• When industrial archaeology emerged in the middle years of the twentieth century there were, broadly speaking, two worlds, the developed - or industrial - and the developing- or non -industrial. Today, we might add a third, the post-industrial. Within the then industrial world there was a growing recognition - for which there was then a surprising amount of popular public support - that the origins and subsequent evolution of industrialisation deserved recognition, that its material evidence was a legitimate and rewarding field of study, that some of that evidence was sufficiently emblematic of a vital and vivid past to JUStify www.mnactec.com/ticcih retention, and that future generations might gain from it inspiration and understanding. In today's world we cannot take those views for granted . In the old industrial world, consciousness of the Prospects, importance of the social and economic changes wrought by industrialisation, first-hand knowledge and Perceptions and experience of industry and all it represented, is evaporating as generations change and the public the Public experience of work, in the industrial sense of the term, Keynote address from the XIV fades . TICCIH Congress in Freiberg. Already we can see the age of industry as a defining (The full text of the opening epoch in our history, not only in the context of its origms speech can be downloaded from and consequences but now, for the first time, in terms TICCIH's website) of its demise. Industrialisation is at once a distinctive and distinguishing historical phenomenon and at the Delegates in the Kraftwerk Plessa on the first same time the single most Influential social and excursion trip during the Freiberg congress. economic force affecting global societies today. ' l! t Pt t ~ '::JtUll We must now consider the future for this particular past in the context of new public perceptions. For this new public the industrial past and all it represents will be as distant, as alien, as incomprehensible, and perhaps as irrelevant, as the remains of ancient Athens or Rome. In this new world managing public perception and public attitude will, I suggest, be at least as much of a challenge as managing the physical remains themselves. We shall need to re-articulate the value of the Industrial heritage for those for whom it has no immediate or obvious meaning. It will be a task we neglect at our peril. But that of course is in the old industrial world. Decline is a geographically relat1ve term. Simultaneously, in other parts of the globe - in India, or China, or Brazil for example - industrialisation in its contemporary manifestation is being actively advanced as the path from rural poverty to some new form of prosperity Here a new world of work is being defined. It is not unlike that which emerged two centuries and more ago. The age of industry then has defined us - and continues to define us- in more ways than we care to think. What we do is what we are. Work, once considered a curse, lies at the heart of our being, our identity, our self-esteem, our financial security. Work, in the sense that we understand it today, is a product of the industrial age. So is capitalism, and socialism, and communism; that all three are now seen as profoundly flawed is perhaps the surest sign yet that the age of industry - at least in the old 1ndustnal world- is now a thing of the past. number46 Today, men who once made steel now pump iron; people not only go out to work, they work out. Winter, 2009 In the modern post-industrial world we have to exercise our bodies because work no longer does that for us. But neither of course does it exhaust to the point of collapse, leave lungs destroyed Inside: by silicosis, or the lives of men and women terminated before their prime. That is a privilege reserved to those who are creating new industrial economies in the new industrial world. Bhopal Four participants and the events of 3 December 1984 may well be seen as its awful warning; urbanisation, reflect on their increasing prosperity and material wellbeing, and a progressive shift of the epicentre of the world's economy as its inevitable destiny. experience of So, 1f the age of industry is now gone, what do we want of it its remains? Freiberg This Congress points a way ahead in its themes of ecology and economy. Just as industrialisation challenged so industrial conservation tests our ingenuity to find new and workable solutions. Understanding leads to valuing, valuing leads to informed conservation, informed conservation enables us to reconcile the voices of the past with the needs of today and tomorrow; to inform the This bulletin is processes of change in a conscious and rational way Without that level and depth of produced and understanding the future of precious places- however we may define that term- will fall into the distributed with hands of those who have other agendas which will, almost inevitably, erode distinctiveness, intimacy, and the very qualities and milieu that people cherish. the support of the Critical to the debate about industrial conservation are the views of the public. Without public mNACTEC understanding there will be no support for the retention - through conservation or preservation - of the physical evidence of the industrial world. There is I believe an important and achievable role here for TICCIH, to present exemplars of good practice; set out arguments for conservation based on sustainable solutions; and demonstrate that increasingly a conservation-led approach can transform what are often seen as liabilities into real social and economic assets. • New President and Board presented to min ister-president Oettinger, and Freiberg culminated in the General Assem bly, local protesters are hoping to have a report and the electio n of a new Board to stee r th e soon on moves to preserve the work s. Detail s organ isation th rough the next three years. are at: www. ig-pro-steg.com/info.htm. Retiring after nine yea rs as TICC IH President, Professor Martin also wrote to the minister in and three more as Executive President, Eusebi Norway to support the tentative nomination of Casanel les spoke of his sa tisfa cti on wrth the a series of hydropower sites togeth er with th ei r expansion of TI CC IH, especia ll y in Latin associated transport routes , industrial America, of the development of specialist settlements and electrochemical plants, urging sections to cross-cut national boundaries and that the Odda works be included in the of TICCI H's strong presence on the Intern et. nom ination . He welcomed the new presid ent, Professor Any req uests for TICC IH 's support for Patrick Ma rtin, formerly the US national threatened industrial sites should be representative, who was elected unopposed. channelled through our local National [See the new presidents greeting on page 8]. Past and current TICCIH presidents, Eusebi Representative. Professor Martin was joined on th e new Board Casanelles and Patrick Martin. t l'r·t S tt by fi ve new delegates, Patrick Viaene XV congress??? (Belgium), Dr Hsiao-Wei Lin (Ta iwan), After the Freiberg team's great success Professor Massimo Preite (Italy), Dr Benjamin organising the triennial congress, TICC IH is Fragner (Czech Republic), Dr lain Stuart maybe even exchange work . To pus h this hoping someone will step forwa rd and propose (Australia). In the subsequent meeting of the proposal forwa rd, Dr lain Stuart and James a venue for the next congress in 2012. Various new Board, Dr David Worth, who was Douet have drafted a proposal for the Board to suggestions have been made bu t still no firm unsuccessful in the election, was co-opted on conside r and are contacting TI CC IH members commitment. Universities, industrial museums as Treasurer. who might be interested . Anyone who would or historic town s looking to put themse lves on The full Board, with all their contact deta ils, like to participate shou ld write to the Editor or the international stage shou ld present their can be found in the Organisation section of the Dr Stuart. idea to the Board. TICC IH site .. M i nt faction maaN Not a botan ists' spl inter group but a new The de legates who came to Freiberg from the • A virtual Board meeting section being promoted Dr Glen n Murray Modern Asian Architects Network made a The first distance meeting of the new Board ([email protected]) to bring together strong impression, promoting ties and was held at the end of October and was a people interested in historic mints around the cooperation between the two organisations and qual ified success. The program proposed by world. Glenn directs the restoration of the elucidating their impressive workshop President Patrick Martin was Adobe Acrobat Seville mint project in Spain methodology (see Moulshri Joshi's article in Connect Pro. Six people grappled to make it (www.segoviamint.org/Eng-start.htm) and has TICCI H Bulletin #45). The Board agreed to work across widely differing time zones - been extending contacts to other mints around work on a joint conference with maaN for Seoul Capetown to Stoc kholm, Sydney to Houghton, the world for several yea rs. in 2011. and Taipei to Italy, and computing technology. Professor Martin is confident that practice will Electro-chemical industry • ICOMOS World Heritage Panel make perfect and that th is will make future This is a forum fo r TICCIH members and TI CCI H has been invited to send a Board communication easier - and much others interested in the history and heritage of representative to the December meeting in more economica l. hyd roe lectric ity and the electrochemical Paris which wi ll discuss, among other sites, six industry. They have set up an exemplary web nominations with Industrial Heritage page, linked to TI CC IH 's own , where minutes dimensions (Augustowski Canal, Sites miniers • News of special sections can be read of the latest meeting held in majeurs de Wallon ie, Upper Harz Wate r Frei berg: Management, the Janta r Mala r, Ja ipu , Professional industrial archaeologists http://sites.google.com/a/nvim.no/hydel/ Matheran Light Railway, and Roros Mining There was some discussion in Freiberg of the Town extension). and much more value of linking up free-lance or independent Support from TICCIH economical.current. professiona ls worki ng in industria l he ri tage Th e preside nt has rece ntly se nt two advocacy conservation. The idea is to provide mutual letters in support of historic ind ustrial sites . A • Thanks to all the contributors. support, professional development, problem letter from Professor Martin about the old Photographs are by the authors unless stated solving, tech advice, access to resources, Rheinfelden power station in Switzerland was otherwise .

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Back 1ssues can be IC:: C:: p,J. 1 hll~ hhll7 T ~~~~~"--"-~--A ,.... ___ ····" ...... , ~ • When the German TICC IH member group Freiberg conference: the true industrial character of this region, and first met in Freiberg in February 2007 we it is something on which local people can be missed the snow which is usually there at that reflections of an proud of. time, giving this old mining town a special During the conference, I was very lucky with romantic atmosphere. Not everybody was activist my section (Creative Re-Use): people kept convinced that th1s rather small, unknown great discipline (always a key problem for the Alexander Kierdorf 'manager'), there were no technical place was the right venue for an international TICCIH Germany Secretary conference previously held in Rome, Moscow difficulties, always an interested and active and London . But maybe people would prefer audience and, last not least, two brilliant, to see something new? And for the organisers volunteering co-chairs (Anja Borck and Keith much would be first and unexpected, as well. Falconer). My problem began when I was Did this tiny 'Bergakademie' have the asked to select contributions for the final resources necessary for such an event? Would publications; the hope is that, as financial so many foreigners (as we expected to come) means seem to be sufficient (the ex1stence of be welcome in a region where international an Economy Department at the Bergakademie tourism is still in its infancy, and which Helmuth Albrecht and welcomed by all may have been helpful), everything provided regularly produces headlines on violence co-workers and participants, were to put by the authors will be printed. against foreigners and immigrants? After industrial monuments in a framework of For the German TICCIH group, which has convincing the TICCIH officials, it was ecological thinking, and to look at and discuss been brought closer together but also Helmuth Albrecht's second big job to bring the the idea of industnal hentage against the absorbed very much by the conference German group on behind him and make them background of Eastern German examples . preparation, there is a new agenda to be set believe that he would be able to organize such This proved a topic of current importance, as up next spring, taking 1nto consideration the an event, and that we should be proud of it especia lly in Saxony, the fate of much of the very special, regional structure of heritage and take our voluntary part in the organisation. industrial monuments in th is early and large administration , identifying chances and Although Helmuth at a very early stage industrial region is sti ll or even more than dangers due to the 'crisis' and the secured full and broad support from his before at risk, and struggles are hard at the anti-recession policy, and observing the university, including the free use of all facilities moment, where a lot of public German, even generation shift which is taking place in and additional manpower, all professional European money is spent on clearing of industrial archaeology forty years after its volunteers agreed to refuse any privileges in historical sites. beginnings in Germany. So for us, the Freiberg order to have enough money necessary for a The high number of 350 partici pants at Conference - which, as we are sure, will soon really well-trained student body and support Freiberg has shown loca l decision-makers as be called the 'legendary', was a great for those which really needed it to be able to well as preservationists that there is strong chal lenge which became a great success. It come to the conference. Both technical issues interest and support on the mu lti fold heritage provided excellent motivation to promote and were, as far as we could see, fulfilled with of Saxon industry, and maybe it is even more develop our activities into all directions, using 'German accuracy' and discretion. famous all over the world than at its place of and extending the wonderful worldwide The program and programmatic aspects of the origin. So we can now argue that people network we have faced and we are proud to be conference, set at a very early poin t by expect to see someth ing substantial to reflect part of.

Conference papers and XIV TICCI H Congress, week the the M1ttelsachsische Ph il harmonie proceed ings and the post (Middle Saxon Phi lharmonic Orc hestral, gave conference tour to Poland and Freiberg, Germany a fantastic concert in the cathedral themed "Tango Amadeus - Mozart meets Piazo lla". the Czech Republic Mary Glendinning and ian McGillivray The Scientific Programme was divided into Canada three sections; first, 1nternal sessions, • The XIV International TICCIH Congress was organized by the Programme Committee, and held in the Saxony Region of Germany in external sessions focusing on a special topic, Freiberg, a silver and coa l mining town . The such as Industrial Heritage in the Po lar Areas. § N conference was exceptionally well organi zed by Second, free paper sess ions included Large the TICCIH Organizing Committee, directed by Scale Heritage Projects - Mining, and finally Dr. Helmuth Albrecht of the Technische Workshops, one being Water History and Universitat Bergakademie Freiberg. prese rvation of Technical Monuments. Freiberg was founded 1n 1186 as a result of the Throughout the congress there were posters early mines and subsequently the m1ning displayed on vanous projects. Th1s unique university developed as well. The university, division into thematic papers and non-thematic established in 1765, is the oldest metallurgical papers allowed a broader perspective to the university in the world with many distinguished area could constantly be reflected in sim ilar many questions surrounding industrial scientists and discoveries to its credit. The expe riences descnbed in the conference heritage including identification, conference theme was strongly influenced by papers. For the open ing reception and documentation, eva luation, historical and the mining industry with the conference day welcome party, the venue was the Freibe rg social perspectives, protection and re-use. tours showcasing the industrial heritage of the Castle. Here we were welcomed by the mayor, The re were two al l day excursions. The first Saxony mining heritage and current efforts to the TICCI H President, Euseb i Casanelles, and vis1t was to the immense IBA-Project, preserve it. a stirring open ing ceremony by an honou r Fu rst-Puckler-Land, Lusatia to be completed Freiberg was a superior milieu for this guard, band and miner's choir dressed in by IBA in 2010, including the new lake tourist conference as observations throughout the traditional miner's ceremonia l garb. During the area, the Bio-Ch imneys, coa l refining plant and Helmut Albrecht, organiser of the XIV congress, waves from the cab of the steam train which swept delegates off to Chemnitz Phoi()· F\ ~1f r c ( \t

the giant F60 overburden conveyor bridge for removing coal slag, built only 18 years ago and now lying idle. Chemnitz was an industrial city devastated by the opening up of East Germany after 1990. Problems of too much housing, not enough people or money and old outdated industrial buildings were evident on a tour of the city and in a spirited address from the Deputy Mayor. The Industrial Revolution was a constant theme and similarities across the world could be observed 1n the architecture and technologies. The Eastern European countries also have an extremely strong underlying theme benchmarked by 1995 when the Cold War barriers began to fall. This resulted in many industries becoming non-economic and being closed down. Sustainable maintenance, protection and re-use of industrial sites are fundamental to the issue of Industrial Heritage and there were many inspiring examples of what can be done and of successful or developing programs. also effective were sites which were left in "last locations have established industrial routes or Those sites which retained the machinery took day of operation" condition. Other factors linkages between a number of industrial sites different approaches determined by as-found which affect the protection of industnal to encourage tourism. condition (operating condition, derelict, heritage include the scale and complexity of a The enthusiastic assistance of the mining ruinous), cost of restoration and resources and site, the number of sites (huge in Eastern students and volunteers from Freiberg and the other factors. The most effective sites Europe), nature and degree of contamination, support of the university made the XIV demonstrate the full process of industrial remoteness and access for tourism, human Congress well organized, smooth-running and operations, often with operating machinery but resources and many other factors. Several a great success.

• Having attended the 14th triennial TICCIH reflect incremental developments in specific conference after a hiatus of severa l years, we Some Reflections on subject areas. Subject halls organized by observed some changes in the organ ization, TICCI H and Technical materials and processes became common in its members, and its priorities. We caught up nat1onal museums, and other historical with old friends and met many new colleagues Museums organizations often included period workshop from a greatly expanded number of countries, settings and groups of industrial objects with Robert M. Vogel and Helena E. Wright not to say continents. The Berlin local or regional associations. pre-conference tour, thoughtfully organ ized by Today, in many countries, mounting trad itional Dr Axel Fohl, covered electricity and exhibitions of industrial hardware is out of transportation sites, including a museum on fashion or difficult to support. There are the site of the former municipal water-supply compelling arguments for leaving large objects intake and pumping station. There was also an in situ, as the UNESCO process proceeds. But opportunity to see Axel's panel exhibition there are also fewer subject specialists documenting forty years of industria l landmark available to interpret industrial collections, designation and preservation in Germany. We either on site or in museums. How can § is now la rgely devoted to issues related to the industrial collections best be interpreted in this N found the scope of the conference in Freiberg very timely in its attention to ecologic aspects protection of historic industrial sites as part of changing environment? of the industrial heritage, and the program the UNESCO World Heritage program This The Chemnitz Mu seum included an excellent balance of paper status is of course critical to the survival of (www.saechsisches-industriemuseum.de) sessions and site visits. We particularly many sites and structures, and it is an presented an ambitious program of opera ting enjoyed the varied itinerary of technical important concept. However, there were far equipment located in the former Escher AG museums, industrial sites, and examples of fewer representatives of industrial museums in factory. The power house features an 1896 adaptive use that included extractive attendance than in previous years, and this is Germania steam engine, running (periodically) industries, textile manufacturing, and a sad reflection on the situation faced by on live steam. The exhibitions present the ~ transportation on the post-conference industrial and technical museums everywhere. changing context of work from late-18th E excursion in Saxony led by Dr Helmut Museums of technology worldwide are century family shops to modern CNC ::J c Albrecht, who also was the chief organizer of dismantling their subject halls and reinstalling production, with an emphasis on local the conference. Kudos to Dr Albrecht and his se lected objects in more genera l thematic industries including textiles, metal products, staff from the Technical University for their treatments. At one time, museums in many and automobiles. In each section, stall careful planning and thoughtful attention to countries fi lled large hal ls with technical members demonstrated equipment while every detail during the conference. objects, often donated by specific industries. others explain ed the processes with the Coming back to TICCI H after more than a Exhibitions followed the taxonomic principles machinery in operation. This use of stall teams decade, it seemed to us that the organization of the natural sciences, using artefacts to to demonstrate and explain simultaneously A sporty 1989 Trabant m the Chemmtz mdustrial museum. The camping model with roof-top tent attracted many delegates' interest. PI • F • • • was a very effective practice. The Chemnitz This institution, formed in 1982, has explore its social and technical construction. Museum deservedly won the prestigrous incorporated collections from several formerly We hope that TICCIH members and future European Museum of the Year award in 2005. independent museums and operates a conferences will continue to address the role In considering other ways to use museum separate sugar museum, science centre, and value of technical museums as an collections to promote constructive concern for observatory, and planetarium. Its important component of industrial heritage the industrial heritage, the importance of the comprehensive exhibitions now include studies. TICCIH members might wish to study collection shou ld not be overlooked. In texti les, papermaking, communications, and a participate with curators of technical this age of blockbuster exhibitions that bring brewery. Locomotives and rolling stock are collections from several national museums, together loan objects from different places, displayed in the former Anhalt railway goods among others those in London, Munich, Paris, visitors may forget about permanent collections station, and there is a new, purpose-built hall Vienna, and Washington. "Artefacts" and the valuable opportunities for study that for maritime and aviation collections. This conferences are held every year in a different these objects present. Museums do not model suggests an option to combine country, from which have been issued a useful publicize their permanent collections in the separate, under-funded institutions into a series of publications, and a web site is same way they promote temporary exhibitions, more unified organization. planned. and often the public does not realize that they The most successful museums, in our view, can request access to collection storage for are those that combine mechanical apparatus Robert M. Vogel attended the first FICCIM study purposes. A very positive trend is the and industrial products in ways that express meeting in 1973 and subsequent SICCIM and "visible storage" installation offered in a the variety and purpose of work, production, TICCIH conferences through the 1990s. Helena number of museums. These displays offer and consumption. Comprehensive study E. Wright first joined TICCIH at the 1981 meeting. visitors a chance to see objects not currently collections and topical exhibitions offer She served as US National Representative and as featured in special exhibitions; usually opportunities for understanding industrial Vice-Chair of the TICCIH Board during the 1980s. cataloguing data is supplied nearby, in heritage issues and suggest contexts that searchable form. We saw a good example of this type of installation with the teaching-model collection at the Reiche Zeche Mine in Freiberg. Museums also can feature industrial artefacts in temporary exhibitions focused on specific topics. Rather than the large synoptic halls of yesteryear, smaller installations on a single subject or aspect of the topic shou ld be easier to fund and mount, requiring fewer museum resources. During our visit to Berlin before joining the TICCIH pre-conference tour, we explored the Deutsches Technikmuseum (www.sdtb.de).

The XIV Assembly of TICCIH in Freiberg, Industrial Heritage, contact with mAAN (modern Asia Architecture Germany, concluded after a week long Network), an organization of architects, program full of very interesti ng sessions, the Latin-American historians and conservationists, among others, debates and tours to Berlin, the Lausitz region with a highly social and educationa l approach, and Chemnitz. view: reflections on whose aim is to re-establish and refresh the Freiberg is a former mining town located in the way people in Asia connect to their built state of Saxony 30 km. south of Dresden. It the XIV TICCI H heritage. belongs to a network of towns and sites linked congress Finally, two very important and unusual by the Silberstrasse (Silver road), and is also part of the Montanregion Erzgebirge, a Miguel lwadare sessions were held during the congress, regional bi-national project (Germany and the National Representative TICCIH Mexico "Photography and the Industrial Heritage" and § N Czech Republic) of mining towns, industrial "Art and the Industrial Revolution". sites and landscapes aimed to be inscribed to The XIV International TICCIH Congress in the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2011. Freiberg left us with a meaningful reflection: The Congress was a success thanks to the Nowadays, we cannot conceive the Industrial excellent job done by Helmuth Albrecht, his As an example, the rescue of the Nitrate Office Heritage as a simple monument or site for the staff and all the co-organizers TICC IH Mexico of Chacabuco, in Northern Chile, offers us a sole purpose of entertaining, or as a source of would like to thank Britta Mieckley and Nicole unique point of view in which an abandoned technological or historical knowledge. The Opitz fo r their big help at the Bergarchive site with a tragic political history becomes a Industrial Heritage is the result of the Freiberg and the lndustriemuseum Chemnitz. "modern cultural oasis". In another context, productive life of a community and as such, it The main theme fitted in the present day the Silver Route in Central Mexico, aimed to should be treated by giving it a new useful situation of most Latin American countries. create a tourist route through the Mining meaning to that community The socia l use of While economy is sti ll a major issue in terms of District of Real del Monte and Pachuca and rescue, use and conservation of the industrial establish an rnterpretation center and site an industrial monument may be the most heritage, ecology covers a minor part of the museum at Ia Dificultad mine to develop jobs important use it will have after its productive project, although it is increasingly viewed as and stop the migration of young people to cycle ends, giving back the identity and an important social asset when discussed by other countries. historical memoir to the society that created it. local authorities. We have also had the opportunity to come in Gluck Aufr TICCIH , Serbia and the World Canals Conference 2009

I ng. Krsta Paskovic Conference organiser, Danube Propeller

• The World Canals Conference took place in Serbia between 20th and 27th September with representatives of seventeen different countries: Korea, China, Canada, USA, UK, Ireland, France, Switzerland, Sweden, Holland, Poland , Germany, Italy, Austria, Hungary, Croatia , Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia. We were determined to capitalise on the precious experience we gained from the TICCIH Conference in Wrexham in 2007, in order to make the 2009 World Canals Conference in Serbia a success. We are therefore delighted to report that we succeeded in assembling an informal partnership bringing together an important State-owned Public Company Vode Vojvodine and local communities (Kula, Sombor, Becej, Technology, Wroclaw, and Prof. Reinhold Locomotive towing of barges was introduced Klek) along with the two city councils of Castensson, from Linkbping University, on the 'Sip' Canal in the Iron Gate from 1916. Unfortunately the locomotives are now on the Pozarevac and Kladovo (on the Danube), in an Sweden. bed of the Danube (underwater industrial initiative to focus special attention on the The result of the WCC 2009 in Serbia is the heritage). There is a plan for a special visitor industrial heritage directly associated with the recognition of four industrial heritage sites as centre here. operating hydro system, maintained for water important museums of industrial and cu ltural resource management and navigation. heritage. These are the locks in Bezdan, Mali At the previous World Canals Conferences in Stapar, Becej and Klek. These sites were open Liverpool, UK, 2007 and Kingston, Canada, as visitor centres for the purpose of wee 2009 industrial heritage sites with signs approved by 2008, I saw examples of industrial heritage in Serbia. Also, special visitor centres were TICC IH , displaying this recognition and the integrated into sustainable development initiated in the city of Kladovo (Sipski Pulling logo. To have TICCIH 's label and support on programmes which resulted in UNESCO and canals) and the city of Pozarevac (regiona l these sites in the Middle Danube Region would designation (Rideau Canal and Pontcysyllte heritage visitor center). place the issue of industrial heritage much aqueduct). Based on this experience we had Based on the conference results, it is evident higher on the agenda in this part of Europe (six two significant presentations at the World that the conference directly influenced and different countrie s). Canals Conference in Serbia which attracted changed the way of public thinking and the Danube Propeller would also like to launch an great interest among delegates. These were the relationship to industrial heritage in Serbia. initiative for a meeting of TICCIH in Serbia. presentations by Stanislav Januszewski, In our attempt to build on the highly successful formerly TICCIH representative in Poland, of conference, Danube Propeller is launching a [email protected]; the Foundation of Open Museum of post-conference appeal to label all these www.danube-propeller. com

Publ ications Glosario Sextilingue A succinct, six-language glossary of industrial § heritage terminology, compiled with the help N de patrimonio industrial of many TICCIH members, coordinated by the Rodrigo Paez and Jaime Migone Chilean National Representative, Jaime Migo­ Published by TICCIH Chile and Universidad ne, with entries in Spanish, French, English , lnternacional SEK, 338 pages, €24. German, Italian and Portuguese.

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The decision was Afo 1) at the Lucchini steel-works in Piombino justified by its state of irreversible damage; is a serendipity experience of heritage Regeneration, re-use responsibility for its neglect lies wholly with the documentation. Following the decision in 2008 company and with the successive local to demolish the facility, the Lucchini firm and of the steelworks at councils, which were unable, or unwilling, to the town council signed an agreement Piombino (Tuscany) protect this piece of the industrial heritage. On protocol, appointing the Italian Association for the other hand, one cannot ignore the many the Industrial Archaeological Heritage (AIPAI) Massimo Preite (University of Florence) difficulties which would have derived from to draw up a documentation (or "memory") Italian National Representative and Board Member opening up a structure within an operational project. This aimed to collect the most metal-working plant, or the huge costs involved complete range of documentation (illustrations, in a project to reclaim the blast furnace. Also, photos, archives, oral evidence etcetera) one cannot overlook the fact that the relating to the installation which was to be demolition of Afo 1 is part of a large-scale demolished. In consenting to this task, AIPAI investment program to develop the iron and had to cope with a dilemma: steel pole in Piombino (so not in a program of real estate diversification but to reinforce the - refusing any collaboration with the firm, the generation of a short animation which company's industrial vocation). Accordingly, fighting against the destroying decision , affords virtual navigation, outside and inside the decision to demolish Afo 1 is part of a - or accepting the documentation task and the steel-works. As stated earlier, the natural process of technological innovation, commit itself in the salvaging of the "memory" Agreement Protocol envisaged a feasibility which limits the physical life of the structures to of the steel-mill according to its own scientific study relating to the functions intended to their usefulness in the production cycle. and cultural duty? transmit the memory of the former The choice of the second alternative we can metallurgical activity: the Documentation In signing the protocol, Aipai had the merit of say that a highly significant piece of the Centre and the Iron Museum. The most taking on the scientific responsibility of industrial heritage has been lost; nevertheless, suitable site for housing this was the former "Ex gathering the most exhaustive documentation this has stimulated the salvaging of a second Siviere (Ladle) Building". The project that has possible, involving a valuable historical asset artefact, an industnal building to be reused as been drafted is aimed at the conversion of the which was destined to disappear. If one of the a museum and archive of iron- and industrial Ladle Building, for advanced urban tasks of a modern heritage culture, perhaps the most important task, is to hand on a steel -working in Piombino, and the emergence, functions. As well as becoming the museum among the local council and the firm , of an and the documentation centre, the "ex Siviere" memory of that heritage, especially when its physical existence is at stake, then I believe authentic will to redevelop and promote the Building is set to house specialist tertiary city's industrial past. functions in the service of the town. The that Aipai has fulfilled its mission, and the aims for which it was set up, in the best way The construction of Afo 1, dating to the Museum of Iron is designed to be a museum possible. mid-1950s, is to be seen as part of the institution on a par with those already found in reconstruction of the factories which were lost other large European industrial towns and also in the Second World War. It is the last survivor constitute one of the main poles in a network of a battery of three blast furnaces which that will connect Italy's iron and steel Industry gradually fell into disuse. (Terni, Bagnoli etcetera). The Business History The irreversible state of decay was taken as Archive is set to bring together the archive justification for the most recent decision to material from the three ironworks operating in dismantle Blast Furnace 1, which has already Piombino: Lucchini SpA, Magana and Tenaris begun: the production method which marked Dalmine. iron-working in the second half of the 20th The issues covered here are controversial. The century has been erased for all time. destruction of Blast Furnace 1 marks an During 2008, Aipai was charged to carry out a undoubted loss for the industrial rigorous documentation of the Blast Furnace 1 prior to its demolition, so as to conserve at least a graphic and photographic record of it. The "Memory Project" foresees three actions: a. interpretation of the production cycle of the steel-works b. scanning the whole structure using three-dimensional laser technology; c. carrying out of a feasibility study for the new archives and new museum of the iron and steel industry in Piombino. The application of three-dimensional laser scanning methodology to Afo 1 is the first example in Italy on a large-scale production facility, and it is conceived as a reference model for future uses in the field of industrial archaeology. The scanning operations, and subsequent data processing, have enabled the creation of two specific products: a three-dimensional digital model extracted from the cloud of points, and a certain number of significant sections of the steel-works complex. The 3D model is the base which has enabled Patrick Martin but also of time. In the interest of red uci ng Unfortu nately, the support that Eusebi has Greetings from the New President of the those expenses, we will meet online, through offered must now come to an end, and we are TICCIH Board an Internet meeting system . This shou ld not faced with a dilem ma; we cannot easily on ly sa ve time and money, minimize the balance ou r bu dget and absorb all of the • I am honored to serve as the President of significant environmental impacts of Bu lletin costs. The Board must make some the TICCIH Board for the next three years. internationa l travel, but also will allow us to decisions that will no doubt impact the This is a critical time for our organ ization, as have more frequent meetings to do the Bulletin. Among the alternatives I will soon busi ness of TI CC IH . the heritage of industrialization faces serious propose to the Board is a shift to an electronic Another matter of concern to all TICC IH threats and opportunities worldwide. TICC IH format for the Bu lletin. This will cut the costs members is our relationship with The needs to grow as an association of like-minded of production and distribution, helping to Internationa l Commission on Monuments and individua ls and groups, while we seek to ba lance ou r budget. It will also diminish our Sites (ICOMOS). Whi le we have had a formal increase our influence on decision-makers agreement with ICO MOS fo r some years, and environmental impact in terms of printing, whose actions affect the status of industrial informal re lationships as well, we have paper use, and trash disposal. And it should remains. We need to be active in our struggled to develop a fo rmal acceptance of also allow us to distribute our news in a much communities, as well as vocal in broader our opinions regarding industrial heritage into more timely manner, without the inherent forums to support the conservation and high the ICOMOS operating procedures. While delays of shipping and postage, and likely quality interpretation of industrial sites and ICOMOS received our Nizhny Tagi l Charter reach a wider audience than the paper version landscapes. While these are hardly new with interest some time ago and considered its does. problems or goals, they have taken on an essential characters as critical, it was not I am well aware that many of us cherish the increased urgency in the twenty-first century, forma lly adopted by ICOMOS. The Board has paper publications we receive, including the as the pace of development combines with the subsequently worked with ICOMOS to develop TICCIH Bulletin, and do not relish the idea of increasing age of early industries and the a document that could be adopted, and we are shifting to digital publications. At the same increasing remoteness of an industrial way of making encouraging headway on that matter. time, I am also aware of the many other life in the consciousness of much of the You can be sure that we wil l continue this organizations that have already successfully world's population. process with diligence, since we consider it of made this shift, especially in the area of Among the matters being considered by your utmost importance. newsletters like our Bulletin. The decision has Board at the moment, some are key to our The final matter of consideration I will not been fully discussed yet by the Board, but continued success. First, we have begun the introduce here is the continued publication of process of adding Internet meetings to our the TICCIH Bulletin. This central piece of it will happen soon. In the meantime, I solicit Board meeting schedule. In the past, we communication is absolutely essential to our your views on the matter. While we do not depended on annual meetings in some organ ization. It's production was enhanced have the means for a formal vote, you can be location that was convenient to some, but not and subsidized over the past nine years assured that your opinions will count as we all members. This required a significant through the good offices of our immediate Past deliberate the path ahead. You can reach me expense, borne almost entirely by the President, Eusebi Cassanelles, bringing it to by emai l at [email protected], or by mail at members, an investment not only of money the high state of quality we have come to enjoy. my office address.

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