D8 - Protect, restore and enhance heritage, making greater use of new technologies
Protecting, restoring and enhancing heritage mean constantly having to come up with new solutions in a changing context, undertaking multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary research, trialing new models and new methods and promoting the rational use of the new technologies.
D8 Challenges
Development challenges
- Developing Europe’s prosperity by drawing on its heritage resources
- Implementing the principle of integrated conservation
- Developing the ability of public services to address sustainable spatial development issues by means of better use of heritage
- Increasing the use and reuse of heritage
Knowledge challenges
- Guaranteeing a high technical level for all heritage trades and crafts
- Supporting, strengthening and promoting intergovernmental co-operation
- Encouraging heritage research
D8 Target audience
- local
- regional
- national
Recommended courses of action for D8
- Inform heritage players, in co-operation with specialists, about the new technologies, including their potential and their limits
- Carry out pre-restoration work studies using non-invasive technologies (digitisation, augmented reality, 3D scanners, modelling, drones, LiDAR, etc.)
- Use non-invasive exploration techniques to study inaccessible or fragile areas
- Develop representations of heritage by means of the new technologies (modelling, 3D printing)
Good practices for D8
Conservation, restoration and exhibition of Eski Mosque and creating a museum of religion, Stara Zagora
Interactive research and conservation project of the Retable of the High Altar of Tallinn’s St. Nicholas’ Church
The Ancient stadium of Philippopolis – preservation, rehabilitation and urban revitalisation
- Strategy 21 - Territorial and economic development (D)
- D1 - Promote cultural heritage as a resource and facilitate financial investment
- D2 - Support and promote the heritage sector as a means of creating jobs and business opportunities
- D3 - Promote heritage skills and professionals
- D4 - Produce heritage impact studies for rehabilitation, construction, planning and infrastructure projects
- D5 - Encourage the reuse of heritage and use of traditional knowledge and practice
- D6 - Ensure that heritage is taken into account in development, spatial planning, environmental and energy policies
- D7 - Give consideration to heritage in sustainable tourism development policies
- D8 - Protect, restore and enhance heritage, making greater use of new technologies
- D9 - Use innovative techniques to present cultural heritage to the public, while preserving its integrity
- D10 - Use the cultural heritage as a means of giving the region a distinctive character and making it more attractive and better known
- D11 - Develop new management models to ensure that heritage benefits from the economic spinoffs that it generates