Earth Architecture Program 2017 (Thierry Joffroy):
Earth Architecture program in 2017 which was inaugurated in February 2008 during
the "10th International Conference on the Study and Conservation of Earthen
Architectural Heritage" in Bamako, Mali, has been defined in close collaboration
between the World Heritage
UNESCO World and CRATerre-ENSAG.
It will be developed in partnership with the International Scientific Committee
on Architectural Heritage specializes in the land of ICOMOS (ISCEAH), ICCROM,
the Ecole du Patrimoine Africain (EPA) of Benin, the Centre for Development of
Heritage in Africa (CHDA
) CERKAS Morocco, and other national institutions in charge of heritage and the
institutions attached to World Heritage sites.
This new global program established as an extension of Africa 2009 ATHAR with
the program, but also in connection with the programs of the World Heritage
Centre to prepare for risks and climate change.
It extends the African experience of the last 10 years in Arab countries, to
Asia to Latin America to Europe to you.
The program objectives are:
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To develop methods and techniques designed to improve the sustainability of
conservation and management of different types of earthen architectural heritage
on the List of World Heritage and / or included on the Tentative Lists of States
Parties;
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To ensure wider dissemination of good practices for a specific application on
the property protected under the World Heritage Convention, without excluding a
wider application to improve the living conditions of communities and contribute
to the
poverty reduction.
The main guidelines include:
- Development of pilot projects on an extensive
selection of sites in the world heritage list;
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The establishment of cooperation agreements with States Parties on the
development of conservation activities and research on the preservation of
earthen architecture;
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The establishment of a series of activities to address specific topics or types;
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Contribution to sustainable development, social, economic, cultural, and poverty
reduction;
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Participation of local communities and in particular of women in the program;
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Capacity building of regional institutions in the world;
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The gradual transfer of responsibilities for program management at the regional
level, taking into consideration the fundamental role of scientific research and
expertise of the UNESCO Chair Earthen Architecture & sustainable development
pilot CRATerre-ENSAG.
In scientific research, such as training and projects within the next
quadriennaldéveloppera a pilot phase (2009-2010) in Africa and the Arab
countries, and a consolidation phase (2011-2014) in Latin America and Central
Asia
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Research activities to be launched, managed and
accompanied, in the next four will cover include:
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Scientific research laboratory on raw materials, stabilization and moisture
migration (related to the program on the subject and materials of the theme No.
2);
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Applied research on site to improve conservation practices, and documentation
(inventories, multidisciplinary studies);
- Experimenting with prototypes and other innovative
methods;
- Organization of scientific seminars with themes of
researchers, site managers and conservation specialists of earthen architecture.
6 - adequacy of human and financial resources of the
unit with the project
6.1.
Policy animation unit
The inauguration of the new research unit AE & CC, implies an evolution of
governance in order to bring the project, its implementation and monitoring.
This is to set up a steering device while maintaining
a global management-specific research team constitutive unit.
The establishment of a management unit shared between two teachers rank
professor from each of the constituent laboratories of the unit, accompanied by
a vice-principal of these two entities, two teachers also rank teacher can
to consider the establishment of a steering committee
of the research unit that fulfills the mission of governance of science policy
and project and follows their implementation as well as being a decision-making
body and control.
It is envisaged that the steering committee be
expanded to a scientific committee comprising the heads of three major research
themes of the Unit: Habitat, Heritage and Materials.
The executive committee of the unit ensures the proper management of human
resources in relation to the establishment in respect of the staff (teachers,
researchers).
Management personnel or contracted employees of both
teams making up the unit is provided to each team by the director or an
executive with an administrative system adapted 13.
Follow-up meetings are held regularly projects 14.
Working groups on specific project-specific, will be
meeting at the initiative of the heads of three major research themes, as
required.
A program of research seminars 15 has just begun to allow researchers of the
unit to present their projects, their progress, and feed the internal trade and
scientific debate within the unit.
Doctoral students are invited to join in these
seminars.
Doctoral research is the responsibility of teachers HDR that may require support
from other teachers and doctors and researchers of the unit according to their
competence or expertise in investment research.
The use of external expertise may be required.
A comprehensive management information on all activities of the unit is set up
to capitalize on data relevant to all forms of recovery: assessment reports,
bibliography of works, list of events and other activities developed
production document management, etc..
Permanent monitoring of information on scientific events in France, Europe or
abroad, and the tendering of scientific projects at national, European and
international researchers will be positioned in accordance with the Committee
towards unity animating science policy in the determination of financial means
of support and / or hardware to be given, or procedures in connection with the
institution (International Relations Committee), and opportunities to respond to
calls for
offers and mobilizations needed.
6.2.
The prospective analysis and long-term needs and
skills required for scientific and technical changes identified
The composition of the new research unit AE & CC, such as team teaching the
master who is now named the same 16 allows an expansion of disciplines,
scientific and professional skills to address the development of the scientific
project
and teaching of the unit according to the three main areas and themes: Habitat,
Heritage and Materials.
The association of teachers and researchers in science and technical
architecture (architects, structural engineer and mechanical energy engineer,
engineers, materials) and the field of social sciences (sociology, urban
planning, anthropology, archeology, history
and art history) makes it possible to develop a new interdisciplinary or
multidisciplinary scientific approach on several projects supported by the unit.
This mutation should promote better scientific position on the various scales of
the scientific project and the deployment of basic research, R & D, action
research, and experimentation: of matter and materials in architecture,
architecture in the city and the territory of the city.
The next four will consolidate this change scientist with the previous four-year
commitment that requires primarily a consolidation of the status of contract
staff by seeking to obtain other items of research engineers and supporting the
candidacy of teachers associated with
unit recruitment in the national competition.