THE HIDDEN CULTURAL HERITAGE Under Water and Within Buildings The First Interdisciplinary International Conference on Cultural Heritage and Urban Restoration in Historic Mediterranean Port Towns
THE HIDDEN CULTURAL HERITAGE
Under Water, Under Ground and Within Buildings
The First Interdisciplinary International Conference on Cultural Heritage
and Urban Restoration in Historic Mediterranean Port Towns
Haifa and Acre (Akko), 30 April 2018 – 3 May 2018
The conference is held with the support of and in collaboration with
the following institutions:
THE HIDDEN CULTURAL HERITAGE
Under Water, Under Ground and Within Buildings
The First Interdisciplinary International Conference on Cultural Heritage
and Urban Restoration in Historic Mediterranean Port Towns
Haifa and Acre (Akko), 30 April 2018 – 3 May 2018
Day One: 30 April 2018, Haifa City Hall
09:30 Registration and mingling
10:00-11:00 Dr. Ruthy Gertwagen Welcome and introduction
Greetings:
Municipality of Haifa
Dr. Maurizio Dessalvi, Director of the Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Haifa
11:00-11:45 Opening Lecture
Prof. Federico Bucci, Vice-Rector, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
History, Memory, Museum; the Italian Case
11:45-12:05 Coffee break
Session A
Conservation and valorisation of Urban Heritage
Chair: Sarah Arenson, Maritime historian
12:05-12:35 Yael Alef and Arch. Eran Mordohovich, Israel Antiquities Authority & ICOMOS Israel
The Sea Wall of the Old City of Acre (Akko): from documentation to planning of historic urban landscape
12:35-13:05 Dr. Tenia Rigakou, Director of Corfu Antiquities Department, Greece
The Island of Corfu: Indoor galleries in the Venetian fortifications of Corfu: conservation and valorisation
13:05-13:35 Arch. Hila Paz‐Gale, The NB Haifa School of Design (Wizo)
Dr. Avi Sason, Ashkelon Academic College
El‐Majdal (المجدل ) To Migdal: Transformation and Preservation in a Multi‐heritage City (Ashkelon)
13:35-14:10 Lunch break
Session B Haifa’s and her ‘Twin’ Cities’ Urban Cultural Heritage
Chair: Arch. Waleed Karkabi, The Municipality of Haifa
14:15-15:00 Keynote: Dr. Ziva Kolodney
Haifa as Urban Landscape Palimpsest
15:00-15:30 Arch. Ruth Liberty-Shalev, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
and Arch. Adi Har-Noy
Town-Terminal-City: Haifa and the Railway in early 20th century Palestine
15:30-16:00 Arch. Roy Fabian, Ben-Gurion University
Project City Haimen, leveraging urban rehabilitation based on Twin City platforms
16:00-18:00 Tours
Day Two: 1st May 2018, Haifa City Hall
09:00 Registration and mingling
Session A INSIDE and Outside Existing Buildings
Chair: Yael Fuhrmann-Naaman, Israel Antiquities Authority
09:30-10:15 Keynote: Arch. Dr. Andrea Adami, Politecnico di Milano,Italy
Prof. Luigi Fregonesea, Politecnico di Milano
The documentation of Cultural Heritage: from the hidden underground of Naples to the disclosed brightness of Venice
10:20-10:30 Coffee break
10:30-11:00 Arch. Yair Varon, Bar-Ilan University and ICOMOS Israel
Living Inside a Palimpsest. Integration and Musealisation of Archaeological Heritage in Private Houses and in Commercial Structures. Examples from Italy and Israel
11:00- 11:30 Shay Farkash, Conservator & Yossi Gabriel, Studio Tchelet & ICOMOS Israel
Sgraffito paintings in Israel, history & Conservation
11:30-12:00 Dr. H. Sercan Saglam, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Hidden Genoese Constructions in Western Asia Minor and Thrace
12:05-12:20 Coffee break
Session B Touring the medieval cultural heritage of the Aegean Sea
Chair: Dr. Jeannine Horowitz, Head of Hellenic Studies, University of Haifa
12:20-13:20 Dr. Flora Karagianni, European Centre for Byzantine and Post Byzantine Monuments, Thessaloniki, Greece
OLKAS II Project. Sailing from and to Byzantium. Medieval ports from Euxeinos Pontos to the Eastern Mediterranean
13:20-14:20 Lunch break
14:20-15:20
Posters’ session
Chair: Arch. Eran Mordohovich
Students from the Faculty of Architecture at the Technion design
a “new” home for the Italian Cultural Institute in Haifa in an old building in Wadi Salib, Old Town in Haifa. The CONSERVATION DESIGN STUDIO was led by Arch. Eran Mordohovich and was in collaboration with the Istitutto Italiano di Cultura in Haifa and with the Custodia Terra Sancta.
16:00 Sailing to Acre (Akko)
Day Three: 2 May 2018, Acre (Akko): The Hospitallers’ Compound
09:00 Registration and mingling
09:30-10:15 Dr. Ruthy Gertwagen
Greetings:
Introduction. opening and thanks;
Dr. Maurizio Dessalvi, Director of the Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Haifa
Mr. David Harari, C.E.O, Old Akko Development Company
Session A Risk Assessment and Technological approaches
Chair: Michael Cohen, Israel Antiquities Authority
10:15-11:00 Keynote: Prof. Claudio Modena, University of Padova, Italy
Assessment and mitigation of seismic risk to architectural Heritage:
experiences in Israel
11:00-11:30 Eng. Yaacov Schaffer and Eng. Meir Ronen, Schaffer & Ronen Engineers, Engineering of Historic and Antique Buildings
Permanent maintenance of the archaeological underground constructions:
ancient cisterns, caves of water systems, underground vaults, underground temples, rests of entire cities
11:30-12:00 Jacob Sharvit, Israel Antiquities Authority
and Eng. Meir Ronen, Eng. Yaacov Schaffer
Technological approaches for the conservation and valorization of the underwater cultural heritage and Maritime Archaeology
12:00-13:00 Lunch break
Session B
13:00 Technological Approaches in the Field of Buildings Conservation
Chair and Introduction: David Shoshan, CEO Fresco Colors
13:15-13:45 Claudia Setti, Weber Saint Gobain Italy
Use of dehumidification or Damp-proof plaster
13:45-14:15 Eng. Diego Aisa, Kimia S.p.A. company
Return of experience from repair of Italian historical buildings
14:15-14:45 Kimi Mamman, Conservator – Arco Lime
The conservation process and mortars in buildings in port towns – production, diagnosis and implementation
13:30-14:30 Coffee Break
Session C The Underwater Hidden Cultural Heritage
Chair: Dr. Zur Shalev, Co-Head of Mediterranean Institute, University of Haifa
14:30-15:15 Keynote: Dr. Mauro Bondioli, ARS NAUTICA Institute for Maritime Heritage
Tkon, Croatia
Naval Historical Archaeology of Mediterranean Ships in the Middle Age and Renaissance Times: Principles and Methodology of Study
15:15-15:45 Dr. Emmanuel Nantet, The University of Haifa
The myriophoroi: state of art and new perspectives
15:45-18:00 Tours
Day Four: 3 May 2018, Acre (Akko): The Hospitallers’ Compound
09:00 Registration and mingling
Session A
The Port City of Jaffa
Chair: Tamar Tuchler, The Council for Conservation of Heritage Sites in Israel
09:30-10:00 Dr. Elie Haddad, Israel Antiquities Authority
The Coastal Fortifications of the Jaffa Port during the Ottoman period
10:00-10:30 Arch. Shmuel Giler, Society for Preservation of Israel Heritage Sites
The gate to the Holy land: landing at Jaffa port in the 19th century and early 20th
10:30-11:00 Michal Halevi-Bar, Technion, Israel Antiquities Authority & ICOMOS Israel
The Cultural Significance of the Port of Old Jaffa as the Mediterranean Gateway to the Land of Israel: “The Pilgrims Route” from Jaffa to Jerusalem as a Case Study
11:00-11:20 Coffee Break
Session B
Archaeology, Urban landscape and Cultural Heritage of Port Cities
Dr. Danny Syon, Israel Antiquities Authority
11:20-11:55 Dr. Sabine Ladstätter and Dr. Lilli Zabrana, Austrian Archaeological Institute
Ephesus: Archaeology and Mass Tourism
11:55-12:20 Dr. Flora Karagianni, European Centre for Byzantine and Post Byzantine Monuments, Thessaloniki, Greece
and Prof. Dr. Charalampos Chotzakoglou, Hellenic Open University, Athens
Sailing from and to Byzantium. The network of medieval city ports from Euxeinos Pontos to Cyprus
12:20-12:55 Dr. Ruthy Gertwagen, The University of Haifa and Oranim Academic College
Reconstructing the maritime facade of the medieval coastal towns along the Israeli shoreline: Acre (Akko), Apollonia and, Caesarea Marittima – the methodology approach
13:00-14:00 Lunch break
14:00-16:00 Touring the multilayer Old City of Acre (Akko) and its port (Ruthy Gertwagen)
End of Conference