Monthly Archives: October 2011

When I arrived in Victoria for APTI a few days ago, I was fussing over my presentation, worrying about how to craft a meaningful story in 20 minutes. As APTI 2011 comes to a close, I have been reminded how … Continue reading →

Attendees of Workshop 1, “Masonry in a Marine Environment,” could not help but return home determined that preservation practice should involve more boat travel. Gorgeous weather and scenery accompanied a Saturday afternoon excursion via inflatable Zodiac boats through the Juan … Continue reading →

Well, APTers love their desserts!  To help raise funds for the student scholarship fund, the amazing desserts by Fairmont hotel’s pastry chef, D’oyen Christie, were auctioned off table by table. Bids flew around by the hundreds with one table bidding … Continue reading →

Carolina Castellanos provided the COF Lecture titled “State of Conservation and World Heritage Policies.” As an introduction of Carolina Castellanos, she is a cultural heritage consultant from Mexico who specializes in the conservation and management of heritage sites, particularly on … Continue reading →

Rosa Lowinger and Viviana Domiguez Conservation in the Time of Cholera:  The Stabilization and Removal Of Murals at the St. Trinite Cathedral in Port-au-Prince Rosa Lowinger and Viviana Domiguez went to Haiti to help in the recovery of culturally significant … Continue reading →

In Friday’s Session CS 18, Jessica Blemker-Ferree’s presentation was titled “Adaptive Use: Community Revitalized Through Urban Agriculture,” which is a presentation based on her thesis.  She said that urban agriculture has been discussed a lot recently, but needs to be … Continue reading →

Richard Linzey’s Friday morning presentation was titled “Guns and Roses: Conserving Ecologically and Culturally Significant Military Landscapes.”  Richard currently works for a branch of British Columbia Heritage and previously worked for English Heritage, with whom the following project was completed. … Continue reading →

During Session CS 18 on Managing the Environmental Change and Cultural Landscapes, Robert Melnick, spoke on climate change and rethinking our strategies for dealing with cultural landscapes.  For starters, he suggested that we need to consider the following: Cultural landscapes … Continue reading →

I had the pleasure of listening to several excellent presentations as part of today’s session on Materials chaired by Sue Ann Pemberton.  I was particularly struck by the well organized and delivered presentation of Teresa Almond for the government of … Continue reading →