milano diventa punto di riferimento nazionale per
tutte le tematiche riguardanti il ter
Un accordo di programma con il Ministero firmato oggi a Roma prevede l’evoluzione della sede decentrata di Edolo della
Statale di Milano in un Centro universitario di eccellenza, che sarà denominato "Università della Montagna" e che fungerà
da punto di riferimento nazionale per l’analisi e lo studio di tutte le tematiche riguardanti il territorio montano.
Il Centro opererà in stretta connessione con istituzioni europee e internazionali, divenendo interlocutore privilegiato dei
competenti Organismi europei nell’individuazione e definizione delle azioni necessarie per lo sviluppo e la valorizzazione
dell’intera catena alpina…
+ info: http://www.valmont.unimi.it/italiano/home.html
Do blue-ice moraines in the Heritage Range show the West Antarctic ice sheet survived the last interglacial?
By Christopher J. Fogwilla, Andrew S. Heinb, Michael J. Bentleyc & David E. Sugdenb
We present a hypothesis that best explains cosmogenic isotope data on blue-ice moraines in the Heritage Range, West
Antarctica. The age of the moraines implies that they, and the related ice-sheet surface with which they are associated,
have persisted on the flanks of nunataks throughout at least the last interglacial/glacial cycle. The implication is that
although the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) may have fluctuated in thickness during glacial cycles, the central dome has
remained intact for at least 200 kyr and possibly even for 400 kyr. Such a finding, if substantiated, would contribute to our
understanding of the sensitivity of the WAIS to climate change. Further it would be a powerful geomorphic constraint on
models of the past behaviour of the ice sheet during glacial cycles and thus those predicting the future of the ice sheet in a
warming world.
+ info: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0031018211000423
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Publicaciones
The journal "eco.mont" -Journal of protected mountain areas research- Volume 3 Number 1
Günter Köck - Axel Borsdorf
eco.mont Vol. 3 No. 1
ISBN-13 Online: 978-3-7001-7118-8
The new journal "Eco.mont" – Journal of protected mountain areas research – will be published for the first
time in June 2009. The journal was founded as a joint initiative of the Alpine Network of Protected Areas
(ALPARC), the International Scientific Committee on Research in the Alps (ISCAR), the Austrian Academy
of Sciences (ÖAW) and the University of Innsbruck.
The journal aims to emphasize research on and management issues in protected areas in the Alps without excluding other
protected mountain areas in Europe or overseas. Target audiences of the new journal are scientists from all related
disciplines, managers of protected areas and an interested public including practitioners, visitors, teachers, etc.
The journal presents peer-reviewed articles in English by authors who research on protected mountain areas and
management issues within these areas.
+ info: http://epub.oeaw.ac.at/eco.mont-3-1
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Rhinos Latest Victims of the Illicit Trade in Art and Wildlife
Following a recent surge in museum heists targeting rhinoceros horn, conservation and
preservation organizations warn that the illegal trafficking of art and wildlife is a threat to the
public, as well as the world’s natural and cultural heritage.
The Lawyers’ Committee for Cultural Heritage Preservation (LCCHP), the International Fund for
Animal Welfare (IFAW), Save the Rhino International, and Saving Rhinos issued the following
statement. (go to the link).
+ info: http://www.culturalheritagelaw.org/rhino
PRIZES - Prix Acteurs Economiques et Handicap 2011 pour un cours sur l'Art pour les malvoyants
La mallette « Les sens de l'art », conçue par le Cned avec le soutien de la MAIF, a été primée dans la catégorie « éducation-
formation » lors de la remise des trophées du 4e Prix Acteurs Economiques & Handicap 2011, organisée par l'OCIRP
(Organisme commun des institutions de rente et de prévoyance). Ce concours permet de distinguer des « actions
exemplaires pour le bien-être et le mieux-vivre des personnes en situation de handicap ».
+ info: http://portail.cned.fr/journalistes/communiques-presse/2011/prix-acteurs-economiques-et-handicap-2011.aspx?
id=1742
National Museum of the Marine Corps / Fentress Architects - Triangle - Virginia - USA
As the main focus of the 135-acre Semper Fidelis Memorial Park, The National Museum of the Marine Corps, just outside of
Washington D.C., opened in 2006 to coincide with the Marine Corps’ 231st anniversary. The primary building of the Marine
Corps Heritage Center contains 120,000 square feet of museum gallery space, an orientation theater, office space, gift
shop, and two restaurants, all welcoming visitors to explore the history and values of the Corps.
+ info: http://www.archdaily.com/144570
El Museo de Arte Philbrook selecciona al estudio Gluckman Mayner de arquitectura para su expansión en el
centro de la ciudad - Tulsa - Oklahoma - USA
Two transformational gifts—the Eugene B. Adkins Collection of Native American and Southwestern Art and the George R.
Kravis II Design Collection—combined with the support of the George Kaiser Family Foundation (GKFF), have spurred the
development of a new satellite facility of the Philbrook Museum of Art in Tulsa’s historic Brady District. GKFF’s generous
provision of approximately 30,000 square feet within the former Mathews Warehouse will house two distinct but
interrelated initiatives. The facility’s first level will be dedicated to presenting modern and contemporary art and design.
The second level will house the Adkins Collection & Study Center.
+ info: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=48344
El museo Metropolitano hace pública las cifras de 5,68 millones de visitantes, la cifra más alta en cuarenta
años – ciudad de Nueva York- Estado de Nueva York- EEUU
El Museo Metropolitano de Arte ha manifestado hoy que 5,68 millones de personas visitar el Met durante el año fiscal que
terminó el 30 de junio. El número, que incluye las visitas al museo The Cloisters y a los jardines, constituye el mayor
record en 40 años. El total fue 400,000 veces superior que al del año fiscal de 2010.
+ info: http://www.metmuseum.org/press_room/full_release.asp?prid={B2FB6AF4-D7BF-41F6-BB0A-45E30D8EF8BE}
AD Classics: The Museum of Fine Arts Houston / Mies Van der Rohe - 1953, 1974 - Houston - Texas - USA
After completing a master plan for the site in 1953, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe was commissioned by The Museum of Fine
Arts Houston to do two additions to the Caroline Wiess Law Building. Cullinan Hall and Brown Pavilion were added in 1953
and 1974 respectively. See more after the break.The museum’s original building was designed in 1924 by William Ward
Watkin in the Neoclassical style. Here, the South facade features tall Greek columns. In contrast, Van der Rohe’s addition
on the North side of the museum stands as a renowned example of International style. Along with the National Gallery in
Berlin, the additions to MFAH is Mies van der Rohe’s only museum work
+ info: http://www.archdaily.com/153819/ad-classics-the-museum-of-fine-arts-houston-mies-van-der-rohe/?
utm_source=feedblitz&utm_medium=FeedBlitzEmail&utm_campaign=0&utm_content=383045
Bezos (Fundador y CEO de Amazon.com con base en Seattle) apoya la innovación al nuevo MOHAI (Museo de
historia e industria) – Seattle – Estado de Washington – EEUU
Hoy, el MOHAI ha anunciado una beca de 10 millones de dólares que hará historia a cargo de Bezos (se trata de la suma
más grande en los 59 años de historia del museo) y que se empleará en la creación del “Centro para la Innovación” en la
nueva apertura del MOHAI al final del otoño de 2012 en el histórico edificio de la reserva naval (Amory) en Lake Union
Park. El nuevo hogar del MOHAI se encuentra a unas manzanas del nuevo campus Amazon.com en el barrio de South Lake
Union, y se espera que los usuarios de Amazon se conviertan en visitantes habituales del nuevo museo.
+ info: http://seattlehistory.org/blog/2011/08/innovation/
El Museo de Arte de Saint Louis comienza un único y ambicioso proyecto de conservación - Saint Louis -
Missouri - USA - 12 Junio - 21 Agosto 2011
This summer the Saint Louis Art Museum will begin a unique and ambitious conservation project to restore a historic
treasure of local significance. Restoring an American Treasure: The Panorama of the Monumental Grandeur of the
Mississippi Valley, which opened June 12, will offer visitors a chance to see the massive 19th-century work, the last
surviving of its kind, as it is restored
+ info: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=48207
Desde su apertura hace cuatro semanas, el Museo de Liverpool ha recibido 250,000 visitantes - Liverpool -
Reinos Unido.
More than 250,000 people have visited the Museum of Liverpool since it opened four weeks ago, equivalent to the
capacities of Anfield or Goodison Park 5 to 6 times over and more than half the population of the city as a whole. Crowds
have flocked to the new Museum with an average of 8,300 people a day through the doors. The Museum which is free
entry opened on 19 July and tells the story of the city and its people. Museum bosses had predicted 78,000 visitors in the
first month of opening, but the response from the public has been three times that.
Janet Dugdale, Director of the Museum of Liverpool said: ”The visitor figures are staggering. We are thrilled with the
success of the new Museum. To get a quarter of a million people through the doors in the first month is fantastic. There is
a real buzz of excitement in the Museum and it’s so nice to see so many people enjoying themselves.”
+ info: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=49906
Allied Works desvela un concurso de diseño para el Nuevo Museo y el Distrito Cultural en Lausanne - Suiza.
In October 2010, Allied Works was named one of eighteen international finalists to create the Pôle Muséal Lausanne, which
encompasses transforming an historic train shed and industrial site into a new cultural district. As part of the competition,
Allied Works created a master plan and completed the building design for the new Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts (MCBA).
Future institutions include the Musée de design et d’arts appliqués contemporains (MUDAC) and the Musée de l’Elysée.
Allied Works’ design was developed in collaboration with an international team of designers, including Latz+Partner for
Landscape, Resnicow Schroeder Associates for Cultural Planning, and Nicolet Chartrand Knoll for Structural and Civil.
+ info: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=48276
NECROLÓGICAS - El director y conservador jefe del Museo de Arte de Tel Aviv, Profesor Mordechai Omer ha
fallecido - Tel Aviv - Israel
The Tel Aviv Museum of Art announced the passing away of Director and Chief Curator of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art on
Friday morning, 10 June 2011, after a brave battle against cancer.
Museum workers will sorely miss his leadership, his vision and guidance. He was a constant inspiration to all who had the
fortune to know him.
Professor Mordechai Omer served since January 1995 as the Director and Chief Curator of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art. He
simultaneously served as Professor of Art History at Tel Aviv University (a post he has held since 1986) and as the head of
the University’s Museum Studies Program.
+ info: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=48278
Exposición - La mayor y más exhaustiva colección mundial de meteoritos del asteroide Vesta - Toronto -
Ontario - Canadá
In celebration of the arrival of NASA’s Dawn mission to the asteroid Vesta, the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) presents the
world’s most comprehensive collection of meteorites thought to be from that asteroid. On temporary exhibition in the Vale
Gallery of Minerals, inside the Teck Suite of Galleries: Earth’s Treasures, the display houses 30 diverse specimens from
Vesta, the second most massive asteroid in our solar system.
+ info: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=48871
HAIMA Archaeological Museum of Punta Umbria / ETB Architects - Punta Umbria - Spain
This proposal new Archaeological Center of Punta Umbria, Spain is designed by ETB Architects. It is conceived of as a
simple and light architecture in the form of an Arab tent that is open to the surrounding landscape and to all society.
The site of the archeological museum is set in an important area of the city, which contains the ancient Roman remains as
well as the beautiful landscape of the “Ria.” These two elements contribute to the design of the building which is that of a
light pavilion that is lifted at points to reveal its precious contents. The tent almost doesn’t touch the ground which allows it
to be protective for its contents but inclusive to the public space surrounding it.
+ info: http://www.archdaily.com/141660/haima-archaeological-museum-of-punta-umbria-etb-architects/?
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BECAS - El Museo Peabody de Arqueología y Etnología gana una subvención de 150,000 dólares para su
colección arqueológica - Cambridge - Massachussetts - USA
The Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology has been awarded a Museums for America grant of $150,000 from the
U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). Over the next two years, the Museum will catalog, document,
inventory, and photograph the Peabody's most important archaeological collections with the grant.
"Our collection will be more accessible to researchers, especially educators," says Senior Collections Manager David
DeBono Schafer, who will manage the project. "These are among our most requested materials. Now researchers will be
able to quickly determine exactly which archaeological objects are in the collection."
+ info: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=49933
Exposición Permanente - Banderas de la Guerra Civil - Museo Militar del Estado de Nueva York - Saratoga
Springs - Nueva York - USA.
A Confederate flag with links to President Abraham Lincoln and the first Union officer killed in the Civil War will be the
centerpiece of an exhibit featuring New York's large collection of banners from the conflict, state officials said Thursday.
The 14-foot-by-24-foot flag Col. Elmer Ellsworth was carrying after removing it from the roof of the Marshall House in
Alexandria, Va. on May 24, 1861, will be part of an eight-flag exhibit opening July 12 in the "War Room" on the second
floor of the state Capitol. It's believed to be the first time the banner will be on public display since the war, according to
Christopher Morton, assistant curator at the New York State Military Museum.
+ info: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=48178
Exposición permanente - Blackbeard' y Queen Anne's Revenge en el Museo de Carolina del Norte - Beaufort -
North Carolina - USA
The largest exhibit ever of artifacts from what's believed to be the remains of Blackbeard's flagship is opening at the North
Carolina Maritime Museum, with bells, cannon, lead shot and part of the hull among the items on display.
There won't, however, be any pirate treasure, says David Moore, the museum's nautical archaeologist. That's because the
Queen Anne's Revenge didn't wreck, but ran aground, giving the crew time to remove most of the valuables.
+ info: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=48186
Over 500,000 visitors to the Riverside Museum in its First Weeks - Glasgow - Scotland - United Kingdom
In June we shared with you a first look at Zaha Hadid Architects‘ Riverside Museum in Glasgow, Scotland. Opened officially
on June 21st the museum in a short seven week time period has already welcomed over half a million visitors!
“It is wonderful to see that the new museum has captured everyone’s imagination,” said Zaha Hadid. “Such passion for
innovation and discovery from all members of the community is very exciting.”
“The Riverside Museum has been a huge hit since the day it opened to the public. We knew just how much visitors loved
the old Museum of Transport at Kelvin Hall but even so, the reaction to the Riverside Museum has been phenomenal. The
feedback from people has been overwhelmingly positive and we are already seeing visitors returning time and again to
enjoy Glasgow’s latest attraction,” shared Councillor Gordon Matheson
+ info: http://www.archdaily.com/161343
Las primeras exposiciones internacionales anunciadas por el Museo Nacional de Escocia en 2012 - Edinburgo -
Reino Unido.
Ancient Egyptians and a Russian Empress come to Scotland in 2012 as the first attractions in the redeveloped National
Museum of Scotland’s new exhibition space.
The first major new shows scheduled will be Fascinating Mummies from the National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden , the
Netherlands and Catherine the Great, a new exhibition co-developed by the State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg ,
Russia and National Museums Scotland .
The transformed Museum will open on 29 July following a major £46.4 million redevelopment. A key element of the project
is a purpose-built 650 square metre exhibition space. The programme of international blockbuster exhibitions planned are
expected to attract audiences from across Scotland , the UK and overseas.
+ info: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=48978
Fossils of Earth's Oldest Trees Donated to New York State Museum - Albany - New York State - USA
Fossils of the Earth’s oldest trees have been donated to the New York State Museum after workers uncovered them during
a project to reconstruct the Gilboa Dam in Schoharie County.
Engineers for the New York City Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) discovered 35 Gilboa stump specimens in
the same location where similar Gilboa stumps were uncovered in 1920 when the dam was constructed. Other smaller
discoveries were made in the 1850s and in 1869. Twelve new stumps will be added to what is now the world’s largest
collection of Gilboa stumps at the State Museum. The stumps are widely cited as evidence of the world’s oldest forest.
+ info: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=48942
COMPETITIONS - Serlachius Museum Gösta Extension Competition Proposal / XML - Mänttä - Finland
This proposal for the Serlachius Museum Extension in Mänttä, Finland was submitted by XML. The omnipresent landscape
provoked the architects to develop a scheme that became a median between the external world of nature and the internal
world of art.
The required program has been distributed along a continuous route that connects different programmatic clusters such as
galleries, storage, restaurant and office. The circulation between these clusters is bent into a circle allowing for two
experiential conditions: on the inside of the circle a series of enclosed exhibition spaces allows visitors to focus on the
experience of art whereas on the outside of the circle the continuous route that connects the programmatic clusters allows
for alternating these intimate experiences with views on the surrounding nature.
+ info: http://www.archdaily.com/147832
LAMIC (Laboratoire de Muséologie et d'Ingénierie de la Culture) - Infolettre - julio 2011 (en francés)
El Laboratorio de museología e ingeniería de la cultura (LAMIC) es una infraestructura de investigación especializada en
museología experimental que centra sus actividades científicas en la cuestión de las modalidades de transmisión de la
cultura en el contexto museístico. Se trata de una plataforma tecnológica que explora las relaciones entre el objeto, el
visitante y el espacio en el que los protagonistas se encuentran para un encuentro inédito por medio de un recorrido
llamado exposición. Esta dimensión particular es la que nos interesa y la que exploramos de distintas maneras, bajo y a
partir de diferentes ángulos. La etnografía de la experiencia museística resume, en cierto modo, nuestro enfoque ante un
fenómeno aún no del todo aclarado.
+ info: http://www.lamic.ulaval.ca/presentation/archives/infolettres/
Madison Children's Museum / The Kubala Washatko Architects - Madison - Wisconsin - USA
The new Madison Children’s Museum by the Kubala Washatko Architects is an imaginative, adaptive reuse project that was
completed in August 2010. The MCM now occupies the 1930’s multi-story historic building that originally housed a
Montgomery Ward’s department store on Madison’s Capitol Square. The reuse was implemented as a result of a need to
expand the museum’s capacity, thereby expanding the museum’s interdisciplinary capacity to serve the needs of its
audience. The end result is a creative and cost-efficient exercise that revamps outdated office space and transforms the
space into an interactive and dynamic learning environment.
+ info: http://www.archdaily.com/158137/
24,000 Visitor Passes Distributed for New York's 9/11 Memorial; Sold in a Few Hours - New York City - New
York State - USA
More than 24,000 visitor passes to the new Sept. 11 memorial are gone — distributed Monday in just the first hours after
the ticket website went live.
The online reservation system for the tickets was up at 9 a.m., and 5,000 were secured for various dates in just the first
hour of operation.
The quick response is "what we were hoping for — that people would be interested in the site the public has not set foot in
for 10 years," Joe Daniels, president and CEO of the National September 11 Memorial & Museum, told The Associated
Press.
+ info: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=49014
Rare and Extremely Important Tibetan Painting Acquired by San Antonio Museum of Art - San
Antonio - Texas - USA
The San Antonio Museum of Art announces the acquisition of a rare and extremely important Tibetan
painting, Buddha Amitābha in Western Paradise.
According to John Johnston, the Coates-Cowden-Brown Curator of Asian Art, “This is the finest Tibetan
painting in our collection and one of the best paintings of its type in America.”
+ info: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=49052
Tagwhat's New Mobile App Combines Storytelling Traditions and New Technology - USA
Ever since the first person chronicled life on his cave wall, great stories have been told vividly and shared widely. After
cave walls came scrolls, newspapers, and the internet. Meanwhile, the innate curiosity about the world and passion for
storytelling lives on.
Today, Tagwhat introduces an entirely new application and a unique way to tell and share great stories, combining the
very best of humanity's oldest traditions with the latest mobile technologies. Tagwhat "Great Stories at Places" is now
available for iPhone 3GS/4, Android, and on-line at www.tagwhat.com.
+ info: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=48992
Murals to be Cleaned for the First Time in a Quarter of a Century - Scottish National Portrait Gallery -
Edinburgh - United Kingdom
A set of stunning murals, which decorates the entrance hall of the Scottish National Portrait Gallery in Edinburgh, is to be
cleaned for the first time in a quarter of a century, as part of a major conservation project funded byWREN, a not for profit
business that awards grants to community projects from funds donated by Waste Recycling Group (WRG) to the Landfill
Communities Fund.
The Scottish National Portrait Gallery opened in 1889, as the world’s first purpose-built portrait gallery. The decorative
scheme created by William Hole in the late 1890s for the Gallery’s magnificent entrance hall, is one of the building’s most
striking features. It comprises a dazzling, painted procession of famous Scots (including David Livingstone, James Watt,
Robert Burns, Adam Smith, David Hume, the Stuart monarchs, Robert the Bruce and Saint Ninian); a series of large-scale
murals, depicting scenes from Scottish history; and a beautifully detailed mapping of the night sky, which adorns the
ceiling.
+ info: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=49057
BBC (British Broadcasting Company) and Victoria & Albert Museum announce major new year-long
partnership - London - Unuted Kingdom
The BBC and V&A today announce Handmade in Britain, a year-long season of programming that will be the most wide-
ranging and ambitious exploration of decorative arts ever to be undertaken on British Television.
Furthering the BBC’s commitment to building partnerships with the arts sector that go beyond broadcast, from sharing
expertise to widening public engagement in UK arts, from autumn 2011 to autumn 2012, Handmade in Britain will present
three, three-part series and a selection of individual hour-long films, focusing on a wide variety of art and design
disciplines: ceramics, wood, metalwork, textiles, stained glass and paper. The programmes will follow the development of
each of these media, unveiling stories about the objects that tell us about the social, political and cultural climate of Britain
at the time in which they were made. They will also reveal why, throughout the nation’s history, makers have created
objects that are beautiful as well as functional.
+ info: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=50032
Exposición en línea - “Rojo. Trajes de teatro (siglos XVIII - XXI) vistos por
Christian Lacroix " - Biblioteca nacional de Francia (BNF) - París - Francia
La exposición titulada “Roja. Trajes de teatro (siglos XVIII - XXI) vistos por Christian
Lacroix " se presentó por primera vez en 2005 en la Biblioteca-Museo de la Ópera,
Palacio Garnier. Los documentos reunidos en línea en la página web de la BNF no se
limitan al tratamiento “del primero de los colores” (ya que Adamus, el nombre latino de
Adán significa “hecho de tierra roja”) en el único marco de la moda y el teatro. La
exposición aborda en efecto el color más vivo bajo múltiples costuras.
+ info: http://cursus.edu/institutions-formations-ressources/formation/17451/opulence-rouge/
BECAS DE INVESTIGACIÓN – Asociación de profesores. Centro Cultural Onassis (Grecia) Revista en línea
internacional. Número 19
El Centro cultural Onassis-Atenas se inauguró en diciembre de 2010, como un nuevo sitio cultural accesible a todos los
públicos. Su misión consiste en promocionar la expresión cultural, apoyar a los nuevos artistas griegos, y cultivar las
colaboraciones internacionales, la educación y el aprendizaje de por vida, así como la co-existencia e interacción de las
ciencias, la innovación y las artes.
+ info: http://www.onassis.gr/online-magazine/issue-19/
Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine Visitor and Education Center / GWWO Architects - 2011
- Baltimore - Maryland - USA
Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine is the birthplace of America’s national anthem and one of the nation’s
most significant historic landmarks. The Fort, the National Anthem and the flag, together and individually, help us to
understand how the United States was created, defended, and preserved. It was with this context and these rich national
symbols in mind that the design team conceived the expression for the new visitor center.
+ info: http://www.archdaily.com/164169/
Rodin Museum Gardens and Landscape Blooms After Three-Year Rejuvenation - Philadelphia - Pennsylvania -
USA
gloriously rejuvenated garden landscape surrounding the Rodin Museum was unveiled today by the Philadelphia Museum of
Art, which administers the Rodin Museum and Gardens; the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society; and Philadelphia Parks &
Recreation, completing a three- year collaboration that revitalizes the site’s extraordinary harmony of art and nature.
Leaders of the city’s cultural and philanthropic communities celebrated the rebirth of the Rodin Museum and Gardens’
grounds and toured the courtyard and exterior gardens, which now enhance the entire block between 21st and 22nd
Streets on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway. Bastille Day was chosen as the date on which to celebrate in order to honor
French sculptor Auguste Rodin as well as Paul Cret and Jacques Gréber, the original designers of the museum building,
landscape, and Parkway.
+ info: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=49123
El astillero de la guerra de McDonough de 1812 recibe una beca del Programa Norteamericano de Protección
del Campo de Batalla (ABPP) del Servicio del Parques Nacionales – Lago Champlain Museo Marítimo –
Washington D.C. -EEUU
El museo marítimo del lago Champlain ha recibido una beca de 23.985 dólares del Programa Norteamericano de Protección
del Campo de Batalla del Servicio de Parques Naturales para llevar a cabo una encuesta arqueológica y así determinar el
lugar preciso y los límites establecidos para el astillero de la guerra de MacDonough de 1812 en Vergennes, Vermont.
Esta beca es una de las 25 becas del servicio de parques nacionales que suman en total 1,2 millones de dólares para
preservar y proteger aquellos lugares de batallas importantes que se libraron en tierra americana. Los proyectos que han
recibido apoyo financiero preservan los campos de batalla de las guerras coloniales-indias hasta la Segunda Guerra Mundial
e incluyen un mapa de los sitios (GPS/GIS), estudios arqueológicos, un registro nacional de lugares históricos, y planes de
preservación y gestión.
+ info: http://www.lcmm.org/museum_info/press_room/press_archive/2011/mcdonough-shipyard-archaeology-war-of-
1812-2011.html
In a special ceremony today, the National Museum of American History acquired objects
from the Sony Pictures Television drama series for FX, Rescue Me. The donation, presented
by Rescue Me co-creators Denis Leary (star of the series) and Peter Tolan, includes Leary’s
firefighter costume, firefighter helmets from the cast, photographs from the show’s
firehouse set and firefighting tools, including an axe, Halligan tools and a carbon monoxide
detector. The objects will join the museum’s popular culture history collections in the
Division of Culture and the Arts.
Rescue Me premiered in July 2004 and revolves around the lives of the men in a New York City firehouse—the crew of 62
Truck. Examining the fraternal nature and relationships of firefighters, the series tackles the daily drama of the life-and-
death situations associated with being a firefighter, while exploring the ways the men use dark humor to protect their
emotions. This television series is intended for mature audiences and deals with adult content.
+ info: http://americanhistory.si.edu/news/pressrelease.cfm?key=29&newskey=1372
Cross-Shaped Steel Beam Found Amid Trade Center Wreckage Moved to Permanent Home - New York City -
New York State - USA
A cross-shaped steel beam found amid the wreckage in the days following the Sept. 11 terrorist attack was a symbol of
hope for many working on rescue and recovery there, so much so that the construction worker who discovered it believes
he stumbled on to a miracle.
"I saw Calvary in the midst of all the wreckage, the disaster," Frank Silecchia recalled Saturday. "It was a sign ... that God
didn't desert us."
+ info: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=49314
Sigmund Freud Museum in London Celebrates 25th Anniversary - London - United Kingdom
What was life like for the father of psychoanalysis who made a profession of analyzing the lives of others?
Insights into how Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis whose work on human sexual repression led to terms as
"Freudian slip" and "Oedipus complex," lived can be found at the Freud Museum London which celebrates its 25th
anniversary on Thursday.
The large brick, early 20th-century house in north London is where Freud spent his final year after fleeing Nazi-occupied
Vienna in 1938 before dying on September 23, 1939, at age 83.
+ info: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=49411
The Textile Museum Joins the George Washington University; New Museum to Open in Mid-2014 - Washington
- Washington DC - USA
The Textile Museum and the George Washington University announced an affiliation whereby The Textile Museum will
move to the George Washington University’s Foggy Bottom campus to become a cornerstone of a new museum scheduled
to open in mid-2014. Exhibitions and programs will be presented to the public in a custom-built, approximately 35,000
square foot museum building located at G and 21st Streets, bearing the names of both The Textile Museum and the
George Washington University Museum.
+ info: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=49404
New Digital Resources Added to Victorian Veterans Virtual Museum - Victoria - Australia
The Victorian Veterans Virtual Museum has been launched! It contains a number of new resources for veterans, students,
historians and others with an interest in Australian war history. The Virtual Museum hosts the Victorian War Heritage
Inventory and other important sources of information about war-related heritage in Victoria.
+ info: http://www.dpcd.vic.gov.au/veterans/veterans-heritage
Exhibition - 'New Native Photography' - New Mexico Museum of Art - Santa Fe - New
Mexico - United States - 12 August - 2 October 2011
This showcase of new work by Native American artists, timed to coincide with the Southwestern
Association for Indian Arts’ ninetieth annual Indian Market, presents twenty-five photographs by
nineteen North American artists.
The exhibition was selected from a competition juried by the distinguished artists and educators Larry
McNeil and Hulleah J.Tsinhnahjinnie, along with the museum’s curator of photography Katherine
Ware. The competition was open to photographers from federally recognized United States and
Canadian tribes, nations, first nations and pueblos. More than thirty artists submitted work for consideration, which
included everything from black-and-white portraits to staged and constructed images.
+ info: http://www.nmartmuseum.org/site/explore/current/new-native-photog.html
National Museum of Korea - All 297 Oegyujanggak Uigwe books return from France - Seoul -
Republic of Korea
A total of 297 Oegyujanggak (the Ganghwa Island branch of Gyujanggak, the royal library of the Joseon
Dynasty) Uigwe (records of the State rites of the Joseon Dynasty) books were returned to Korea from
France with the completion of the fourth delivery on Friday, May 27. Thus, the uigwe books of the Joseon
Dynasty returned to Korea after 145 years. Most of them are uigwe books for ‘royal inspection’, meaning
that they were specially produced to be examined by the king. Thirty out of the 297 books are one-of-a-
kind, so they have very high cultural and academic value.
+ info: http://www.museum.go.kr/program/board/detail.jsp?menuID=002006006&boardTypeID=80&boardID=15959
Smithsonian's National Postal Museum Receives Donation for the William H. Gross Stamp Gallery - Washington
DC - USA
George Kramer, a well-known philatelist, has donated $100,000 to support the National Postal Museum’s expansion to
create the William H. Gross Stamp Gallery (www.postalmuseum.si.edu/StampGallery). The Smithsonian and the U.S.
Postal Service recently signed a lease agreement for the additional space to build the gallery. This new space will be added
to the museum’s existing 65,000 square feet and is scheduled to open in the next couple of years.
In addition, Kramer is donating for display in the new gallery, a piece of mail that was mailed to John Hancock from New
York via the Constitutional Post, a mail system created by American revolutionary leaders to compete with the British post
office. It was postmarked July 4, 1776, the date that the Second Continental Congress, meeting at the Pennsylvania State
House in Philadelphia, approved the Declaration of Independence. No postage was charged because Hancock was president
of the Congress.
+ info: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=49238
Serlachius Museum Gösta Extension Competition Proposal / MACA Estudio - Mäntäa - Finland
Young architecture office, MACA Estudio, based in Madrid, Spain, shared with us their proposal for the Serlachius Museum
Gösta Extension design competition. Their proposal plans to solve all the functional requirements of a museum, making the
most of the circulations, the sustainability and integration of the building in its environment and at the same time creating
a recognizable icon, a representative building worthy of the importance of this museum located in Mäntäa, Finland.
The formal and constructive references in the design comes from the environment, native materials, the landscape, and
the scale of the existing buildings. The chosen site respects practically all the existing woodland, minimizing the number of
trees to be eliminated within the possibilities that allow the construction of a building on this scale and functional
complexity.
+ info:
The Museo de Arte de Ponce Presents Its Most Important Recent Acquisition: The Battle of Treviño - Ponce -
Puerto Rico - USA
With the unveiling of The Battle of Treviño, by Puerto Rican painter Francisco Oller y Cestero (1833–1917), the Museo de
Arte de Ponce celebrates the acquisition of a nineteenth-century masterpiece that has never before been exhibited publicly
— a painting whose very existence, in fact, was unsuspected until just a few years ago. The work was part of a private
collection that had been in the hands of a single family in Spain for over 130 years.
+ info: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=49083
Extension of the National Maritime Museum / C. F. Møller Architects - Greenwich - United Kingdom
C. F. Møller Architects has designed the extension of The National Maritime Museum in London, Britain’s seventh largest
tourist attraction and part of the Maritime Greenwich World Heritage Site.
The new wing, called The Sammy Ofer Wing – named after the international shipping magnate and philanthropist Sammy
Ofer, who has funded most of £36.5m extension – was inaugurated on the 12th of July with the participation of among
others the British Prince Philip. On Thursday 14th of July the extension opens to the public.
+ info: http://www.archdaily.com/150481/
The Deutsches Bergbau-Museum, a German Mining Museum, lies in the heart of the Ruhr Area, in the city of Bochum. The
museum is one of the most important mining museums and one of the most popular museums in Germany. Currently, the
museum draws around 400,000 visitors annually to its 12,000 sqm of exhibition space.
The new building, a 1,795 sqm extension, is linked to the existing structure by bridges. The extension houses temporary
exhibits (and research presentations) and the existing permanent collection devoted to Saint Barbara, the most important
guardian saint of miners. The new building reflects a cross-section of a mine: a solid, dark, black cube with illuminated
passages and mine shafts. Coal inspired the rough, black surface of the facade. The color of the passageways ranges from
white to light orange and deep red. The building looks like it was extracted straight from a mine. A clearly marked route
from inside to outside avoids any dead ends.
+ info: http://www.archdaily.com/148520
Newark Museum Receives $1 Million Grant from the Mellon Foundation to Support Major African Art Initiative -
Newark - New Jersey - USA
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded the Newark Museum a $1,000,000 grant to support a major collections-
based initiative in African art. The grant will be used to fund new curatorial and research positions and the first-ever
catalogue on the museum’s highly respected and internationally recognized African art collection.
“We are profoundly grateful to the Mellon Foundation for its recognition of the Museum’s great strengths – scholarly
excellence combined with collections-based outreach to broad audiences,” said Mary Sue Sweeney Price, Director and CEO
of the Newark Museum . “Mellon support comes at a critical moment, as we galvanize our outreach efforts to create a new
suite of galleries for this important collection, and expand educational programming in African art and culture. The
Foundation’s generosity will assist the Museum as it forges new paths in the display and interpretation of African art.”
+ info: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=49139
FELLOWSHIPS - Henry Luce Foundation Grant to Advance Scholarship on Tibetan Painting Awarded to Rubin
Museum - New York City - New York State - USA
With the support of a three-year, $270,000 grant from the Henry Luce Foundation, Dr. David Jackson—the world’s
foremost scholar of Tibetan Buddhist painting and a consulting curator for the Rubin Museum—will publish a new series of
exhibition catalogues on Tibetan thangka paintings drawn primarily from the museum’s collection. This is the second grant
awarded to the Rubin Museum from the foundation; in 2007 the foundation supported the exhibition Bon: The Magic Word
and its catalogue.
Chief Curator of the Rubin Museum of Art Jan van Alphen expressed the museum’s gratitude to the Henry Luce Foundation
for its commitment to Asian art historical scholarship saying, “The foundation’s continued support of the museum’s efforts
to share ground-breaking research on the art and culture of Tibet will lead to greater appreciation for, and understanding
The Eucalyptus Distillery Museum Has Officially Opened - Inglewood - Victoria - Australia
The ceremony was preceed by the launch of the Inglewood's Self-Drive CD project by the Mayor of Loddon Shire,
Councillor Gavan Holt. Mayor spoke of the significance of tourism in the shire, the need to have facilities such as the new
museum and the benefits to the Shire and townships of tourists staying and increasing the average spend. Councillor Holt
thanked the members of the Inglewood Development & Tourism Committee who provided the material and worked with
the Loddon Shire to develop the CD.
+ info: http://inglewood.vic.au/museum-opening
Ägyptisches Museum in Berlin Lends Colossal Statue of Pharaoh to Metropolitan Museum of Art for Ten Years -
New York City - New York State - USA
A monumental ancient Egyptian statue of a seated pharaoh —probably Amenemhat II —will be lent to The Metropolitan
Museum of Art by Berlin’s renowned Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin -
Preussischer Kulturbesitz for a period of ten years, beginning this month. The ten-foot-tall, nearly nine-ton, 4,000-year-old
sculpture entered the Berlin museum’s collection in 1837. Because of a construction project now underway —to renovate
the courtyard on Museumsinsel (Museum Island) where the artwork has most recently been displayed— the statue had to
be moved, thereby providing the opportunity for this long-term loan. The sculpture will go on view in the Metropolitan’s
Great Hall for approximately one year before it is moved into The Lila Acheson Wallace Galleries of Egyptian Art. The
Middle Kingdom sculpture is an outstanding example of ancient Egypt’s magnificent colossal statuary, of which very few
examples can be found in American museums.
+ info: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=49648
To Live Forever: Egyptian Treasures from the Brooklyn Museum on View at Nevada Museum of Art
11 jun - 4 sep 2011 . Reno, Estados Unidos de América
Organizadores: Nevada Museum of Art and Brooklyn Museum
Contacto: art@nevadaart.org
+ info: http://www.nevadaart.org/exhibitions/detail?eid=175
Exhibition - Wisdom Builds Her House: The Architecture and History of Libraries at Architekturmuseum
14 jul - 16 oct 2011 . Munich, Alemania
Organizadores: Architekturmuseum der Technischen Universität München
Contacto: archmus@lrz.tum.de
+ info: http://www.architekturmuseum.de/en/ausstellungen/index.php
Gosta Museum Extension Competition proposal / Dellekamp Arquitectos + Periférica - Serlachius - Finland
Dellekamp Arquitectos + Periférica shared with us their proposal for the Gosta Museum Extension competition. The project
aims to preserve the historical value and prominence of the original building by smoothly integrating it to the new
museum. More images and architects’ description after the break.
The new museum is a linear sequence of buildings scaled to the original building. Its thread of volumes not only has a light
footprint but also confers an interweaving rhythm to its linear promenade. The space divisions functionally conform to all
aspects comprised in the program. Interior and exterior, empty space and exhibit space, nature and building are connected
ArchDaily Classics: Museum of Modern Art, Gunma / Arata Isozaki - Takasaki - Japan
Considered one of Arata Isozaki’s greatest masterpieces, the Museum of Modern Art, Gunma stands
as a testimony to Isozaki’s architectural ideology and represents a summary of his achievements.
The form is a conceptual statement about the museum as void and frame. Utilizing a 12-meter
cube as a metaphorical form to express a frame, Isozaki turned the museum into a stage and a
container for displaying and isolating artwork.
Isozaki’s use of a pure cube makes the building weightless and dematerializes the architecture. No
dimensions have hierarchy within the cube, and therefore stillness and repose is manifested within
the structure. The equality of every member deteriorates the notion that any forces are acting upon the cubic forms, and
the aluminum squares that mask the façade hide the structure to further allude to a weightless figure.
+ info: http://www.archdaily.com/153449/ad-classics-museum-of-modern-art-gunma-arata-isozaki/
National Museum of African Art Launches "Smithsonian: Artists in Dialogue 2" App for iPhone and iPod Touch -
Washington DC - USA
The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art has launched the “Smithsonian: Artists in Dialogue 2” app for iPhone
and iPod touch on the App Store. Designed in association with Tristan Interactives Inc. of Toronto, this is the first app
available by the Smithsonian in English and Portuguese.
“This app takes the exhibition beyond the traditional, physical boundaries of the building and makes it available in South
Africa, Brazil and to users around the world using iPhone and iPod touch,” said National Museum of African Art curator
Karen E. Milbourne.
+ info: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=49472
Exbition - Encounters: Religious Paintings from the 4th to the 18th Century - Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza -
Madrid - Spain (2 August - 4 September 2011)
Within its Permanent Collection of Old Master Paintings, the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza has a group of works depicting
episodes from the life of Christ, from his childhood to the period after the Resurrection. Between 2 August and 4
September and in conjunction with the celebration of World Youth Day 2011, the Museum will be presenting the exhibition
Encounters. It comprises a selection of nine of the above-mentioned paintings by 14th- to 18th-century artists including
Albrecht Dürer, Duccio di Buoninsegna, Giovanni Paolo Panini, Aert de Gelder, Il Guercino and Matthias Stom.
+ info: http://www.museothyssen.org/microsites/exposiciones/2011/encuentros/index_en.html
Edmund Gardner Re-Opens at the Merseyside Maritime Museum - Liverpool - United Kingdom
The pilot cutter Edmund Gardner – one of the world’s 50 most important preserved ships – re-opens to the public for the
first time since 2006. The iconic ship, part of the Merseyside Maritime Museum’s historic vessels collection, is located in
one of the Canning graving docks. Free guided tours are held every Thursday and Saturday between 4 August and 1
October 2011. Edmund Gardner has been closed to the public for five years during building work linked to the new Museum
of Liverpool which opened on 19 July 2011. Volunteer guides take members of the public around the ship that was home to
River Mersey pilots between 1953 and 1981.
+ info: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=49546
collation and display of materials connected with Ze’ev Jabotinsky and with the
underground Jewish nationalist movements prior to the establishment of the State
of Israel. The building will be erected on a triangular plot with roads on either side
of it and its apex pointing to an intersection.
The base of the triangle faces a public space to be shared by two other public buildings whose function has as yet not been
decided. The building is designed as a spearhead pointing towards the intersection, from which it rises towards the urban
expanse, bursting out of the depths of the ground. The volume design projects power and momentum as well as an ascetic
simplicity devoid of ornamentation.
+ info: http://www.archdaily.com/153988/museum-and-archive-jabotinsky-center-chyutin-architects-ltd/
National Museum of Scotland Attracts 100,000 Visitors in Six Days - Edinburgh - Scotland - United Kingdom
The newly redeveloped National Museum of Scotland has attracted over 100,000 visitors in the first six days since it
opened to the public last Friday morning. Prior to opening, Museum staff predicted they might achieve the 100,000 mark
within two weeks of opening, but that target was smashed in less than half the time expected, with the first week’s tally
expected to reach around 120,000. Visitors have come from far and near, with locals and families well-represented in
addition to increasing volumes of tourists arriving for the Edinburgh Festivals.
+ info: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=49606
The Mead Art Museum Receives Grant to Fund Collection Digitization Project - Amherst - Massachussetts - USA
The Mead Art Museum at Amherst College has received a $148,256 Museums for America Program Grant from The
Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) to digitize more than 10,000 objects in its collection, including prints,
drawings, photographs, sculpture, furniture, ceramics, and silver
+ info: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=49670
Museo De Arte De Ponce Awarded Grant For Innovative Preservation of Three-Dimensional Works - Ponce -
Puerto Rico - USA
he National Endowment for the Humanities, under its “Sustaining Cultural Heritage Collections” program, has approved the
Museo de Arte de Ponce’s proposal for the purchase and installation of a high-density mobile storage unit that will store
and protect the museums collection of 1,259 three-dimensional art works. The grant is in the amount of $149,800.
+ info: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=49736
AD Classics: Everson Museum - I.M. Pei - 1968 - Syracuse - New York - USA
With a collection focused largely on American art and ceramics, the Everson Museum exists
as a structure that is more than just a vault for art. Designed in 1968 by I.M. Pei, the
structure sought to simultaneously challenge the traditional museum typology through its
innovative form while also existing as an object of modern art in its own right. Pei conceived
the Everson as an open structure with access to its interior from all of its exposed sides.
The building is primarily comprised of four opaque concrete volumes that surround an open
atrium that visitors move through to access the galleries. A library/lounge and an
auditorium exist as separate volumes that are accessed through the atrium. Each volume contains galleries of differing size
and height that when viewed from outside gives added hierarchy to the overall assemblage of forms that makeup the
museum. A cantilevered second story adds further differentiation to the building from the surrounding landscape.
+ info: http://www.archdaily.com/152899/ad-classics-everson-museum-i-m-pei/
Roving Exhibition - 'Virgin of the Rocks' together for the very first time: Historic Collaboration Between the
National Gallery, London, United Kingdom and the Louvre, Paris, France
The National Gallery and the Louvre announce a unique collaboration which brings both versions of the 'Virgin of the Rocks'
together for the very first time. The two pictures will be shown at The National Gallery’s exhibition, Leonardo da Vinci:
Painter of the Court of Milan from 9 November 2011 – 5 February 2012 in London.
Just a few months later, but this time at the Louvre in the exhibition, 'Leonardo da Vinci’s St Anne', Leonardo’s newly
cleaned and restored 'The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne' will be joined with the National Gallery’s version, The
Burlington House Cartoon - Virgin and Child with Saint Anne and John the Baptist, from 29 March – 25 June 2012.
+ info: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=49482
ABC Museum, Illustration and Design Center / Aranguren & Gallegos Architects - Madrid -
Spain
The new ABC Center of Drawing and Illustration, comes with a willingness to be an artistic
international reference and a cultural symbol of Madrid. The installation in the old factory building in
Amaniel Street has to be a suitable intervention in a historic building without sacrificing the
character of expressing a contemporary center with a diverse range of cultural and artistic
institutions.
The existing building has a possible dual access from two streets connecting them in an interior
court. Before the intervention, one of the entrances was through a longitudinal height body that closed the courtyard. From
this front we propose the principal access to the new Center ABC. To achieve this, the mentioned longitudinal body is
restructured as a great “girder” of translucent glass that operates as a lintel towards the interior court. Located inside is
the cafeteria, and under it, through a glass floor on which you enter the courtyard, the basement of the new center catche
the light.
+ info: http://www.archdaily.com/146168/abc-museum-illustration-and-design-center-aranguren-gallegos-architects/
GRANTS - Princeton University Art Museum Receives Grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
The Princeton University Art Museum has been awarded a major grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation that will
support development and execution of new strategies of engagement and interpretation for all of the Museum’s collections
galleries and study rooms.
The $500,000 award will fund, in part, a key new Museum initiative, Activating the Collections, including the establishment
of a new position, a Curatorial Fellow for Collections Engagement, who will work with curators, faculty, students, guest
scholars, artists and other experts across disciplines to develop and present compelling interpretative approaches and
materials. The grant also will establish the Museum Voices Colloquium, which will function as a visual arts think tank in
bringing together traditional and non-traditional experts to consider new ways of understanding art of the past and
present.
+ info: http://artmuseum.princeton.edu/news/MellonFoundation/
ONLINE EXHIBITION - The Cunards Queens Merseyside Maritime Museum. Liverpool, United Kingdom
When the steamer 'Britannia' left Coburg Dock at high tide on the evening of Saturday 4 July 1840 with Samuel Cunard
onboard it inaugurated an association with Cunard Line and Liverpool which continues to this day with the arrival of 'Queen
Elizabeth' and 'Queen Mary 2'.
The collections in the Maritime Archives and Library reflect this historical connection with the port. Click on the images
below to view items relating to the distinguished predecessors of today's modern cruise liners.
+ info: http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/maritime/archive/displays/cunard-queens/
Explore 160,000 portraits from the 16th Century to the present day - National Portrait Gallery - London -
United Kingdom
The Gallery holds the most extensive collection of portraits in the world. The Collection is displayed in London and in a
number of locations around the United Kingdom, including several houses managed by the National Trust. The Gallery is
increasingly keen to find new ways to share the Collection through the National Programmes, as well as through this
website.
+ info: http://www.npg.org.uk/collections.php
TATE BLOG - Should museums be using social media more creatively? - Tate Museum - United Kingdom
It’s one thing to manage your profiles on the proliferating social networking and sharing sites as an individual, but as an
institution it’s quite another. So, we ask ourselves this question at Tate social media HQ all the time. We’d like to know
how you see it.
When you’re on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube Flickr, Foursquare, Google+ (or whatever’s new this month!), as yourself, you
you tend to know what you’re there for. When you’re there representing an institution, however, it’s much harder to define
exactly why you’re there – and what your fans or followers want from you being there! Even when you ask, of course,
different people want different things at different times…
+ info: http://blog.tate.org.uk/?p=7899
Museum of Memory and Tolerance / Arditti + RDT Architects - 2010 - Mexico D.F.
- Mexico
The Museum is constructed using a mixture of reinforced concrete and steel in a seven
level structure (three of permanent exhibit + four complimentary). It is set on a
continuous colonnade of the Plaza Juarez complex, designed by Legorreta + Legorreta
Architects on the site of the former “Hotel Alameda” (which fell during the 1985
earthquake).
+ info: http://www.archdaily.com/154543/museum-of-memory-and-tolerance-arditti-rdt-
architects/
Galerie Remmert und Barth Finds Art by Expressionist Otto Dix - Dusseldorf - North Rhine-Westphalia -
Germany
A gallery has discovered four paintings by Otto Dix, the German expressionist whose art chronicled the horrors of World
War One, the depravity of the Weimar Republic and was labeled "degenerate" by Adolf Hitler.
Famous for works critical of the darker side of German society in the 1920s, Dix's paintings were discovered among the
belongings of his wife, gallery owner Herbert Remmert told Reuters Wednesday.
The paintings were found in a portfolio untouched for decades on an estate in Bavaria owned by the ancestors of a
Duesseldorf doctor and art collector who remained close to Dix even after his wife left him for the artist.
+ info: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=11&int_new=50175
Nearly 40 works by Japanese Artist Leonard Tsuguharu Foujita Found by POLA Museum of Art - Ashigarashimo-
gun - Kanagawa - Japan
Nearly 40 previously unknown works by Japanese artist Leonard Foujita, who made a name for himself in pre-World War
Two Paris and was an acquaintance of Picasso and Matisse, have been discovered by a Japanese museum.
Combining Japanese ink techniques with Western-style painting, Foujita -- a noted cat lover -- became especially known
for his paintings of naked women and cats.
+ info: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=50176
Stadel Museum discovers work by painter Jean-Léon Gérome - Frankfurt - Hesse - Germany
In the context of examining the Städel’s nineteenth-century holdings in view of the imminent reopening or new
presentation of the museum’s collections respectively, an important painting by the French academic painter Jean-Léon
Gérôme (1824–1904) has been discovered. The picture shows Saint Jerome reclining against a lion, his traditional
attribute. After its comprehensive restoration, the painting will be on display for the first time as part of the Städel’s new
permanent “Modern Art” (1800-1945) presentation. The work was last exhibited in London in 1882.
+ info: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=50269
J. Paul Getty Museum acquires Abbey Bible considered a pinnacle of Gothic illumination - Los Angeles -
California - USA
The J. Paul Getty Museum announced the acquisition of the Abbey Bible, an Italian illuminated manuscript that exemplifies
the highest achievements of the Gothic era. The Bible is named for a previous owner, who was a celebrated collector of
Italian manuscripts.
+ info: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=50303
Agenda
Exhibition - Paintings from the 16th to 18th centuries - Dai Volti All'Anima - La Ricerca artistica nei volto dei
Santi
Agosto - Settembre 2011 . Edolo, Italia
Organizadores: Oratorio dei Disciplini – Edolo
+ info: http://www.musaedolo.it/index.php/eventi/anteprima-2011
Louvre: DNP (Dai Nippon Printing) Porcelana de Sèvres, un arte de vivir en el siglo XVIII
Desde el 8 de junio hasta ahora . Paris, Francia
Organizadores: Louvre
Contacto: marion.benaiteau@louvre.fr
+ info: http://www.louvre.fr/llv/oeuvres/presentation_alaune.jsp7
"Lux in arcana: The Vatican Secret Archives reveals itself": an event of unprecedented scientific and media
importance
1-feb-2011 . El Vaticano, Italia
Organizadores: Vatican: the Holy See
Contacto: comunicazione@asv.va
+ info: http://www.luxinarcana.org/en
Exhibition - 'The Art of Paper', Seventy Works on Paper by Some Fifty Artists
9 jun - 5 sep 2011 . Paris, Francia
Organizadores: Le Louvre
+ info: http://www.louvre.fr/llv/exposition/detail_exposition.jsp
Exhibition - The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Explores a Rarely Examined Side of Pissarro
12 jun - 2 oct 2011 . Williamstown, Estados Unidos de América
Organizadores: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute
+ info: http://www.clarkart.edu/exhibitions/pissarro/content/exhibition.cfm
Exhibition - Out of the West: Art of Western Australia from the National Collection
8-jul-2011 . Canberra, Australia
Organizadores: National Gallery of Australia
Contacto: information@nga.gov.au
+ info: http://nga.gov.au/exhibition/OUTWEST/
+ info: http://legionofhonor.famsf.org/legion/exhibitions/dutch-and-flemish-masterworks-rose-marie-and-eijk-van-otterloo-
collection
Exhibition - Gabriel von Max: Be-tailed Cousins and Phantasms of the Soul
9 jul - 30 oct 2011 . Seattle, Estados Unidos de América
Organizadores: Frye Art Museum
Contacto: info@fryemuseum.org
+ info: http://fryemuseum.org/exhibition/4055/
Exhibition - "Ostalgia," about Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Republics
14 jul - 25 sep 2011 . New York, Estados Unidos de América
Organizadores: New Museum Of Contemporary Art.
+ info: http://www.newmuseum.org/exhibitions/440/
Exhibition - Mid-Columbia Indian Life between 1900 and the Late 1950s
16 jul - 15 nov 2011 . Goldendale, Estados Unidos de América
Organizadores: Maryhill Museum of Art
+ info: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=48986
Exhibition - Smithsonian's National Postal Museum Celebrates Owney the Postal Dog
20-jul-2011 . Washington DC, Estados Unidos de América
Organizadores: National Postal Museum
+ info: http://www.postalmuseum.si.edu/exhibits/2c1f_owney.html
Exposición: El Museo del Prado recibe El Descendimiento de Caravaggio, obra maestra procedente de los
Museos Vaticanos
21 jul - 18 sep 2011 . Madrid, España
Organizadores: Museo del Prado
+ info: http://www.museodelprado.es/sala-de-prensa/noticias/noticia/actualidad/el-museo-del-prado-recibe-el-
descendimiento-de-caravaggio-obra-maestra-procedente-de-los-museos-vat/?tx_ttnews[sViewPointer]
=1&cHash=bb05ac1152
Exhibition - Art for the Nation: Acquisitions Made by Sir Charles Eastlake on View at the National Gallery -
London
27 jul - 30 oct 2011 . London, Reino Unido de Gran Bretaña e Irlanda del Norte
Organizadores: National Gallery of London
+ info: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=49407
Works from 5000 Years of African Art and Culture on View in Enhanced Galleries for African Art
3-ago-2011 . Standford, Estados Unidos de América
Organizadores: Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University
+ info: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=49573
Exhibition - The Elegant Image: Bronzes from the Indian Subcontinent in the Siddharth K. Bhansali Collection
5 ago - 23 oct 2011 . New Orleans, Estados Unidos de América
Organizadores: New Orleans Luseum of Art
+ info: http://noma.org/elegant.html
Exhibition - Variety, Archeology, and Ornament - Renaissance Architectural Prints from Column to Cornice
26 ago - 18 dic 2011 . Charlottesville, Estados Unidos de América
Organizadores: University of Virginia Art Museum
+ info: http://www.virginia.edu/artmuseum/on_view/exhibitions/Variety_Archeology_Ornament.php
Exhibition - "In the Beginning Was the Word: Medieval Gospel Illumination" -
En español no está 30 ago - 27 nov 2011 . Los Angeles, Estados Unidos de América
Organizadores: The Getty Center
Contacto: visitorservices@getty.edu
+ info: http://www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/gospel_illuminations/
Exhibition in Berlin unite most of the legendary Blue and Red Mauritius stamps
2 sep - 25 sep 2011 . Berlín, Alemania
Organizadores: The Blue Mauritius: Meeting of the Queens in Berlín
Contacto: info@mauritius-berlin.de
+ info: http://www.mauritius-in-berlin.de/english/ausstellung.html
Exhibition - Les célèbres timbres du Blue Penny Museum de Maurice à la « rencontre des Reines »
2 sep - 25 sep 2011 . Berlín, Alemania
Organizadores: Museum for Communication
Contacto: info@mauritius-berlin.de
+ info: http://www.mauritius-in-berlin.de/english/ausstellung.html
EXHIBITION - Selected works from the François Pinault Collection: "Agony and Ecstacy"
3 sep - 9 nov 2011 . Seoul, República de Corea
Organizadores: Songeun Artspace
Contacto: info@songeunartspace.org
+ info: http://www.songeunartspace.org/programs/user/space/space_en_start.asp
EXHIBITION - Heavenly Splendour: Raphael, Dürer and Grünewald paint the Madonna
6-sep-2011 . Dresden, Alemania
Organizadores: Vatican Museums and the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister
Contacto: presse@skd.museum
+ info: http://www.skd.museum/en/special-exhibitions/preview/heavenly-splendour/index.html
EXHIBITION - Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe. Arthur M. Sackler Museum
6 sep - 10 dic 2011 . Cambridge, Estados Unidos de América
Organizadores: Harvard Art Museums
Contacto: am_webmaster@harvard.edu
+ info: http://www.harvardartmuseums.org/exhibitions/detail.dot?id=33226
EXHIBITION - The Art of Dissent in 17th-Century China: Masterpieces of Ming Loyalist Art from the Chih Lo
Lou Collection
7-sep-2011 . New York, Estados Unidos de América
Organizadores: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Contacto: communications@metmuseum.org
+ info: http://www.metmuseum.org/special/se_event.asp?OccurrenceId={21B83B2A-9489-43C8-BCAE-85E3B475BD90}
Contacto: feedback@dmns.org
+ info: http://www.dmns.org/featured-exhibition-spanish
EXHIBITION - Toulouse-Lautrec
17-sep-2011 . Copenhagen, Dinamarca
Organizadores: National Gallery of Denmark
Contacto: jakob.fibiger@smk.dk
+ info: http://pressefotos.smk.dk/smkpress.nsf/webphotos!OpenForm&Seq=1#_RefreshKW_selectExhibition
Conference - Economics of Cultural Heritage and Museums - How to Face the Challenges of the New Economy -
Het Toneel Speelt
21 sep - 24 sep 2011 . Amsterdam, Países Bajos
Organizadores: CREARE Foundation
Contacto: info@crearefoundation.nl
+ info: http://www.crearefoundation.nl/Economics_of_Cultural_Heritage_and_Museums
Joint Exhibition- Side by Side. Poland - Germany. 1000 Years - Martin Gropius Bau - Berlin - Germany and
Warsaw Royal Castle
23-sep-2011 . Warsaw, Polonia
Organizadores: Royal Castle in Warsaw, and Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, and funded by the Federal Government
Commissioner for Culture and Media, and the Minister of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland
Contacto: post@gropiusbau.de
+ info: http://www.berlinerfestspiele.de/en/aktuell/festivals/11_gropiusbau/
Exhibition - Drawings by Rembrandt, his Students and Circle from the Maida and George Abrams Collection
24-sep-2011 . Greenwich, Estados Unidos de América
Organizadores: Bruce Museum
Contacto: info@brucemuseum.org
+ info: http://brucemuseum.org/site/exhibitions_detail/rembrandt
Skills Development Workshop "Layout, Lighting and Labels: Designing and Delivering a Small Exhibition"
28 sep - 29 sep 2011 . Canberra, Australia
Organizadores: The Australian National University
Contacto: Dr. Sandy Blair - sandy.blair@anu.edu.au
+ info: http://ippha.anu.edu.au/events/layout-lighting-and-labels-designing-and-delivering-small-exhibition
New IPPHA (Institute for Professional Practice in Heritage & the Arts ) professional development course on
Layout, Lighting and Labels: Designing and Delivering a Small Exhibition
28 sep - 29 sep 2011 . Canberra, Australia
Organizadores: Institute for Professional Practice in Heritage & the Arts. The Australian National University
Contacto: andy.blair@anu.edu.au and ippha@anu.edu.au
+ info: http://ippha.anu.edu.au/events/layout-lighting-and-labels-designing-and-delivering-small-exhibition
Exhibition - Da Vinci Discovered: Painting Gains Attribution After Careful Scholarship and Conservation
9-nov-2011 . London, Reino Unido de Gran Bretaña e Irlanda del Norte
Organizadores: National Gallery
Contacto: information@ng-london.org.uk
+ info: http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/whats-on/exhibitions/leonardo-da-vinci-painter-at-the-court-of-milan
Conference - "The Museum 2011. Building Identity: The Making of National Museums and Identity Politics"
16 nov - 18 nov 2011 . Taipei, China
Organizadores: National Museum of History
Contacto: mela-info@polimi.it
+ info: http://www.mela-project.eu/events/details/conference-the-museum-2011-building-identity-the-making-of-national-
museums-and-identity-politics
Exhibition - Out of Museum of London's Archives and Into the Light, Charles Dickens Revealed
9-dic-2011 . London, Reino Unido de Gran Bretaña e Irlanda del Norte
Organizadores: Museum of London
Contacto: info@museumoflondon.org.uk
+ info: http://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/London-Wall/Whats-on/Exhibitions-Displays/Dickens+and+London.htm
SEMINAIRE EUROPEEN DES CONSERVATEURS -Le patrimoine religieux dans les musÉes, usages et
contextualisation
12 dic - 17 dic 2011 . , Francia
Organizadores: Maison des Cultures du Monde
Contacto: bouchet@maisondesculturesdumonde.org
FECHA LÍMITE: 30 oct 2011
+ info: http://www.mcm.asso.fr/site02/courants/programme/seminaire.htm
EXHIBITION - FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT: ARCHITECTURE FOR THE 21st CENTURY PHOENIX
18-dic-2011 . ARIZONA, Estados Unidos de América
Organizadores: Phoenix Art Museum
Contacto: info@phxart.org
+ info: http://www.phxart.org/exhibition/FrankLloydWright.php
Publicaciones
The Royal Collection's First Book for Children: Does The Queen Wear Her Crown in Bed?
By Marion McAuley, illustrations by Katy Sleight
Royal Collection Publications, July 2011
ISBN 978-1-905686-41-1
Does The Queen wear her crown in bed and who walks the corgis when she’s busy? Those are the sort of
details children really want to know about life at Buckingham Palace.
Inspired by the many questions that children have asked her, Marion McAuley, a former Head of
Education at the Royal Collection, decided to provide the answers in the Royal Household’s first children’s
book about The Queen’s London home.
In this 32-page book, illustrated by Katy Sleight, a footman guides two children around the Palace, showing them some of
its rooms and explaining The Queen’s most important duties – and what you should do if you meet her.
+ info: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=49802
History Behind Monet's Water Lilies Triptych: Agapanthus - Saint Louis Art Museum - Missouri - USA -
The Saint Louis Art Museum announced the publication of Monet’s Water Lilies: The Agapanthus Triptych to accompany the
featured exhibition, Monet’s Water Lilies, which opens October 2, 2011. The fascinating and little-known history behind the
triptych, recognized as one of Monet’s most impressive accomplishments, is explored in this catalogue.
French artist Claude Monet is one of the most significant and best-known Impressionists, and his Water Lily paintings—
approximately 250 in the entire series —represent the culminating achievement of his career. The exhibition Monet’s Water
Lilies reunites the Agapanthus triptych for the first time in more than 30 years.
+ info: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=49412
History's Shadow: New Book Examines Art and Artifacts through Museum
Conservation X-Rays
History’s Shadow, a new photography book by artist David Maisel (Nazraeli Press, $75,
hardcover, 72 pages, ISBN 978-1-59005-278-4), examines art and artifacts through
museum conservation x-rays. Like spectral transmissions conveying messages across time,
the images in History’s Shadow make the invisible visible – expressing the shape-shifting
nature of time itself and the continuous presence of the past contained within us. The book
will be published October 1, 2011 and includes an essay by David Maisel and a short story
by Jonathan Lethem.
+ info: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=49539
ahead. As the painful memories of the tragedy fade, the international community must now maintain its determination to
join in their endeavor and take up the challenge of sustainable solidarity with Haiti.
+ info: http://portal.unesco.org/culture/en/ev.php-URL_ID=41688&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html
Trésors insolites des musées de France (Visite par l'insolite des collections françaises)
Par Jean-Jacques Breton et Dominique Williatte
Publisher: Flammarion (6 April 2011)
ISBN : 978-2-08-124269-2
Ces trésors ont été choisis pour leur caractère inattendu lié à leur auteur, à leur sujet, à leurs secrets
ou à leur étrange destin. Dans le livre cohabitent ainsi Les Joueurs de cartes des frères Le Nain, qui
offrent une synthèse unique des leçons flamandes et du Caravage au XVIIe siècle, avec la palette de
Delacroix, qui dévoile les rapports de tons auxquels s’astreignait l’artiste avant de peindre. Ailleurs,
c’est un tableau de Degas, conservé à Pau, qui est dévoilé comme l’un des rares exemples d’une œuvre impressionniste
réalisée en Amérique.
La thématique des trésors insolites constitue un sujet fort intéressant, même si peu original. Il subsiste cependant un
regret face à un discours parfois recherché : pourquoi l’avoir doté d’une présentation académique ?
+ info: http://www.artclair.com/oeil/archives/docs_article/88025/tresors-insolites-des-musees-de-france.php
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Noticias
Les similitudes entre l'homme et l'animal vues par le World Wildlife Fund (WWF)
Video.
Si l'homme oublie qu'il est un animal, la nouvelle vidéo mise en ligne par le WWF le lui rappellera
très certainement. Intitulée "The World is Where We Live", elle circule depuis quelques jours sur
Internet et met en images plusieurs similitudes frappantes entre l'humain et les autres espèces
qui vivent dans la nature.
+ info: http://wwf.panda.org/wwf_news/multimedia/
Troisième révision de la charte du futur parc national des Calanques : « Tu me fends le cœur ! » - Marseille -
France
Suite à la parution de la version 3 de la charte du parc national des Calanques et avant l'Assemblée générale du
Groupement d'intérêt public (GIP) Calanques du 27 juin 2011, FNE et sa fédération régionale URVN, l'UDVN 13, la LPO et
la Ligue ROC estiment que certains aspects de ce projet demeurent encore très insatisfaisants, voici le principaux :
S'inquiétant d'un cœur de parc en dentelle, reflétant les conflits d'intérêts, les associations environnementales demandent
notamment que l'archipel du Frioul, qui constitue une composante importante du caractère du parc, soit inclus, non pas
dans l'aire optimale d'adhésion, mais dans le cœur terrestre et marin du parc afin de protéger au mieux sa richesse
faunistique et floristique. C'est un non-sens de reconnaître ce territoire comme étant exceptionnel, et de ne pas l'intégrer
en cœur de parc !
+ info: http://www.lpo.fr/communique/troisieme-revision-de-la-charte-du-futur-parc-national-des-calanques-tu-me-fends-
le-coeur
Programme court en gestion des ressources fauniques - TELUQ - Université à distance de l'Université du
Québec à Monréal (UQAM)
Objectifs: Comprendre les effets des interventions dans le domaine de la gestion des ressources fauniques et de leurs
habitats en relation avec les problématiques environnementales. Relier les activités scientifiques et socio-économiques à la
base de l'utilisation rationnelle des ressources renouvelables.
Contact: Louise Provencher, coordonnatrice à l'encadrement, Québec, poste 5408 coordonnateur.ENV@teluq.uqam.ca
+ info: http://www.teluq.uquebec.ca/sed/xml/sabplXml.php
New Website Targets Teachers and Students to Study Native Responses to Environmental Challenges
Developed in collaboration with the Akwesasne Mohawk of northern New York, the Campo Kumeyaay Nation of southern
California, the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe of northern Minnesota and the Lummi Nation of Washington state, the
Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian launches a new educational website, “American Indian Responses
to Environmental Challenges,” that will target middle and high school teachers, students and the general public. Users can
see how tribes use their traditional culture, values and indigenous knowledge in combination with contemporary science
and technologies to inform their environmental work.
+ info: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=49839
investigado cómo inciden en el medio ambiente los principales sistemas y especies de producción
acuícola mundial y hoy ofrece, por primera vez en la historia, una evaluación global de las tendencias e
impacto de los alimentos de origen marino generados en granjas. El análisis ha encontrado que, de los
75 sistemas de producción de especies acuáticas, a mayor volumen producido, mayor es el trastorno
ecológico resultante, pero que, comparada con otras formas de generación de proteína animal como el
ganado, la acuicultura es más eficiente.
+ info: http://www.conservation.org/newsroom/pressreleases/Pages/Un-informe-de-importancia-historica-investiga-la-
incidencia-ambiental-de-la-acuicultura.aspx
Los parques fronterizos se reúnen para llevar a cabo debates en el parque nacional
Krkonoše- República Checa
Fue con gran placer que la directora de EUROPARC, Carol Ritchie, tuvo la oportunidad de
asistir al tercer encuentro TransParcNet en Krkonoše (República Checa) – Parques
nacionales fronterizos de las montañas Karkonosze (Polonia)
A pesar de los nombres del parque parecen un trabalenguas, el paisaje, el aire de la
montaña, la excelente oferta de alojamiento y la hospitalidad pudieron ser apreciados por
todos los 35 representantes de áreas fronterizas protegidas de toda Europa. El encontrarnos
en el histórico Lu?ní bouda Chaet a 1410 metros una de las cabañas más antiguas y de mayor altitud, nos permitió tener
una opinión de primera mano en las montañas, en todo tipo de tiempo imaginable en sólo dos días.
+ info: http://www.europarc.org/what-we-do/transboundary-parks/current-transboundar/
Enquête « Natura 2000 » de FNE : des sites naturels dégradés au menu des
vacances - France
La directive européenne dite "Habitats" de mai 1992 a été instituée pour préserver la
biodiversité européenne, notamment en créant un réseau de sites naturels appelé
"Natura 2000" . Attentive à la mise en œuvre de ces directives, France Nature
Environnement vient de réaliser une nouvelle enquête sur les sites Natura 2000 en
France, dégradés ou menacés par des projets d’aménagement. Ceux qui ont la chance
de partir en vacances cet été pourront mesurer, sur le terrain, l’ampleur des dégâts…
+ info: http://www.fne.asso.fr/fr/enquete-natura-2000-de-fne-des-sites-naturels-degrades-au-menu-des-vacances.html?
cmp_id=33&news_id=12376
Le Président de la Commission européenne s'exprime en faveur d'un budget pour la stratégie Europe 2020 axé
sur l'écologie
L'Union européenne oeuvre chaque jour à la réalisation des aspirations de ses 500 millions d’habitants. Je suis convaincu
que ces efforts peuvent être une force en faveur du renouveau de l'économie sociale de marché hautement compétitive
tant en Europe que sur le plan mondial. Pour y parvenir, nous avons besoin d’un budget novateur. D'un budget qui soit en
adéquation avec les nouvelles réalités de la mondialisation, qui corresponde aux enjeux actuels et qui ouvre des
perspectives pour demain.
+ info: http://ec.europa.eu/budget/library/biblio/documents/fin_fwk1420/MFF_COM-2011-500_Part_I_fr.pdf
Mastère spécialisé en Management de l'Environnement : de nouvelles ambitions à l'INSA Lyon - Lyon - France
Le Mastère spécialisé de l’INSA Lyon, auparavant baptisé Management de l’Environnement et de la Sécurité Industriels,
évolue. Pour répondre à la demande du marché, la formation intègre une dimension énergétique dans sa pédagogie, dès la
rentrée 2011/2012.
+ info: http://me4.insa-lyon.fr/
FELLOWSHIPS - The 2011 Eco-innovation call for proposals - Deadline for call for proposals: 8 September
2011
Got a great business project that could make Europe greener but don't know how to get it off the ground? The 2011 Eco-
innovation call for proposals may be for you!
The European Commission grants an additional 2 Million Euros to finance green ideas: the total budget available for the
2011 Call is 38 Million Euros.
This call is open to all legal persons that are based in eligible countries but the priority will be given to Small- and Medium-
sized Enterprises (SMEs). Clusters of applicants and projects which demonstrate a European added value and have a high
potential for market replication are strongly encouraged.
+ info: http://ec.europa.eu/environment/eco-innovation/getting-funds/call-for-proposals/index_en.htm
Conferencia EUROPARC 2011 - "La calidad cuenta - Beneficios para la naturaleza y el hombre"
21 sep - 25 sep 2011 . Bad Urach, Alemania
Organizadores: Federación EUROPARC
Contacto: info@europarc2011.com
FECHA LÍMITE: 31 ago 2011
+ info: http://www.europarc2011.com/en/welcome.html
The Hawai'i Wildlife Center / Ruhl Walker Architects - Halaula - Hawai'i - USA
The Hawai’i Wildlife Center, a non-profit organization, is Hawaii’s first wildlife recovery center dedicated to the recovery
and conservation of the islands’ unique wildlife. Through three integrated design components, this structure by Ruhl Walker
Architects serves to fulfill the mission of the organization to serve as an institution devoted to research, the rehabilitation
of animals, and the education and training of the general public.
+ info: http://www.archdaily.com/159928/
North Mountain Visitor Center / John Douglas Architects - 2008 - PHOENIX - ARIZONA - USA
What was once merely a trail head parking lot, now serves as a gateway to the vast and rugged North Mountain Park. The
North Mountain visitor center by John Douglas Architects educates locals, tourists and youth, on the significance of the
mountain preserve and its Sonoran desert ecology. 20,000 visitors have toured the center over the past year and have
taken with them a new sense of understanding on the importance of open-space preservation in our bustling metropolis.
Prior to beginning design studies, specific research was conducted to ensure that the design of the facility would be
responsive to its desert environment. One of the key contributors to the design team’s understanding of the site was a
team of geologists from Arizona State University. Their explanation of the hidden forces that shape the terrain, led directly
to the form and materials of the Center.
+ info: http://www.archdaily.com/160341
International Concessions Management Workshop Co-organized by the NPS (National Parks Service - USA)
At the 2010 Convention on Biological Diversity, nations committed to set aside 17% of the globe's land as parks and other
protected areas. New parks and preserves, joining 120,000 that already exist, will be created to meet that target. How will
budget-constrained governments accomplish this task? This question and possible solutions provided the context for an
international workshop held at Golden Gate National Recreation Area and Yosemite National Park. The meeting was
sponsored by the National Park Service's Office of International Affairs and the Commercial Services Program, in
conjunction with Colorado State University's Center for Protected Area Management. Representatives from Asia, Africa,
Latin America, Australia, New Zealand and Europe joined U.S. and Canadian counterparts, including NPS staff, to discuss
the benefits and challenges of engaging the private sector in partnerships to help manage national parks and other
protected areas, including World Heritage Sites, which are the most significant places on the planet. The UNESCO World
Heritage Centre and IUCN's World Commission on Protected Areas were also represented at the meeting. For more
information, contact Jon Putnam at Jonathan_Putnam@nps.gov
+ info: http://www.nps.gov/oia/
STEPPA (Sustainable Tourism in Enterprises, Parks and Protected Areas): Customer and
business surveys completed
The survey on visitors to protected areas for STEPPA has now been completed. Parks from Italy,
Spain, Germany, Latvia, the Slovak Republic, the United Kingdom and Finland participated in the
survey. Two different questionnaires were used in the survey: one for customers currently visiting a
protected area and one for potential and previous visitors of protected areas. The data from the
survey is currently being analysed. The results will provide information on customer's views on
sustainability in protected landscapes and their willingness to behave in a sustainable way whilst
traveling. They will be presented at the Sustainable Tourism Conference 2011: Relationships in sustainable tourism
development, held in Savonlinna, Finland, in October 2011. The final report of the survey will be available to all later this
year.
+ info: http://www.europarc.org/what-we-do/steppa/news-from-the-steppa/
El 24 de mayo de 2011, el Comité ONG, delegación del Consejo de Administración de la AFD para el apoyo a las iniciativas
de las ONG (Organizaciones no Gubernamentales), aprobó la atribución de una subvención de 504.521 € en favor del
proyecto de silvicultura y agrosivicultura campesinas en Madagascar llevado a cabo por la Fundación GoodPlanet (o sea
50% del presupuesto total).
+ info: http://www.agrisud.org/images/PDF/projetitasy%20goodplanet%20ai.pdf
Comité Intergubernamental sobre Cooperación para la Selvatiquez y las Áreas de Conservación en Oaxaca,
Méjico
El personal de la Cooperación norteamericana sobre Áreas Protegidas NPS participó en el encuentro 2011 del Comité
norteamericano Intergubernamental para la Cooperación de Especies Silvestres y la Conservación de Áreas protegidas en
Oaxaca, Méjico, un organismo bilateral que une a profesionales del campo de la conservación procedentes de Canadá,
Estados Unidos y Méjico en un esfuerzo común por proteger las áreas de la selva por todo Norteamérica.
Representantes de cada parque nacional/agencia para la vida silvestre acordaron crear tres nuevos sub-comités: El papel
de las áreas protegidas en respuesta al cambio climático, Asegurando la relevancia de las áreas protegidas en un mundo
cambiante, y Comprendiendo y comunicando el valor de los servicios ecológicos. El encuentro también marcó el cambio de
liderazgo pasando de Canadá (Parks Canadá) a EEUU (NPS). Para más detalles, contacte con Garry Oye, en
garry_oye@nps.gov
+ info: http://www.nps.gov/oia/
Sequoia - Kings Canyon National Park (USA) Looks to Renew US-Cambodia Sister Park
Management staff from Sequoia-Kings Canyon National Park (SEKI) visited its Cambodian sister park, Samlaut Protected
Area to acquire a better understanding of the sister park relationship which was established in 2006, thanks to the
auspices of the Maddox-Jolie-Pitt Asia Foundation (MJP-Asia), to discuss the sister-park relationship with U.S. Embassy
staff and with senior Cambodian Ministry of Environment personnel, and to discuss goals and objectives for future
cooperation. SEKI, Cambodian and MJP-Asia staff all agreed that past efforts in park ranger training and development
should continue, with adaptation of training to local needs and the introduction of new instruction topics. Future
cooperation may include assistance to the Ministry of Environment in the development of national protected area
management systems and programs. For more details, contact Kevin Hendricks, at kevin_hendricks@nps.gov
+ info: http://www.nps.gov/oia/
Crímenes contra el medio ambiente: 12 Estados miembros de la Unión Europea no transpusieron la legislación
Desde 2008, la legislación europea prevé que los Estados miembros dispongan de medidas de derecho penal para
reaccionar frente a las graves infracciones medioambientales. Se elaboró una lista de infracciones penales (transporte
ilícito de residuos, comercio ilícito de especies amenazadas de extinción…). Este texto debía transponerse al derecho
nacional antes del 26 de diciembre de 2010. Diez Estados miembros (Alemania, Chipre, Grecia, Italia, Lituania, Malta,
Portugal, la República Checa, Rumania y Eslovenia) no están todavía de conformidad.
+ info: http://www.actu-environnement.com/ae/news/infraction-environnemental-pollution-navire-droit-europeen-12805.
php4#xtor=ES-6
NSIDC (National Snow in Ice Data Center): El hielo del mar Ártico en un cruce de caminos
Tras un periodo de deshielo desde el final de julio hasta el temprano agosto, el hielo del Ártico de nuevo
desciende a un ritmo rápido y enérgico, pero permanece más alto que en 2007, el año con un record
más bajo. La información también indica que hay el hielo se está haciendo reduciendo. Con apenas
alrededor de un mes para la temporada de deshielo del mar, la cantidad de hielo que ya se ha perdido
dependerá en gran medida de los patrones del tiempo.
+ info: http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/
L' enquête publique concernant l'évolution du Parc national de Port-Cros est ouverte - Port-Cros - France
Afin d'informer le public et recueillir ses observations sur le projet de modification du décret de création du Parc national de
Port-Cros, une enquête publique d'un mois est ouverte à compter du 22 août 2011 dans les communes de Hyères-les-
Palmiers, La Garde, Le Pradet, Carqueiranne, La Londe-les-Maures, Bormes-les-Mimosas, Le Lavandou, Le Rayol-Canadel,
Cavalaire-sur- Mer, La Croix-Valmer et Ramatuelle.
Toute personne souhaitant prendre connaissance du dossier et compléter le registre d'enquête pourra le faire dans l'un des
15 lieux signifiés dans l'arrêté préfectoral du 18 juillet 2011.
Vous pouvez également donner votre avis et prendre connaissance des pièces du dossier sur le site http://enquete-
publique-pnpc2011.espaces-naturels.fr/
+ info: http://www.portcrosparcnational.fr/documentation/pdf/Synthese_Enquete_Publique.pdf
Observatório Nacional descobre indícios de um Rio Subterrâneo debaixo do Rio Amazonas - Brazil
Em agosto de 2011, os pesquisadores da Coordenação de Geofísica do Observatório Nacional – ON apresentaram um
trabalho no 12o Congresso Internacional da Sociedade Brasiliera de Geofísica, no Rio de Janeiro, apontando indícios da
existência de um rio subterrâneo debaixo do Rio Amazonas.
Esta fantástica descoberta faz parte de um trabalho de doutorado da aluna Elizabeth Tavares Pimentel, sob orientação do
pesquisador Valiya Hamza. O trabalho é baseado na análise de dados de temperaturas de 241 poços profundos perfurados
pela PETROBRAS, nas décadas de 1970 e 1980, na região Amazônica. A área de estudo abrange as bacias sedimentares de
Acre, Solimões, Amazonas, Marajó e Barreirinhas.
Os resultados obtidos permitiram identificação de movimentação das águas subterrâneas em profundidades de até 4000
metros nesta região. A metodologia utilizada baseia-se na identificação de sinais térmicos típicos de movimentos de fluidos
em meios porosos.
+ info: http://www.on.br/conteudo/noticias/2011/Pimentel_Hamza_SBGF_2011.pdf
Website Africannaturalheritage.org
Discover Africa's UNESCO-designated world heritage sites - some of the most spectacular places on
Earth. This site aims to raise awareness of the 38 sites in Africa designated under the world heritage
convention's natural criteria - iconic places such as Serengeti, Kilimanjaro, Victoria Falls and Land of
the Dogons, as well as less well-known sites such as the Djoudj wetlands, the deserts of Air Tenere,
and the fabulous fossil sites of Lake Turkana.
+ info: http://www.africannaturalheritage.org/
Russia bids to expand Arctic border to seek gas - Naryan-Mar - Russian Federation
Russia will submit a claim to the United Nations to expand its Arctic borders, a top official
said Wednesday, as scientists embarked on a new expedition to prove its ownership of
energy-rich territory.
"I expect that next year we will present a well-based scientific claim about expanding the
borders of our Arctic shelf," Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov said in the Far Northern
town of Naryan-Mar in the Arctic Circle.
Ivanov was speaking as Russian scientists embarked on a new expedition aimed at proving
its claims to territory on the Arctic shelf, in the latest exploration venture that risks sparking tensions with neighbours like
Canada.
+ info: http://www.france24.com/en/20110706-russia-bids-expand-arctic-border-seek-gas
Parque interregional de Marais Poitevin - Boletín n°1 - agosto 2011 (en francés)
Sitio turístico de primer orden, en un primer momento, en 1976, fue parque natural de los
pantanos del Poitou, y en 1996 el Marais Poitevin se transformó en un parque interregional. De
esta manera, el patrimonio natural, etnográfico y paisajístico queda protegido. También es
objeto de una amplia campaña de sensibilización del público que lo visita. Asimismo, en los
pantanos se realizan numerosas investigaciones científicas.
Se trata de un ecosistema excepcional, en el que coexisten garzas, nutrias, cabras del Poitou
además de vacas de los pantanos del Poitou y de Bretaña, que se puede descubrir a bordo de
una de las muchas «chalanas» que surcan este extraordinario ecosistema húmedo.
+ info: http://www.parc-marais-poitevin.fr/
La délinquance environnementale sera aussi au menu des tribunaux correctionnels citoyens - France
Le Parlement a définitivement adopté, le 6 juillet dernier, le projet de loi sur la participation des citoyens au
fonctionnement de la justice pénale. Supprimées en première lecture par l'Assemblée nationale, les infractions
environnementales ont été réintroduites par la commission mixte paritaire, chargée de trouver un compromis sur le projet
de texte, dans le champ de compétence des "tribunaux correctionnels dans leur formation citoyenne".
+ info: http://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/13/pdf/ta/ta0706.pdf
Décret n° 2011-1030 du 29 août 2011 relatif aux chartes des parcs nationaux - France
Publics concernés : établissements publics des parcs nationaux et groupements d'intérêt public (GIP) de préfiguration des
parcs nationaux.
Objet : soumission des chartes des parcs nationaux à une procédure d'évaluation environnementale.
Entrée en vigueur : le texte entre en vigueur le lendemain de sa publication et s'applique à l'ensemble des chartes en cours
d'élaboration dans les parcs existants ou dans les parcs en voie de création. Toutefois, s'agissant des parcs en cours de
création, l'obligation faite aux GIP de préfiguration de joindre le rapport environnemental au projet de charte soumis pour
avis aux collectivités territoriales n'est applicable qu'aux projets de charte adressés aux collectivités à compter du 1er
janvier 2012.
+ info: http://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/affichTexte.do?cidTexte=JORFTEXT000024518993&dateTexte=&categorieLien=id
Convention d’Aarhus : L'Union européenne et la France doivent accepter d'ouvrir les portes de la démocratie
environnementale
Depuis hier, les Etats signataires de la Convention d’Aarhus sur l’information, la participation du public et l’accès à la
justice en matière environnementale sont réunis à Chisinau, Moldavie. L’adhésion de nouveaux pays non membres de la
Commission économique des Nations Unies pour l’Europe (UNECE), appelée de ses vœux par France Nature Environnement
et les Amis de la terre France, est en négociation. Inquiétudes.
Une décision qui restreindrait l’accès de pays volontaires à la démocratie environnementale
La Convention d’Aarhus se rattache directement aux droits de l’homme de nature politique et est un outil puissant de mise
en œuvre du Principe 10 de la Déclaration de Rio de 1992 pour la démocratie environnementale.
+ info: http://www.fne.asso.fr/fr/convention-d-aarhus-l-union-europeenne-et-la-france-doivent-accepter-d-ouvrir-les-
portes-de-la-democratie-environnementale.html?cmp_id=33&news_id=12370
Agenda
EXHIBITION - Bijoux: The Origins and Impact of Jewelry
16 jul - 11 mar 2011 . Greenwich, Estados Unidos de América
Organizadores: BRUCE MUSEUM
Contacto: info@brucemuseum.org
+ info: http://brucemuseum.org/site/exhibitions_detail/bijoux_its_origins_its_impacts/
UNESCO Pacific World Heritage Workshop 'Pacific Heritage for Today and Tomorrow'
5 sep - 9 sep 2011 . Apia, Samoa
Organizadores: UNESCO
Contacto: Diana Roma, National Programme Officer (d.roma(at)unesco.org)
+ info: http://www.unesco.org/new/en/apia/culture/apia-world-heritage-workshop/
Post Graduate Programme - Economics and techniques for the conservation of the architectural and
environmental heritage 2011/2012
12-sep-2011 . Venice, Italia
Organizadores: University of Nova Gorica and Università Iuav di Venezia
Contacto: dobricic@iuav.it and Sasa.Dobricic@ung.si
FECHA LÍMITE: 18 sep 2011
+ info: http://www.iuav.it/Didattica1/master/corsi-in-p/ETCAEH/index.htm
CONFERENCE - Spiritual Values in European Protected Areas: Implications for management and
communication. International Academy for Nature Conservation
2 nov - 6 nov 2011 . Ilse of Vilm, Alemania
Organizadores: German Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (BfN)
Contacto: Martina.Finger@bfn-vilm.de
+ info: http://www.bfn.de/0603_kalender.html
Rivers 2011: 3rd International Conference on Managing Rivers in the 21st Century
6 dic - 9 dic 2011 . Penang, Malasia
Organizadores: River Engineering and Urban Drainage Research Centre (REDAC) - Universiti Sains Malaysia
Contacto: managingrivers2011@gmail.com
+ info: http://rivers2011.eng.usm.my/
VI Congreso Internacional Geotunis 2012 "El uso y las aplicaciones de los SIG, télédétection y modélisation
digital en el campo del medio ambiente y la gestión de recursos y riesgos naturales"
26 mar - 30 mar 2012 . Tunis, Túnez
Organizadores: La Asociación Tunecina de la Información Geográfica Digital, la Unión Euro-Árabe de la Geomática, la
Federación FEMER, el LRNAT, la Red Euromagrebí de Geomática en acción territorial y la Universidad de UTECH
Contacto: atigeo_num@yahoo.fr
FECHA LÍMITE: 15 nov 2011
+ info: http://www.geotunis.org/2011/?lang=en
Publicaciones
IUCN (International Union for the Conservation of Nature) Report on Important Plant Areas of
the south and east Mediterranean region: Priority sites for conservation
This report describes a rapid assessment of Important Plant Areas in the south and east Mediterranean; a
project designed to provide the ‘wild plant perspective’ for the regional investment strategy of the Critical
Ecosystem Partnership Fund. The project partnership of IUCN, Plantlife International and WWF with
botanical teams from Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Palestine, Tunisia, Syria and
Albania, was supported by the French Development Agency.
+ info: http://data.iucn.org/dbtw-wpd/edocs/2011-014.pdf
RUPUNUNI - GUYANA
by Graham Watkins, Pete Oxford, Renee Bish, Abbie Williams (Editor)
The northern Rupununi has intrigued explorers, travellers, historians, and scientists for centuries,
dating back to Sir Walter Ralegh s search for the mythical El Dorado. But for the past three decades
this extraordinary region, with its breathtaking landscape and astonishing wildlife, has been out of
the public eye. Rupununi Rediscovering a Lost World inspires WWF and other conservation agencies
to continue their work to protect the global environment. It also reminds us that we need to be ever
vigilant if we are to overcome the threats that confront humanity so that we can bequeath to our
children a lasting legacy.
+ info: http://www.ilcp.com/publications/rupununi#
CNRS (Conseil national de la recherche scientifique) le journal - N°258 - 259 juillet - août
2011, La Méditerranée sous haute surveillance - France
Ce nouveau numéro de CNRS le journal vous invite en Méditerranée. Cette région, qui a vu naître de
grandes civilisations et qui abrite aujourd'hui plus de 450 millions de personnes, est devenue le point de
mire de nombreux chercheurs. L'enjeu est de taille : du changement climatique à la pollution, en passant
par la pression démographique ou l'appauvrissement de la biodiversité et des ressources naturelles, les
nuages s'amoncellent sur le Bassin méditerranéen. Alors les scientifiques veillent au grain.
Plus au sud, dans la région saharo-sahélienne dévastée par la sécheresse, un projet titanesque suscite de
nombreux espoirs. Partez avec notre envoyé spécial au Sénégal, à la découverte de la Grande Muraille verte.
Ce mois-ci également, remontez le temps de quelque 300 millions d'années. Vous y rencontrerez les stégocéphales,
créatures géantes qui ont régné sur la planète avant les dinosaures.
+ info: http://www2.cnrs.fr/journal/4774.htm
Association Robin des Bois: Atlas des sites pollués aux PCB (polychlorobiphényles) - France
L’atlas confirme que les bassins de la Seine et du Rhône, les lacs alpins, le Rhin, la Moselle, la Somme et leurs affluents, de
même que le Nord/Pas-de-Calais et ses canaux recèlent des agrégats de sites PCB ; ils se recoupent souvent avec la
contamination des sédiments aquatiques et la contamination des poissons telles qu’elles sont relevées par le Ministère de
l’Ecologie. Il y a aussi une certaine analogie avec les pollutions par hydrocarbures cartographiées par Robin des Bois dans
l’Atlas des pollutions par hydrocarbures dans les eaux intérieures. Rappelons que dans ce document il était précisé que «
Les hydrocarbures (….) peuvent masquer des contaminants plus persistants comme des huiles de transformateurs
électriques ou des huiles de coupe industrielle ». Aucune région n’est épargnée.
+ info: http://www.robindesbois.org/PCB/PCB_hors_serie/ATLAS_PCB.html#atlas
Dealing with Conflicts in the Implementation and Management of the Natura 2000 Network: A
review of 24 Best Practice case studies
DG Environment contract 07.0310/2008/515147/SER/B2 as part of Preparatory Actions for Natura 2000
(ENV.B.2/SER/2008/0035)
Final report for task 2
The overall objective of the project was to promote best practices for achieving an appropriate balance
between potentially conflicting interests and uses of Natura 2000 sites in order to ensure both the
engagement of the population and the respect of the ecological value of the sites.
+ info: http://ec.europa.eu/environment/nature/natura2000/management/docs/report%20LOT3_Task%202-Best_cases.
pdf
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International Course on Wood Conservation Technology (ICWCT)
23-may-2011 . Oslo, Noruega
Organizadores: ICCROM - International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property).
Riksantikvaren - The Directorate for Cultural Heritage, Norway. NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technolog
Contacto: wood2012@iccrom .org and any@ra.no
FECHA LÍMITE: 30 sep 2011
+ info: http://www.iccrom.org/eng/01train_en/announce_en/2012_05woodNor_en.shtml
CALL FOR PAPERS - TWIN international conferences on "NEW DIMENSIONS IN BRIDGES" & "INSPECTION,
APPRAISAL, REPAIRS AND MAINTENANCE OF STRUCTURES"
27 jul - 29 jul 2012 . Wuyishan, China
Organizadores: Fuzhou University and WuYiSan University
+ info: http://www.cipremier.com/
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El GHF (Global Heritage Fund) comienza la preservación de la antigua Ur- Irak
En Mayo, en el seminario de la GHF sobre la conservación del patrimonio global y el desarrollo
sostenible en Nueva York, el arqueólogo Abdulamir Hamdani presentó un informe exhaustivo
sobre los sitios patrimonio iraquíes de mayor envergadura- la antigua ciudad de Ur, hogar del
zigurat más antiguo y grande del mundo.
Hamdani contó la historia de la antigua ciudad desde sus tempranos comienzos hasta los
tiempos en que era capital del imperio mesopotámico, hasta las amenazas a las que se
enfrenta hoy en día y las medidas necesarias para protegerla. Un mes después, Hamdani y el
sitio fueron objeto de un artículo excelente AFP y este verano él mismo liderará los trabajos de conservación como director
del proyecto para GHF Ur.
+ info: http://globalheritagefund.org/onthewire/blog/preservation_of_ancient_ur
BOLETIN DE ISPAN - Instituto de conservación del patrimonio nacional de Haití. No 26 (julio 2011)
Les agradecemos que animen a sus amigos a abonarse al BOLETIN DE ISPAN en la siguiente dirección: ispan.
bulletin@gmail.com
El Instituto de Conservación del Patrimonio Nacional (ISPAN) es un organismo técnico autónomo del Ministerio de cultura y
comunicación. Tiene como misión realizar el inventario y la clasificación de sitios, monumentos y conjuntos históricos de la
República de Haití, llevar a cabo proyectos de protección, restauración y puesta en valor de monumentos, sitios y
conjuntos históricos, asegurar la dirección y el control de los trabajos de ejecución de dichos proyectos, ayudar a la
promoción y el desarrollo de actividades públicas o privadas destinadas a preservar el patrimonio nacional y, por último,
recopilar, organizar y difundir toda la información y documentación relativa al patrimonio arquitectónico y monumental,
nacional e internacional.
+ info: http://universityandheritage.net/doc/ISPAN_No26.pdf
El Museo de Arte de Saint Louis comienza un único y ambicioso proyecto de conservación - Saint Louis -
Missouri - USA - 12 Junio - 21 Agosto 2011
This summer the Saint Louis Art Museum will begin a unique and ambitious conservation project to restore a historic
treasure of local significance. Restoring an American Treasure: The Panorama of the Monumental Grandeur of the
Mississippi Valley, which opened June 12, will offer visitors a chance to see the massive 19th-century work, the last
surviving of its kind, as it is restored
+ info: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=48207
RESTORATION OF THE STATUE OF LIBERTY - NEW YORK CITY - NEW YORK STATE - USA
Restoration of the Statue of Liberty in progressIn May of 1982, President Ronald Reagan
appointed Lee Iacocca to head up a private sector effort to restore the Statue of Liberty.
Fundraising began for the $87 million restoration under a public/private partnership between the
National Park Service and the Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation, Inc., to date the most
successful such partnership in American history. In 1984, at the start of the Statue’s restoration,
the United Nations designated the Statue of Liberty as a World Heritage Site…
+ info: http://statueofliberty.net/historical-facts/restoration/
Celebration of the 450th Anniversary of St. Basil's Cathedral After $14 Million Restoration - Moscow - Russian
Federation
Russia will celebrate the 450th anniversary of St. Basil's Cathedral by opening an exhibition dedicated to the so-called
"holy fool" who gave his name to the soaring structure of bright-hued onion domes that is a quintessential image of Russia.
The eccentrically devout St. Basil wore no clothes even during the harsh Russian winters and was one of the very few
Muscovites who dared to lambast tyrannical Czar Ivan the Terrible.
Ivan, whose gory purges claimed tens of thousands of lives, feared St. Basil as "a seer of people's hearts and minds,"
according to one chronicle. He personally carried St. Basil's coffin to a grave right outside the Kremlin. The cathedral,
constructed to commemorate Ivan's victory over Mongol rulers, was built on the burial site.
+ info: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=48926
CICOP Argentina - Curso sobre Inventario y Documentación del Patrimonio - Agosto de 2011
Análisis integral de los relevamientos, registros e inventarios.
Los Inventarios como estrategia de gestión.
Criterios y pautas de acciones. Objetivos y alcances de los Inventarios y
Registros Patrimoniales. Gestión estratégica de las acciones.
Inventario como herramienta potencial de información y evaluación en programas culturales. Capacitación de recursos
humanos.
Nuevas tecnologías: documentación electrónica, sistemas redes y unidades documentales.
La documentación gráfica: las fototecas.
Los catálogos de Planeamiento: herramienta básica de protección.
Muestreo de fichas de aplicación en los distintos campos del patrimonio cultural.
Casos: patrimonio industrial, poblados, patrimonio natural-ambiental, yacimientos arqueológicos, bienes muebles,
patrimonio rural urbano.
Aplicación de los inventarios de Bienes en las entidades locales y regionales. Creación de Centros de Documentación y
Bases de datos de bienes.
El museo como sede.
Características de la documentación del Patrimonio Histórico, como fuentes de información.
+ info: http://www.cicopar.com.ar/11ago4.htm
The Printing Factory Lofts / Montgomery Sisam Architects - Toronto - Ontario - Canada
Originally built to house the printing presses of Rolph Clark Stone, 201 Carlaw Avenue has been a Leslieville landmark
since its completion in 1913 when this community was at the heart of industry in Toronto.
The Printing Factory Lofts project preserves three facades and incorporates significant portions of the original factory
building into the project including the classical main entrance portico that opens to a grand wooden staircase below vaulted
ceilings. In addition, the original “sawtooth” industrial skylights were rebuilt and integrated into the two storey loft units.
The centre portion of the factory building was carved out to accommodate an eight storey glass tower, two garden courts
and a series of townhouses facing Boston Avenue, the residential street to the east.
+ info: http://www.archdaily.com/148969/
CICOP Argentina - Curso sobre la Humedad como Proceso Patológico - Agosto de 2011
El agua y la humedad como factores patológicos del degrado construido; formas de accionar; estados físicos transitorios y
permanentes.
El agua y la humedad como vehículo biológico degradante; fases físicas y químicas de influencia antrópica.
Metodologías de detección por medios electrónicos, con indicadores químicos.
Técnicas somáticas de raciocinio para la determinación de los procesos degradantes.
Prevenciones para obras nuevas o en revitalización.
Metodologías de intervención. Aprovechamiento de estadios contradictorios. Técnicas de viabilización de materiales.
Terapia y usufructo de herramientas convencionales.
Metodologías de intervención encubiertas, muros verticales y sustratos.
+ info: http://www.cicopar.com.ar/11ago3.htm
LAMIC (Laboratoire de Muséologie et d'Ingénierie de la Culture) - Infolettre - julio 2011 (en francés)
El Laboratorio de museología e ingeniería de la cultura (LAMIC) es una infraestructura de investigación especializada en
museología experimental que centra sus actividades científicas en la cuestión de las modalidades de transmisión de la
cultura en el contexto museístico. Se trata de una plataforma tecnológica que explora las relaciones entre el objeto, el
visitante y el espacio en el que los protagonistas se encuentran para un encuentro inédito por medio de un recorrido
llamado exposición. Esta dimensión particular es la que nos interesa y la que exploramos de distintas maneras, bajo y a
partir de diferentes ángulos. La etnografía de la experiencia museística resume, en cierto modo, nuestro enfoque ante un
fenómeno aún no del todo aclarado.
+ info: http://www.lamic.ulaval.ca/presentation/archives/infolettres/
Murals to be Cleaned for the First Time in a Quarter of a Century - Scottish National Portrait Gallery -
Edinburgh - United Kingdom
A set of stunning murals, which decorates the entrance hall of the Scottish National Portrait Gallery in Edinburgh, is to be
cleaned for the first time in a quarter of a century, as part of a major conservation project funded byWREN, a not for profit
business that awards grants to community projects from funds donated by Waste Recycling Group (WRG) to the Landfill
Communities Fund.
The Scottish National Portrait Gallery opened in 1889, as the world’s first purpose-built portrait gallery. The decorative
scheme created by William Hole in the late 1890s for the Gallery’s magnificent entrance hall, is one of the building’s most
striking features. It comprises a dazzling, painted procession of famous Scots (including David Livingstone, James Watt,
Robert Burns, Adam Smith, David Hume, the Stuart monarchs, Robert the Bruce and Saint Ninian); a series of large-scale
murals, depicting scenes from Scottish history; and a beautifully detailed mapping of the night sky, which adorns the
ceiling.
+ info: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=49057
In Progress: King's Cross Station / John McAslan + Partners - London - United Kingdom
“It’s incredible to watch the reinvention of the station taking shape into a compelling piece of place-making for London. You
can already see how the Western Concourse – Europe’s largest single span station structure and the heart of the
development – reconnects this much-loved Victorian terminus to its context. It’s immensely satisfying to see the project
move forward at such pace and we look forward to celebrating the project’s completion in 2012 for the London Olympics.”-
John McAslan, Chairman John McAslan + Partners
+ info: http://www.archdaily.com/162461
UNITAR (United Nations Institute for Training and Research) World Heritage Training Workshop (Hiroshima -
Japan - July 2011)
The United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) organised its ninth training workshop on the management
and conservation of World Heritage Sites in Hiroshima, Japan, on 4 to 8 July 2011. ICOMOS is a partner organisation in
this series.
* presented participants with key information about the World Heritage system, especially nominations
* also presented useful information about general heritage issues and practices
* focused particular attention on the relatively new World Heritage nominations manual, and on the comparative analysis
part of nominations
* created the opportunity for networking amongst international participants and resource persons
The workshop benefitted from study tours to the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park and A-Bomb Dome, and to Miyajima
Itsukushima Shinto Shrine – both World Heritage sites.
+ info: http://australia.icomos.org/e-news/australia-icomos-e-mail-news-no-494/#3.
Streetwise Asia Update - Progress on Philippines Heritage Schools Conservation Program - The Republic of the
Philippines
Ongoing thanks to all ICOMOS members who continue to support the Streetwise Asia initiative. We have recently had some
generous pre June 30 donations, and these, together with the proceeds from the Xmas Card initiative (which raised
$3,400) enables the Streetwise AsiaProgram to continue to undertake its work.
In 2010, the Kuguita heritage school building in the Southern Philippines was upgraded and conserved and opened in May
by the Australian Ambassador and received wide media attention…
+ info: http://australia.icomos.org/e-news/australia-icomos-e-mail-news-no-494/#8
Only Copy of Magna Carta in the United States - National Archives - Washington D.C. - USA
A painstaking conservation effort to remove old patches and repair weak spots in a 714-year-old copy of the Magna Carta
has revealed that the full text of that English declaration of human rights remains intact even though some words are
faded and illegible to the eye, the National Archives said Tuesday.
A $13.5 million gift from philanthropist David Rubenstein — owner of the handwritten document — is funding the
conservation effort as well preparations for an upcoming exhibit.
+ info: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=11&int_new=49230
Museo De Arte De Ponce Awarded Grant For Innovative Preservation of Three-Dimensional Works - Ponce -
Puerto Rico - USA
he National Endowment for the Humanities, under its “Sustaining Cultural Heritage Collections” program, has approved the
Museo de Arte de Ponce’s proposal for the purchase and installation of a high-density mobile storage unit that will store
and protect the museums collection of 1,259 three-dimensional art works. The grant is in the amount of $149,800.
+ info: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=49736
Oyster-Tecture and the Gowanus Canal - New York City - New York State - USA
The Gowanus Canal is one of America’s most polluted waterways, and its location in the
New York Harbor made it one of the many places that were effected by flooding as a result
of Hurricane Irene. If that isn’t enough to think about, last year the EPA declared the
Gowanus Canal as a Superfund site, “As a result of years of discharges, storm water runoff,
sewer outflows and industrial pollutants, the Gowanus Canal has become one of the nation’s
most extensively contaminated water bodies. Contaminants include PCBs, coal tar wastes,
heavy metals and volatile organics. The contamination poses a threat to the nearby
residents who use the canal for fishing and recreation.”
+ info: http://www.archdaily.com/165568/oyster-tecture-and-the-gowanus-canal/
After Twenty-Seven Years and $45 Million, Taiwan Restores Ornate 19th Century Mansion - Taiwan - China
Twenty-seven years in the making, the $45 million renovation of a 150-year-old Taiwanese homestead is finally nearing
completion. The Lin Family Mansion — a complex of five buildings on 7.4 acres (3 hectares) — is one of Taiwan's most
important historical sites, a rare example of the ornate architectural style favored by nobles from southern China in the
waning years of the Qing dynasty.
The renovation has been a painstaking process, with workers facing a variety of challenges — not least a devastating
earthquake — to return the 19th-century structures to their original glory.
+ info: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=49517
Agenda
International Course on Wood Conservation Technology (ICWCT)
23-may-2011 . Oslo, Noruega
Organizadores: ICCROM - International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property).
Riksantikvaren - The Directorate for Cultural Heritage, Norway. NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technolog
Contacto: wood2012@iccrom .org and any@ra.no
FECHA LÍMITE: 30 sep 2011
+ info: http://www.iccrom.org/eng/01train_en/announce_en/2012_05woodNor_en.shtml
Post Graduate Programme - Economics and techniques for the conservation of the architectural and
environmental heritage 2011/2012
12-sep-2011 . Venice, Italia
Organizadores: University of Nova Gorica and Università Iuav di Venezia
Contacto: dobricic@iuav.it and Sasa.Dobricic@ung.si
FECHA LÍMITE: 18 sep 2011
+ info: http://www.iuav.it/Didattica1/master/corsi-in-p/ETCAEH/index.htm
CONFERENCE - UNESCO & International Congress for Underwater Archaeology (IKUWA) - 'Managing the
Underwater Cultural Heritage'
29 sep - 2 oct 2011 . Zadar, Croacia
Organizadores: University of Zadar
Contacto: info@ikuwa4.com
+ info: http://www.ikuwa4.com/ikuwa-4-conference
Victoria 2011: Heritage on the edge: sustaining buildings, landscapes and communities
11 oct - 16 oct 2011 . Victoria, Canadá
Organizadores: APT (Association for Preservation Technology International)
Contacto: registrar@apti.org
+ info: http://www.aptconference.org/index.cfm?pID=2508%3Etoday
PRECOMOS (Preventive Conservation Maintenance and Monitoring of Monuments and Sites) - International
Conference on Preventive Conservation
29 oct - 30 oct 2011 . Nanjing, China
Organizadores: The School of Architecture, Southeast University
Contacto: 230069011@seu.edu.cn and lxjtx@sina.com
FECHA LÍMITE: 15 oct 2011
+ info: http://precomos.org/index.php/news/
International Conference on the Use of X-ray (and related) Techniques in Arts and Cultural Heritage
7 dic - 8 dic 2011 . Sharjah, Emiratos Arabes Unidos
Organizadores: The American University of Sharjah
Contacto: xtach11@aus.edu
FECHA LÍMITE: 1 ago 2011
+ info: http://www.aus.edu/conferences/XTACH11/index.php
Publicaciones
Studies in Conservation
Volume 56 (2011), 4 issues per year
Print ISSN: 0039-3630
Online ISSN: 2047-0584
The Journal of the International Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works
Published on behalf of The International Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works
+ info: http://www.maney.co.uk/index.php/journals/sic
Hoi An World Heritage Site, VIET NAM - Heritage Homeowner's preservation manual
Authors: Tran Van An; Tran Anh; Nguyen Duc Minh; Nguyen Chi Trung; Tomoda, Hiromichi;
Nagumo, Ichiro; Chang, Mark & Fukukawa, Yuichi
Country: Thailand/ Publ Year: 2008
The Homeowner’s Manuals have been developed within the framework of the “Integrated
Community Development and Cultural Heritage Site Preservation in Asia and the Pacific
through Local Effort” programme (LEAP), which strengthens local community involvement in
heritage conservation. The manuals aim to build local capacity in heritage preservation by
training homeowners to maintain their historic properties using appropriate conservation approaches. The manuals present
a synthesis of traditional building techniques and modern conservation science. They codify time-tested methods adapted
to each type of structure using indigenous building materials and techniques. The manuals have been developed in
conjunction with local heritage managers and national conservation experts, who will also be involved in training local
stakeholders.
The third volume in this series focuses on the World Heritage site of Hoi An, Viet Nam, an exceptionally well-preserved
example of a South-East Asian trading port dating back to the fifteenth century. Its buildings and its street plan reflect the
influences, both indigenous and foreign, that have combined to produce this unique heritage site. It is hoped that the Hoi
An Homeowner’s Manual will strengthen the local conservation ethic and contribute positively to the long-term
sustainability of this ancient town.
+ info: http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0019/001930/193014m.pdf
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Michel Rocard s'inquiète de l'augmentation vertigineuse du tourisme en Antarctique -
Buenos Aires - Argentine
L'ex-Premier ministre socialiste français Michel Rocard, ambassadeur chargé des négociations
sur les pôles Arctique et Antarctique, s'est inquiété mardi à Buenos Aires de l'augmentation
"vertigineuse" du tourisme en Antarctique.
"Le problème qui pointe, c'est le tourisme : parti de zéro il y a trente ans, il atteint les 55.000
personnes par an", a déclaré à la presse M. Rocard, qui participe dans la capitale argentine à la
34e réunion consultative sur le Traité de l'Antarctique.
+ info: http://www.sciencesetavenir.fr/depeche/nature-environnement/20110622.AFP4955/rocard-s-inquiete-de-l-
augmentation-vertigineuse-du-tourisme-en-antarctique.html
Cours en ligne - Introduction à l'Industrie du Tourisme - Collège universitaire de Saint Boniface - Winnipeg -
Manitoba - Canada
Le cours Introduction à l’industrie du tourisme fait partie du programme Tourisme offert par l’École technique et
professionnelle.
Le cours veut initier les étudiantes et étudiants à l’industrie du tourisme en offrant un survol de l’évolution, des
perspectives et des tendances du marché dans les différents secteurs qui s’y rattachent. La clientèle devra être capable de
définir et de reconnaître ces différents éléments et d’en comprendre la portée générale. Elle devra acquérir les
connaissances, les habiletés et les attitudes dans le domaine du tourisme, et ce, dans un contexte individuel, familial,
social et professionnel.
+ info: http://cursus.edu/institutions-formations-ressources/formation/10928/introduction-industrie-tourisme/
Los parques fronterizos se reúnen para llevar a cabo debates en el parque nacional
Krkonoše- República Checa
Fue con gran placer que la directora de EUROPARC, Carol Ritchie, tuvo la oportunidad de
asistir al tercer encuentro TransParcNet en Krkonoše (República Checa) – Parques
nacionales fronterizos de las montañas Karkonosze (Polonia)
A pesar de los nombres del parque parecen un trabalenguas, el paisaje, el aire de la
montaña, la excelente oferta de alojamiento y la hospitalidad pudieron ser apreciados por
todos los 35 representantes de áreas fronterizas protegidas de toda Europa. El encontrarnos
en el histórico Lu?ní bouda Chaet a 1410 metros una de las cabañas más antiguas y de mayor altitud, nos permitió tener
una opinión de primera mano en las montañas, en todo tipo de tiempo imaginable en sólo dos días.
+ info: http://www.europarc.org/what-we-do/transboundary-parks/current-transboundar/
comunidades implicadas.
+ info: http://www.lacult.org/noticias/showitem.php?uid_ext=&getipr=MTcyLjI0LjEwLjIy&lg=1&id=3031
Curso a Distancia: 10ma. Promoción Posgrado en Turismo Rural - Facultad de Agronomia - Universidad de
Buenos Aires - Argentina - Septiembre de 2011
Contacto: campotur@agro.uba.ar
Se espera que el alumno esté capacitado para diseñar e implementar un Plan de Negocios o un Plan Estratégico destinado
a poner en marcha una inversión privada o un proyecto institucional de Turismo Rural, utilizando estrategias que permitan
generar ventajas competitivas en la empresa y en el territorio.
El curso está dirigido a jóvenes emprendedores, mujeres empresarias que quieran desempeñarse en el ámbito rural,
líderes de Pueblos Rurales que buscan desarrollar su comunidad, interesados en el armado de rutas alimentarias, circuitos
turísticos, profesionales y directivos vinculados a organizaciones, empresas e instituciones del sector agropecuario y
turístico, funcionarios nacionales, provinciales y municipales del área económica, agropecuaria y turística y docentes y
capacitadores, entre otros.
+ info: http://epg.agro.uba.ar/posgr-turismorural/posgrado-de-alta-direccion-en-turismo-rural
viticoles-et-developper-l-oenotourisme
PRIZES - L'Evasion au naturel : un centre éco-touristique nominé au Trophée Bol d'air SNCF
(Société nationale des chemins de fer français)
Comme chaque année, Voyages-sncf.com organise son grand concours des Trophées du Tourisme
responsable. A cette occasion, Maxisciences a décidé de donner la parole à l'un des candidats nominés,
Frédéric Desautel qui nous présente son projet : "l'Evasion au naturel" et sa vision du tourisme
responsable.
Organisés par Voyages-sncf.com pour la cinquième année consécutive, les Trophées du tourisme
responsable "récompensent ceux et celles qui se mobilisent pour un tourisme plus respectueux de
l’environnement et des hommes". Ainsi, le concours souhaite montrer l'efficacité mais aussi l'accessibilité du tourisme
responsable qui offre une large palette de choix alors que les nominés sont divisés en cinq catégories : bol d'air, urbain,
solidaire, luxe & zen ou encore bons plans. Avec une nouveauté cette année : l'évènement écolo devient participatif et
prend désormais en compte le vote en ligne du public qui reste possible jusqu'au 5 septembre et qui comptera pour moitié
dans le choix final.
+ info: http://www.maxisciences.com/tourisme-durable/l-039-evasion-au-naturel-un-centre-eco-touristique-nomine-au-
trophee-bol-d-039-air_art16312.html
STEPPA (Sustainable Tourism in Enterprises, Parks and Protected Areas): Customer and
business surveys completed
The survey on visitors to protected areas for STEPPA has now been completed. Parks from Italy,
Spain, Germany, Latvia, the Slovak Republic, the United Kingdom and Finland participated in the
survey. Two different questionnaires were used in the survey: one for customers currently visiting a
protected area and one for potential and previous visitors of protected areas. The data from the
survey is currently being analysed. The results will provide information on customer's views on
sustainability in protected landscapes and their willingness to behave in a sustainable way whilst
traveling. They will be presented at the Sustainable Tourism Conference 2011: Relationships in sustainable tourism
development, held in Savonlinna, Finland, in October 2011. The final report of the survey will be available to all later this
year.
+ info: http://www.europarc.org/what-we-do/steppa/news-from-the-steppa/
(en italiano) Ecomuseo dei Campi Flegrei, tradizione e futuro del Golfo di Napoli -
Italy
La costa e le acque che circondano il nostro bel Paese saranno, nei prossimi anni, sempre
più al centro dell’attenzione turistica: il mare “diventa chiaro” per tutti gli addetti ai lavori.
Il settore turistico/balneare, grande risorsa economica del made in Italy, negli ultimi anni ha
conosciuto un forte ampliamento, con relativo trend positivo in ascesa, della rosa di offerte:
“vacanza sul mare”, “vacanza ecobalneare”, “vacanza balneoculturale” e.. di più.
Per parlare oggi di sviluppo turistico, infatti, non si può far a meno di considerare fortemente
il settore crocieristico, relativo alle grandi compagnie (MSC, Costa Crociere ecc.) – e ai grandi circuiti /itinerari
mediterranei, ma non bisogna sottovalutare la forza e la grande potenzialità offerta dai sub-settori turistico/marittimi locali.
+ info: http://www.tafter.it/2011/08/22/ecomuseo-dei-campi-flegrei-tradizione-e-futuro-del-golfo-di-napoli/
Art History UK Offers More in-Depth and Intimate Alternative to the Mass-Market Tourist Tours -
rt History UK is a specialist art historical tour company set up in the capital to provide a more in-depth and intimate
alternative to the mass-market tourist tours. Art History UK offers a uniquely intimate and tailor made tour service that will
leave each individual with an inspiring depth of understanding about London’s art and architecture, and the heroic, humble,
strange, sad, and often hilarious stories that this extraordinary city tells.
Founded by London cultural expert Rose Balston, Art History UK combines fresh enthusiasm with unrivaled knowledge and
the desire to share it, priding itself on combining this scholarship with extensive tour guiding experience, attention to
detail, intriguing tales, conversation, challenging ideas and a fascinating exploration of the hidden corners of London’s
past.
+ info: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=49403
sembra più adeguato quello di Viaggio in Italia di poetica memoria dove il viaggiatore era colui che sognava il nostro Paese
e ci restava molti giorni alla ricerca del bello del gusto e del buon vivere. Con buona grazia dell’economia italiana.
+ info: http://www.tafter.it/2011/08/30/dal-marketing-alla-cultura-dellaccoglienza/
by the Kotelnicheskaya Embankment Apartments, the Kudrinskaya Square Building, the Hotel Leningradskaya, the Ministry
of Foreign Affairs, the main building of the Moscow State University, and the Red Gates Administrative Building. A massive
complex by any standards at almost one million square feet of floor area, the hotel boasts an array of lodging and
entertainment offerings including over five hundred hotel rooms, thirty-eight extended stay apartments, five restaurants, a
400-person conference center, a 1000-person banquet hall, spa, and a fleet of river yachts.
+ info: http://www.archdaily.com/157690/ad-classics-royal-hotel-arkady-mordvinov/
Agenda
Public Seminar Series - The Cultural Heritage Centre for Asia and the Pacific
1 ago - 30 nov 2011 . Melbourne, Australia
Organizadores: Deakin University
Contacto: enquire@deakin.edu.au
+ info: http://www.deakin.edu.au/arts-ed/chcap/seminars/index.php
Publicaciones
Le guide pratique « Biodiversité & Tourisme, de nouvelles opportunités pour les entreprises et
les destinations ? »
Ce guide est l’un des outils qui permettent de décliner efficacement, dans la réalité concrète et quotidienne
des entreprises et destinations touristiques, la Stratégie nationale pour la biodiversité.
Publié en août 2011, son propos est d'apporter des clefs aux gestionnaires d'entreprises et de destinations
touristiques pour à la fois stimuler l'économie touristique et pérenniser notre patrimoine naturel.
Tous les acteurs du tourisme, publics et privés, sont concernés par cette publication. Elle vise en
particulier les dirigeants et les principaux responsables au sein de chaque structure, ainsi que tous les
collaborateurs, chacun peut s’impliquer en faveur de la biodiversité.
+ info: http://www.tourisme.gouv.fr/territoires/dev-durable/guide-biodiversite.php
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Noticias
Newsletter - Asia-Pacific Regional Conference on Underwater Cultural Heritage
This is the monthly Newsletter/Press Release for August for the Asia-Pacific Regional Conference on Underwater Cultural
Heritage.
Please feel free to circulate it as widely as possible to your colleagues and friends.
+ info: http://universidadypatrimonio.net/doc/Augustpressrelease.pdf
Ratificación por Jamaica de la Convención sobre la Protección del Patrimonio Cultural Subacuático (París, 2 de
noviembre de 2001)
El 9 de agosto de 2011, Jamaica depositó ante la Directora General su instrumento de ratificación de la Convención sobre
la Protección del Patrimonio Cultural Subacuático.
Conforme a lo dispuesto en su Artículo 27, la Convención entrará en vigor para Jamaica tres meses después del depósito
de este instrumento, es decir el 9 de noviembre de 2011.
+ info: http://portal.unesco.org/es/ev.php-URL_ID=48608&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html
Ratificación por Benin de la Convención sobre la Protección del Patrimonio Cultural Subacuático (París, 2 de
noviembre de 2001)
El 4 de agosto de 2011, Benin depositó ante la Directora General su instrumento de ratificación de la Convención sobre la
Protección del Patrimonio Cultural Subacuático.
Conforme a lo dispuesto en su Artículo 27, la Convención entrará en vigor para Benin tres meses después del depósito de
este instrumento, es decir el 4 de noviembre de 2011.
+ info: http://portal.unesco.org/es/ev.php-URL_ID=48607&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html
Agenda
UNESCO International training programme for underwater archaeologists
15 sep - 30 oct 2011 . Cartagena, España
Organizadores: Spanish National Museum for Underwater Archaeology (ARQUA)
Contacto: b.egger@unesco.org
+ info: http://www.unesco.org/new/en/unesco/events/all-events/?tx_browser_pi1[showUid]=4177&cHash=8988b60e93
CONFERENCE - UNESCO & International Congress for Underwater Archaeology (IKUWA) - 'Managing the
Underwater Cultural Heritage'
29 sep - 2 oct 2011 . Zadar, Croacia
Organizadores: University of Zadar
Contacto: info@ikuwa4.com
+ info: http://www.ikuwa4.com/ikuwa-4-conference
3rd Annual Lawyers' Committee for Cultural Heritage Preservation (LCCHP) Conference: 'Keeping the Lid on
Davy Jones' Locker
Registration opens 1 September 2011 3-nov-2011 . Washington DC, Estados Unidos de América
Organizadores: The Lawyers' Committee for Cultural Heritage Preservation (LCCHP
Contacto: info@culturalheritagelaw.org
+ info: http://www.culturalheritagelaw.org/2011conference
Publicaciones
Conserving Marine Cultural Heritage
ISSN 1350-5033
Conservation and Management of Archaeological Sites
Volume 11, Number 1, 2009
+ info: http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/maney/cma/2009/00000011/00000001#issue
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La Directora General visita las modernas instalaciones culturales de Shenzhen
Hace treinta años, Shenzhen era una ciudad pesquera de unos 30.000 habitantes. Hoy día, esta
metrópolis de más de 10 millones de residentes permanentes se enorgullece de su moderna
red de instalaciones culturales públicas y de ser el más joven anfitrión de los 26º Juegos
Universitarios Mundiales inaugurados el 12 de agosto.
Shenzhen puede ser una ciudad nueva, pero sus raíces se hunden 3.000 años atrás, como
muestran los objetos de bronce expuestos en el museo de Shenzhen, que la Sra. Bokova visitó,
acompañada de su director y de altos funcionarios de la municipalidad de Shenzhen. El museo
contiene una crónica de la historia de la ciudad desde la prehistoria hasta los tiempos modernos e ilustraciones de tamaño
natural de escenas que muestran el patrimonio cultural y las tradiciones de la región.
+ info: http://www.unesco.org/new/es/media-services/single-view/news/
director_general_discovers_shenzhens_modern_cultural_landmarks/
Address by Irina Bokova, Director-General of UNESCO on the occasion of the inauguration of the exhibition for
the Day of Slavic cultures - 31 May 2011
...I am delighted to come here for the opening of this exhibition dedicated to Slavic cultures.
I wish to congratulate and thank foremost the Permanent Delegations of the Russian Federation and Slovenia for this
initiative.
I am aware that this follows a successful meeting of the Forum of Slavic Cultures at UNESCO Headquarters on 24 May, the
Day of Slavic Alphabet and Culture.
This pays tribute to the dedication of the Member States of the Forum for Slavic Cultures, who initiated this exhibition, to
preserving and promoting the values that are shared by Slavic-speaking countries…
+ info: http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0019/001928/192891e.pdf
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Patrimonio Vernáculo
Noticias
Journée du Patrimoine de Pays et Journée des Moulins 2011: le patrimoine caché - France
...Le voyage dans le temps peut commencer par ce qui a été creusé dans la terre ou dans la roche par les troglodytes.
Depuis que les hommes habitent notre pays, ils ont laissé des vestiges un peu partout. L'archéologie ne cesse d'aller de
découverte en découverte, de la grotte préhistorique à la villa gallo-romaine ou au four à briques abandonné depuis les
débuts du moyen âge. On connaît des puits autrefois situés en surface, que l'accumulation séculaire de ruines et de
bâtiments a enfoui aujourd'hui à deux ou trois niveaux sous le rez de chaussée ! Au fond des caves, des celliers ou du chai,
peut se cacher peut-être le lieu jalousement gardé où sont conservées les bouteilles les plus poussiéreuses. Bien des
châteaux, témoins de guerres de vengeances, de cruautés, possèdent des échappées souterraines, des cachettes, des
prisons, sans oublier…les oubliettes ! Le sol de beaucoup d'églises recouvre des cryptes. Les persécutions religieuses, les
grandes pestes nous ont laissé des catacombes et des ossuaires…
+ info: http://www.journeedupatrimoinedepays.com/theme.htm
In Old Maine Farmhouse, The Real Christina's World of Andrew Wyeth Lives On - Cushing - Maine - USA
Andrew Wyeth's famous painting "Christina's World" shows a crippled woman dragging herself across a field toward a
farmhouse. A tour of the house, which was declared a National Historic Landmark June 30, offers a fascinating, in-depth
look at the real world of Christina Olson and her family, and also reveals the story of Wyeth's relationship with them.
Wyeth spent 30 years producing some 300 works of art depicting the Olsons and their home in Cushing, Maine. This
summer and fall offer a rare opportunity to see 50 of those paintings and drawings at the Farnsworth Art Museum's Wyeth
Center in the nearby town of Rockland, where they are on loan from Marunuma Art Park in Asaka, Japan, through Oct. 30,
in a show called "Andrew Wyeth, Christina's World and the Olson House."
+ info: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=49121
+ info: http://www.archdaily.com/148667/chatelard-clermont-architectes/
Agenda
Public Seminar Series - The Cultural Heritage Centre for Asia and the Pacific
1 ago - 30 nov 2011 . Melbourne, Australia
Organizadores: Deakin University
Contacto: enquire@deakin.edu.au
+ info: http://www.deakin.edu.au/arts-ed/chcap/seminars/index.php
Publicaciones
Twelve houses restored in Japan and Italy
By Olimpia Niglio and Taisuke Kuroda
ISBN: 978-88-548-4148-2
The restoration of architecture in a nation is a project strictly connected to its culture, its society, as well
as to the weather conditions and to its political and economic background. The contemporary culture, in
particular, has developed an awareness of the fact that the main purpose of the conservation of
monuments and landscape is not only protecting the matter of social well but also its intrinsic values,
strongly connected to the sense of belonging to the place. The necessity of searching these values comes
from the need of knowledge of the different cultural references that permit to man to direct his choices as concerns
conservation and safeguard compared to popular areas of interest apparently of less importance but vivid from the cultural
and social point of view.
And this is the birth of the relationship between values and needs connected to the demand of transformation of urban and
housing contexts. On these assumptions the book Twelve houses restored in Italy and Japan focuses on restoration
projects of historical urban contexts, where the theme of living produced changes, influenced different intervention
methods and functional choices without changing the sign of history. The book wants to introduce restoration projects
comparing different cultural realities and architectonical methods that characterized the present situation in Italy and
Japan. The experiences described in the book notice an interesting sharing among the different methods of restoration.
+ info: http://www.aracneeditrice.it/pdf/4148.pdf
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Patrimonio mundial
Noticias
La Tanzanie renonce à la route trans-Serengeti - République-Unie de Tanzanie
À la grande satisfaction des défenseurs de l’environnement, le gouvernement tanzanien a abandonné
son projet de tracer une voie express traversant le parc du Serengeti, route qui risquait de
compromettre tout l’écosystème du parc national et son attrait pour les touristes.
Sensible aux avertissements des scientifiques et des écologistes, le ministère des Ressources naturelles
et du tourisme tanzanien, dans une lettre envoyée au Centre du patrimoine mondial à Paris, a confirmé
l’abandon du projet de construction d’une grande route goudronnée à travers le Parc national du
Serengeti pour relier le lac Victoria aux ports côtiers, se contentant de l’actuelle piste caillouteuse de 50
kilomètres dédiée au tourisme et à l’administration.
+ info: http://www.maxisciences.com/serengeti/la-tanzanie-renonce-a-la-route-trans-serengeti_art15399.html
News from Our Place to your place: pictures of the World Heritage Sites
The last months have been very busy at Our Place as we have been preparing and testing our new public content
generated web site www.ourplacephotos.org. This site is now fully functioning so visit, join up, and then share your
photographs of your favourite World Heritage sites. We will be running competitions and special promotions at our place
photos as we work to promote “our place on our planet”.
+ info: http://www.ourplacephotos.org/my-photos.aspx
La Russie inaugure une immense digue contre les inondations - Saint Pétersbourg -
Fédération de Russie
Vendredi, le Premier ministre russe Vladimir Poutine a inauguré à Saint-Pétersbourg une immense
digue destinée à protéger la ville des inondations qui la frappent tous les ans. S'étendant sur 25
kilomètres, elle doit résister à une montée des eaux jusqu'à 5 mètres au dessus des quais.
Près de 32 ans après le lancement de sa construction, la digue est enfin achevée. Vendredi, Vladimir
Poutine, Premier ministre de Russie, a inauguré à Saint-Pétersbourg, cet immense barrage visant à
protéger la ville des inondations dont elle est régulièrement victime.
+ info: http://www.maxisciences.com/inondation/la-russie-inaugure-une-immense-digue-contre-les-inondations_art16351.
html
Le Nil ne s'est pas toujours écoulé au pied des temples égyptiens de Karnak - Egypte
Situés au cœur de la vallée du Nil, les temples de Karnak ont généré de nombreuses théories quant à leur implantation
originelle : ont-ils été construits sur des îles sableuses au milieu du fleuve ou étaient-ils localisés au pied du Nil comme
c'est le cas aujourd'hui ? Ni l'un ni l'autre : des études géomorphologiques, paléoenvironnementales et sédimentologiques
menées par Matthieu Ghilardi, chercheur au centre européen de recherche et d'enseignement des géosciences de
l'environnement (CEREGE) (CNRS/Universités de Provence et Paul Cézanne/IRD/Collège de France) montrent qu'au
moment de leur édification (en 2000 avant JC) le Nil en était distant de 400 à 500 mètres. Ce n'est que 400 ans plus tard
que le fleuve s'en rapprochera suite à un mouvement hydrodynamique. Ces travaux sont publiés dans la revue Journal of
Archaeological Science.
+ info: http://www2.cnrs.fr/presse/communique/2233.htm
Le jeudi 16 juin, la Grotte de Lascaux a ouvert ses portes à une poignée de journalistes pour une visite
visant à mettre un terme au débat sur l'état de préservation du site préhistorique. Une visite organisée
en présence du préhistorien Jean Clottes et de la conservatrice du site, Muriel Mauriac. Comme le
rapporte le site du journal Sud-Ouest, il est désormais nécessaire de porter un équipement complet pour pouvoir pénétrer
dans la grotte. Vêtus d'une combinaison stérile, de gants en latex, de chaussures couvertes de deux protections, les
visiteurs doivent passer quatre sas fermés par de lourdes portes avant de pouvoir admirer les ornements de la grotte
préhistorique dont la température intérieure est soigneusement maintenue à 12,3 °C. Bien sûr, appareil photo et caméra
sont proscrits.
+ info: http://www.maxisciences.com/grotte-de-lascaux/grotte-de-lascaux-une-premiere-visite-sous-haute-
surveillance_art15290.html
Débat au musée du Quai Branly: Lascaux, Pompéi, Angkor. peut-on sauvegarder notre patrimoine
archéologique ? -CNRS (Centre national de la recherche scientifique) - France
Fresques des grottes de Lascaux, site de Pompéi, temples d’Angkor, notre patrimoine archéologique soulève constamment
des questions de sauvegarde, de restauration et de conservation. Doit-on tout sauvegarder ? Pourquoi restaurer un site
plutôt qu’un autre ? Comment protéger les sites archéologiques des dégâts liés à l’afflux de touristes ? La restitution
virtuelle peut-elle être une alternative à la conservation ? Autant de sujets passionnants auxquels vous êtes invités à
prendre part en compagnie de nos intervenants.
+ info: http://www.cnrs.fr/lesgrandsdebats/spip.php?article53
RESTORATION OF THE STATUE OF LIBERTY - NEW YORK CITY - NEW YORK STATE - USA
Restoration of the Statue of Liberty in progressIn May of 1982, President Ronald Reagan
appointed Lee Iacocca to head up a private sector effort to restore the Statue of Liberty.
Fundraising began for the $87 million restoration under a public/private partnership between the
National Park Service and the Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation, Inc., to date the most
successful such partnership in American history. In 1984, at the start of the Statue’s restoration,
the United Nations designated the Statue of Liberty as a World Heritage Site…
+ info: http://statueofliberty.net/historical-facts/restoration/
Desde su apertura hace cuatro semanas, el Museo de Liverpool ha recibido 250,000 visitantes - Liverpool -
Reinos Unido.
More than 250,000 people have visited the Museum of Liverpool since it opened four weeks ago, equivalent to the
capacities of Anfield or Goodison Park 5 to 6 times over and more than half the population of the city as a whole. Crowds
have flocked to the new Museum with an average of 8,300 people a day through the doors. The Museum which is free
entry opened on 19 July and tells the story of the city and its people. Museum bosses had predicted 78,000 visitors in the
first month of opening, but the response from the public has been three times that.
Janet Dugdale, Director of the Museum of Liverpool said: ”The visitor figures are staggering. We are thrilled with the
success of the new Museum. To get a quarter of a million people through the doors in the first month is fantastic. There is
a real buzz of excitement in the Museum and it’s so nice to see so many people enjoying themselves.”
+ info: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=49906
Celebration of the 450th Anniversary of St. Basil's Cathedral After $14 Million Restoration - Moscow - Russian
Federation
Russia will celebrate the 450th anniversary of St. Basil's Cathedral by opening an exhibition dedicated to the so-called
"holy fool" who gave his name to the soaring structure of bright-hued onion domes that is a quintessential image of Russia.
The eccentrically devout St. Basil wore no clothes even during the harsh Russian winters and was one of the very few
Muscovites who dared to lambast tyrannical Czar Ivan the Terrible.
Ivan, whose gory purges claimed tens of thousands of lives, feared St. Basil as "a seer of people's hearts and minds,"
according to one chronicle. He personally carried St. Basil's coffin to a grave right outside the Kremlin. The cathedral,
constructed to commemorate Ivan's victory over Mongol rulers, was built on the burial site.
+ info: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=48926
NEWS - CALL FOR PROTECTION OF PEOPLE'S RIGHTS ALONG WITH HERITAGE CONSERVATION IN HAMPI -
Condemn the inhuman and illegal eviction and demolition at Hampi Bazaar - Deadline 25 August 2011
We hope you will join our call by endorsing this statement calling for protection of people’s rights along with heritage
conservation in Hampi. Write to us at campaigns@equitabletourism.org with your name and organisation by 25th August
2011. Do pass this around as well.
+ info: http://www.equitabletourism.org/campaign.php?AID=1050
El parque nacional del Gran Cañón alberga a un amigo del Patrimonio Mundial
El Sr. John Zulu, gestor del parque nacional del Mosi-oa-Tunya / Victoria Falls y sitio patrimonio
mundial llevó a EEUU el 5 de agosto para pasar seis semanas inmerso en los detalles de la
gente, el parque, y la gestión de recursos en el parque nacional del Gran Cañón como el último
“US World Heritage Fellow”, patrocinado por el servicio del parque nacional con el apoyo del
Fondo de Naciones Unidas y del Fondo del parque nacional.
Mr. Zulu trabaja para la Comisión de Conservación del Patrimonio Nacional como gestor del
sitio para el parque nacional de las cataratas Victoria, el único sitio patrimonio mundial de
Zambia. Situado en el río Zambezi, las cataratas se sientan a horcajadas en la frontera de Zambia-Zimbabue y se
consideran un lugar patrimonio mundial transfronterizo.
+ info: http://whc.unesco.org/en/news/791
UNESCO National Consultation Workshop ' Nepal and the Silk Roads'
6-sep-2011 . Lalitpur, Nepal
Organizadores: Kathmandu
Contacto: s.nipuna@unesco.org
+ info: http://www.unesco.org/new/en/unesco/events/all-events/?tx_browser_pi1[showUid]=4447&cHash=bf39f7f552
UNESCO World Heritage Centre Meeting on Megalithic Sites and the World Heritage Convention
20 sep - 24 sep 2011 . Antequera, España
Organizadores: Junta de Andalucía
Contacto: n.sanzat@eunesco.org
+ info: http://whc.unesco.org/en/events/767/
La Organización de las Ciudades del Patrimonio Mundial (OCPM): Algunas breves noticias
Las acciones de la OCPM, que van encaminadas a contribuir a la implantación de la Convención del Patrimonio Mundial,
afectan diversos aspectos, entre ellos, la información y la formación de los gestores municipales. Por ello se organizan
coloquios y seminarios sobre los retos que se han de enfrentar en materia de gestión, así como sobre las estrategias de
valorización y conservación de los conjuntos históricos.
+ info: http://www.ovpm.org/
El Louvre “socio privilegiado del Estado” para el Hotel de la Marina - París - Francia
El jefe del Estado había pedido a la Comisión sobre el futuro del Hotel de la Marina que le
entregara “antes del verano” un informe “sobre la mejor utilización posible” de este palacete
situado en la plaza de la Concordia. Como se esperaba, ésta se pronunció a favor de una
asociación entre el Estado y el Louvre.
+ info: http://www.artclair.com/site/archives/docs_article/87021/le-louvre---partenaire-
privilegie-de-l-etat---pour-l-hotel-de-la-marine.php
Serengeti Watch: Why We're Not Celebrating - The United Republic of Tanzania
Unfortunately, some in the media have claimed a great victory for conservation, believing that plans for a road across the
Serengeti have been stopped. Some conservation organizations have diplomatically praised President Kikwete for his
wisdom.
But we do not share this view, knowing that those who have pushed for a commercial route through the Serengeti can
claim their victory as well...
+ info: http://www.savetheserengeti.org/issues/the-serengeti-why-were-not-celebrating/#axzz1XM95th7O
decades by Olivetti before changing owners. In April of 2011 Scarpa’s Olivetti Showroom re-emerged once again as the
display space for Olivetti products. Though this time Scarpa’s design of the space is what is truly on display.
+ info: http://www.archdaily.com/155074/
AD Classics: Hiroshima Peace Center and Memorial Park / Kenzo Tange - 1949 - 1955 - Hiroshima - Japan
On August 6th, 1945, a B-29 bomber dropped the first atomic bomb in history over Hiroshima, Japan, targeting the
intersection of bridges over the Honkawa and Motoyasu rivers. The bomb devastated Hiroshima within a radius of 5 km,
resulting in 140,000-150,000 deaths by December of that year. Kenzo Tange was commissioned with the challenge of
designing the reconstruction of Hiroshima. By designing the Hiroshima Peace Center and Memorial Park, Tange expressed
the solidarity of human kind as well as symbolizing a commitment to peace
+ info: http://www.archdaily.com/160170
Extension of the National Maritime Museum / C. F. Møller Architects - Greenwich - United Kingdom
C. F. Møller Architects has designed the extension of The National Maritime Museum in London, Britain’s seventh largest
tourist attraction and part of the Maritime Greenwich World Heritage Site.
The new wing, called The Sammy Ofer Wing – named after the international shipping magnate and philanthropist Sammy
Ofer, who has funded most of £36.5m extension – was inaugurated on the 12th of July with the participation of among
others the British Prince Philip. On Thursday 14th of July the extension opens to the public.
+ info: http://www.archdaily.com/150481/
Success for African Heritage - Newsletter from the African World Heritage Fund
We are glad and proud to announce that five new African Sites were inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List during
this year's World Heritage Committee Meeting that took place in Paris June 19 - 29. This is the first year that as many as
five African Sites has been inscribed on the List - a development that we will continue to work hard to keep up.
+ info: http://www.awhf.net/index.php?option=com_acymailing&ctrl=archive&listid=1-mailinglist&Itemid=72&lang=en
UNITAR (United Nations Institute for Training and Research) World Heritage Training Workshop (Hiroshima -
Japan - July 2011)
The United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) organised its ninth training workshop on the management
and conservation of World Heritage Sites in Hiroshima, Japan, on 4 to 8 July 2011. ICOMOS is a partner organisation in
this series.
* presented participants with key information about the World Heritage system, especially nominations
* also presented useful information about general heritage issues and practices
* focused particular attention on the relatively new World Heritage nominations manual, and on the comparative analysis
part of nominations
* created the opportunity for networking amongst international participants and resource persons
The workshop benefitted from study tours to the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park and A-Bomb Dome, and to Miyajima
Itsukushima Shinto Shrine – both World Heritage sites.
+ info: http://australia.icomos.org/e-news/australia-icomos-e-mail-news-no-494/#3.
Jorge Palacios: Sculptures in Dialogue with the City of Toledo and Exhibition at Canal Foundation, Madrid -
Spain
Toledo hosts the exhibition project of Jorge Palacios (Madrid, 1979) "The dialogues of the curve: urban sculptures in the
streets of Toledo" conceived as a itinerary through different places representative of the city, including the environment of
the Bisagra Gate, the Sun Gate, the Santa Cruz Museum or the Fuensalida Palace. The traveling exhibition of Jorge
Palacios "The dialogues of the curve" will stay in Toledo until August.
+ info: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=48267
Agenda
UNESCO Pacific World Heritage Workshop 'Pacific Heritage for Today and Tomorrow'
5 sep - 9 sep 2011 . Apia, Samoa
Organizadores: UNESCO
Contacto: Diana Roma, National Programme Officer (d.roma(at)unesco.org)
+ info: http://www.unesco.org/new/en/apia/culture/apia-world-heritage-workshop/
Australia ICOMOS - Canberra Talks Series: Pacific Solutions towards World Heritage Island Abandonment,
Climate Change, and Tangible/Intangible Pasts
22-sep-2011 . Canberra, Australia
Organizadores: Autralia ICOMOS
Contacto: mct-oz@bigpond.net.au
+ info: http://australia.icomos.org/e-news/australia-icomos-e-mail-news-no-502/#6.
Exhibition 'Satellites and World Heritage Sites, Partners to Understand Climate Change' - UNESCO
Headquarters
26 sep - 11 nov 2011 . Paris, Francia
Organizadores: The exhibition is organized in partnership with Planet Action, the European Space Agency, NASA, the
German Aerospace Centre and BELSPO, with support from the Permanent Delegation of the Kingdom of Belgium to
UNESCO.
Contacto: m.hernandez@unesco.org / m.cardenas@unesco.org
+ info: http://www.unesco.org/new/en/unesco/events/all-events/?tx_browser_pi1[showUid]=4534&cHash=866f6094b9
5th International Conference of Euro-Asia World Heritage cities - Heritage of the Future Generations
27 oct - 29 oct 2011 . Istanbul, Turquía
Organizadores: Organization of World Heritage Cities
Contacto: euroasia_owhc@yahoo.com
+ info: http://www.ovpm.org/sites/ovpm/files/documents/announce_pdf.pdf
International Conference: The future of Venice and its lagoon in the context of global change
13 nov - 15 nov 2011 . Venice, Italia
Organizadores: UNESCO
Contacto: thefutureofvenice@unesco.org
FECHA LÍMITE: 30 sep 2011
+ info: http://www.unesco.org/new/en/venice/special-themes/venice-its-lagoon/the-future-of-venice-its-lagoon/
Publicaciones
La Loire, mémoire d’un fleuve - France
Par Jean-Mary Couderc
Mai 2011
Cet ouvrage de Jean-Mary Couderc, réalisé en partenariat avec la Mission Val de Loire, est le premier de la
nouvelle collection « Les patrimoines » éditée par la Nouvelle République.
Sommaire :
Il est disponible chez les marchands de journaux de la zone de diffusion de la Nouvelle République du Centre-Ouest.
+ info: http://www.valdeloire.org/Actualites/Articles/Tous/La-Loire-memoire-d-un-fleuve
Hoi An World Heritage Site, VIET NAM - Heritage Homeowner's preservation manual
Authors: Tran Van An; Tran Anh; Nguyen Duc Minh; Nguyen Chi Trung; Tomoda, Hiromichi;
Nagumo, Ichiro; Chang, Mark & Fukukawa, Yuichi
Country: Thailand/ Publ Year: 2008
The Homeowner’s Manuals have been developed within the framework of the “Integrated
Community Development and Cultural Heritage Site Preservation in Asia and the Pacific
through Local Effort” programme (LEAP), which strengthens local community involvement in
heritage conservation. The manuals aim to build local capacity in heritage preservation by
training homeowners to maintain their historic properties using appropriate conservation approaches. The manuals present
a synthesis of traditional building techniques and modern conservation science. They codify time-tested methods adapted
to each type of structure using indigenous building materials and techniques. The manuals have been developed in
conjunction with local heritage managers and national conservation experts, who will also be involved in training local
stakeholders.
The third volume in this series focuses on the World Heritage site of Hoi An, Viet Nam, an exceptionally well-preserved
example of a South-East Asian trading port dating back to the fifteenth century. Its buildings and its street plan reflect the
influences, both indigenous and foreign, that have combined to produce this unique heritage site. It is hoped that the Hoi
An Homeowner’s Manual will strengthen the local conservation ethic and contribute positively to the long-term
sustainability of this ancient town.
+ info: http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0019/001930/193014m.pdf
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Forum UNESCO - Universidad y Patrimonio (FUUP) es un proyecto de la UNESCO para la realización de actividades para la protección y salvaguarda del
patrimonio cultural, a través de una red informal de instituciones de educación superior. FUUP está bajo la responsabilidad común del Centro de
Patrimonio Mundial de la UNESCO y la Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (UPV) España. Este sitio web no es un sitio oficial de UNESCO, sino un sitio
web creado y gestionado por la UPV en el marco del proyecto FUUP.
Contacto Contacto
Personal
UNESCO – Centro de Patrimonio Mundial (WHC)
7, place de Fontenoy
75352 Paris 07 SP (FRANCIA)
Tel: +33 1 45 68 10 25
Fax: +33 1 45 68 55 70
E-mail: whc@unesco.org
Internet:
WHC: http://whc.unesco.org
UNESCO: http://portal.unesco.org
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