Preventive Conservation: People,Objects, Place and Time in the Philippines |
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| Authors: | Nicole Tse Ana Maria Theresa Labrador Marcelle Scott Roberto Balarbar |
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| Institution: | 1. The Grimwade Centre for Cultural Materials Conservation, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australianicoleat@unimelb.edu.au;3. The National Museum of the Philippines, Manila, Philippines;4. The Grimwade Centre for Cultural Materials Conservation, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia |
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| Abstract: | ABSTRACTPreventive conservation, with its origins grounded in the material fabric of cultural material, is in a period of transformation, with numerous practitioners, in and outside of the field of conservation, considering its broader and holistic objectives. The conventional tools for the assertion of preventive conservation principles, namely the assessment and management of risks to cultural material from the ‘ten agents of deterioration’, have a central focus on the primacy of physical materials and degradation, with less clear relationships with people, place, and time in their modelling. With a case study focus on collections in the Philippines, this paper argues for a practice of preventive conservation that incorporates a balanced assessment and broader thinking around the contexts of objects, people, place, and time. The case studies of ecclesiastical Church collections, and museum environments in the Philippines, demonstrate how the interdependency of objects, people, place and time forms a holistic and conceptual preventive conservation framework. Through a cyclic renegotiation of these four parameters, this paper speculates on the gaps and opportunities for an inclusive view of preventive conservation that is current and more sustainable. |
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| Keywords: | Preventive conservation knowledge acquisition decoloniality social inclusion authority Philippines |
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