The International Workshop on Higher Education returns to UVic-UCC over the period 26 – 30 June 2017. This is an opportunity to enhance the international outlook of the University, promoting partnerships with prestigious academic and research centres around the world. For this 7th annual International Workshop on Higher Education (IWHE) we will organize the workshop:
“Mechatronics meets Heritage Conservation Science” Tuesday 27th June 2017.
Presentation
Science and technology applied to Cultural Heritage experienced a progressive advance during the last decades with a subsequent growing of the interest in analytical devices employed for the characterization of a wide range of materials, decay processes or conservation treatments. Nonetheless, such a kind of approach largely depends on the availability of funding to acquire high-tech devices. Usually, most of the latter are not intended for artworks diagnostic and or monitoring, thus implying additional costs for calibration and training purposes. Software copyright and hardware restrictions typical of industrial-oriented devices, concur in affecting an economically sustainable approach to technology.
On the other hand, the recent proliferation of open-source, user-friendly and low-cost hardware and software, as well as the enhancing of digital accessibility to knowledge and expertise, has increased the flexibility and capabilities in design and production of analytical devices. An innovative bottom-up approach to technology is facilitating the worldwide diffusion of the “maker culture”, with proliferation of hacker-spaces and fab-labs also within the academic environment. The recent advances in user-friendly, open and low-cost software and hardware are increasing the number of technologies based on the ‘knowledge sharing’ concept, allowing users to develop their own apparatus devoted to a multiple of purposes.
The aim of this workshop is twofold:
- getting the interest of Cultural Heritage professionals, operators and administrators on the opportunities that sustainable technology could offer to overcome economic obstacles,
- promote alternative technological solutions whose reliability is often underestimated, or simply unknown; expose to mechatronics professors, researchers, students and professionals, the field of science and technology applied to Cultural Heritage as a potentially receptive context, so to propose them to design and prototyping innovative solutions.
Mechatronics meets Heritage Conservation Science 27th June 2017
Program
9.00-9.10h Welcome
9.10-10.00h. Technological Innovation for the Knowledge construction yard in restoration process: Let us re-find our “sense of measure”, Paolo Salonia, CNR-Institute for Technologies Applied to Cultural Heritage, Italy. Executive Board ICOMOS Italy.
10.00-10.20h Affordable mechatronics for the empowerment of scientists, Pau Català, Juli Ordeix, Josep Ayats, Montserrat Corbera, Miquel Caballeria, MECAMAT Research Group, UVIC-UCC.
10.20-10.40h Demonstration of mechatronics solutions for lab-based challenges: Universal machine for tensile tests, Marcel Pla, Pau Català, MECAMAT Research Group, UVIC-UCC.
10.45h Coffee Break and Poster Session
11.30-12.20h The lab of the future: enabling collaboration between Engineering and Heritage, Josep Grau-Bové, UCL-SEAHA. EPSRC Centre for doctoral training in science and Engineering in Arts, Heritage and Archaeology (SEAHA) London, UK.
12.20-12.40h Sustainable technology for cultural heritage: the smarts project advances, Mainardo Gaudenzi Asinelli, Judit Molera, Juli Ordeix, Moisès Serra MECAMAT Research Group, UVIC-UCC.
12.40 a 13.00h Demonstration of mechatronics solutions for on site and lab-based challenges, Pau Català, Mainardo Gaudenzi, Sergi Martínez, Albert Muñoz, Josep Pomés, Albert Rovira, Mechatronic Engineers by UVic-UCC, Catalonia.
13:00 to 13:20h Share or die! The role of makers and DIY culture in research.
Marc Genevat, Make & Learn, Catalonia.
13:20 to 14:00h – Final Discussion and Conclusions
Dates and Place:
Tuesday 27 June 2017
Aula Segimon Serrallonga, Masia Torre dels Frares,
Universitat de Vic – Universitat Central de Catalunya
c/ Perot Rocaguinarda, 17, Vic.
Information:
Blog Mechatronics meets Heritage Conservation Science
Contact:
Judit Molera, coordinator MECAMAT Research Group
Registration:
Don’t forget to register! (write down the detail of the simposia you want to attend in the registration form)
Free Workshop registration
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