Science and Technology for the Conservation of Cultural Heritage
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New protocols for built heritage protection in the Basque Country: towards an automatic analysis tool for built heritage
Autores: Noelia Oses y Agustín Azkarate
Abstract:
This paper presents the past and current research work carried out in the development of an ICT tool to automate the analysis of built heritage. The aim of this tool is to help in and speed up the application of the new protection protocols (in development) in practice. This paper presents this tool and its two distinguished parts: the analysis component and the decision making component. The decision making component applies the criteria established in the protocol.The analysis component aims to automate the analysis process through the use of data in different formats to obtain the information necessary for the decision making component. The analysis component is the centre of current research. This paper shall finish with an analysis of the possible impact and consequences of such a tool for the protection of built heritage in the Basque Country.
The protection of the baserri as an organizing system for the rural landscape in the context of the urban sprawl’s process: the “SLaM” model versus the utopy of “smart cities
Autores: Ander de la Fuente, Ugaitz Gaztelu, Verónica Benedet, Agustín Azkarate
Abstract:
The baserri is a vernacular efficient agricultural productive system that has shaped the Basque landscape. As industry was undergoing mass expansion, many baserris were abandoned. After the industrial crisis, the value of these bucolic farms increased, but not as agricultural undertakings and forestall exploitations. This landscape has begun to be perceived as a continu-ous metropolis that needs a different model of consumption and performance.The neoliberal concept of “smart cities” gives priority to immediate economic profitability and technology, which are only applied to the fastest-growing neighbourhoods in metropolitan areas with the highest financial capability, dispossessing them of their identity.In contrast, we regard ‘smart landscapes of memory’ (SLaM) as heritage districts of a high cultural level and generators of a feeling of identity and belonging. They are subject to coordinated management and urban planning in order to achieve the sustainable development of the territory and, above all, of its inhabitant.
