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LWL-Industriemuseum Westfälisches Landesmuseum für Industriekultur International Conference BIG STUFF ‚07 Beyond Conservation – Industrial Heritage Management Bochum and Hattingen, 9.9. – 14.9.2007 In cooperation with: VEREINIGUNG DER LANDESDENKMALPFLEGER IN DER BUNDESREPUBLIK DEUTSCHLAND Sponsored by: Supported by: • Arctron Engineering Services for • Dießner Concept-Team • IndustrieKultur, Industrial Heritage • Sennheiser 3D Surveying and Archeology Magazine • Eyeled, mobile competence • Adlib Museumssoftware • MBA-Design & Display Produkt GmbH • Bluelemon Interactive GmbH • Halbe-Rahmen GmbH • Dariusz Kantor, Photography • Siemens Building Technologies • Conrads Lacke (Coating Systems) • Klartext Verlag GmbH GmbH & Co. oHG Committees preparing the conference Members of the Scientific Committee: • Australia: Alison Wain • Australia: David Hallam • Canada: George Prytulak • Japan: Shunsuke Nakayama • Germany: Norbert Tempel • Germany: Kornelius Götz • Latvia: Andris Biedrins • Netherlands: Peter Nijhoff • Belgium: Patrick Viane • Greece: Athanasios Chatsigogas • UK: Ian Clark • USA: Patrick Martin Members of the Local Committee: • Stefan Brüggerhoff, Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum • Urs Diederichs, Deutscher Museumsbund • Axel Föhl, Vereinigung der Landesdenkmalpfleger • Rolf Höhmann, ICOMOS Germany • Michael Mende, TiCCIH Germany BigStuff07 1 09.-14.09.2007 Preface Over the past 20 years or so increasing numbers of industrial sites have been declared as monuments. Because of their architecture, size and huge complexity, they were never intended to survive for eternity. For this reason they exceed all the dimensions and aspects of monument conservation that have been practised to date. Long-term experience on working with these sites has shown that emergency measures – e.g. “ageing” or “controlled decay” – determined by restricted resources have only a limited value. In most cases nowadays, current budgets do not allow for thorough conservation and the scheduled high-level maintenance of all aspects of an industrial monument site. Therefore a never-ending chain of unscheduled, corrective maintenance measures – sometimes urgent, last-minute actions – has to be executed. Insufficient financial means for the rapid conservation of an entire site often result in a decision to abandon large parts of a heritage site. In the coming years we have to develop appropriate methods to deal with large industrial monuments. On one and the same site we may be faced with a variety of different maintenance and safety levels over an extended period of time. These can range from very basic to very high level maintenance, as a result of which unsupervised visitors are able to tour the site as a “heritage trail.” Action-planning and monitoring are the keywords behind a practical maintenance strategy. The BigStuff07 International Conference is devoted to a global, interdisciplinary approach dealing with the following issues: Tailoring our understanding of large projects: planning actions with respect to large industrial sites 1. Site management - risks and opportunities 2. Repair and conservation: irreconcilable contradictions? 3. Entrusted to our care: what does this mean? 4. Pathways through heritage sites: necessary and encumbering 5. "Restored to working glory" - to work or not to work? 6. Conservation of “buried treasure”: gathering and preserving technical, working knowledge from past generations 7. Vocational training on-the-job? The education of “interpreters” The conference will bring together the multifaceted national efforts with regard to the preservation of industrial heritage and facilitate an international exchange of experiences. Secondly, we hope to establish a common network of different professionals (scientists, engineers, architects, restorers, craftsmen, museologists and historians), for the mutual exchange of expertise in the material preservation of technological heritage monuments, especially objects from a variety of different industrial eras. Wishing you a warm welcome in Bochum and Hattingen, Dr. Stefan Brueggerhoff, German Mining Museum Bochum Kornelius Goetz, Bureau for Restoration Advice, Oettingen Norbert Tempel, Westphalian Museum of Industrie, Dortmund BigStuff07 2 09.-14.09.2007 Final conference programme BigStuff07 3 09.-14.09.2007 Field trips 9th of September 2007 (Sunday), 4 pm – 10 pm [“Tag des Offenen Denkmals / Monument day” in Germany] Excursion to four objects representing industrial heritage in the Ruhr district: ship lift Henrichenburg (with museum harbour, shipyard and collection of vessels), machine hall of colliery Zollern II/IV, illuminated colliery and coke-making plant Zollverein (World Heritage Site) and at least the illuminated former ironworks site in Duisburg Meiderich. 10thof September 2007 (Monday): 10 am – 5 (or 6) pm Because of a great number of interested participants we have to divide this excursion into two alternative trips. There will be a final division at the meeting point: Tour A - Visit of ThyssenKrupp Steel in Duisburg: Bus trip to Duisburg, short view on the old part of Duisburg river port, which has been recreated for cultural and business purposes. Then we will visit ThyssenKrupp Steel in Duisburg. ThyssenKrupp is the major German steel producer with main and most modern steelworks in Duisburg. This visit will give the chance to see and feel the difference between a producing factory and an industrial heritage site. Tour B - Mixed tour with visit of former coal mine and ‘Hüttenwerke Krupp Mannesmann’ in Duisburg’: Bus trip to the former Nightingale colliery situated in the Muttental valley (Witten). It is a witness of early coal mining in the Ruhr region, first mentioned in 1714. We will visit this branch of the LWL-Industrial Museum .Afterwards we will drive to Duisburg-Huckingen and visit the smelting works Krupp Mannesmann. Also here you will get the chance to see and feel the difference between a producing factory and an industrial heritage site. Evening: 7.30 pm: Come-together in the restaurant of DBM “Foerderturm” (for those already arrived in Bochum) BigStuff07 4 09.-14.09.2007 Conference 11th of September 2007 (Tuesday): Conference location: Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum (DBM) 8.30 am Registration of participants 9.30 am Welcoming Rainer Slotta, Director of DBM Oliver Wittke, Minister responsible for industrial heritage (Ministry of Building and Traffic of North Rhine-Westphalia) Wolfgang Kirsch, Director of regional authority in Westphalia-Lippe (LWL) Kornelius Götz, President of the association of German restorers (VDR) 10.15 am Short introduction into the conference BigStuff 2007 Stefan Brueggerhoff, DBM 10.30 am Topic 1: Tailoring our understanding of large projects: action planning for large industrial sites (with 4 contributions) Large technology project plan – fundamental considerations Alison Wain, Australian War Memorial (Australia) 11.00 am Action plan for industrial monuments – a German attempt to improve the management of large sites Kornelius Goetz, Bureau for restoration advice (Germany) 11.30 am Chance Denkmal - An innovative sales practice for listed buildings Joachim Schares, Montan-Grundstücksgesellschaft mbH 12.00 am Understanding in big projects Kate Clark, Heritage Lottery Fund (UK) Discussion 0.45 pm Lunch break in the DBM restaurant 2.00 pm Topic 2: Site management: On risks and chances Monuments of modern iron & steel production – an overview on preservation attempts Rolf Hoehmann, Bureau for industrial archaeology (Germany) 2.30 pm Topic 3: Repair and conservation: Irreconcilable opponents? (with 2 contributions) Coatings for Industrial Heritage Surfaces– between the poles of aesthetics and durability Stefan Brueggerhoff, DBM (Germany) 3.00 pm Preventative conservation of large scale industrial objects – the Victorian steamship Great Britain Shane Casey, Naylor Conservation (UK) 3.30 pm Topic 4: Entrusted to our care: What does it mean? Running an Industrial World Heritage site: A prominent example - Ironbridge Gorge David Dehaan, Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust (UK) BigStuff07 5 09.-14.09.2007 Discussion Coffee break 4.45 pm Topic 5: Pathways through heritage - Necessary and encumbering Tracing history by pathways Ulrike Laufer, Torsten Seifert, Zollverein Foundation (Germany) 5.15 pm Topic 6: "Restored to working glory" - To work or not to work? Operating objects – ethical and philosophical aspects David Hallam, National Museum of Australia (Australia) 5.45 pm Topic 7: Conservation of “buried treasures” Actual attempts: gathering and preserving technical, working knowledge from past generations Gabriele Wohlauf, Deutsches Technikmuseum Berlin (Deutschland) 6.15 pm Topic 8: Training and education Training of Volunteers in Aviation Heritage conservation - a chance for Big Stuff Brian Barker, Imperial War Museum (UK) Discussion 7.00 pm End of first day lecture programme 8.00 -10.30 pm Reception of the DBM: Greeting by the mayor of Bochum Dr. Ottilie Scholz Evening lecture: The coal is leaving - industrial landscapes will stay Hans Peter Noll, Montan-Grundstücksgesellschaft mbH Cosy get-together (refreshment will be served) BigStuff07 6 09.-14.09.2007 12th of September 2007 (Wednesday): Conference location (forenoon): Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum (DBM) 8.30 am Reports on the situation of industrial heritage preservation in different countries The ICOM_CC_metals working group: sub group ‘IECO’ and the bibliography of engineering and industrial objects conservation David Hallam, National Museum of Australia (Australia) 9.00 am Country report: