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This paper explores some of the challenges involved in conducting academic research in the field of built heritage. These include visiting sites, documenting them, surveying them, and talking to the people responsible for their conservation, management and, in the case of 20th century, authorship.
We will discuss and argue that academic research into the built heritage is often interdisciplinary in nature and requires different skills and techniques to those used in other areas of research. The focus will be on the similarities between research fields such as art history and architecture. The aim is to highlight the unique aspects of research in the built heritage field and the tools that researchers consider essential to their work, as well as the real challenges that young researchers face.
This will be demonstrated through five examples of research carried out in Portugal and Spain, covering different aspects of monastic architecture, art and culture, traditional building techniques, the role of local museums in conserving heritage, and 20th century architecture. Each project will describe how they were undertaken, what their objectives were, and what challenges they encountered, including how these were overcome or presented as opportunities for further research. Through the presentation of ongoing research on Portuguese Cistercian monasteries, art, architecture and monastic culture in Spain, the work of the 20th century Portuguese architect Manuel Taínha, the resilient corbelled domes considered a true example of the dry-stone technique and now classified as intangible heritage, and the involvement of Portuguese and Spanish local mountain museums in their territorial and historical contexts, this paper shows how these five projects have faced multiple and equal setbacks.
While significant progress has been made in establishing a comprehensive information network through continued investment in the digital preservation of the built heritage, we conclude that additional investment in the development of multidisciplinary teams and cross-referencing between different research fields and geographical areas still needs to be made.
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The authors acknowledge and are very grateful for the independent financial support achieved through the project CH RESILIENCE.
The authors acknowledge the support granted by the University of Beira Interior, through its Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture (DECA) and the research units GEOBIOTEC - GeoBioSciences, GeoTechnologies and GeoEngineering (GEO/04035), Lab2PT—Landscape, Heritage and Territory laboratory (AUR/04509) / IN2PAST (LA/P/0132/2020) and CIDEHUS—Interdisciplinary Centre for History, Cultures and Societies (HIS/00057).
The authors acknowledge and are very grateful for the support granted by the Science and Technology Foundation (FCT), through the University of Beira Interior and the University of Zaragoza, within the Consortium UNITA (Universitas Montium) and the Project “The Art of Place: Cultural Heritage in Manuel Taínha's legacy in an Iberian context” (Ref_UNITA2023_PC_2) as well as FCT (FCTPhD scholarship within this project ref. PRT/BD/154666/2023.
Keywords
Cultural Heritage Built Heritage Manuel Taínha Monastic Architecture Dry Stones Museums Portugal Spain
Citation
I. Cunha Simão, A. Martins-Nepomuceno, M. C. S. Nepomuceno, J. Salvado, N. Juan-García, C. Campelo-Gaínza, J. P. Lorente-Lorente, S. Amoreira, Iberian challenges on cultural built heritage academic research, 16th annual International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies, EDULEARN24 Proceedings, IATED, Palma de Mallorca, Spain, 1-3 July (2024), pp. 10380-10383. DOI: 10.21125/edulearn.2024.2552, ISBN: 978-84-09-62938-1, ISSN: 2340-1117.
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IATED