Training on Documentation in Architectural Heritage: The Experience of ARIS and CLADIC Courses

Abstract

Following the idea that “better than to give a fish to someone who is hungry is to train him how to fish by himself”, ICCROM [International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Conservation of Cultural Property] has promoted the International Advanced Course titled “Architectural Records, Inventories and Information Systems for Conservation” that was held in Rome during 2003 and has had a second edition in collaboration with The Getty Conservation Institute in 2005. Following the experience of ARIS Course, the Instituto del Patrimonio Histórico Español in collaboration with the Escuela de Estudios Árabes of Granada promoted a similar course named CLADIC addressed to Latin-American professionals engaged with the conservation and documentation issues in their countries. These courses are mainly based on the use of accessible tools of low cost and simple handle and have permitted by now the training of almost 40 people from over 30 different countries for recording cultural heritage and the increase of their awareness on the importance and necessity of cultural heritage documentation processes to be promoted from their own institutions worldwide. In these courses several persons related to CIPA have been involved.