Areas and Topics

Topics include, but are not limited to:

Chemical and Physical advancement in the development of new materials and methods for the conservation/restoration of CH
Future trends in conservation and restoration technology: biotechnology, nanotechnology, tailored materials, physical techonologies
Assessment of effectiveness, compatibility, reversibility of new conservation treatments and methods
Ice-dry sandblasting method (CO2)
Stone material decay
Stone physical and petrochemical characterization
Methods and instruments for the conservation diagnosis and treatments
Restoration with plasma technologies
Nanomaterials and novel technologies for restoration

Topics include, but are not limited to:

Technology applications on art conservation and restoration on archaeological sites
Conservative restoration of the built-in model
Technologies for the design of conservative intervention
Interactive methods and augmented reality for virtual exploration and fruition of cultural heritage
User-centred experience of CH
3D modelling and 3D printing for education and for societal challenges
Underwater 3D acquisition methods and systems for archaeology
Robot and robotic platforms for service tasks in CH Restoration
Geomatics and Structural Modelling for CH

Topics include, but are not limited to:

Advancement in damage assessment: diagnosis (I.R., U.V., Raman, X-ray spectrophotometric technologies, tomography, X-ray, gas-chromatography and other analytical methods) and monitoring for the restoration, preventive conservation and maintenance of CH
Development and application of mathematic modelling as tools for damage assessment, monitoring and adaptation to climate change impacts
Protecting cultural heritage assets from risks and damages resulting from earthquakes, fires, storms, looting and extreme events
Assessing Heritage damages and diagnosing spell-over effects of wars and armed conflicts.
Scientific techniques and methods developed in materials science to offer invaluable information to archaeology, art history and conservation
Scheduled Conservation: preventive and predictive conservation
Education and painting conservation

Topics include, but are not limited to:

Virtual museums
Methods and systems for enhancing heritage fruition and storytelling
New methods for Education on art, conservation and restoration
Applications: document image processing and analysis, ancient photograph digital processing, ancient paper digital processing. Automatic understanding of writing and/or symbols on ancient documents
Systems, methods and applications for measurement, analysis and understanding of artistic artefacts
Ubiquitous and remote access to digital cultural heritage
4D Reconstruction of Tangible Cultural Heritage
Multimedia, Multilingua, Data Management, Archiving
Archaeological Analysis and Interpretive Design
Innovative solutions for the consolidation, dissemination, demonstration and exploitation of results, training and education related to the tangible and intangible CH (including open access to scientific results in cultural heritage as well as their preservation)
Systems, Methods and applications for Virtual and Digital Restoration
3D scanning, image scanning, remote sensing and no-contact and non-destructive methods
Rural / urban regeneration based on cultural heritage
Cultural Tourism & Travel Applications

Topics include, but are not limited to:

3D acquisition methods and systems for totally or partially submerged Cultural Heritage.
Monitoring of underwater Cultural Heritage for planned conservation and risk protection.
Preserving the landscape: how water changes the land
Acquisition systems for the detection of water pollutants.
BIM and HBIM for river, lake and maritime structures and infrastructures.
Gardens and fountains: measurements and operations of historical and contemporary water supply systems.
3D modelling for X-reality applications in and under water
Between land and water: Cartography as synthesis of history, art and nature
Measuring underwater: techniques, education and storytelling