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Architecture, Structures and Construction - Call for Papers - Heritage in Transformation: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Cultural Heritage in a Changing World

Guest Editors:
Dr. Pasquale Cucco, University of Salerno, Italy
Dr. Vietro Vecchi, Aichi Shukutoku University, Japan
Dr. Rolando Volzone, Institute of Medieval Studies, NOVA University of Lisbon, Portugal

Submission Status: Open   |   Submission deadline: 1 October 2024

Description
Cultural heritage possesses significant potential to enrich people’s quality of life, promote understanding of the past, and foster collective cohesion, shaping individual identities and future trajectories. Although current policies emphasize safeguarding cultural heritage for future generations, it is constantly undergoing changes due to various factors such as uncontrolled urban expansion, mass tourism, lack of significance recognition, incompatible adaptation, maintenance issues, vandalism, and conflicts, among others. In light of rapid cultural, social, and technological changes in the 21st century, acknowledging the dynamic nature of cultural heritage can help make social transformations meaningful. However, despite the potential benefits, the transformative nature of cultural heritage remains underexplored. The challenge lies in delving deeper into research in this area, developing effective methods to broaden understanding and highlight the transformative potential of cultural heritage while also governing actions impacting cultural assets. This special issue aims to focus broadly on the theme of cultural heritage in transformation (buildings, sites, landscapes, etc.) with an emphasis on methods, tools, and strategies to safeguarding heritage and adverting the loss of tangible and intangible values.

The Special Issue encourages exploration of the theme in a multidisciplinary way, soliciting research papers from international networks, including those supported by the European Union or other relevant national and international initiatives. The suggested topics include, but are not limited to:

  • strategies for the conservation, recovery, and maintenance of the built heritage 
  • Heritage Impact Assessment methods and tools 
  • defence of cultural and natural heritage at risk, with reference to UNESCO sites 
  • investigation and graphic restitution in traditional and modern techniques as a tool for knowledge and protection of heritage values 
  • strategies for enhancing and promoting cultural heritage
  • techniques for structural improvement and adaptation, consistent with the principles of conservation and restoration 
  • landscape restoration and risk analysis and mitigation

This Collection supports and amplifies research related to United Nation Sustainable Development Goals 11: Sustainable Cities & Communities (this opens in a new tab); 12: Responsible Consumption & Production (this opens in a new tab) & 13: Climate Action (this opens in a new tab).

Submission guidelines
All papers must be prepared in accordance with the Instructions for Authors at:
https://www.springer.com/journal/44150/submission-guidelines (this opens in a new tab).  Authors should submit via the online submission site (this opens in a new tab) and select article type "Heritage in Transformation: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Cultural Heritage in a Changing World".

Submitted papers should present original, unpublished work, relevant to one of the topics of the Special Issue. All papers will be evaluated on the basis of relevance, significance of contribution, technical quality, scholarship, and quality of presentation by at least two reviewers. It is the policy of the journal that no submission, or substantially overlapping submission, be published or be under review at another journal or conference at any time during the review process. Final decisions on all papers are made by the Editors-in-Chief.

Meet the Guest Editors:
Pasquale Cucco is a building engineer and architect. He has a PhD in "Risk and Sustainability in Civil, Building and Environmental Engineering Systems", and is a postdoc research fellow at the University of Salerno. Since March 2023, he has been an Assistant Professor in Architectural Engineering at the same institution. Since January 2022, he has been a visiting researcher at the École National Supérieure d'Architecture de Versailles, LeaV Research Laboratory. His research interests focus primarily on the knowledge, conservation and sustainable recovery of architecture and landscapes under current forms of risk.

Pietro Vecchi graduated with a master’s degree in architecture from Sapienza University of Rome in 2017. He then moved to Japan, where he obtained a PhD in Design and Architecture at Nagoya City University in 2023. Since April 2024 he has been a Lecturer at the Department of Architecture and Interior Design at Aichi Shukutoku University. His main field of research concerns architecture for education, particularly university campuses, from design, historical and conservation aspects; a second field of research concerns post World War II architectural heritage conservation.

Rolando Volzone is an architect working on building rehabilitation, and a postdoc researcher at the Institute of Medieval Studies (IEM), Faculty of Social and Human Sciences of NOVA University of Lisbon, Portugal. Since 2022, he is also an Assistant Professor in "Contemporary Religious Architecture" and "Conservation and Sustainability", and lecturer at the PhD programs "Political Economy" and "Architecture of Contemporary Metropolitan Territories" at ISCTE-IUL. He completed his PhD with distinction in December of 2020, focusing on the cultural heritage of religious orders in southern Portugal.

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